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First-time All-Star Victor Wembanyama, Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo will be NBA All-Star tournament teammates after being selected for the same roster by Charles Barkley in Thursday's All-Star Draft.

E-commerce giant Amazon reported strong earnings Thursday but, like its big tech peers Microsoft and Google, saw its stock price fall on concerns over high AI investment costs.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Forte Group Holdings Inc. (CSE:FGH)(OTC:FGHFF)(FSE:7BC0, WKN:A40L1Z) ("Forte Group" or the "Company"), a diversified lifestyle and wellness consumer packaged goods company, announces that, effective February 6, 2025, it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement for common shares of the Company (each, a "CommonShare") at a price of $0.60 per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds of $375,000 for a total of 624,999 Common Shares (the "Offering").

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Global Education Communities Corp. (TSX:GEC)(OTCQB International:GECSF) ("GECC") reports the director election voting results from its annual general meeting held today. All of the director nominees, as listed in the management information circular dated December 23, 2024, were elected. Proxy voting as to each of the director nominees was as follows:

MURFREESBORO, TN / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / National Health Investors, Inc. (NYSE:NHI) announced today that after more than 34 years of leadership and guidance on the NHI Board of Directors, Robert Webb has notified the Board that he is resigning effective immediately.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Zeus North America Mining Corp. (CSE:ZEUS)(OTCQB:ZUUZF)(FRANKFURT:O92) (the "Company" or "Zeus") is pleased to provide a corporate update on 2024 exploration at the Cuddy Mountain project in Idaho, less than 3 km to the north of the Hercules Metals high grade copper-gold-silver porphyry discovery announced in October 2023.

ATHENS, OHIO / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Athens County Board of Developmental Disabilities

MUNICH, DE / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Mynaric AG (NASDAQ:MYNA) (ISIN: US62857X1019) (FRA:M0YN) (ISIN: DE000A31C305) (the "Company") announces the grant of a fourth bridge loan, the extension of the maturity date of its three outstanding bridge loans, agrees to a new restructuring loan and resolves on a financial restructuring by proceedings under the German Corporate Stabilization and Restructuring Act (Gesetz über den Stabilisierungs- und Restrukturierungsrahmen für Unternehmen ("StaRUG").

PORTLAND, OR / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Blockchain Loyalty Corp. (OTC PINK:BBLC) continues to execute its strategic vision of acquiring and developing high-value opportunities across multiple sectors, reinforcing its commitment to promoting a lifestyle of health, beauty, and wealth while delivering long-term shareholder value.

The payments to farm owners under BIPPA-protection marks a historic milestone and a critical step in Zimbabwe's Arrears Clearance and Debt Resolution Process

Innovative Strategies, Proven Results - Elevating Brands in a Competitive Market

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / The Board of Agronomics Limited ("Agronomics" or "the Company"), a leading investor within the field of clean food, announces that all resolutions were passed at the AGM held earlier today.

NEW YORK CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Retirement years are full of exciting opportunities. But as fewer and fewer people have pensions, generating retirement income falls on people individually. Social Security, retirement accounts like a 401(k) and other investments are a great way to create retirement income. Another common tool is cash value life insurance, which can work with investments to help someone generate income in retirement. That's one of the key differences between term vs permanent life insurance-the ability to build cash value.

MARTINS FERRY, OH / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / United Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:UBCP) reported diluted earnings per share of $0.31 and net income of $1,850,000 for the three months ended December 31, 2024. For the year ended December 31, 2024, UBCP reported diluted earnings per share of $1.27 and net income of $7,402,000.

BitHide, a software provider for crypto payment processing, reflects on a remarkable year. How did the company evolve from a small startup into one of the most promising business crypto wallets in 2024?

CHICAGO, IL / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Cosmos Health Inc. ("Cosmos Health" or the "Company'') (NASDAQ:COSM), a diversified, vertically integrated global healthcare group engaged in innovative R&D, owner of proprietary pharmaceutical and nutraceutical brands, manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products, and operator of a telehealth platform, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cana Laboratories ("Cana"), has entered into a new long-term ten-year contract manufacturing agreement with Provident Pharmaceuticals ("Provident"), a specialty pharmaceutical company, to produce four pharmaceutical products. These include Miorelique®, BE Union F.C., and two variations of Certorun, with a total production volume of 800,000 packs per year, or 8,000,000 packs over the ten-year period.

FRANKLIN, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Silver Scott Mines, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SILS) today announced it will launch its enterprise-grade private blockchain platform, leveraging Hyperledger Fabric or similar technology to deliver a secure ecosystem for asset tokenization with rigorous KYC/AML checks and permissioned access.

OAK BROOK, IL / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Affluence Corporation (AFFU:OTC PINK) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary OneMind Technologies, a leader in Smart City and IoT technology platforms, will join forces with Mingothings Arabia to showcase cutting-edge AI-powered IoT solutions and Smart City innovations at LEAP 2025, the leading global tech event.

About Orlando's Black History Month Celebration:

Two-year follow-up data from 34 subjects in the VenoValve pivotal trial show sustained clinical improvement and continued patient benefit, from 12 months to 24 months.78% of subjects maintained a clinically meaningful benefit of more than 3 points in rVCSS at 24 months, with an average improvement of 8.2 points among the responder cohort.Subjects continued to experience a median 75% reduction in pain at 24 months.Interim follow-up data indicate sustained improvements across all venous specific quality-of-life(QoL) indicators.PMA application for the VenoValve submitted in November 2024, with an FDA decision expected in the second half of 2025. 

A wholly owned subsidiary of Nitches Inc. (OTC:NICH), InTheZone Labs is at the forefront of a rising health movement as customers uncover powerful De-Aging effects from its premium nootropic formulations.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / The Glimpse Group, Inc. ("Glimpse") (NASDAQ:VRAR)(FSE:9DR), a diversified Immersive technology platform company providing enterprise-focused Virtual Reality ("VR"), Augmented Reality ("AR") and Spatial Computing software and services, will release its financial results for Q2 fiscal year 2025 (ended December 31, 2024) before the market open on Thursday, February 13, 2025.

Leveraging Cutting-Edge AI Technology to Optimize Logistics, Inventory, and Sales in a $327.6 Billion Market.

Rio Grande Resources Is Anticipated to Commence Trading on the Canadian Securities Exchange Under the Ticker "RGR" at Market Open at 6:30 AM PST February 7, 2025

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 7, 2025 / Evan Gappelberg ("Acquiror") announces that he has acquired ownership and control of an aggregate of 21,046,338 common shares ("Subject Shares") of Nextech3D.ai Corp. (the "Company"), effective February 7, 2025 (the "Acquisition"). The Subject Shares were acquired in a private placement transaction (the "Private Placement").

Agronomics Limited ("Agronomics" or the "Company")Meatly launches the world's first cultivated meat dog treat, on sale at Pets at Home

The former interpreter to Shohei Ohtani, who admitted stealing almost $17 million from the Japanese baseball star to pay off illegal gambling debts, was sentenced to 57 months in prison on Thursday.

Denmark's Nanna Koerstz Madsen and American Jennifer Kupcho each fired a six-under par 65 to share the lead after Thursday's first round of the LPGA Founders Cup.

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim believes Marcus Rashford was unable to see football "the way I see it" before the unwanted England striker was shipped out of Old Trafford.

A new contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Thursday to bolster a UN-backed security mission, AFP journalists observed, as the United States reiterated its support but called for a "new direction."

Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou conceded his under-strength squad were no match for a rampant Liverpool as the Reds progressed to the League Cup final with a 4-0 win on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump's trade envoy nominee Jamieson Greer told his confirmation hearing Thursday that universal tariffs were worth studying, adding that he would work to restructure global trade ties.