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Charlotte, N.C. – September 28, 2026 -- Parking activity near SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Los Angeles, jumped 100% or more above baseline on several match days during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to new data released by curb management technology provider Passport.

The company tracked parking payments, enforcement and permitting activity across five U.S. and Canadian host cities -- Boston, Kansas City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle -- during the tournament, finding sharply divergent patterns in how match days affected local curb operations.

Kansas City parking rose on five of six match days, peaking at 45% on July 11

Kansas City saw parking activity increase above baseline on five of its six World Cup match days, with a 45% spike recorded on July 11. Passport also supported the city's mobile payment operations as it prepared for the six matches.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- PrescriberPoint has joined athenahealth's Partner Community as a Solution Partner, putting its AI-powered prior authorization tool directly into the e-prescribing workflow of more than 170,000 clinicians on the athenaOne network.

Integration lets providers submit prior authorizations without leaving their e-prescribing workflow

The new listing in the athenahealth Marketplace allows providers to initiate and complete prior authorizations using clinical and patient details pulled automatically into the submission. Denied claims can be advanced with appeals and supporting documentation prepared automatically rather than restarted from scratch.

Colorado Springs – September 28, 2026 -- Century Casinos, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNTY) has agreed to sell the racing and gaming operations of Century Mile Racetrack and Casino in Edmonton and Century Downs Racetrack and Casino in Calgary to Highfield Investment Group for approximately $16.4 million, a 6.1x multiple of FY 2025 EBITDA.

Deal values Alberta racinos at CAD 23.2 million based on current exchange rates

The purchase price translates to CAD 23.2 million using the September 27, 2026 exchange rate of 0.7074 CAD/USD. Century Casinos owns 100% of Century Mile and a 75% stake in Century Downs, with noncontrolling partners holding the remaining 25% of the latter property.

Shanghai – September 28, 2026 -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) said its mobile simulation title "The Greed of Man《大時代》" reached No. 1 in the Simulation Games category on both the Hong Kong Apple App Store and Google Play following its September 24, 2026 launch.

Game built in eight months versus industry-standard two to three years

The title was produced on the9bit, The9's proprietary AI game production platform that orchestrates multiple AI models across development rather than relying on a single foundation model. The platform converts a natural-language or image-based idea into a structured production blueprint, then coordinates content generation, debugging, asset creation and integration across the pipeline. An AI-native editing environment allows creators to refine gameplay elements, parameters and visuals through further natural-language instructions.

Stockholm – – September 28, 2026 -- More than half of senior enterprise leaders, 58%, have delayed, scaled back or added safeguards to strategic initiatives over the past two years due to concerns about their network provider, according to a new report from Arelion.

The Stockholm-based connectivity firm commissioned research firm Savanta to survey 518 senior enterprise network decision-makers across the US, UK, Germany and France, all from organizations with more than 2,000 employees. The findings appear in Arelion's report, 'The trust illusion: Why AI and digital transformation need more than a reliable network.'

Warrenville, Ill. – September 28, 2026 -- Aglocell, Inc. has delivered a Tier-1 U.S. wireless carrier one terabyte of additional daily network capacity through software alone, avoiding an estimated $2.6 million in hardware costs across a single metro deployment.

SpectraMax software lifted peak-hour capacity by 4.1% across 60-plus cell sites

In a live trial spanning more than 60 sites in a major U.S. metropolitan area, Aglocell's SpectraMax platform increased network-wide capacity by 4.1% during peak busy hour, equal to roughly one terabyte of additional data throughput. The company says the gain matches one-third of a full new spectrum layer, a physical buildout that typically costs carriers $43,000 per cell site, or nearly $2.6 million across the tested sites.

North Chicago, Ill. – – September 28, 2026 -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) has secured U.S. FDA approval for JUVMO (tavapadon), the first and only selective D1/D5 receptor agonist for adults with Parkinson's disease, with commercial availability set for October 2026.

JUVMO targets dopamine pathways differently than existing D2/D3 agonists

Roopal Thakkar, AbbVie's chief scientific officer, called the approval the first dopaminergic breakthrough for Parkinson's disease in decades. The once-daily oral tablet can be taken with or without levodopa, positioning it across the full disease continuum rather than a single treatment stage.

Boston – September 28, 2026 -- Duck Creek has made Agentic First Notice of Loss (FNOL) available to early access customers, an AI-driven tool designed to automate claims intake across digital, voice-to-text, and mobile channels.

Agentic AI agents verify coverage and flag anomalies before an adjuster opens the file

Built on the Duck Creek Agentic AI Platform, the solution uses orchestrated AI agents to capture, validate, enrich, and route claims in real time. From the first description of a loss, the system verifies coverage, assesses injury and legal severity, and cross-references reported circumstances, images, and policy data to surface inconsistencies without manual data entry.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Lazard, Inc. (NYSE: LAZ) has appointed Pranjal Gambhir as Head of Medical Technology, based in New York, as the advisory firm expands its healthcare coverage.

Gambhir brings two decades of Citi experience to Lazard's healthcare practice

Gambhir joins from Citi, where he most recently served as Managing Director covering Medical Technology companies across multiple sub-sectors. He spent 20 years at Citi in roles based in New York and New Delhi, building coverage across the sector's various segments.

Dubai – September 28, 2026 -- Bybit and Franklin Templeton, a $1.7 trillion asset manager, have launched a collateral program letting institutional clients pledge tokenized money market fund shares to access trading credit on Bybit's exchange.

Institutional clients can now pledge Benji-issued fund shares for USDT or USDC credit lines

Eligible investors use ByCustody, Bybit's institutional custody platform, to pledge shares issued through Franklin Templeton's Benji Technology Platform, a blockchain-integrated recordkeeping and transfer agency infrastructure. The pledged value is mirrored inside Bybit's trading environment while the underlying assets stay off-exchange in custody, allowing clients to continue earning yield on holdings while using them to support trading activity.

Chicago – September 28, 2026 -- Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) has promoted Maxime Jeanniard du Dot to Executive Vice President, Margin Analytics, putting him in charge of the TT Margin business formed after TT's acquisition of OpenGamma in December.

TT consolidates margin analytics under new executive after OpenGamma deal

Jeanniard du Dot spent 10 years as Chief Operating Officer of OpenGamma before the acquisition, giving him direct oversight of the platform now positioned as TT's core margin-analytics offering for hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading firms and banks.

Tampa, Fla. – – September 28, 2026 -- Universal Parking has secured a new parking management contract for Bayshore Gardens, an office complex along Tampa's Bayshore Boulevard corridor, extending its Southeast footprint in high-traffic mixed-use properties.

Self-park garage adds covered and touchless access near Hillsborough Bay

The facility, with an entrance on S. Ysabella Avenue between Barcelona Wine Bar and Altura Bayshore, includes covered parking, accessible spaces and touchless entry designed for tenants and visitors to the waterfront office campus.

Contract deepens existing partnership with property owner Asana Partners

Justin Kinsey, CPP, Vice President of Operations – Central Florida at Universal Parking, said the company aims to deliver a seamless parking experience for Bayshore Gardens as South Tampa's tenant and visitor base grows.

Detroit Lakes – September 28, 2026 -- SJE, Inc. has acquired Wilson Controls, LLC, a New Hampshire-based automation and control provider for water, wastewater, and environmental applications, expanding SJE's PLC and SCADA systems integration and UL-listed control panel capabilities into New England.

Wilson Controls brings UL 508A and UL 698A panel manufacturing capabilities to SJE's portfolio

Founded in 2012 and based in Lee, New Hampshire, Wilson Controls engineers, programs, integrates, and supports PLC and SCADA systems, instrumentation, and control panels for municipal and industrial customers across New England and select projects beyond the region.

Tokyo – – September 28, 2026 -- TOYO Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: TOYO; OTC: TOYWF) said it expects positive EBITDA for the second half of 2026 despite withholding specific revenue and net income guidance due to unresolved U.S. trade actions affecting its solar cell shipments.

Unresolved US Customs Probe Clouds Financial Visibility

The Tokyo-based solar manufacturer cited a pending U.S. Customs and Border Protection examination of its solar cell shipments as a key source of uncertainty for its second-half performance. TOYO said it will not issue quarterly guidance or specific financial metrics until greater regulatory clarity emerges.

Countervailing Duty Investigation Adds to Policy Risk

Active countervailing duty investigation proceedings compound the regulatory overhang facing the company, according to the statement. TOYO did not disclose a timeline for resolution of either the CBP examination or the CVD case.

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. – September 28, 2026 -- Star Catcher Industries has its Protostar power node ready for launch aboard SpaceX's Transporter-18 mission, scheduled for October 2026, in an attempt to complete the first optical power beaming demonstration between two untethered spacecraft.

Protostar targets a power beaming feat never before achieved in orbit

Following launch and commissioning, Protostar will deploy and track a CubeSat, beaming measurable power to off-the-shelf solar panels on the target spacecraft. Success would mark the world's first optical power transfer between two free-flying spacecraft, validating the core technology stack Star Catcher intends to scale into a commercial orbital power grid: energy harvesting, satellite acquisition and tracking, and energy transmission.

Piscataway, N.J. – September 28, 2026 -- Sampled has secured a five-year contract worth up to $27.1 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide genomics analyses for the Million Veteran Program (MVP), one of the world's largest research initiatives of its kind.

MVP has enrolled more than one million veterans since its 2011 launch

The program studies how molecular factors, lifestyle, and service-related experiences drive elevated veteran health risks, including PTSD, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Published MVP findings have already advanced understanding of PTSD, artery disease, suicide risk, stroke, and substance use.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Salute, a member of the NVIDIA Partner Network, has secured customers to support more than 20 gigawatts of AI infrastructure capacity globally, achieving the milestone in less than 12 months since joining the network.

Salute scales liquid-cooling operations to 20 GW of AI infrastructure in under a year

The growth stems from demand for Salute's Direct-to-Chip (DTC) Liquid Cooling Operations Service, which the company positions as the first comprehensive operational framework for high-density, liquid-cooled AI environments. The service combines field-tested operating procedures, specialized training and commissioning expertise to manage coolant chemistry, leak detection, safety protocols and system monitoring at scale.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Bank of America has launched Payments Insights, a new CashPro capability giving corporate and commercial clients AI-driven analytics on payment efficiency, cross-border flows and working-capital performance across U.S. accounts.

CashPro processed 213 million payments in the first half of 2026, up 10% year over year

The volume growth underscores the scale treasury teams now manage, with Bank of America framing even incremental efficiency gains as materially impactful at that transaction level. Payments Insights joins CashPro Data Intelligence, the bank's AI-powered suite that already includes Capital Markets Insights, Mobile Security Insights, CashPro Forecasting and CashPro Search.

Atlanta – September 28, 2026 -- The three-year widening of America's K-shaped economy paused in the second quarter of 2026, according to new data from Equifax, as top-tier consumers gained ground while the most financially strained households pulled back sharply.

Thrivers gain 3.2% while Strivers contract 4.2%, the sharpest drop since Q4 2023

The Equifax Market Pulse Index recorded a 3.2% quarterly increase among Thrivers (Index above 80), a 0.9% rise in the Middle segment (Index 50-79), which represents nearly 70% of the U.S. population, and a 4.2% contraction among Strivers (Index of 49 and below). "For the last three years, we have watched the gap between the top and the bottom of the 'K' widen, while the middle class shrank. In the second quarter of 2026, that pattern paused," said Emmaline Aliff, Advisory Leader at Equifax.

Cleveland – September 28, 2026 -- TransDigm Group Incorporated (NYSE: TDG) has completed its acquisition of Prince & Izant ("P&I") for approximately $1.066 billion in cash, including certain tax benefits, financed entirely through cash on hand.

TransDigm pays $1.066 billion cash to acquire aerospace brazing alloy maker

The deal, first announced on July 27, 2026, brings under TransDigm's umbrella a company formerly owned by private equity firm Industrial Growth Partners. Prince & Izant, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, designs and manufactures highly engineered brazing alloys and specialty metal components for advanced performance, high cost-of-failure applications.