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BEIJING -- Aug. 31, 2026 -- Walnut Coding placed No. 44 among 500 companies in TIME's World's Top EdTech Companies 2026 ranking, the only China-based youth coding education firm to break into the global top 100. The Beijing-founded company ranked sixth among 23 China-based firms on the list, which TIME compiled with market data provider Statista after screening roughly 6,500 education technology companies worldwide.

Financial strength drives 70% of the scoring methodology

Statista weighted revenue, funding and market capitalization at 70% of each company's total score, pulling from public disclosures and company-reported data. The remaining 30% covered industry impact, measured through product reach, alignment with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, intellectual property holdings and website traffic.

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- September 01, 2026 -- Phoenix Tower International (PTI) has signed a $6.5 billion multi-jurisdiction financing package, the largest such deal for a privately held tower company in the wireless infrastructure sector.

CHAM, Switzerland  -- September 01, 2026 -- EYKON officially unveiled its new brand today, completing a separation from Landis+Gyr EMEA and establishing itself as an independent utility infrastructure technology company serving more than 75 markets.

HONG KONG -- September 01, 2026 -- Fosun International reported a 160.3% year-on-year surge in first-half profit attributable to owners of the parent to RMB1.72 billion, the conglomerate said at an interim results presentation held in Hong Kong on Aug. 28. Total revenue for the six-month period reached RMB86.96 billion, with overseas markets contributing RMB49.16 billion, or 56.5% of the total. The briefing marked Fosun's first in-person results presentation in Hong Kong in six years, attended by Chairman Guo Guangchang, Co-Chairman Wang Qunbin, Co-CEOs Chen Qiyu and Xu Xiaoliang, and CFO Gong Ping.

Four Core Units Generate 73.5% of Group Revenue

Fosun Pharma, Yuyuan, Portuguese insurer Fidelidade, and the group's tourism segment together accounted for 73.5% of total revenue in the first half, the company disclosed. Pharmaceutical and insurance operations delivered the strongest performance among the four units.

Dublin -- September 01, 2026 -- Half of 152 European merchants surveyed by Temu said they expanded production capacity or hired new staff since joining the e-commerce platform, according to the Temu Small Business Insights Report 2026.

CHAM, Switzerland -- September 01, 2026 -- EYKON unveiled its new corporate brand on Aug. 31, 2026, completing the separation of the former Landis+Gyr EMEA business into an independent utility infrastructure technology company.

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MASON, Ohio -- September 01, 2026 -- Prasco, LLC has acquired a 130,000-plus square foot distribution facility in Carey, Ohio, expanding the pharmaceutical commercialization company's automation, cold-chain and secure storage capacity beyond its existing Mason, Ohio operations. The deal, announced Aug. 31, 2026, adds a second Ohio campus for the company, which works with more than 65 brand partners and supplies medications to over 70,000 pharmacies nationwide. Prasco specializes in Authorized Generics and end-to-end commercialization services for global drug brands.

The Carey site sits inside what Prasco describes as the Midwest pharmaceutical and logistics corridor, giving the company direct highway access to CDMOs, national distribution centers and major health systems. Prasco said the location strengthens its footprint in Ohio, a state it identified as one of the most active life sciences markets in the country.

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BOSTON -- September 01, 2026 -- Stockpress, a Boston-based digital asset management platform, launched Content Portals on Aug. 31, 2026, a feature that converts files stored inside its DAM into branded, shareable web destinations. The tool lets marketing and brand teams pull assets from across their workspace into a single curated page for sales staff, partners, customers or press, rather than sending links to folders of raw files. Every Stockpress plan now includes one Content Portal, and customers on the Premium plan can build an unlimited number for different teams and audiences.

SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- September 01, 2026 -- Diffraqtion capped its pre-seed funding round at more than $10 million after Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures, the venture arm of Sumitomo Corporation, joined as strategic investors, the MIT and University of Maryland spinout announced Aug. 31, 2026. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company builds quantum camera platforms for defense and space sensing. The new capital follows on-sky demonstrations, progress under a DARPA SBIR program, and two NASA awards covering orbital debris tracking and orbital edge computing.

South Jordan, Utah -- September 01, 2026 -- Opalescence Whitening launched Opalescence Go Advanced, a prefilled take-home whitening tray built on a redesigned UltraFit tray that eliminates the outer placement tray used in prior generations. The company, which markets itself as the top-selling professional teeth whitening brand worldwide, said the new product ships ready to use directly from the package. Opalescence has whitened more than 150 million smiles globally since its formula first reached the dental market 35 years ago.

AUSTIN, Texas -- September 01, 2026 -- DPR Construction completed the 74-story Waterline tower at 98 Red River Street two months ahead of its original 50-month schedule, finishing the job in 48 months. The 1,025-foot structure now stands as the tallest building in Texas, DPR announced on Aug. 31, 2026. The 2.7 million-square-foot tower, co-developed by Lincoln Property Company and Kairoi Residential, combines residential, hotel, office, retail and parking uses on a footprint of more than three acres in downtown Austin.

DPR Deploys 6,800 Workers Across 4.5 Million Labor Hours

More than 150 trade partners and roughly 6,800 skilled workers logged approximately 4.5 million hours on the project, with about 1,000 workers onsite during peak construction. Crews placed more than 150,000 cubic yards of concrete, a volume DPR compares to 46 Olympic-sized swimming pools, and built 92 individual sculptural columns, including 15 installed on the roof.

NEW YORK -- September 01, 2026 -- Optimizely unveiled Virtual Teammates on Aug. 31, 2026 at its Opticon conference, a new class of AI coworkers built to take on defined marketing roles instead of responding to individual prompts. The launch includes five role-specific digital coworkers: Chief of Staff, SEO & AI Search Analyst, Marketing Analyst, Personalization Strategist, and CRO Manager. Each retains organizational context over time and operates across marketing tools under its own identity and permissions.

81% of B2B Marketing Leaders Juggle Multiple Disconnected AI Tools Weekly

A global Optimizely study of more than 2,000 B2B marketing leaders found that 81% personally switch between two or more disconnected AI tools each week, including 19% who use four or more. Optimizely said Virtual Teammates are built to function as ongoing members of the marketing team rather than an additional standalone tool marketers have to operate.

MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. -- September 01, 2026 -- Yorkville America Equities, LLC launched the Yorkville America MANGOS Plus Index ETF, trading under ticker FRUT on NYSE Arca and NYSE Texas, the firm announced Aug. 31, 2026. The fund combines six AI platform companies with seven hardware and infrastructure suppliers inside a single rules-based index, charging a 0.50% expense ratio with quarterly distributions. Tidal Investments, LLC serves as sub-adviser, and PINE Distributors LLC acts as distributor.

FRUT commits 80% of assets to twelve named AI companies

At least 80% of the fund's net assets go toward what Yorkville America calls the MANGO Plus Group: Meta Platforms, NVIDIA, Alphabet, SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, plus SanDisk, Marvell, Micron, Intel, Dell, AMD and Broadcom. Exposure comes through direct holdings, private securities or total return swaps, with direct private-security holdings capped at 5% of net assets.

Frankfurt (Oder), Germany -- Klinikum Frankfurt (Oder) opened a new hybrid operating room on Aug. 31, 2026, backed by roughly 6 million euros in investment, RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG announced. The facility, one of five hospitals in the Rhön-Klinikum network, will serve as the primary site for vascular surgery and cardiology teams treating complex vascular and cardiac cases across eastern Brandenburg. Hospital managing director Christian Petersen and chief medical officer Prof. Richter-Ehrenstein presented the room as a step toward offering high-end interventional procedures rarely available outside specialized centers.

ARLINGTON, VA. -- September 01, 2026 -- Corvex, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) said it will lift critical IT power capacity fivefold, from roughly 1.5 megawatts to approximately 8 megawatts by year-end 2026, backed by a $33 million private placement led by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co. The Arlington, Virginia-based AI infrastructure provider is doubling its existing Mid-Atlantic data center and standing up a second facility in the Midwest, with both sites expected ready for service in the fourth quarter of 2026. A right of first refusal on 12.5 additional megawatts at the Midwest site could push total capacity past 20 megawatts, a 13-fold jump from current levels.

REHOVOT, Israel -- September 01, 2026 -- CollPlant Biotechnologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CLGN) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LightSolver Ltd., an Israeli developer of laser-based computing hardware, in a deal expected to close this week. The transaction moves CollPlant, a regenerative-medicine company known for recombinant collagen products, into supercomputing and photonic computing. LightSolver's technology has already been tested by Boeing, a top-tier global financial institution and unnamed defense, energy and engineering-software companies.

CARY, N.C. -- September 01, 2026 -- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals dosed the first participant on Aug. 31, 2026, in its Phase 2 RENGEVITY-201 trial testing pegrizeprument, an investigational immunosuppressive drug, against tacrolimus in kidney transplant recipients. The Cary, North Carolina-based company, a unit of Asahi Kasei Corporation, will enroll up to 120 de novo kidney transplant patients across multiple sites in the randomized, partially blinded study registered as NCT07290777. Patients will receive one of two pegrizeprument doses or tacrolimus, each layered on top of rATG, corticosteroids and mycophenolate maintenance therapy.

Boise, Idaho -- September 01, 2026 -- Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA; TSX: PPTA) said dual autoclaves for its Stibnite Gold Project in central Idaho are now being fabricated at a custom facility in Europe, one of several construction milestones the company detailed on August 31, 2026. Four drill rigs have completed roughly 5,800 meters of a 10,000-meter 2026 exploration program that has returned high-grade gold, antimony and tungsten intercepts. The update follows an August 18, 2026 ruling by the U.S. District Court of Idaho upholding federal approvals for the project, and a July 29, 2026 ribbon-cutting for a military antimony processing plant at Idaho National Laboratory.