Events

Phoenix – September 18, 2026 -- University of Phoenix has signed a new articulation agreement with York Technical College, giving eligible graduates of the South Carolina community college a defined transfer pathway into the university's online bachelor's degree programs.

University accepts up to 90 transfer credits under new pact

Under the agreement, eligible York Technical College students can apply up to 87 transfer credits toward many bachelor's degree programs at University of Phoenix, with select programs allowing up to 90 credits. The deal adds to a network the university describes as more than 500 articulation agreements with community colleges nationwide, alongside transfer credit acceptance from over 5,000 accredited institutions.

Southlake, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Sabre Corporation (Nasdaq: SABR) has commenced additional tender offers through its wholly-owned subsidiary Sabre GLBL Inc. to repurchase outstanding securities for cash, capping the aggregate purchase price at $250 million.

Sabre GLBL sets a September 24 deadline for bondholders to tender securities

The tender offers expire at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on September 24, 2026, unless extended or terminated early. Holders must validly tender by that deadline to receive the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest, with settlement expected on September 28, 2026. Withdrawal rights also close at the same September 24 deadline.

Singapore – September 18, 2026 -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) reported unaudited net assets of approximately $25.2 million as of June 30, 2026, an 85% increase from $13.6 million at year-end 2025, driven primarily by a reduction in total liabilities.

Total assets climb to $38.0 million as liabilities shrink

The Singapore-headquartered AI workforce management and integrated facility management (IFM) provider disclosed total assets of approximately $38.0 million, up from $34.3 million at fiscal year-end 2025. Based on 3,201,764 Class A ordinary shares outstanding as of June 30, 2026, the figures translate to $11.88 in total assets per share and $7.87 in net assets per share. The company attributed the liability reduction to strategic balance sheet management during the first half of 2026.

Santa Ana, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- Identiv, Inc. has closed the sale of its legacy IoT business assets and Identiv brand name to Trackonomy Systems, Inc., completing a transaction that triggers the company's rename to INVE Technologies, Inc. Shares continue trading on Nasdaq under the ticker "INVE."

Company receives $50 million in Trackonomy preferred equity

Upon closing, INVE Technologies received $50 million in Trackonomy preferred equity, subject to post-closing adjustment. The two companies are working toward a definitive strategic partnership agreement to collaborate on software opportunities built on Trackonomy's physical AI platform, though terms remain unfinalized.

Stamford, Conn. – September 18, 2026 -- Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR, CHTRP) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.43750001 per share on its Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, payable October 15, 2026 to holders of record as of September 30, 2026.

Preferred shares trace back to the Liberty Broadband acquisition

The 7,183,812 shares of Charter Preferred Stock outstanding were issued when each share of Liberty Broadband Corporation's Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock converted into a newly issued Charter Preferred share at the deal's effective time.

Preferred stock carries fixed 7% yield and 2039 redemption date

The Charter Preferred Stock carries a liquidation preference of $25 per share plus accrued but unpaid dividends, pays dividends quarterly at a 7% annual rate, and is mandatorily redeemable on March 9, 2039. Each share is entitled to 1/3 of a vote.

Dallas – September 18, 2026 -- Braemar Hotels & Resorts Inc. (NYSE: BHR) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after market close on Wednesday, November 4, 2026.

Braemar sets November 4 date for Q3 earnings release covering period ended September 30, 2026

The luxury hotel REIT confirmed the earnings release will be published in the Investor Relations section of the Company's website following the market close on the announced date. Braemar targets high-performance luxury urban and resort properties generating revenue per available room at least twice the U.S. national average, with a portfolio spanning the United States and U.S. territories in the Caribbean.

Hampton, Va. – September 18, 2026 -- Hampton University's 2026 Homecoming, running October 18-25, is projected to generate between $8 million and $10 million in direct and indirect economic activity across Hampton and the surrounding Coastal Virginia region, according to the University.

Visitor traffic climbed sharply during the 2025 celebration

New analytics from Placer.ai show Hampton's campus generated approximately 96,000 visits from an estimated 40,800 visitors during the October 19-26, 2025 Homecoming period. Campus visits rose 16.5% year-over-year, while unique visitors increased 18.3%. The average visitor spent more than five hours in the campus area.

Los Angeles – September 18, 2026 -- ZORO, an AI trading agent marketplace built for professional traders, will livestream a demo of its Pro App from FinCon 2026 in Palm Springs, marking the startup's first major public appearance ahead of a retail app launch this fall.

ZORO broadcasts its Pro App demo to a combined audience of more than 11 million followers.

The demo airs on ZORO's X account, @zorotrading, and its YouTube channel, ZORO Trading HQ, alongside trading educators and financial content creators. FinCon 2026 runs September 16 through 18 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, drawing thousands of financial content creators, advisors and fintech brands.

Boston – September 18, 2026 -- Hilton Boston Back Bay has launched an executive retreat package built around Real Tennis, an 800-year-old sport with fewer than 50 courts remaining worldwide, in partnership with the Tennis & Racquet Club of Boston.

Hotel pairs 15,000 sq ft conference center with rare royal sport access

The Sport of Kings Executive Retreat gives corporate meeting groups access to the Tennis & Racquet Club's historic clubhouse, located steps from Hilton Boston Back Bay's newly renovated 15,000-square-foot conference center and the Hynes Convention Center. Real Tennis, also called Royal Tennis, predates modern tennis and was once played by monarchs including Henry VIII.

North Bethesda, Md. – September 18, 2026 -- RacketPro (RPO) has been named the strategic coaching education provider for Life Time Pickleball (NYSE: LTH), giving coaches across the company's national club network access to RPO's Level 1–3 certification pathway.

Life Time operates more than 900 pickleball courts across 152 clubs nationwide

Over the past two years, Life Time has built one of the largest pickleball court networks in the United States, with over 900 permanent indoor and outdoor courts at 152 locations. The RPO partnership extends that infrastructure investment to coaching quality, standardizing training across all Life Time facilities offering pickleball.

Washington – September 18, 2026 -- The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) has formally recommended that artificial intelligence tools used in clinical laboratories remain subject to the same validation, quality-system, and monitoring requirements that govern traditional laboratory testing under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA). The recommendation was submitted in a comment letter responding to a federal request for information on potential updates to CLIA, the regulatory framework that has governed U.S. clinical laboratory testing since 1992.

Las Vegas – September 18, 2026 -- Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley will interview solar executive Jared Schoch on stage at RE+ 2026 in Las Vegas on November 17, marking a rare public appearance pairing a veteran broadcast journalist with a solar industry founder.

RE+ 2026 session pairs 60 Minutes journalist with solar founder to mark 20 years of industry change

The panel, titled "20 Years of Riding the Solar Coaster: The Past, Present and Future of an Industry in a Constant State of Change," will run at RE+ 2026, described as North America's largest clean energy event. Pelley spent nearly 25 years at 60 Minutes and received 51 Emmy Awards, four duPont-Columbia Awards and three George Foster Peabody Awards during a four-decade journalism career that included reporting from Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

San Antonio – September 18, 2026 -- PayrollOrg named Booz Allen Hamilton the recipient of its top 2026 Prism Award for Overall Payroll Best Practices, after the firm automated 98% of inbound and outbound payroll data and cut $700,000 in annual overpayment costs. The awards, presented during PayrollOrg's Payroll Leaders Conference in San Antonio, Texas, recognize measurable operational gains across payroll management, processes, and technology.

Booz Allen Hamilton cuts payroll cycle time by 40% after 17-month overhaul

The defense and consulting firm reduced its payroll processing cycle from five days to three days following a 17-month systems overhaul. A shift away from arrears-based pay structures reduced overpayments by more than 60%, generating $700,000 in annual savings.

New Smyrna Beach, Fla. – September 18, 2026 -- Florida gubernatorial candidate Frank J. Russo has called on Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg to personally commit $250 million and help raise an additional $1 billion from Florida billionaires to modernize the state's data center infrastructure.

The challenge expands Russo's Florida Data Center Community Responsibility Act, proposing a voluntary Florida Data Center Modernization Fund structured as a public trust independent of government control. Russo cited Zuckerberg's reported $170 million South Florida home purchase as justification for the ask, framing it as a matter of civic responsibility tied to residency.

Durham, N.C. – September 18, 2026 -- MSK ACCESS, the musculoskeletal care program powered by RevelAi Health, has been listed in the CMS ACCESS Participant Directory on Medicare.gov, opening enrollment to Medicare beneficiaries nationwide through MSKACCESS.com.

RevelAi Health has enrolled patients in the MSK track since July 2026

The program operates under CMS's Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions (ACCESS) Model, a voluntary Innovation Center initiative that pays participating organizations for improving outcomes among Original Medicare beneficiaries. Its musculoskeletal track targets chronic joint, bone, muscle and low back pain lasting more than three months, delivering coordinated support over a twelve-month care period. Beneficiaries can join directly or via clinician referral.

Tulsa, Okla. – September 18, 2026 -- Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, has named Tom Watson as president, effective Oct. 1, to lead a $1 billion-plus portfolio of tribally owned federal contracting companies employing more than 5,000 people.

Watson brings 30 years of federal contracting leadership to the role

Watson spent seven years at Serco, most recently as CEO of its $2 billion North American business, where he oversaw more than 10,000 employees serving defense and federal civilian customers. Before becoming CEO in 2022, he served as senior vice president of Serco's Defense Services business. He joined Serco in 2018 after 22 years at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he rose to senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Navy and Marine Corps Business Unit, leading roughly 4,000 employees and more than $1 billion in annual revenue.

Calabasas, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- Faye has launched a new integration connecting Intercom and Oracle NetSuite, allowing support, sales, and success teams to view a customer's financial history directly inside Intercom without switching platforms.

Integration eliminates the finance-data bottleneck for support reps

Support agents previously had to escalate billing or order questions to finance teams because that data lived outside Intercom. Faye's integration syncs contact, company, and financial records between NetSuite and Intercom automatically, reducing tool-switching and back-and-forth between departments.

Pittsburgh – September 18, 2026 -- An inventor from Brooklyn, N.Y., has developed a device called NURSES WEEKEND designed to reduce injury risk when repositioning patients in hospital and care beds, according to InventHelp, which submitted the design and is now seeking a manufacturing or marketing partner.

Device targets injury risk in routine patient care tasks

The invention provides a mechanism to move patients in bed for tasks such as changing linens, performing hygiene care, and preventing pressure sores. Its adjustable design is intended to reduce physical strain on medical professionals and caregivers while improving patient comfort and safety.

Pittsburgh – September 18, 2026 -- PhaseWell Research has acquired Community Clinical Research (CCR), an Austin, Texas-based inpatient-capable CNS clinical trial site, in a deal advised exclusively by The Braff Group. The transaction gives PhaseWell, a Shore Capital Partners portfolio company headquartered in Nashville, its first inpatient neuropsychiatric research capability.

CCR brings a 20-bed psychiatric research unit staffed around the clock

The site operates a purpose-built, 24/7-staffed, 20-bed psychiatric research unit designed for complex central nervous system (CNS) studies requiring intensive patient monitoring. CCR's clinical team is led by Dr. Brown, with Dr. Samuel Collier serving as Principal Investigator, alongside Sub-Investigator Reid Luedecke, PMHNP-BC, and Mark Embry.

Houston – September 18, 2026 -- Vortex Companies has acquired CLH & Son, Inc., an Auburn, Maine-based infrastructure contractor, expanding its self-performed rehabilitation capabilities across the Northeast United States.

CLH brings four decades of sliplining and drainage expertise to Vortex's regional platform

Founded in 1979 by Calvin Hunter and now led by CEO Travis Stearns, CLH specializes in sliplining, concrete rehabilitation, excavation and drainage improvements. The contractor has built its client base among municipalities, state departments of transportation, utilities and other contractors throughout New England, focusing on aging storm and sewer systems.