Events

Carrollton, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Seventy-six percent of consumers say they have entered a business they'd never visited before based solely on its exterior signage, according to data cited by FASTSIGNS, the global custom signage franchise. The company is publishing guidance for business owners navigating a fragmented exterior signage market that spans channel letters, monument signs, pylon signs and wayfinding systems, each carrying distinct cost, zoning and visibility trade-offs.

Sixty percent of shoppers avoid businesses lacking clear signage

FASTSIGNS data shows 68% of consumers associate signage quality with product and service quality, while 60% say unclear signage actively deters them from entering a business. Theron Andrews, FASTSIGNS Vice President of Marketing, said signage decisions hinge on visibility, brand identity, location, budget, property type and local regulations rather than aesthetics alone.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Nuna Health LLC is now offering its AI-driven digital health coach at no cost to eligible Original Medicare (Parts A and B) beneficiaries in markets where the company operates, positioning itself among the first participants in the CMS Innovation Center's ACCESS (Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions) Model.

CMS payment model ties reimbursement to patient outcomes, not services rendered

The ACCESS Model is a payment test that rewards participating organizations based on health outcomes achieved rather than volume of care delivered. Enrollment is voluntary and subject to CMS eligibility criteria. Nuna is supporting beneficiaries enrolled in the Model's Early Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (eCKM) and Cardio-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) tracks, covering high blood pressure, high cholesterol, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Singapore – September 18, 2026 -- Trip.com Group Limited swung to a net loss of RMB2.4 billion (US$361 million) in the second quarter of 2026, reversing from net income of RMB4.9 billion a year earlier, after China's State Administration for Market Regulation imposed a RMB5.2 billion (US$763 million) anti-monopoly penalty on the travel platform operator.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- San Francisco Health Plan (SFHP) has earned a 4.5-star rating in the 2026 NCQA Health Plan Ratings, the highest score in its history, as the Medi-Cal insurer covers more than 172,000 residents.

NCQA places SFHP among the nation's top-rated health plans

NCQA classifies plans scoring 4.5 or 5 stars as among the highest-rated in the country, basing the evaluation on clinical quality, member experience, and accreditation status. SFHP, created by the City and County of San Francisco, is the city's leading Medi-Cal provider, offering preventive care, specialty care, hospitalization, prescription drugs, and family planning services.

Redmond, Wash. – September 18, 2026 -- Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.98 per share, an 8% increase of 7 cents over the prior quarter's payout.

Dividend rises to $0.98 per share with December payment date

The dividend is payable Dec. 10, 2026, to shareholders of record as of Nov. 19, 2026. The company also set the ex-dividend date as Nov. 19, 2026.

Annual shareholders meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 2026

Microsoft confirmed its 2026 Annual Shareholders Meeting will take place virtually on Dec. 8, 2026. Shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 30, 2026 will be entitled to vote their shares at the meeting.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Harness Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) scored a 99.8% Security Efficacy rating and 98.2% Operational Efficiency rating in SecureIQLab's Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, earning Leader status among 12 tested vendors.

Harness is one of only five vendors meeting both Secure by Design and Secure by Default criteria

SecureIQLab tested 12 leading Cloud WAAP vendors, with just six achieving Leader status. Harness was among only five vendors to satisfy both the Secure by Design and Secure by Default criteria, a distinction it also held in 2025 when its solution was evaluated under the Traceable by Harness name in the Cloud WAAP v4.0 report.

New Brunswick, N.J. – September 18, 2026 -- Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health launched the Rutgers/RWJBarnabas Health Innovation Hub, powered by Amazon Web Services, creating one of the nation's first technology hubs to unite a medical school, an academic health system and a cloud provider under one roof.

Hub pairs New Jersey's largest health system with AWS cloud and AI tools

The facility combines Rutgers' academic and research capacity, RWJBarnabas Health's clinical reach as New Jersey's largest academic health system, and AWS cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure to address health care challenges spanning the classroom and hospital bedside.

NEW YORK – September 18, 2026 -- Sol de Janeiro has named Washington Spirit and U.S. Women's National Team players Trinity Rodman and Tara Rudd as brand ambassadors, expanding a multi-year partnership that already made the Brazilian-inspired beauty company the NWSL club's Official Body Care and Celebration Partner.

Sydney – September 18, 2026 -- Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) has appointed semiconductor finance veteran John Hollister as Chief Financial Officer, effective August 17, 2026, as the Sydney-based quantum computing manufacturer scales its commercial roadmap.

Hollister brings 25 years of semiconductor finance leadership to SQC's growth push

Hollister previously served as CFO of GlobalFoundries, one of the world's largest semiconductor foundries. He spent two decades at Silicon Labs, including 11 years as CFO, and held earlier roles at Cicada Semiconductor and Cirrus Logic. Based in the U.S., his mandate at SQC covers capital formation, financial planning, worldwide accounting, M&A, tax and investor relations.

Atlanta – September 18, 2026 -- Sensei, a Carestream Dental brand, has partnered with Zentist to deploy AI-powered remittance automation across dental practice management platforms serving U.S. dental service organizations, multi-location groups, and independent practices.

Zentist's Remit AI platform covers up to 1,500 payer and plan configurations

The tool digitizes and organizes Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) and Electronic Remittance Advice (ERAs) from 160 payers directly, with expanded access to as many as 1,500 payers and plans through Zentist's clearinghouse network. Billing teams currently rely on manual logins across dozens of individual payer portals to locate EOBs and resolve denied claims, a process the partnership aims to consolidate into a single dashboard.

Detroit – September 18, 2026 -- Caracal Products & Services has appointed Jim Wheeler, a healthcare sales strategist with more than 34 years of industry experience, as its new Vice President of National Sales.

Wheeler brings three decades of health system account management to Caracal's distribution business

Wheeler most recently supported business development and sales at Concordance Healthcare Solutions, where he worked with integrated health systems across Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana, providing consulting services aimed at reducing costs and increasing revenue for those systems.

Caracal CEO says hire targets deeper customer alignment on medical products

Caracal President and CEO Donald Roberts said Wheeler's health care sales background positions him to work closely with customers on product selection suited to their operating environments.

Riyadh – September 18, 2026 -- MemryX and Lenovo have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand sovereign edge AI deployments across Saudi Arabia, building on joint platforms already running in the Kingdom's infrastructure and industrial sectors.

Joint hardware platform already processes data at construction and port sites

The collaboration pairs the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 rugged edge server with the MemryX Cascade 100P AI accelerator to process video and sensor data on site, reducing latency and dependence on centralized, power-intensive data-center infrastructure. One live deployment runs real-time construction safety analytics, including personal protective equipment compliance and site safety event detection. A second deployment operates inside a port environment, running compliance and monitoring workloads across the operator's existing camera infrastructure without disrupting operations.

Southlake, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Sabre Corporation's wholly owned subsidiary, Sabre Financial Borrower, LLC, priced an upsized private offering of $1.35 billion in 9.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2032, increased from an initial $1.1 billion target. The Nasdaq-listed travel technology firm (SABR) expects the transaction to close on September 28, 2026.

Paris – September 18, 2026 -- Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) has been selected by Intuitive Machines to provide ground station and satellite operations support for NASA's EAGLE VSWIR mission, targeted for launch in 2028.

KSAT will operate the IM 300 spacecraft carrying JPL's VSWIR instrument

The Explorer for Artemis Geology, Lunar, and Earth mission will host NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Visible to Shortwave Infrared instrument aboard Intuitive Machines' IM 300 spacecraft. The sensor will measure ground and water temperature, snow reflectivity, active geologic processes, vegetation traits, and algal biomass, while also testing technology relevant to future lunar and Mars exploration.

Austin, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) will unveil new products with what it calls new-to-industry performance during the keynote of its seventh annual Works With Summit, scheduled for October 6-7 at ACL Live at the Moody Theater and the company's Austin headquarters.

CEO Matt Johnson leads October 7 keynote with CTO and software chief

Silicon Labs President and CEO Matt Johnson will open the October 7 keynote, joined by Daniel Cooley, senior vice president and chief technology officer, and Manish Kothari, senior vice president of software development. The executives will outline the technology, AI tools and ecosystem collaboration required to scale intelligent connected systems as devices become more deeply integrated into homes, businesses and infrastructure.

Valcourt, QC – September 18, 2026 -- BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOO) has awarded grants of up to $5,000 each to more than 50 snowmobile clubs across North America through its 2026 Ski-Doo Snow PASS program, pushing cumulative program funding past CAD $1.5 million since its launch.

Grants target trail infrastructure and access preservation

The 2026 funding round supports projects including bridge repairs, signage upgrades, volunteer recruitment and initiatives to introduce new riders to the sport. The awards, distributed with support from Ski-Doo's dealer network, go to grassroots organizations that maintain the trail systems underpinning the snowmobiling industry.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Gap Inc. (NYSE: GAP) has appointed Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Forerunner, to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Green brings a two-decade track record backing consumer-facing disruptors

Since founding Forerunner in 2012, Green has partnered with more than 100 companies from seed stage through scale, including OURA, Chime, Hims & Hers, Faire, Wispr Flow, Suno, Warby Parker, Dollar Shave Club, and Town. Under her leadership, Forerunner has raised nearly $3 billion from institutional investors.

Houston – September 18, 2026 -- Caturus LLC has unveiled a five-train, 7.75 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa) expansion of its Commonwealth LNG export facility in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, a move that would nearly double the site's planned capacity to approximately 17.25 Mtpa.

Expansion follows a $9.75 billion financing close four months after final investment decision

The expansion comes just four months after Caturus reached final investment decision on the original six-train, 9.5 Mtpa Commonwealth LNG facility, which closed $9.75 billion in base project financing. Construction on that base project is on schedule for 2030 operations, with 8.5 Mtpa of its 9.5 Mtpa capacity already locked under long-term sale and purchase agreements.

New Haven, Conn. – September 18, 2026 -- Feeding Families Foundation has received a $121,500 donation from the Association of Contracting Plumbers City of New York Inc. (ACP), proceeds from the trade group's annual "Plumbing Industry Day" Charity Golf Outing at Old Westbury Golf & Country Club.

ACP's charity golf outing raises six-figure sum for hospital meal program

The event brought together members of New York's plumbing and contracting industry for a full scramble across the club's three nine-hole courses, followed by a cocktail reception, dinner and charity presentation. Robert Greenberg, President of ACP, said the association wanted to back an organization with "a clear mission and a proven ability to turn support into results."

Changzhou – September 18, 2026 -- STAK Inc. (Nasdaq: STAK) will convene a Class A ordinary shareholders meeting followed immediately by an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on October 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. Beijing/Hong Kong Time, the oilfield equipment manufacturer announced.

Both meetings will be held at STAK's Changzhou executive office

The gatherings are scheduled at Building 11, 8th Floor, No. 6 Beitanghe East Road, Tianning District, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China 213000. The Class A Meeting will take place first, with the EGM following at the same location.

Voting rights are tied to a September 4, 2026 record date

Holders of Class A ordinary shares of par value USD0.001 each as of the close of business on September 4, 2026 are entitled to notice of and voting rights at the Class A Meeting. All registered shareholders of record on that date qualify to attend and vote at the EGM.