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GLOMO shortlist and Mobile News Awards win reflect growing industry alignment around transparent, data-driven device management
LONDON, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Apkudo today announced recognition in two prominent industry award programs. The Apkudo Device Passport™ was shortlisted for the GLOMO Award for Best Digital Tech Breakthrough at MWC Barcelona 2026, a category recognizing the most innovative digital technology products. Separately, Apkudo's Diagnostic SDK was named Innovative Product at the Mobile News Awards 2026, a win that reflects the SDK's real-world impact on how businesses assess and process connected devices at scale.
The secondary device market is under pressure. Regulatory mandates are tightening, circular economy expectations are rising, and supply chain participants are still making high-stakes decisions based on fragmented data and inconsistent grading. Apkudo is building the digital infrastructure to change that, and the industry is taking notice.
The two recognitions span different dimensions of Apkudo's platform. The Device Passport Platform creates a unified, verifiable record for every device across its entire lifecycle, replacing fragmented, siloed data that erodes margins and trust throughout the secondary market.
The Diagnostic SDK is a key source of data capture that feeds the passport, is deployable directly within customers' trade-in, insurance, and support workflows, and brings Device AI™ models from the warehouse directly to consumer workflows. An assessment captured through the SDK is appended to the device's passport, creating a continuous, ground-truth data record that follows the device wherever it goes.
"This recognition reflects something bigger than product milestones," said Chad Gottesman, President of Apkudo. "The market is moving toward accountability—for device condition, for data integrity, and for environmental impact. We've been building toward this moment for years, and it's meaningful to see that work validated by independent industry organizations on a global stage. Our focus remains on giving every ecosystem player the tools to operate with confidence and compete on truth rather than guesswork."
The timing is significant. Regulatory frameworks like the EU Digital Product Passport are moving from concept to compliance requirement, creating urgency for businesses that have historically relied on informal or inconsistent standards. Apkudo's platform is designed to meet that moment, not as a point solution, but as the critical digital infrastructure that makes compliance, profitability, and sustainability mutually reinforcing rather than competing priorities.
For customers, the awards add a layer of independent validation to a platform they are already using to drive measurable outcomes: higher residual device values, faster processing throughput, and the kind of auditable data trail that builds trust with downstream buyers and regulators alike.
About Apkudo
Apkudo is the Device Passport Platform for the connected device ecosystem. We capture and unify data from every program, transaction, and touchpoint across a device's lifecycle, creating a single, trusted Device Passport™ for every asset. For companies that manage, sell, or buy devices, this means a verified record they can act on: to restore buyer confidence, maximize value, and reduce risk at every decision point. Our unique advantage is data fidelity and veracity, built on precision-automated robotics that have processed millions of devices, generating objective, machine-verified data that no competitor can match. To learn more, visit apkudo.com.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Apkudo
Kristen Barry
SVP, Marketing and Communications
kristen.barry@apkudo.com
GLOMO shortlist and Mobile News Awards win reflect growing industry alignment around transparent, data-driven device management
LONDON, March 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Apkudo today announced recognition in two prominent industry award programs. The Apkudo Device Passport™ was shortlisted for the GLOMO Award for Best Digital Tech Breakthrough at MWC Barcelona 2026, a category recognizing the most innovative digital technology products. Separately, Apkudo's Diagnostic SDK was named Innovative Product at the Mobile News Awards 2026, a win that reflects the SDK's real-world impact on how businesses assess and process connected devices at scale.
The secondary device market is under pressure. Regulatory mandates are tightening, circular economy expectations are rising, and supply chain participants are still making high-stakes decisions based on fragmented data and inconsistent grading. Apkudo is building the digital infrastructure to change that, and the industry is taking notice.
The two recognitions span different dimensions of Apkudo's platform. The Device Passport Platform creates a unified, verifiable record for every device across its entire lifecycle, replacing fragmented, siloed data that erodes margins and trust throughout the secondary market.
The Diagnostic SDK is a key source of data capture that feeds the passport, is deployable directly within customers' trade-in, insurance, and support workflows, and brings Device AI™ models from the warehouse directly to consumer workflows. An assessment captured through the SDK is appended to the device's passport, creating a continuous, ground-truth data record that follows the device wherever it goes.
"This recognition reflects something bigger than product milestones," said Chad Gottesman, President of Apkudo. "The market is moving toward accountability—for device condition, for data integrity, and for environmental impact. We've been building toward this moment for years, and it's meaningful to see that work validated by independent industry organizations on a global stage. Our focus remains on giving every ecosystem player the tools to operate with confidence and compete on truth rather than guesswork."
The timing is significant. Regulatory frameworks like the EU Digital Product Passport are moving from concept to compliance requirement, creating urgency for businesses that have historically relied on informal or inconsistent standards. Apkudo's platform is designed to meet that moment, not as a point solution, but as the critical digital infrastructure that makes compliance, profitability, and sustainability mutually reinforcing rather than competing priorities.
For customers, the awards add a layer of independent validation to a platform they are already using to drive measurable outcomes: higher residual device values, faster processing throughput, and the kind of auditable data trail that builds trust with downstream buyers and regulators alike.
About Apkudo
Apkudo is the Device Passport Platform for the connected device ecosystem. We capture and unify data from every program, transaction, and touchpoint across a device's lifecycle, creating a single, trusted Device Passport™ for every asset. For companies that manage, sell, or buy devices, this means a verified record they can act on: to restore buyer confidence, maximize value, and reduce risk at every decision point. Our unique advantage is data fidelity and veracity, built on precision-automated robotics that have processed millions of devices, generating objective, machine-verified data that no competitor can match. To learn more, visit apkudo.com.
For media inquiries, please contact:
Apkudo
Kristen Barry
SVP, Marketing and Communications
kristen.barry@apkudo.com
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Apkudo Earns Back-to-Back Industry Recognition for Innovation Across the Device Lifecycle
SINGAPORE, May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- WisPaper, an AI-powered academic research platform, today highlighted how AI systems are beginning to influence the earliest stages of scientific exploration. As research fields become increasingly interdisciplinary and publication volumes continue to expand, researchers are placing greater emphasis on tools that can help them navigate unfamiliar domains and identify relevant directions more efficiently.
The Growing Complexity of Research Discovery
Early-stage research often involves exploring broad questions, identifying emerging themes, and understanding how ideas connect across multiple disciplines. This process can require extensive reading, repeated searching, and manual comparison of papers before researchers develop a clear view of a field.
Traditional academic search systems are effective at retrieving documents, but researchers frequently face challenges when trying to explore conceptual relationships, evolving terminology, or loosely connected areas of study.
As scientific knowledge grows more fragmented and specialized, the operational cost of exploration is also increasing.
AI-Assisted Topic Exploration
WisPaper is designed to support literature analysis and research discovery through AI-assisted retrieval and semantic understanding workflows. Its Scholar Agent allows users to search using natural-language research questions and supports filtering based on research intent rather than keyword matching alone.
The platform also includes tools for paper organization, citation management, annotations, and AI-powered feeds that track developments related to selected research interests.
By combining retrieval, filtering, and ongoing literature monitoring within a unified workflow, the system is intended to help researchers move more efficiently through the exploratory phase of research.
Supporting Faster Knowledge Navigation
As AI research systems continue to evolve, many platforms are focusing less on simple document access and more on helping researchers interpret and organize information at scale.
WisPaper reflects this broader transition by emphasizing semantic discovery and workflow continuity during early-stage scientific investigation.
In increasingly complex research environments, reducing the friction involved in finding and evaluating relevant knowledge may play an important role in how researchers generate new questions and explore emerging areas of inquiry.
About WisPaper
WisPaper is an AI-powered academic research agent designed as a full-stack research accelerator. It supports literature retrieval, analysis, experiment design, execution, and paper writing within a unified workflow, helping researchers manage complex scientific tasks more efficiently across disciplines. For more information, visit https://wispaper.ai/?utm_source=news.
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WisPaper Examines How AI Is Changing Early-Stage Scientific Exploration
