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Authorizations add selection of ZYN ULTRA products to PMI U.S.’s growing portfolio of better alternatives for legal-age adults who smoke or use traditional oral tobacco products Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) today announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Marketing Granted Orders to PMI’s U.S. affiliate, Swedish Match USA, Inc., authorizing the marketing of 11 ZYN ULTRA moist oral nicotine pouch products, including all 9mg variants and one 11mg variant. Additional 11mg variants remain under scientific review. Today’s action further enhances PMI’s leadership role in the smoke-free category. “We are delighted with the FDA’s decision to authorize a range of ZYN ULTRA products, which will build on ZYN’s position as America’s leading smoke-free product brand,” said Stacey Kennedy, PMI U.S. CEO. “We look forward to expanding our portfolio of better choices for the 45 million Americans who consume nicotine products.” ZYN ULTRA positions the brand to furth

New NIQ & World Data Lab report reveals how consumer polarization is redefining value, accelerating private label adoption, and reshaping competition on the shelf As fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) prices rose 26% globally between 2021 and 2025, consumers have become more deliberate about where they save and where they spend. NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) has released new findings showing that private label is no longer viewed simply as a lower-cost substitute, but as a credible competitor across value, mainstream, and premium segments. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819950224/en/ Private label is no longer just a value play. The findings, published in NIQ’s latest report, A Tale of Two Consumers: The Polarized Mindsets Reshaping Global Consumption, created in collaboration with World Data Lab, show how consumer polarization is redefining value and reshaping competition on the shelf. The report also draws on ins

Company to focus on deepening its Autonomous IT capabilities, further expanding AI offerings across its portfolio, and strengthening customer and partner engagement Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT, today announced that Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Orion Hindawi has been appointed Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Dan Streetman is stepping down as CEO and as a member of the Board after leading Tanium for the last three years, during which time Tanium scaled its go-to-market operations and secured strong industry analyst recognition for innovation within the Tanium platform. Streetman will continue to advise Tanium as part of the transition and co-founder David Hindawi will return to the role of Chairman of the Board. With this foundation in place, this transition positions Tanium to deepen its Autonomous IT capabilities and further expand AI offerings across its portfolio and strengthen customer and partner engagement. The Hindawis co-founded Tanium in 2007 to build

Mitsubishi Electric to retain PCI’s core management team and support continuity of operations, customer service, and product innovation PCI Energy Solutions ("PCI"), a leading U.S.-based provider of enterprise software for energy management and optimization, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. The agreement was executed on August 20, 2026 (Japan Standard Time). The Transaction represents a strong endorsement of PCI's business, technology, employees, customer relationships and position in the energy industry. Mitsubishi Electric intends to retain PCI's core management team following completion of the Transaction, enabling PCI to preserve leadership continuity, industry expertise and its customer-focused operating model while benefiting from Mitsubishi Electric's global scale, complementary capabilities and long-term investment capacity. The agreement has been signed, but the Transaction has not yet closed. PC

Awards include significant Oil & Gas projects in MENA and Canada, as well as the Company's largest single leak detection project to date and continued growth at its new Ohio facility. Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPIH), a global leader in engineered piping and corrosion protection solutions, today announced that the Company secured more than $67 million in new orders during the second quarter of fiscal 2026, representing strong demand across its strategically important end-markets and geographies. The orders further strengthen Perma-Pipe's backlog and provide increased visibility into future revenue growth. The Company's backlog remains well diversified across geographies, customers and end-markets. The Company continued to see strong demand across its core Oil & Gas and infrastructure markets, while also securing important new business in emerging applications, including advanced leak detection and monitoring solutions. During the quarter, Perma-Pipe secured sizabl

New quote management capability brings configure, price, and quote (CPQ) into Impartner’s PRM platform, connecting product configuration, pricing, segmentation, and approvals. Impartner, the leading partner revenue orchestration platform, today announced the launch ofImpartner CPQ, giving partners a direct path to create and advance quotes within the Impartner PRM platform. The new capability enables faster movement from opportunity to submission while giving vendors control over the rules, products, pricing, and approvals that govern each transaction. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820479441/en/ Give partners a faster path from opportunity to quote with Impartner's CPQ. For many partnership programs, quoting remains a largely manual process. Partners often depend on vendor sales teams to prepare quotes because traditional CPQ systems are designed primarily for direct sellers or require additional licensin

Strategic integration connects scientific procurement with lab operations, inventory, and EHS compliance Scientist.com, the life sciences industry’s leading AI-enabled R&D orchestration platform and digital marketplace, today announced an expansion of its platform capabilities through an integration with SciSure’s lab management and EHS compliance tools. The partnership gives biopharma organizations a more unified workflow connecting scientific procurement directly with laboratory operations. “By bringing SciSure’s inventory management, safety, and compliance capabilities into the Scientist.com ecosystem, we are closing the gap between sourcing reagents and safely managing them in the laboratory,” said Jon Zibell, VP of Global Alliances at SciSure. “Together, our platforms connect product information, safety checks, and inventory management, giving research, lab operations, and EHS teams greater visibility from purchase request through disposal.” The integration connects procurement, s

Backed by two granted and active U.S. patents, a fully industrialized technology and commercial commitments spanning more than 50 countries, the French company is now seeking leading U.S. industrial and strategic partners to help shape the future of this emerging market. For the first time, major U.S. federal agencies are beginning to structure procurement around a new category of intermediate-force equipment, giving officers an additional option between verbal presence and higher levels of force. NETFORCE believes companies establishing themselves at this early stage will benefit from a significant first-mover advantage as this category expands nationwide. This is precisely the market NETFORCE anticipated years ago, having invested heavily in research, industrialization and international intellectual property well before the category attracted attention. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820951658/en/ COPYRI

New Airbus Imagery Enhances World Imagery Basemap as Part of Broader Expansion Announced at 2026 Esri User Conference Esri is enhancing its World Imagery basemap through new agreements with Airbus, Vantor, and Nearmap, announced during the 2026 Esri User Conference. Airbus will begin delivering 30 cm basemap imagery for approximately 2,000 cities worldwide starting in the second half of 2026. Airbus basemaps provide highly accurate, color-consistent, nearly cloud-free coverage designed to deliver fresher and more detailed urban imagery. Additional enhancements include expanded metropolitan coverage from Nearmap and continued global basemap updates from Vantor. At the 2026 Esri User Conference (UC), the global leader in location intelligence announced a significant enhancement to its World Imagery basemap through a new agreement with Airbus. The collaboration will enable Esri to provide ArcGIS users with high-resolution imagery coverage for approximately 2,000 cities around the world th

The liquidity solutions provider for alternative investments prepares to launch tender offers for interval funds in the coming months and affirms its ongoing program for non-traded BDCs. Cox Capital Partners, LP (“Cox Capital”), a provider of liquidity solutions for retail holders of illiquid alternative investments, today announced plans to expand its existing tender offer program for non‑traded business development companies (BDCs) into the rapidly growing interval fund market. The move affirms the company’s role as a provider of liquidity solutions across the private markets landscape for the wealth advisory channel. Over the past six years, Cox Capital has built a platform for sourcing and executing secondary liquidity transactions for retail investors in non‑traded BDCs and other illiquid vehicles, working with financial advisors and intermediaries across independent broker‑dealers, RIAs, and major wirehouses. Cox Capital today announced plans to expand that platform to interval f

Liquid I.V., Hostess, Back to Nature, and five other brands named 2026 NIQ Design Impact Award winners NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a global leader in consumer intelligence, today named the winners of its ninth annual Design Impact Awards, recognizing eight package redesigns that combined stronger shopper experiences with measurable commercial performance. Across nearly a decade of NIQ Design Impact Award winners, recognized redesigns have been associated with an average volume increase of approximately 4%. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819712595/en/ NIQ Design Impact Awards 2026 The 2026 NIQ Design Impact Award Winners*:Aval French Cider (Parent Company: Aval Cider; Country: USA) Liquid I.V. (Parent Company: Unilever; Country: USA) Root & Splendor (Parent Company: Root & Splendor; Country: USA) Hostess Cakes (Parent Company: The J.M. Smucker Company; Country: USA) Back to Nature (Parent Company: Barilla Group;

First-of-its-kind global alliance combines AI-powered security innovation with enterprise-scale consulting and managed services Helps organizations navigate Frontier AI with integrated governance, threat intelligence and cybersecurity expertise Backed by co-innovation, shared engineering, coordinated global delivery and more than 2,000 Palo Alto Networks-certified professionals NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, and Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) today announced a multi-year strategic alliance designed to help organizations securely adopt AI, modernize cybersecurity, simplify complex technology environments and build cyber resilience for the AI era. As Palo Alto Networks first strategic alliance of this kind with a global systems integrator, the agreement, which targets $1 billion in joint business by the end of three years (2029), combines Palo Alto Networks AI-powered cybersecurity platforms with NTT DATA's consulting, engineering and manage

Leadership, operations and market development aligned across a global platform connecting Canada with Germany and other priority international markets Sanity Group integration marks the next phase of Organigram’s global growth strategy Finn Age Hänsel appointed President, Rest of World & Chief Strategy Officer Adrian Frenzel appointed Global Chief Operating Officer Tim Emberg to continue as President, Canada Organigram’s integrated supply and commercial network will span Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, the United Kingdom and Australia Sanity contributed approximately CAD$40 million to consolidated net revenue in Organigram’s most recent quarter, representing over 35% of net revenue, and was accretive to Adjusted EBITDA Sanity has demonstrated a strong growth trajectory, with quarterly revenue increasing 34% since December 31, 2025 to €25.5 million Organigram Global Inc. (NASDAQ: OGI) (TSX: OGI) (“Organigram” or the “Company”) today announced an important milestone in its

Ant International and Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“BOCHK”) announced that the two parties have forged a strategic partnership. Leveraging BOCHK’s banking strengths and Ant International’s leading fintech and AI technologies, the two parties seek to explore the frontier of AI-driven innovative financial services, empower real-time treasury management and cross-border payments, deliver efficient and intelligent liquidity management and financial service solutions for global enterprises, while continuously enhancing financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260820387312/en/ From left to right: Kelvin Li, General Manager of Platform Tech and Senior Vice President of Ant International, Eric Jing, Chairman of Ant International, Sun Yu, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of BOCHK, and Wang Huabin, Deputy Chief Executive of BOCHK Sun Yu, Vice Chairman and Chief E

Ant International and Bank of China (Hong Kong) (“BOCHK”) announced that the two parties have forged a strategic partnership. Leveraging BOCHK’s banking strengths and Ant International’s leading fintech and AI technologies, the two parties seek to explore the frontier of AI-driven innovative financial services, empower real-time treasury management and cross-border payments, deliver efficient and intelligent liquidity management and financial service solutions for global enterprises, while continuously enhancing financial services for small and medium-sized enterprises (“SMEs”). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819555366/en/ From left to right: Kelvin Li, General Manager of Platform Tech and Senior Vice President of Ant International, Eric Jing, Chairman of Ant International, Sun Yu, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive of BOCHK, and Wang Huabin, Deputy Chief Executive of BOCHK Sun Yu, Vice Chairman and Chief E

FalconTST 2.0 has achieved state-of-the-art performance on MASE metricon top global benchmark.Banks use FalconTST 2.0 to better forecast liquidity exposure with Barclays, Citi, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered having integrated FalconTST 2.0 for cashflow forecasting and FX management.FalconTST 2.0 has achieved >93% forecast accuracy rate consistently and is ready for broader industry application, including logistics, aviation, e-commerce, besides financial sector. Ant International has introduced Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) AI Model 2.0, its most advanced TST model so far designed to deliver more accurate forecasting in real-world FX risk management of cross-border payments, with more industry applications to come, such as demand forecasting for supply chain management for e-commerce platforms, and predictive operations management for aviation industry. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819055561

Key Takeaways: Grid Dynamics is named to MACH Alliance's inaugural 2026 Agent Ready cohort. Grid Dynamics won the award for its agentic AI capabilities and for programs delivered at a global food and beverage company and a global payments company. Grid Dynamics delivered the qualifying work through its Grid Dynamics AI Native (GAIN) platforms and Forward Deployed Engineer delivery model. Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: GDYN) (“Grid Dynamics”), a premier AI transformation partner for the Fortune 1000, today announced it has earned MACH Alliance's 2026 Agent Ready Award, becoming one of 35 companies named in the program's inaugural cohort. Agent Ready is an advanced certification that builds upon MACH Certification, the MACH Alliance's baseline standard for open, composable, and connected technology. The honor recognizes certified members that have moved agentic AI from pilots and demos into production, at scale, with the guardrails enterprise deployment requires. Every award is in

Collaboration Brings Co-Created Episodes, Live Recordings At gamescom And GDC, And Stories From Studios, With Episodes Recorded Across the Globe Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Good Game Club, the independent, global podcast dedicated to sharing positive stories from the gaming ecosystem. The partnership builds on a broader effort to support the developers, publishers, and creators shaping the future of the games industry in a positive way by supporting good stories from the human side of video game businesses. The partnership spans the global events calendar, with joint podcast recordings planned each year at gamescom in Cologne and the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819127662/en/ Graphic: Xsolla Xsolla and Good Game Club will collaborate on recurring editorial segments and deep-dive ep

KAGA FEI Co., Ltd., a global provider of advanced short-range wireless modules, announced today the development of the ES4L15MA1 and EC4L15MA1 Bluetooth Low Energy modules with embedded software for wireless communication. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260802953307/en/ ES4L15MA1 (left) and EC4L15MA1 (right) sample modules These products are versions of KAGA FEI’s ES4L15BA1 and EC4L15BA1 wireless modules with embedded software, which use Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF54L15. Because the modules include the functions required for Bluetooth Low Energy communication, device manufacturers can develop products in a shorter period without having to develop wireless communication software from scratch. The modules help reduce software development workloads, shorten product development cycles, and lower development costs for a wide range of IoT devices. The need for wireless connectivity in IoT applications is growing acr

Game Developers Can Now Apply For Early Access To The Integrated Solution Ahead Of Launch Xsolla, a global video game commerce company, today introduced integrated backend solutions for game developers through a founding partnership with AccelByte, a fully managed extensible games backend platform, and opened a closed testing program for a combined solution that pairs AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS) with Xsolla's global payments and monetization tools. Select developers can now apply for early access and help shape the integration ahead of its broader launch. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260819624666/en/ Graphic: Xsolla As studios scale live games across PC, mobile, console, and the web, managing player persistence, gaming backend, and global transactions adds cost and slows launches. Through the founding partnership with AccelByte, Xsolla brings AccelByte's backend services together with its own payments a