Day: March 3, 2026

A new app from Synchronoss designed to simplify how people celebrate and share memories

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and BANGALORE, India, March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (“Synchronoss” or the “Company”), a global leader and innovator in personal cloud platforms, today announced the launch of Jelly Toast in India, a new app designed for shared celebrations and group memories.

From birthdays and weddings to Holi gatherings, college festivals, office outings, concerts, and weekend trips, Jelly Toast creates invites, collects photos, and helps groups relive shared moments in one dedicated space.

Celebrations Are Fragmented

Today’s celebrations live across too many apps.

Plans happen in messaging groups. Photos are shared in social media DMs. Albums sit in personal photo apps. Important moments are buried in chat threads or lost when phones change.

Photos get shared, but the memories stay scattered, and the story of the event often gets lost. Jelly Toast was built to solve this.

Hosts create a celebration in seconds and generate a shareable link for guests to join instantly from their browser, upload photos in real time, and contribute to a living memory stream that evolves throughout the celebration. No download or install is required for guests.

Why This Moment Matters in India

India has one of the most vibrant celebration cultures in the world. Birthdays, festivals, weddings, cricket nights, team outings, and family gatherings happen constantly across cities.

At the same time, consumers expect private and secure tools that are fast, beautiful, and effortless. Organizing event media can be chaotic, and there is no dominant platform designed specifically to bring social events and long-term memory organization together.

Jelly Toast brings simplicity to shared experiences in real time.

Pricing and Availability

Available today, Jelly Toast offers three simple options.

The Free plan supports one event with up to 5GB of storage for seven days and is designed for first-time users or intimate gatherings with close friends and family.

Event Pro is a pay-per-event option supporting 50 to 500 guests, ideal for larger celebrations and small businesses such as freelance event planners.

Memory Saver is a monthly subscription for frequent hosts who want ongoing storage and unlimited events, so their memories are always accessible.

Built on Proven Cloud Foundations

“Jelly Toast is built on the same secure and scalable cloud architecture that powers our global personal cloud platforms,” said Pat Doran, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at Synchronoss. “We are bringing that reliability and intelligent content organization to everyday celebrations. Our goal is simple. Make it easy for people to gather, share, and keep the moments that matter.”

The platform is optimized for India’s mobile-first environment and engineered to perform reliably across varying network conditions.

A Name That Reflects the Purpose

The name Jelly Toast captures the spirit of the product. Jelly represents spontaneity, sweetness, color, and moments that stick. Toast represents togetherness, comfort, shared meals, and lasting memories. Together, they symbolize turning everyday gatherings into joyful shared experiences. Toast the moments that matter and capture them in Jelly Toast.

India Launch and Expansion

The launch begins in Bangalore, India’s technology and innovation hub. Expansion to Mumbai and Delhi is planned later in 2026. As part of its broader strategy to expand its consumer cloud footprint, Synchronoss plans to explore partnerships and integrations across the events ecosystem.

Jelly Toast is now live at www.jellytoast.app.

About Synchronoss

Synchronoss Technologies is a global leader in personal cloud solutions, empowering service providers to establish secure and meaningful connections with their subscribers. Our SaaS Cloud platform simplifies onboarding processes and fosters subscriber engagement using artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other advanced features, resulting in enhanced revenue streams, reduced expenses, and faster time-to-market. Millions of subscribers trust Synchronoss to safeguard their most cherished memories and important digital content. Explore how our Cloud-focused solutions redefine the way you connect with your digital world at www.synchronoss.com.

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Domenick Cilea
Springboard
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New portfolio-ready building certification delivers proven tools to achieve credible sustainability and performance outcomes worldwide

PORTLAND, Ore., March 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Green Building Initiative (GBI) announces the global launch of Ascent Building Certification, a science-based whole building certification designed to evaluate sustainability, health, and resilience practices for all types of commercial real estate across regions and portfolios. Ascent will be used for new and existing projects in the EU, the UK, and elsewhere outside Canada and the United States to improve the built environment’s impact on climate and society.

Ascent Building Certification is a global expansion of GBI’s trusted third-party assessment and certification programs. GBI has certified over 93 million square meters (1 billion square feet) of commercial real estate, leading with its flagship certification, Green Globes^®. Strong adoption of Green Globes combined with market demand for a robust, proven, and transparent certification that delivers consistent methodology across borders and portfolios led GBI to expand its flagship certification globally under the Ascent brand.

Designed for owners and project teams managing assets in all lifecycle phases, Ascent provides a consensus-based framework, consistent with Green Globes, that adapts to local standards and regulatory requirements. The certification responds to growing market demand for certification systems that combine transparency, a trustworthy independent assessment, and practical usability—without unnecessary administrative burden.

“Building owners and investors are facing increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable performance and return on investment across global portfolios,” said Vicki Worden, CEO of GBI. “GBI’s Ascent Building Certification answers that demand with a practical, transparent, and ESG-aligned approach.”

Ascent is designed to serve organizations seeking user-friendly, portfolio-ready certification. Key features include:

• Global consistency with local relevance through a unified framework adaptable to regional regulations and environmental conditions
• Transparent scoring and results that support credible reporting and stakeholder confidence
• Independent third-party assessment conducted through GBI’s established assessor network
• User-friendly software tools with centralized reporting dashboards and aggregated portfolio scoring
• Dedicated expert support from GBI’s team of green building specialists and project managers

Certification levels align with the Green Globes One through Four rating system, and performance categories address critical building outcomes and Environmental Assessment Areas, including project management and responsible business practices, site, energy, water, materials, and indoor environment.

By combining transparent scoring, independent certification, structured expert guidance, and user-friendly tools, Ascent reduces friction in the certification process while maintaining rigorous performance standards.

Organizations can learn more or begin the certification process at:
https://thegbi.org/assessment-certification/ascent-certification/

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About GBI

GBI is an international nonprofit organization and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Developer dedicated to improving the built environment’s impact on climate and society. Founded in 2004, the organization is the global provider of the Green Globes^®, Journey to Net Zero, Guiding Principles Compliance, and Ascent Building Certification and assessment programs. GBI also issues professional credentials, including the Green Globes Professional (GGP) and Guiding Principles Compliance Professional (GPCP). To learn more about opportunities to become involved with GBI, contact [email protected] or visit the GBI website at www.thegbi.org.

MEDIA CONTACT
Megan Baker, GBI Vice President of Engagement, [email protected], (971) 256-7174

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A New Global MVNO Consortium Launches at MWC to Simplify International Expansion

The collaboration introduces a modern MVNO launch model that brings together network reach, operational expertise, digital business systems and market ready innovation into a single coordinated framework. The aim is to remove the friction that has historically made international expansion complex, slow and capital intensive for virtual operators.

Addressing the real barriers to MVNO growth

For many MVNOs, expansion beyond a domestic market has required rebuilding infrastructure, renegotiating roaming agreements, navigating regulatory complexity and investing heavily in system integration. At the same time, increasing margin pressure and customer acquisition costs have made competing on price alone unsustainable.

This consortium has been formed in response to those challenges.

It provides a structured pathway for brands and operators to design, launch and manage services across multiple territories without recreating their core stack in every new market.

Rather than positioning MVNOs as low cost alternatives, the model supports operators that want to compete on experience, brand, service innovation and digital differentiation.

Four partners. One integrated ecosystem.

Each partner contributes a distinct capability within the ecosystem.

Jersey Telecom provides the connectivity foundation. With more than 500 global mobile and roaming relationships and a secure carrier grade network estate, JT enables seamless international service delivery. Its infrastructure supports mission critical functions including fraud prevention, identity related network intelligence and secure digital engagement. This global connectivity layer gives MVNOs immediate access to established international routes and resilient network performance. Marcus Irwin, Head of Product Innovation at JT, stated, “We’re delighted to support innovative MVNOs as they scale internationally using our global network. By providing secure, carrier-grade connectivity and established roaming relationships, we’re removing traditional barriers to growth and enabling operators to expand with confidence.”

MVNE Pty Ltd brings deep operational enablement expertise. With hands-on experience supporting MVNOs in competitive and rapidly changing markets, MVNE structures commercially viable propositions aligned with real customer behaviour. From onboarding and launch readiness to lifecycle optimisation, MVNE ensures that network capability translates into commercially sustainable operator models. Yaron Assabi, Founder & CEO at DSG and MVNE, explains, “Our mission is to help MVNOs succeed in delivery and long-term growth. Working with these partners allows us to combine strong operational execution with commercial insight, giving operators a clearer, faster path to sustainable expansion.”

MDS Global provides the digital first Business Support System that underpins the ecosystem. Its agile BSS platform supports real time billing, complex pricing constructs, partner models and rapid service configuration. The system is designed to enable multilayered business models across wholesale, retail and hybrid structures while allowing operators to introduce differentiated bundles and services without technical constraints. Ryan O’Hanlon, VP of Global Sales at MDS Global, describes, “As part of this consortium, we’re proud to act as a catalyst for modern MVNO growth. Our digital-first BSS platform gives operators the flexibility to innovate, differentiate and scale internationally without the constraints of legacy systems.”

Ycorp acts as the MVNA within the consortium and will be seeking to launch MVNO’s within the ecosystem. Known for its digital innovation and private labelling heritage, Ycorp brings strong regulatory expertise and brand led product design. Ycorp was responsible for launching the United Kingdom’s first digital only MVNO, Ymobile, in 2024, onboarding customers in under three minutes through an app led experience. Its experience in building fast, compliant and fully branded mobile services provides a practical demonstration of what this consortium model enables. Stan Tang, COO at Ycorp, remarked, “We’re delighted to be at the digital frontier of next-generation MVNOs. Having built fully digital mobile propositions ourselves, we’re excited to help other operators launch, scale and expand with speed and confidence by joining this consortium.”

A platform built for the next generation of MVNOs

The combined ecosystem is designed to support a wide range of propositions. These include consumer brands, travel focused operators, fintech aligned services, enterprise offerings and sector specific digital businesses.

MVNOs are increasingly expected to behave like technology products. They must be app led, instantly provisioned, transparent and responsive. This consortium has been structured to meet that expectation. It reduces time to market, lowers capital intensity and provides a scalable foundation for international growth.

Over time, the shared ambition is to provide a consistent route to cross border expansion without re-engineering systems for each new territory.

A new blueprint for global virtual operators

This partnership introduces a new blueprint for how virtual operators can be built and scaled in a digitally led telecom environment.

By bringing together global connectivity, hands-on operational expertise, flexible digital systems and real market insight, Jersey Telecom, MVNE Pty Ltd, MDS Global and Ycorp have created a practical launchpad for ambitious MVNOs ready to think beyond borders and grow with confidence.

Contact for more information
Ryan O’Hanlon
VP Global Sales
MDS Global
[email protected]

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