Dallas-Plano, Texas – September 22, 2026 -- Sportball is opening its first corporate-operated location in the United States in Dallas-Plano this fall, marking a shift from a two-decade-old franchise-only U.S. model to direct company operations. The Canadian youth sports company will also add a new franchise in Frisco-McKinney, expected to open in early 2027.
Fremont, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- THINK Surgical, Inc. has appointed Rick McDowell as Vice President, Sales, tasking him with leading the orthopedic robotics maker's national sales organization as it scales commercial operations.
McDowell will drive market strategy and growth for THINK Surgical's commercial team, reporting to Chris Marrus. He arrives with more than 20 years in medical device commercialization, clinical strategy, and capital sales across the surgical robotics sector.
St. Louis – September 22, 2026 -- The Gateway Business Health Coalition (Gateway BHC), which represents roughly 70 employers nationwide including Fortune 500 companies and public sector organizations, has partnered with Rezilient Health to expand employer access to a hybrid primary care model.
The partnership pairs Rezilient's same-day primary and urgent care with specialty consults and care navigation, aiming to reduce total healthcare spending for self-funded employers. Rezilient's CloudClinic format combines an in-person clinical medic with a provider joining remotely via secure video, supported by connected diagnostic devices for physical exams, labs and basic imaging during the same visit.
London – September 22, 2026 -- The Natural Diamond Council has rebranded as The Diamond Collective, launching a new global strategy to rebuild consumer demand for natural diamonds amid rising competition from synthetic alternatives.
Amber Pepper, who took over as CEO, developed the strategy following talks with producers, retailers, brands, creatives and consumers. The plan responds to shifts in how people discover and buy luxury goods, aiming to convert consumer desire into sustained purchasing demand.
San Antonio – September 22, 2026 -- Texas A&M University-San Antonio advanced nine spots to No. 31 in the U.S. News & World Report Top Performers on Social Mobility category, its largest single-year gain in the ranking.
A&M-San Antonio also rose one spot to No. 28 among Top Public Schools and held its position at No. 56 among Regional Universities West, a category spanning 14 states including Texas, Washington, Nevada and California.
Approximately 60% of A&M-San Antonio students are Pell Grant-eligible. The University's Jaguar Promise program covers tuition and fees for eligible Texas students from families earning $70,000 or less annually.
Austin, Texas – September 22, 2026 -- Mendocino Farms opened its 102nd restaurant nationwide on September 22, marking its third Austin location at 1100 South Lamar Boulevard, Suite 1125, and expanding its Texas footprint to 14 restaurants statewide.
The South Lamar site follows earlier debuts at Arbor Trails and West 38th Street, building out the fast-casual chain's third foothold in the Austin market since entering the city in 2025.
"Ever since we opened our first Austin location in 2025, the community has embraced Mendocino Farms and showed us incredible support," said Alicia Mowder, Chief Marketing Officer of Mendocino Farms, noting the new opening reflects continued customer traction in the region.
Munich – September 22, 2026 -- Persistent Systems Limited has secured 83.25% of Nagarro SE's outstanding share capital, clearing the minimum threshold for its EUR 81.00-per-share takeover offer and setting up a delisting from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Prime Standard.
During the acceptance period that expired at midnight CEST on September 17, 2026, holders tendered 7,568,145 Nagarro shares, equal to approximately 61.15% of total share capital and voting rights. Persistent separately secured a 22.10% stake through a share purchase agreement with Lantano Beteiligungen GmbH, bringing the combined position to 83.25%, excluding treasury shares.
Austin, Texas – September 22, 2026 -- Sparx Engineering has opened its third Texas office, a 3,117-square-foot location at 1023 Springdale, Bldg 12B, in the Springdale General community in East Austin.
The Greater Houston-based engineering consultancy secured the space with representation from Aquila Commercial's Noah Yetley. The new office follows Sparx's first satellite branch, opened in Dallas in 2023, giving the firm operations in Houston, Dallas, and now Austin.
An initial team led by Steven Block, P.E., and Tyler Chaney, P.E., will anchor the Austin operation, which is expected to reach a staff of 10 within a year. The office will support Sparx's four core service lines: electrical, mechanical, software and chemical engineering.
Miami – September 22, 2026 -- Nucleus Research has named Boomi, Matillion, Oracle, Qlik, and Salesforce (Informatica) as Leaders in its 2026 Data Integration Technology Value Matrix, citing a wave of consolidation reversing five years of market unbundling.
Fivetran has merged with dbt Labs, IBM has acquired both StreamSets and Confluent, Salesforce has completed its acquisition of Informatica, and Qlik has folded Talend into its cloud platform. Nucleus Research says these moves mark a reversal of the unbundling trend that defined data integration from 2019 to 2024, as vendors now compete on consolidated support spanning batch ingestion, change data capture, and streaming transformation.
Redwood City, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Ivalua has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Direct Spend 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54900426, September 2026), based on evaluations of its capabilities, strategy, market presence, and core architecture.
IDC MarketScape identified Ivalua's single data model, which natively links sourcing, bill of materials, contract, quality, and supply chain collaboration objects, as its most substantive differentiator. The architecture enables full traceability from item to BOM to award to contract to invoice, reducing fragmentation that competitor suites reportedly struggle with.