Holafly partners with ATP Top 20 doubles player Francisco Cabral

Holafly Global Brand Ambassador Francisco Cabral

ATP Top 20 doubles player Francisco Cabral has joined Holafly as a global brand ambassador. As part of the partnership, the highest-ranked Portuguese doubles player in ATP history will share moments from life on the ATP Tour. This content will showcase how athletes stay prepared during constant travel.

DUBLIN, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Holafly, the global leader in travel eSIMs, today announced a new partnership with ATP Top 20 doubles player Francisco Cabral, who joins the company as a global brand ambassador. The collaboration brings together one of the world’s leading eSIM companies with one of tennis’ most internationally active players.

Few athletes embody modern international travel quite like Cabral. The Portuguese star competes in approximately 35 to 40 tournaments each season across Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Constant adaptation to new countries, cultures, climates and time zones means his experience closely reflects the realities faced by millions of international travellers every day.

Cabral has firmly established himself as one of the most consistent doubles players on the ATP Tour, reaching a career-high ranking of World No. 19 and becoming the highest-ranked Portuguese doubles player in ATP history. His career includes six ATP Tour doubles titles, fifteen ATP Challenger titles and appearances at all four Grand Slam tournaments. In 2022, he and Nuno Borges became the first all-Portuguese team to win the Estoril Open, while his recent quarterfinal run at the Australian Open further cemented his place among the world’s leading doubles players.

As part of the partnership, Cabral will share firsthand moments from life on the ATP Tour, offering fans a clear view into the realities of competing around the world, from packed tournament schedules and long-haul journeys to the challenges that come with constant travel.

The collaboration will also spotlight Holafly’s Always On feature, which includes 1GB of backup data at no extra cost. Always On is designed to provide travellers with added reassurance during unexpected situations, ensuring they have a backup plan when they need it most.

“Francisco represents a new generation of athletes whose careers take them all over the world. Every season means new countries, new cities and new challenges, but also incredible opportunities. His journey reflects the way millions of people travel today, which makes him a natural fit for Holafly and everything we stand for,” said Daniela Prado, Brand Director at Holafly.

The partnership begins as Cabral continues to compete on some of the biggest stages in professional tennis, including Wimbledon, the US Open and the Australian Open. Throughout the season, Holafly and Cabral will bring fans closer to life beyond the court, highlighting the experiences that come with competing around the world.

As careers become increasingly international, the partnership between Holafly and Francisco Cabral reflects a shared belief that exploring the world should be shaped by opportunity, not uncertainty.

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Mavenir and TextNow Win Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration at MVNOs World Awards

Award-winning collaboration delivers transformative results: eSIM activations surge from 2% to 94% in six months and paid subscribers more than double year-over-year

RICHARDSON, Texas and WATERLOO, Ontario, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mavenir, the software company building mobile networks that are AI-by-design, and TextNow, the leading ad-supported U.S. free wireless service, have been jointly awarded Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration at the MVNOs World Awards in Amsterdam. The award recognizes the pair’s collaboration to redefine real-time entitlement control for a freemium, ad-supported, and paid mobile service operating at scale across the United States and Canada.

Mavenir and TextNow win Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration at the MVNOs World Awards
Mavenir and TextNow win Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration at the MVNOs World Awards

Mavenir and TextNow win Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration at the MVNOs World Awards

TextNow serves more than 10 million monthly active users, many moving fluidly between freemium, ad-supported, time-bound, and paid plans within the same day. Sustaining that flexibility at scale, consistent, real-time service enforcement, demanded a fundamentally different approach to MVNO architecture.

Mavenir’s integrated BSS, Converged Charging System (CCS), Packet Core, and IMS were deployed as a unified control plane, repositioning CCS as the real-time entitlement authority driving network behavior rather than a back-office billing platform. Entitlement changes including ad engagement, SIM activation, plan upgrades and quota exhaustion are now enforced instantly in the network, without manual reconciliation or delayed synchronization. The business impact has been transformative: eSIM activations grew from 2% to 94% of all new activations within six months of deployment, while paid wireless subscribers more than doubled year over year.

Derek Ting, CEO of TextNow: “We exist to prove reliable wireless service doesn’t have to be expensive. Mavenir’s integrated platform gave us real-time control over every aspect of the customer experience, from instant eSIM activation to seamless transitions between free and paid plans, while fundamentally improving our unit economics at scale. This award validates the architecture, but what matters most is what it unlocks: the ability to keep pushing the boundaries of what a free wireless service can deliver to millions of customers.”

The deployment, built on a 5G-first, active-active geo-redundant design, delivers 99.999% availability for carrier-grade operations. A no-code and low-code configuration model has accelerated time-to-market by decoupling offer creation from engineering cycles, while direct SIM ownership enabled eSIM adoption and materially improved the customer activation journey by allowing new subscribers to activate service instantly, entirely within the app.

Pardeep Kohli, Chief Executive Officer, Mavenir: “This award is a testament to what becomes possible when BSS and Core are truly integrated. TextNow pushed the boundaries of what an MVNO can be, and Mavenir’s architecture rose to meet that ambition. Together, we proved that cloud-native, open network software is not just viable for complex digital MVNOs – it is the enabler.”

The MVNOs World Awards, organized by Informa in Amsterdam, recognizes excellence across the virtual network operator industry. The Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration category honors partnerships that demonstrate measurable impact through joint innovation.

About Mavenir
Mavenir is enabling intelligent, automated, programmable networks through the development of telco-first, cloud-native, AI-by-design software solutions for mobile operators. The company’s deep telco domain expertise has been proven through deployments with 300+ operators globally in over 120 countries, which together serve more than 50% of the world’s subscribers. Mavenir combines its deep telco experience with the cloud and IT expertise and data science skillsets essential to solving real customer challenges. Its proven software solutions are AI by design, delivering the AI-native future and operators’ evolution to TechCos. For more information, please visit www.mavenir.com.

About TextNow
Founded in Waterloo, Ontario in 2009, TextNow is the largest ad-supported free wireless service in the United States, built on the belief that phone service should be more flexible, accessible and affordable for everyone. TextNow delivers wireless service through an app, giving customers unlimited talk and text, free data for 25+ apps and access to the same 5G network as the major carriers. Those who need more can add wireless data on their own terms by the day, week, or month, and remove ads with the Unlimited Plan. For more information, visit textnow.com or find us free in the App Store and Google Play.

Press Contacts
Mavenir
Emmanuela Spiteri | [email protected]

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Update on the simplified tender offer for North Atlantic Energies shares

Nanterre, June 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

Update on the simplified tender offer for North Atlantic Energies shares

Nanterre, June 8, 2026 – North Atlantic France recalls that, on November 28, 2025, it announced the successful closing of its acquisition of 82.89% of the share capital and voting rights of Esso S.A.F, renamed North Atlantic Energies, at a price of €26.19 per share.

North Atlantic France announced on November 10, 2025 that it will file a mandatory tender offer under the simplified procedure (the “Offer”) for the remaining shares of North Atlantic Energies it does not own at a price of €28.93 per share.

North Atlantic France informs the public that it will not request the implementation of a squeeze-out procedure as part of the Offer.

The Offer, therefore with no squeeze-out procedure, will be filed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) once the independent expert’s work has been finalised. The Offer documentation, including the independent expert’s fairness opinion on the financial terms of the Offer, will be submitted to the AMF for review, and the Offer will only open once the AMF has issued its compliance decision.

MEDIA CONTACTS

France: Brunswick Group – [email protected]
Hugues Boëton: +33 6 79 99 27 15
Paul Priam: +33 6 84 39 09 89

Canada: Mark Duggan – [email protected]
+1-709-687-3136

ABOUT NORTH ATLANTIC

For nearly four decades, North Atlantic has been a market leader in the retail gas and convenience sector, as well as the residential, commercial, and wholesale fuel industries in Newfoundland and Labrador. Recently, through a joint venture with Suncor Energy, North Atlantic expanded its retail division into Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, through North Sun Energy. As managing partner, North Atlantic operates 110 fuel retail sites across all three provinces. North Atlantic has ambitious plans for future growth and development in strategic locations across the region. Known for its expertise in acquiring and delivering exceptional products, North Atlantic caters to both domestic and industrial sectors while also serving global clients through their marine bunkering distribution channels. North Atlantic is committed to strategic growth to deliver innovative and green energy solutions aligned with evolving global needs. By driving industry progress, North Atlantic is supporting new skills and new jobs for this dynamic landscape. North Atlantic remains committed to providing exceptional energy, fuel and convenience retail initiatives that enhance customer experience while fostering economic growth in the communities they serve in Canada and beyond.

MEDIA CONTACTS

France: Brunswick Group - [email protected]
Hugues Boëton: +33 6 79 99 27 15
Paul Priam: +33 6 84 39 09 89

Canada: Mark Duggan - [email protected]
+1-709-687-3136

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Yuno Provides Corporate Update as It Advances Toward Launch, Expands Leadership Team with Talent from Binance, and Positions for Global Prediction Market Growth

NEWARK, N.J., June 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yuno, an emerging prediction markets platform focused on building global infrastructure for event-based trading and social participation, today provided a corporate update highlighting key milestones achieved ahead of launch, including leadership expansion, product development progress, international market strategy, and continued investment in regulatory infrastructure.

The update comes amid accelerating global growth across prediction markets, a category increasingly attracting retail traders, institutional attention, digital asset participants, and mainstream audiences seeking new forms of information discovery and event-driven trading.

Yuno is developing what management describes as a next-generation prediction market ecosystem designed to combine event contracts, social participation, creator-driven market infrastructure, and real-time trading experiences into a single platform optimized for international expansion.

The company believes prediction markets remain in the early stages of global adoption despite rapid growth across the sector over the past several years.

“Prediction markets are evolving from niche internet products into a new financial category,” said Sigmund Holtz, Co-Founder and CEO of Yuno. “We believe users increasingly want experiences that combine market participation, information discovery, social engagement, and reputation. Our focus is building infrastructure that supports those behaviors at scale.”

Strengthening Leadership With Industry Experience

As part of its preparation for launch, Yuno has expanded its leadership and operational capabilities through the addition of senior personnel and advisors with experience across digital assets, exchange infrastructure, prediction markets, growth systems, and market operations.

The company has recently added several senior team members and founders with backgrounds spanning organizations including Binance, bringing operational experience from some of the largest and fastest-growing market infrastructure businesses globally.

Management believes this combination of exchange, liquidity, product, and growth expertise positions Yuno to accelerate product execution while building operational systems designed to support international scale.

Building Prediction Markets With Trading Infrastructure Principles

At its core, Yuno is being designed as an event-based market infrastructure platform where users can gain exposure to real-world outcomes through dynamic, market-driven pricing.

Unlike traditional prediction systems where pricing is centrally determined, Yuno’s platform architecture is being developed around market-based discovery mechanisms intended to support deeper liquidity, faster pricing adjustments, and broader participation across multiple market categories.

The company’s interface is being built with trading-first principles, emphasizing:

• Real-time market pricing
• Live order book infrastructure
• Event-driven contract creation
• Social market participation
• Community forecasting systems
• Market discovery tools
• Reputation-driven participation mechanisms

Management believes current market participants increasingly expect infrastructure that behaves more like financial trading systems and less like traditional products.

Developing A Social Layer For Event Markets

One of Yuno’s primary product differentiators is its planned social infrastructure layer.

The platform is building integrated community functionality intended to allow users to discuss markets, publish views, establish public trading reputations, and participate in community-driven forecasting systems.

Yuno believes event markets naturally generate conversation, conviction, and information sharing and that these behaviors should exist natively inside the platform experience.

Planned social functionality currently under development includes:

• Social feeds around active markets
• Verified trader reputation systems
• Community participation tools
• Audience-building infrastructure
• User-generated market participation systems
• Community engagement functionality

“The future of prediction markets is not just passive participation,” Holtz added. “Users increasingly want transparency around market participants, stronger community interaction, and ways to build credibility over time. We believe reputation systems become increasingly important as markets scale.”

International Expansion Strategy Built Around Regulatory Infrastructure

Yuno’s international growth strategy is intentionally structured around phased market expansion and regulatory alignment.

The company’s international strategy is built around creating globally accessible market infrastructure, enabling participation across jurisdictions where growing digital asset adoption, expanding retail engagement, and evolving regulatory frameworks support long-term market development.

The platform is implementing infrastructure intended to support:

• AML and KYC processes
• Transaction monitoring systems
• Sanctions screening
• Compliance workflows
• Market integrity controls

Additional expansion opportunities across MENA and Asia-Pacific markets remain under evaluation as the company assesses licensing frameworks and market readiness.

Yuno intends to restrict access in jurisdictions where the platform does not yet hold required permissions. For the United States, Yuno’s long-term objective includes pursuing appropriate regulatory pathways to enter the market compliantly.

Targeting A Rapidly Expanding Global Category

Prediction markets have emerged as one of the fastest-growing segments within digital finance and event-based trading.

Management believes several structural tailwinds continue supporting category growth including:

• Rising stablecoin adoption
• Expansion of digital asset infrastructure
• Increased retail participation in alternative markets
• Demand for real-time information markets
• Growing familiarity with event-based trading products

Yuno believes these dynamics create an opportunity for new entrants capable of combining liquidity, product experience, regulatory infrastructure, and community participation into unified ecosystems.

“This is ultimately a trust and infrastructure business,” Holtz said. “Liquidity matters. Fair market resolution matters. User experience matters. We are building with those priorities first.”

Looking Ahead

As development continues, management remains focused on completing product milestones, expanding strategic partnerships, strengthening infrastructure, and preparing for phased market entry. The company is targeting average monthly volume over the next 12 months of approximately 200,000 active users and US$4 billion in total volume by the end of 2027, subject to platform launch timing.

The company expects additional updates relating to launch milestones, partnerships, and product developments in future announcements.

Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking statements regarding future plans, market opportunities, product development, and expansion initiatives. Actual outcomes may differ materially from expectations due to regulatory, market, operational, and competitive factors.

Trading on prediction markets involves risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

About Yuno

Yuno is building a global prediction markets platform designed to combine event-based trading, social infrastructure, and market infrastructure into a unified experience for international users. The company is focused on developing scalable systems that enable users to participate in transparent, community-driven event markets.

Contact: [email protected]

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Azerbaijan’s Bank ABB launches AI Conversational Banking assistants AI-nur and AI-khan

BAKU, Azerbaijan – Bank ABB, one of the leading financial institutions in the South Caucasus, has officially launched its artificial intelligence assistants AI-nur and AI-khan, making them available to all customers following a successful Beta testing phase. The new conversational AI technology represents a major step forward in the bank’s digital transformation and introduces one of the first voice-enabled AI banking solutions in Azerbaijan’s and regional banking sector.

Since becoming available to customers, AI-nur and AI-khan have demonstrated strong adoption and engagement. More than 230k users have already used the service, generating over 2.5 million interactions through the AI-powered banking assistants.

As banking continues to evolve, conversational interfaces powered by AI, including voice, are becoming an integral part of future banking models, enhancing accessibility, speed, and personalization across digital channels.

Developed as part of Bank’s strategy to build the banking ecosystem of the future, AI-nur and AI-khan enable customers to interact with banking services using natural voice commands. Customers can transfer funds between their cards and accounts or send money to others using a mobile phone number. By simply stating the recipient’s name, the AI system identifies the contact and processes the transfer, provided the number is saved in the sender’s phone contacts. Additionally, the assistants can handle essential security functions, such as blocking or reactivating cards, offering a quick response in critical situations.

According to Bank ABB, the launch of AI-nur and AI-khan demonstrates the bank’s commitment to advancing AI-driven digital banking services in Azerbaijan and the wider South Caucasus region. By integrating conversational artificial intelligence into its digital ecosystem, the bank aims to make everyday banking more intuitive, faster, and more convenient for customers.

The number of generative and predictive models applied in various directions has now reached 180, generating more than 35 million AZN in positive financial impact for the bank.

Security remains a top priority in the development of the new AI assistants. All operations performed through AI-nur and AI-khan are conducted within Bank ABB’s secure digital infrastructure, ensuring that customer data and financial transactions are protected according to the highest banking and cybersecurity standards.

Bank ABB plans to continue expanding the capabilities of AI-nur and AI-khan in the near future, introducing additional features that will allow customers to access more banking services through AI-powered interaction.

More information about Bank ABB’s modern products and services is available on the official website, and via Bank ABB’s official social media pages.

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Taklimakan Rally 2026: GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

URUMQI, China, June 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Eight stages completed. More than half the rally behind them. And in every T2 category it entered — T2.E new-energy production, T2.1 fuel production, T2.3 club production — GWM still holds the overall lead. Zero retirements. Zero mechanical failures. The championship is no longer a question of if, but when.

The race continues, but the uncertainty does not. SS7 and SS8 were not about proving speed anymore. They were about proving that the lead built over six stages was never a fluke.

GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

SS7 was 286 kilometers of sand fields made worse by a sandstorm that had swept through the region the night before. Surface conditions changed with every kilometer. The 3.0T V6 biturbo hybrid engine in the GWM TANK 700 Hi4-T managed higher thermal loads than expected and delivered the same precise torque output the terrain demanded. What kept the coolant temperatures within design specifications across every kilometer of that sandstorm-softened stage was the Hi4-T platform’s integrated thermal management circuit — the same system that regulates engine temperature in a production GWM TANK 700 Hi4-T driving through a Xinjiang summer, just with more sustained load. The intelligence of that system is that it doesn’t ask the driver to manage it. It manages itself.

SS8 unfolded along the Keriya River corridor — 288 kilometers through ancient riverbeds, poplar forest crossings, and salt flat compressions. This is where the 9HAT automatic transmission earns its name. Nine gears — the only production-derived automatic transmission of its kind developed in China — it means that the engine stays in its most efficient power band whether the vehicle is crawling through a riverbed at 15 kilometers per hour or sprinting across hard-packed salt flats at 140. The spread of ratios that a 9-speed provides means torque is always available where it’s needed, in the gear that suits the terrain, without the driver having to manage a series of manual swaps that cost seconds and add fatigue. Eight stages of that, in sand, in heat, in riverbed compression. The 9HAT completed eight stages without a single mechanical intervention.

Taklimakan Rally 2026: GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions
Taklimakan Rally 2026: GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

Taklimakan Rally 2026: GWM Built for the Abyss, Proven as Champions

The Hi4-T platform’s chassis geometry, with its long-travel suspension articulation, kept all four wheels loaded against the ground more consistently than conventional off-road architectures. That means torque isn’t lost to a floating wheel — it goes to the tire that’s actually in contact with the surface. Across 288 kilometers of constantly changing surface, that adds up to a meaningful advantage in both pace and endurance.

What the Taklimakan has always been — and what SS7 and SS8 confirmed once again — is a test of durability architecture rather than outright speed. The teams that survive it are not necessarily the ones with the most power. They are the ones with the fewest weak points in their engineering. The Hi4-T platform’s design principle is exactly that: build a vehicle where no single system is a liability, where nothing depends on a single point of failure, where the whole assembly is more resilient than any individual component. That is why there are zero retirements across eight stages and three categories. That is design philosophy, not luck.

The championship was never in question. It only took eight stages to prove it.

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