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OLX Group appoints Andrew Garrihy as Chief Marketing Officer

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AMSTERDAM, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — OLX Group (OLX), a global online classifieds leader with nearly 60 million daily listings across 7 markets, has appointed Andrew Garrihy as Chief Marketing Officer, joining the Executive Team and reporting to CEO Christian Gisy, effective 1 July 2026.

Andrew will be responsible for driving the next phase of OLX’s marketing strategy, building demand and ensuring users and professional customers understand the full value of what OLX’s global marketplaces offer. Central to his remit is ensuring AI is deeply embedded in how OLX’s marketing function operates.

Andrew brings extensive international marketing experience across multiple categories and more than 170 countries. He previously served as CMO of OLX Autos between 2022 and 2023, and most recently as Senior Advisor to the company before joining the Executive Team. Prior to OLX, Andrew held senior roles at Huawei, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Vodafone, where he led global teams focused on strengthening and transforming brands across EMEA, Asia and LATAM.

Andrew is recognised as a rare full-stack marketer, with deep expertise across both strategic and technical disciplines. Alongside his leadership experience, he has hands-on experience building AI agents and digital products and will play a central role in deeply embedding AI into how OLX’s marketing teams operate day-to-day.

Andrew’s appointment follows a period of strong performance for OLX, with global revenue up 28% year-on-year to US$992 million for the full year ended 31 March 2026. The Group continues to build on this momentum with industry-leading AI innovation, investing more than $200 million in AI across its platforms since 2018.

Christian Gisy, CEO at OLX commented: “One key focus for OLX’s next phase of growth is continuing to harness AI to deliver even greater value for our customers’ businesses and for our users. Andrew’s vision for making AI central to the future of effective marketing, combined with his vast international experience makes him the ideal person to lead us through this next phase.”

Andrew Garrihy, Chief Marketing Officer at OLX, added: “OLX is accelerating and it is a great time to return to the business. It has a clear vision, strong leadership, leading talent, and importantly, an unrivalled investment in AI across the classifieds industry. This is a genuinely innovative company at an exciting moment, and I’m looking forward to delivering on the opportunity and the ambition.”

He continued, “AI will change marketing at the core, not the edges. The winners will pair deep marketing expertise with the skill to direct AI, rebuilding marketing around what it now makes possible rather than bolting it onto how we work today.”

About OLX Group:

OLX is a global digital marketplace leader that builds AI-native marketplaces people trust, serving millions of people, professionals and businesses across Europe and South Africa every month. Leveraging scale and powerful AI innovation across its trusted brands, OLX helps people sell and buy cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and much more. OLX Group is the classifieds business of Prosus, a global technology company and the power behind the leading lifestyle ecommerce brands in Latin America, Europe and India. For more information on OLX, visit www.olxgroup.com.

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AiPPT.com Expands AI Presentation Creation with Four Integrated Modes and Smarter Content Workflows

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SINGAPORE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPPT.com announced the completion of its four mode AI presentation ecosystem, integrating AiPPT Classic, AiPPT Flow, AiPPT Visual, and AiPPT Agent into one unified platform. The update introduces enhanced AI creation workflows, HTML web page generation through AiPPT Agent, and a redesigned workspace that helps users create, manage, share, and organize their content more efficiently.

AiPPT.com is the only platform that offers four different AI presentation modes in one ecosystem, allowing users to select the most suitable creation approach for different needs.

Four AI Modes for Different Presentation Needs

These modes support different stages of presentation creation, from planning to final delivery.

Structured projects such as business reports, proposals, and academic presentations can be created efficiently with AiPPT Classic. For content that requires more flexibility, AiPPT Flow introduces adaptive layouts, smart diagrams, templates, and interactive components that adjust to changing ideas.

Visual storytelling takes another step forward with AiPPT Visual, which combines AI generated images, animations, and presentation to video capabilities. AiPPT Agent connects these experiences through an intelligent workflow that helps users turn ideas and materials into complete presentations.

A New Workspace for Creating and Managing AI Content

Alongside the four mode ecosystem, AiPPT.com has redesigned its workspace to help users manage all AI generated results in one place.

The updated workspace organizes presentations and creative projects through a centralized library, making it easier to find, reuse, and manage previous work. Users can also share presentations through links, view audience engagement data, and control access permissions directly from the workspace.

Building More Flexible AI Communication Experiences

As users create content for different audiences and platforms, presentation tools need to support more than slide generation. AiPPT.com continues to expand AI assisted creation by combining presentation building, visual design, editing, sharing, and content management in one connected experience.

About AiPPT.com

AiPPT.com is an AI powered presentation and content creation platform that helps users transform ideas, documents, URLs, and research materials into professional presentations. The platform combines AI generation, editing, visual creation, document understanding, conversion tools, and content management features within one workspace.

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Email: support@aippt.com 

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Corinex and Plexigrid team up to deliver the most accurate digital-twin solution for grid visibility and flexibility to date

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VANCOUVER, BC and GIJÓN, Spain, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Corinex Corp. and Plexigrid S.L. have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to market Corinex Plexigrid Intelligence, a platform for low-voltage and medium-voltage power grids, built on the most accurate and granular power data.

As power-hungry AI unfolds, the electrification of industry, transport and heating/cooling accelerates, and the penetration of distributed energy resources explode, grid operators are facing the largest technological challenge in decades: planning, operating and orchestrating in real-time a distributed, intermittent and bidirectional electricity system with millions of DERs. Successfully solving this requires the next level of real time visibility, intelligence and control through their mid and low voltage sections of the grid. This strategic cooperation is aimed at delivering exactly that.

Corinex products observe and act on the physical grid, while Plexigrid software models and optimizes it. The partnership brings these complementary capabilities together, connecting real-time field intelligence with digital twin analysis, capacity decisions and flexibility actions.

The integrated solution helps utilities see real time voltage grid conditions, find available capacity, and act on network limits.

Built around Corinex’s BPL architecture and edge-computing capabilities, the solution places sensing, processing and intelligence across the grid. This gives Plexigrid’s digital twin richer and more accurate information from grid assets.

Why BPL Improves the Value of Digital Twins

Transmission grids are modelled and operated in real time using redundant, high-resolution instrumentation at every node and an exact electrical topology, manually curated by a dedicated topology team. This creates the “observability” requirements that transmission control systems need to operate. Scaling that approach from thousands of transmission nodes to tens of millions of distribution nodes would cost hundreds of billions and require hundreds of thousands of people. It is simply not feasible, which is why 99% of the nodes in the electricity grid remain unmodelled.

Plexigrid delivers a more realistic answer to this problem: a digital twin equipped with a layer of Bayesian AI that reconstructs the electrical topology and the state of the grid from systems DSOs already have in place, such as GIS (used for field operations and asset management) and AMI (used for billing). This creates unprecedented visibility and control in parts of the grid that were previously unobserved or only partially observed, using data from systems that were never designed for real time grid observability and control. But while these Bayesian digital twins provide game changing capabilities and are fast and cheap to adopt at scale, they do not reach the time resolution and accuracy of transmission control systems.

Corinex’s BPL takes the performance and inference quality of these digital twins to the next level by adding a layer of low-latency, high-resolution instrumentation and control that complements what DSOs already have across meters, feeders, transformers and other unmetered or partially observed grid assets. The result is a level of time resolution, accuracy and real-time capabilities never seen before in distribution grids. Besides, Corinex’s Grid Intelligence Node installed on the low voltage lines expands the number of the measuring points and adds further detailed measurements from the physical network, giving the twin a clearer view of loading, voltage, power quality, and emerging constraints.

Digital Twin Capability

Typical performance with PLC smart-meter data

Performance with Corinex BPL

Time Resolution

5-60 min

1 min

Estimation accuracy

~90–95%

~99%

Operational uncertainty

~5-10%

 ~1%

Required safety margin

~10-20%

~2%-5%

Asset utilization

Conservative, approximately 80% of limits

Optimized, closer to true limits

Built for Edge and Distributed Intelligence

Corinex and Plexigrid use BPL as an architectural foundation for distributed grid intelligence. The platform processes data near substations, feeders, and grid assets. The grid intelligence is embedded in both Corinex and Plexigrid solutions and is architected to provide the best performance and value for DSOs. This supports real time data checks, local analysis, and earlier warnings of abnormal conditions. The platform continues to handle wider models, forecasts, planning, reports, and links to other utility systems.

The result is a distributed intelligence layer. It links field conditions to digital models and utility decisions.

“Utilities need more than connectivity and more than a cloud-based view of the network. They need an intelligence layer that can observe the physical grid, understand changing conditions, and support action at the speed required by modern distribution systems,” said Peter Sobotka, Founder and CEO of Corinex Corp. “Corinex delivers BPL, GIN, and edge capabilities across the grid. Plexigrid adds advanced digital twin and flexibility management capabilities that drive better capacity, investment, and operational decisions.”

“This partnership allows our models to be continuously grounded in high-resolution information from the physical network. Combining that information with distributed processing and advanced grid analytics creates a stronger foundation for planning, flexibility, and day-to-day operations.” said Alberto Méndez, CEO and Co-founder of Plexigrid.

About Corinex Corp.

Corinex Corp. provides technology that helps reinforce low-voltage and medium-voltage power grids. Its platform serves as digital grid capacity infrastructure. It gives utilities the data and control needed to manage congestion, add usable capacity, and get more from existing assets.

About Plexigrid

Plexigrid develops AI-powered digital twins and orchestrators for grid visibility, planning, and flexibility management to help utilities model grid conditions, find constraints, assess available capacity, and coordinate flexible resources.

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Techstars and Emirates NBD partner to accelerate enterprise-grade AI and FinTech solutions across the MENAT region

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DUBAI, UAE, July 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, and startup accelerator Techstars, announced a strategic partnership centred on a commercially-driven “Acceleration-to-Enterprise” model to integrate high-growth AI and FinTech innovations directly into the bank’s regional ecosystem encompassing multiple markets.

Combining Techstars’ global pipeline of over 11,000 founders with the bank’s advanced analytics infrastructure, which currently manages over 50 active AI use cases, will deliver scalable, commercial pathways for agentic FinTech startups focusing on compliance, wealth management, SME banking and capital markets.

This initiative underscores Emirates NBD’s commitment to the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33), which aims to rank Dubai among the top four global financial centres by 2033.

Miguel Rio Tinto, Group Chief Digital and Information Officer at Emirates NBD, commented: “With Dubai now home to nearly 60% of GCC FinTech companies, we are pleased to partner with Techstars to tap into and capture FinTech’s new wave of innovation in agentic finance. Leveraging Emirates NBD’s regional footprint and digital capabilities, we are providing selected AI and FinTech startups with a direct pathway into enterprise banking, supporting solutions that can transform how we serve our nine million active customers.”

Neeraj Makin, Group Head of Strategy, Analytics and Venture Capital at Emirates NBD, said: “The partnership with Techstars reflects Emirates NBD’s continued focus on strengthening its innovation ecosystem and deepening engagement with global technology and startup networks. By combining access to emerging founders, market intelligence, and new technology trends, we aim to accelerate innovation opportunities that support the Group’s long term strategic, digital and AI ambitions across the region.”

This unique partnership helps AI startups pilot secure and personalised banking solutions using Emirates NBD’s cloud-native infrastructure to drive real impact.

David Cohen, CEO of Techstars, stated: “Techstars has always been about helping founders go faster. By partnering with a proactive, AI-first institution like Emirates NBD, we are giving our FinTech and AI founders a front-row seat to one of the most dynamic financial markets in the world. The UAE’s commitment to becoming a global hub for intelligent, data-driven innovation makes it the perfect launchpad for enterprise-grade solutions that will redefine the future of finance.”

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