This Week in Tech News: 11 Stories You Need to See

A roundup of the week's most newsworthy technology industry press releases from PR Newswire

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the business technology industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.

The list below includes the headline (with a link to the full text) and an excerpt from each story. Click on the press release headlines to access accompanying multimedia assets that are available for download.

1. New Research Explores Potential Demand for Paid Twitter Verification
   The research discovered that demand is strong—and that the company could potentially charge even more than the proposed $8/month fee. According to the research, 23% of Twitter users are willing to pay $8 each month for a verified account.
2. ASICS Shows Future of Web3 Commerce with Launch of New ASICS X Solana UI Collection Featuring custom-made GT-2000™ 11 running shoes, customers will automatically receive a loyalty ASICS Badge NFT with purchase, with a chance to receive an airdrop of a limited number of ASICS x STEPN GT-2000™ NFTs.
3. Introducing Gen: The Company to Power Digital Freedom
   Gen brings award-winning technology solutions in cybersecurity, privacy and identity protection to more than half a billion users so they can live their digital lives safely, privately, and confidently.
4. EY announces global alliance with Shopify to build a new market for regulated products and deliver enterprise-ready e-commerce services
   The proven compliance, data analytics, global tax, trade and managed services capabilities of EY teams will help Shopify's large merchants remain compliant when selling regulated products — regardless of geography.
5. BeFootball, the company developing a VR metaverse of football, organizes the first Immersive Football World Cup
   SuperPlayer is a virtual reality football game that has 2 game modes that take place in real football stadiums that have been virtualized.
6. Cognizant collaborates with Microsoft to accelerate sustainability transformation
   The Cognizant® Sustainability Accelerator automates the collection of data and provides valuable analytics that allow clients to track and take action on their sustainability goals. Utilizing Microsoft Sustainability Manager, Cognizant delivers end-to-end capabilities required to automate the collection, analysis and reporting of sustainability efforts. 
7. Smart City Expo 2022 gathers the key actors in the urban ecosystem to design Cities inspired by People
   From November 15 to 17 and under the theme Cities Inspired by People, over 800 exhibitors, 700 cities and regions, and 400 speakers will gather in Barcelona to push together the transformation of metropolises worldwide, share knowledge and experiences.
8. RAID: Shadow Legends Offers Exclusive Rewards to Amazon Prime Members
   Plarium, a global leader in developing F2P mobile and PC games with more than 435 million users worldwide, announced that it is offering free, exclusive RAID: Shadow Legends rewards to Amazon Prime members on a monthly basis beginning today until April 27, 2023.
9. New rugged Instinct Crossover by Garmin is fully analog, fully smart, and full of adventure Instinct Crossover is a hybrid GPS smartwatch built for those who appreciate a classic analog watch experience but who do not want to compromise essential smartwatch functionality or rugged watch durability.
10. Palo Alto Networks Partners with Zoom to Deliver Exceptional User Experience for Zoom Meetings
    Pamela Cyr, vice president, Technical Partnerships, Palo Alto Networks, said, "We are pleased to deliver with Zoom the industry's first integrated solution for complete visibility into the root causes impacting meeting and call quality for end users."
11. CompTIA and Out in Tech partner to increase career opportunities for LGBTQ+ tech talent
    CompTIA joins more than three dozen companies as members of Qorporate, a membership program for companies committed to improving opportunities for LGBTQ+ people and other underrepresented groups in tech.

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