Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

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.

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.

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.

Arlington, Va. – September 18, 2026 -- Organizations that hand strategic S/4HANA migration decisions to implementation partners face higher risks of cost overruns, project delays, and outcomes misaligned with business priorities, according to new research from Info-Tech Research Group. The warning comes as SAP's end of mainstream maintenance for ECC in 2027 forces enterprises to finalize migration plans.

Info-Tech says implementation partners lack full business context for critical trade-offs

Info-Tech's Build Your S/4HANA Migration Plan blueprint states that while technical partners are essential for execution, they cannot determine organizational priorities, transformation goals, or acceptable trade-offs. These decisions influence deployment strategy, governance, and organizational change throughout the migration.

Los Angeles – September 18, 2026 -- Fotor, an AI Vibe Marketing Platform serving more than 800 million users worldwide, has launched Fotor Agent, an AI production system that converts prompts and raw assets into fully editable, production-ready videos and 4K motion graphics.

Fotor Agent cuts motion graphics production costs to 1/200th of traditional After Effects workflows

According to Fotor's internal benchmarks, the new agent reduces motion design costs by two orders of magnitude while boosting generation and editing speed 50-fold. The system keeps text, brand colors, charts, and animation timing fully parametric on a live preview canvas, eliminating the costly full-project regenerations required by conventional AI video models that bake motion graphics into fixed pixel streams.

Stockholm and London – September 18, 2026 -- DanAds, a self-service advertising technology provider, and Nodals AI, an autonomous AI platform for publishers, have entered a strategic partnership that combines predictive-outcome modeling with self-service ad buying, letting publishers sell performance-based campaigns without sacrificing yield.

Nodals AI's models predict clicks, conversions and video completions from publisher data

Nodals AI trains on a publisher's own first-party data to forecast advertiser outcomes such as clicks, conversions or video completes. That capability lets publishers offer CPC- or CPA-style outcome campaigns directly inside their existing ad stacks, matching advertiser demand for performance-based buying.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Corelight has launched the Agent Builder Library and Natural Language Query, two tools designed to let security operations centers match the speed of AI-driven cyberattacks without losing auditability over investigation logic.

Attackers now exploit vulnerabilities in roughly five days, far outpacing patch cycles

Enterprise patching cycles typically run 60 to 150 days, but the median time to exploit has dropped to approximately five days, according to Corelight. The company warns that with emerging Mythos-class AI models, attackers may exploit vulnerabilities before defenders even know a flaw exists, making faster patching an inadequate defense on its own.

Zurich, Switzerland – September 17, 2026 -- Ontinue, a managed detection and response (MXDR) provider, has published its 2025 greenhouse gas emissions inventory, reporting a 2.5% year-over-year reduction in Scope 2 emissions to 12.59 tCO2e on a location-based basis, driven by consolidation of its global office footprint.

Total company-wide emissions rose approximately 3% versus 2024

Ontinue attributes the overall increase to two factors: higher employee business travel tied to company growth, and a planned methodology shift from spend-based to activity-based accounting for fuel and energy-related activities. The company frames the accounting change as an improvement in data precision rather than an operational setback.

New York – September 17, 2026 -- Zip Security has joined Project QuiltWorks, the CrowdStrike-led coalition defending organizations against frontier AI-driven cyber risk, extending enterprise-grade protection to small and mid-sized businesses that lack dedicated security teams.

Frontier AI models have cut attack costs while defense costs stay flat for SMBs

Frontier AI has changed the economics of cyber risk, giving attackers tools to discover software vulnerabilities that earlier reviews missed. Small and mid-sized businesses now face sophisticated threats without the resources enterprises use to counter them, according to the companies.