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Giift, loyalty management solutions provider backed by Apis Growth Fund II, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners LLP, announced today that it has acquired a significant strategic interest in Xoxoday, a fintech disruptor in the rewards, incentives and payout space. The partnership included both primary and secondary capital components, and the collaboration will enable both Giift and Xoxoday to enlarge their service offerings and collectively accelerate growth globally.

Xoxoday provides technology infrastructure to enable businesses to automate rewards, incentives and payouts across the value chain. Xoxoday will use the US $30 million investment to fuel the next stage of growth in international markets and upgrade the technology infrastructure required to serve the next set of billion users.

It took a pandemic to expose the gaps in the way businesses engage with people. It is inevitable that businesses invest in systems that align people, delight customers, and empower their partners.

Xoxodays founders have been forerunners in creating solutions that the world has just started contemplating. Almost a decade ago, the four founders, Sumit Khandelwal, Manoj Agarwal, Abhishek Kumar, and Kushal Agrawal, began their entrepreneurial journey by solving the complex everyday problem of human motivation using technology. With a first-principles approach, they reimagined how rewards, incentives, and payouts should work via branded currency. Today, through its platform, Xoxoday enables rewards and incentives embedded and integrated in the flow of work across the value chain. Since different business contexts demand tailored solutions, Xoxoday has three SaaS offerings for the market.

Co-Founder and CEO of Giift Laurent Xatart commented, Xoxoday is a unique and powerful loyalty platform for employee, sales and consumer rewards. Our partnership with Xoxoday will enable Giift to offer the most comprehensive engagement and loyalty solution available on the market, and represents a big step forward in our mission to create the global standard for the loyalty industry.

Sumit Khandelwal, Co-founder & CEO Xoxoday, added, "We firmly believe that growth compounds with the right people and right partners. With Giift and Apis Partners on board, I can only see growth upwards and onwards from here. Giift's loyalty infrastructure and Xoxoday's rewards infrastructure, together, cover the length and breadth of business use cases across the entire lifecycle for employees, channel partners, and consumers."

Manoj Agarwal, Co-founder Xoxoday, says, While we have been busy enabling rewards, it feels like we have been awarded today. However, it is not just us. The true architects of Xoxoday have been our customers, our employees, and partners, who are the ones rewarding us every day with their trust. I would like to thank our teams, customers & partners who have helped us grow. I am looking forward to working with the team at Giift and Apis Partners.

Apis Partners Co-founder and Managing Partner Matteo Stefanel said: We are delighted to announce our partnership with Xoxoday. It is rare to see a business with such a strong founding team and targeting such an under-invested opportunity. Xoxodays impressive and largely self-financed growth over the last decade is a testament to the sharp focus with which the team has been executing its plans.

Udayan Goyal, Apis Partners Co-founder, and Managing Partner added: Following Apis recent partnership with Giift, we are very happy to be expanding our efforts in the rewards and loyalty sector with Xoxoday. The space that Xoxoday occupies is becoming a necessity around the world for businesses, particularly as the world transitions to a hybrid work environment. The convergence with financial services further leverages Apis sector-specific expertise in fintech. We are excited to support them in the next phase of their growth.

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TheMeltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022 reached thesemifinals with 3 Russians andMagnus Carlsen putting more flag colors on theleaderboard.

Photo: Niki Riga / World Chess

Ian Nepomniachtchi scored adecisive third-game point against Vincent Keymer andwon thematch toadvance totheTours semifinals. Later theRussian GM admitted that theRussia/Ukraine crisis has affected him.

After thewar announcement, Nepomniachtchi tweeted: History has seen nolack ofblack Thursdays, buttoday is blacker than theothers

Andrey Esipenko also dominated against thetours underdog, Eric Hansen with a3-1 score toface Nepomniachtchi inthesemifinals. TheRussian GM also commented on thewar: I really hoped forapeaceful solution tothesituation... Its terrible torealize that all this is happening...

Thethird Russian tomove tothesemifinals was Vladislav Artemiev. The23-year-old GM beat Ding Liren with a2.5-1.5 score, leaving thechess world speechless. TheChinese GM has missed several knockout blows buteventually thepressure andmaybe tiredness took him down.

Theone tobreak theRussian dominance inthesemifinals was theWorld Champion Magnus Carlsen. TheNorwegian GM managed towin thefirst knockout game against Liem Quang Le andachieve a2.5-1.5 final score. Inthesemifinals, Carlsen will face Artemiev forhis chance tomove tothetours finals.

Watch it at6PM CET on theWorld Chess broadcasting page.

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Resident Culture is honored to be hosting Marcus Baskerville, co-founder and head brewer at Weathered Souls Brewing, in Charlotte this weekend

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Resident Culture is honored to be hosting Marcus Baskerville, co-founder and head brewer at Weathered Souls Brewing, in Charlotte this weekend. Marcus is the creator of the Black is Beautiful brewing initiative.

Marcus Baskerville conceptualized the Black Is Beautiful initiative after protests in San Antonio following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minnesota, and he wanted to use his business platform to help his community. Breweries participating in Black is Beautiful all brew the same base beer.

Baskerville encourages brewers to put their own spin on the beer. He has also allowed breweries to choose where the proceeds from the beers sales go, provided that 100% of those proceeds go to local foundations that support police brutality reform and legal defenses for those who have been wronged.

Resident Culture Black is Beautiful x Weathered Souls event on Friday, February 25th:

5:30 PM - Kids (age 5-20) charity "knockout game" - $5

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM - Adult (21+) charity "knockout game" - $10

6:00 - 10:00 PM - Vendor market and live music featuring DJ Glory, Jenuine Goods, Yes Darling Tea, Two Chicks Candles, The Sienna Market and more.

The team of Weathered Souls Brewing will also join them for our Black is Beautiful barrel-aged release, featuring two versions. There will also be other goodies and surprises thanks to Weathered Souls that will be available on Friday night.

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DECATUR An ugly win is always better than a pretty loss.

The McMinn Central girls defeated Kingston 80-62 and then 85-45 in the regular season, an average of 29 points. It wasnt that easy on Friday in the District 3-AA semifinals, but the Chargerettes came away with a 64-53 win over the Lady Yellow Jackets to move on to the district tournament championship game.

Central head coach Johnny Morgan wasnt pleased with how his team played, but wasnt that concerned as it wasnt a knockout game.

Youre not worried until it could be your last game, Morgan said. Either way we were going to play again. But I told them you are going play one more game (in the region tournament) and that will be it or we could go on and have a good season. But it all starts with them listening to the coach.

Before the Region 2-2A Tournament, the Chargerettes (23-4) will face Tellico in the District 3-2A Tournament championship game at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. By reaching the district title game both will host region tournament games.

Tellico (18-5), the district tournaments No. 3 seed, reached the championship game by upsetting No. 2-seed Meigs County.

Chargerettes 64, Lady Yellow Jackets 54: With the game knotted up at 5-5, Central went on a 7-0 run with baskets by Kara Crabtree and Molly Masingale, a free throw by Kellan Baker and then a another bucket by Masingale.

That put Central up 12-5 and the quarter ended with the Chargerettes ahead 16-10.

Central continued to maintain a solid, but not dominating, lead through most of the second quarter. Buckets by Baker, Karina Bystry, Masingale, and a late three-pointer by Baker put Central ahead 30-19 with 1:50 left in the first half.

After another bucket by Masingale, Kingston hit a trey to make it 32-22, Central, going to the half.

The Lady Yellow Jackets came out strong in the third quarter with three treys and then a third quarter buzzer beater to make it a one-point game with Central ahead only 39-38 going to the fourth.

Early in the fourth, another three-pointer by Kingston made it 43-41, Central, but then the Chargerettes began to push ahead.

Three-pointers by Bystry and Baker made it 49-41 and then free throws by Bystry put Central ahead 53-43 with 5:30 to play. Kingston continued to score enough to keep the game close but Central made their three throws to maintain a somewhat comfortable lead.

Central was on top 62-51 with 42 seconds left after free throws by Bystry and Masingale as the Chargerettes went on to win 64-53.

The Chargerettes hit 12 out of their 13 free throw attempts in the fourth quarter. Bystry made 5-of-6, Masingale went 4-for-4, Baker 2-for-2 and Mayfield went 2-for-2.

Baker led the Chargerettes with 21 points while Masingale added 18 points.

Macey Neal hit five three-pointers for Kingston to keep the Lady Yellow Jackets in the game to finish with 20 points and Braxton Fritts had 19.

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West Ham vs Wolves Prediction and Betting Odds: West Ham United will be starting as favorites in their upcoming match against the Wolves

The Premier League enters another week filled with nail-biting contests and a weekend packed with entertainment for the football fraternity. The top 5 side West Ham is all set to resist the challenge posed by Wolves on Saturday at London stadium.

West Ham have done a fantastic job to keep themselves afloat despite so many things going against them so far. As far as the away team is concerned, they have gone under the radar which has helped them to stay competitive against top sides. With high stakes involved for this game, there is little doubt that this will turn out to be a cracker of a contest between two quality teams.

West Ham

Wolves

Predicted Winner

FcTables

Win Probability: 47%

Win Probability: 23%

West Ham

Odds: 2.02

Odds: 3.8

West Ham

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West Ham under David Moyes has done a tremendous job so far in England and is competing for a UCL spot next season. Even though this seems like hyperbole, they are just 4 points shy of 4th placed Manchester United.

They have won 12 games and have scored 45 goals in the same period. In the last five games that they played in, they achieved an important victory against Kidminster in an FA Cup knockout game while they forced draws against Leicester and Newcastle. This is a crucial juncture and it is significant for them to win this game against Wolves.

On the other hand, after a shocking loss to Norwich City in an FA Cup fixture, Wolves have found their feet as they bagged triumphs against Leicester City and Spurs that have elevated their confidence to new levels.

They are currently in 7th place just behind Arsenal, eyeing a ticket to the Europa League 2022. With 14 more games remaining for the side, the away side would be looking to make the most of it by minimizing the losses and converting those draws into victories. The side has so far won 12 games and have suffered 8 losses so far.

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Matches: 15: West Ham: 7 Wolves: 7 Draw: 1

Last 5 games: Wolves 3, West Ham 2, Draw 0.

Recent Meeting: West Ham faced defeat at the hands of Wolves with a 1-0 margin in an away fixture.

Attack:

Looking at West Hams attack, it seems that the departure of Jesse Lingard hasnt affected them that much with the side stepping up well.

Michail Antonio has taken up the role with 9 goals and has assisted on 7 occasions in the 29 games along with 67.1% success in passes along with 1.5 dribbles and 1.4 key passes every game so far.

He will have to be backed up by the likes of Fornals and Bowen who have done an excellent job in creating opportunities.

Jarrod Bowen has been proactive in the middle with 12 goals and 9 assists in 36 games along with 75.5% pass success. Pablo Fornals has scored on 5 occasions for the side with a rating of 6.71 this season.

The Wolves attack will be led by Podence, Neto, and Jimenez at the front who were silenced by the impeccable attack of Leicester.

Daniel Podence is a young talent from Portugal who has scored five times in 21 games that he has played. He has 73.7% pass accuracy and creates an average of 1.6 shots on target per match.

Pedro Neto has a good header, passes extremely well, and has an accurate finishing touch with an overall rating of 6.24. Raul Jiminezs strengths include dribbling, crossing, and key passes. He has failed to contribute for the side so far but has a pass accuracy of 70.7% along with 1.3 dribbles per game so far.

Defense:

The backline of Zouma, Cresswell, and Dawson will have to throw in a formidable challenge against Wolves.

The Center back Kurt Zouma has 84.3% pass success along with 5.3 clears per match which might turn out to be significant in the coming match.

Aaron Cresswell is a versatile player for the team who not only defends but creates chances. He has a goal and 6 assists in 25 games at 82.8% pass accuracy along with 1 tackle and 1.7 clears in the recent past.

Craig Dawson is an asset to the team with his intercepting skills and has contributed with 3 goals, 1 assist and 3.2 clears per game.

The Wolves defense should be playing out of their skins to hold the fort on Saturday. Conor Coady will be the center back in the eleven who has 88.9% pass accuracy and likes to play long balls. In addition to this, he has 1 tackle, 0.7 interceptions, and 3.5 clears per game this season.

Romain Saiss will join him to guard the goal post and was exceptional in his last match with 79.5% pass completion rate. He also got 1.7 interceptions and 4.5 clears per game so far.

Max Kilman will play as the right center back and has great tackling skills. In addition to tackling, he is exceptional in aerial duels winning 2 duels per game along with 86.8% pass accuracy. He has a strong rating of 7.01 in this edition.

West Ham has a formidable side when compared to their opponents, as a result of which the home side are the clear favorites.

FCTables who are known for providing accurate odds and predictions have given a clear edge to West Ham with a decent 47% chance whereas Wolves have a negligible 23% chance to bag their 13th win of the season.

Sofascore known for giving the best odds has clearly picked West Ham to win the game and retain their top 5 spots in the table whereas Wolves need a massive effort to break into the top 5.

Another premium platform FiveThirtyEight has gone on to give a 41% chance to the David Moyes men to pull off an important win whereas the underdogs are behind with a 30% in this battle.

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