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WMG Named Approved Marketing Vendor for 200+ Location CycleBar

Austin, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Walden Media Group (WMG) has been designated an approved marketing vendor for CycleBar, the indoor cycling brand operating more than 200 locations within the Extraordinary Brands portfolio.

WMG gains access to CycleBar's 200-plus studio network

The partnership brings WMG's localized performance marketing framework directly to CycleBar franchisees nationwide, targeting rider acquisition and membership growth at the individual studio level.

JAANUU, LA Kings Expand Partnership With Healthcare Night

El Segundo – September 15, 2026 -- JAANUU, the physician-founded medical apparel brand, has expanded its sponsorship deal with the Los Angeles Kings for the 2026-27 NHL season, adding a dedicated Healthcare Professionals Appreciation Night to the partnership.

Kings and JAANUU add themed game night on October 13

The expanded agreement, brokered by AEG Global Partnerships, will see the LA Kings host the Edmonton Oilers at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. for the inaugural Healthcare Professionals Appreciation Night presented by JAANUU. Every ticketed guest at the game will receive a co-branded foam puck, while JAANUU will run interactive activations, giveaways and contests throughout the arena.

Azzurro Living Signs First-Ever Designer Deal With Thom Filicia

Dallas – September 15, 2026 -- Azzurro Living has entered its first designer partnership in company history, teaming with interior designer Thom Filicia on a new outdoor furniture collection set to debut at High Point Market this October.

Collection launches October 17-21 at High Point Market

The Thom Filicia x Azzurro Living collection will be unveiled at Azzurro Living's Broad Hall showroom, 300 W. Broad Ave., during the High Point Market show running October 17-21, 2026. Product details, imagery and pricing have not yet been announced.

G2E 2026: MGM, Caesars, Wynn CEOs Headline Main Stage in Las Vegas

Las Vegas – September 15, 2026 -- Chief executives of MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts will share a Main Stage panel at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2026 on Sept. 29, addressing expansion strategies for a U.S. casino industry valued at $329 billion and supporting 1.8 million jobs, organizers announced.

G2E 2026 opens Sept. 28 at The Venetian Expo with over 25,000 professionals expected

The four-day event, running through Oct. 1, will draw attendees from more than 120 countries, regions and territories alongside nearly 400 exhibitors. Programming spans more than 100 education sessions featuring over 300 speakers, organized by RX and presented by the American Gaming Association (AGA).

Lightfield Raises $47M Series A to Build CRM for AI Agents

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Lightfield has raised $47 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Maverick Capital, Coatue, Audacious, Alumni Ventures, Greylock, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. More than 5,000 companies have signed up for the platform since its November 2025 launch, ranging from early-stage startups to scaling firms with hundreds of CRM users.

Lightfield targets a structural flaw in legacy CRM systems built for manual data entry

Traditional CRM platforms like Salesforce and HubSpot were designed for people to type data into fields, stages, and notes rather than for AI agents to reason from. When agents are layered onto these systems, they inherit incomplete fields, stale close dates, and notes reconstructed from memory, producing work that companies cannot verify.

Envestnet to Acquire Vestmark, Combining $8T and $2T WealthTech Platforms

Berwyn, Pa. – September 15, 2026 -- Envestnet has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Vestmark, merging a wealthtech platform serving more than a third of U.S. advisors with $8 trillion in assets with a trading and portfolio management provider supporting $2 trillion in assets and over five million investor accounts.

Envestnet gains institutional-grade trading and tax transition technology from Vestmark

The acquisition adds Vestmark's portfolio management technology, institutional-grade trading infrastructure, and outsourced investment management services to Envestnet's ecosystem. Vestmark, headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts and founded in 2001, has built its client base over 25 years working with wirehouses and firms running institutional-scale trading operations.

CogniCor Expands Advisory Board to Fuel RIA AI Platform Growth

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- CogniCor, an intelligence and orchestration platform for registered investment advisors, has expanded its Advisory Board with six new industry figures to accelerate its push into firm-wide AI adoption across wealth management.

Beacon Pointe co-founder joins board overseeing $62 billion RIA

Shannon Eusey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Beacon Pointe Advisors, one of the largest RIAs in the country with more than $62 billion in assets under advisement, joined the board as both a CogniCor customer and RIA operator.

CIA, TRA Merge Radiology Networks to Form Affiliated Radiology

Denver and Tacoma, Wash. – September 15, 2026 -- Colorado Imaging Associates (CIA) and TRA Medical Imaging (TRA) have formed Affiliated Radiology, a physician-led organization combining nearly 200 radiologists across the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain regions under a shared technology and operational platform.

New entity aggregates PACS, AI infrastructure and radiologist capacity across two regional practices

Affiliated Radiology will centralize PACS, AI-supported workflow tools, and clinical diagnostic AI across partnering organizations. The structure is designed to pool technology investment and purchasing power, lowering per-partner costs for AI-supported pre-drafting and other infrastructure while allowing practices to retain local ownership and physician governance.

FMG Suite Launches Connect Layer to Link Advisor Tech Stacks

San Diego – September 15, 2026 -- FMG Suite has launched FMG Connect, an integration and orchestration layer designed to unify the fragmented technology stacks that financial advisors and insurance professionals rely on for prospecting, planning, and client communication.

FMG Connect automates handoffs between previously disconnected advisor tools

Advisors typically juggle separate systems for meeting notes, lead scoring, and financial planning that do not communicate with one another, forcing advisors to manually transfer data between platforms. FMG Connect closes that gap by triggering automated follow-up the moment a meeting ends, launching personalized outreach as soon as a new prospect enters the system, and syncing client context across planning tools and contact records without manual entry.

DIMAAG, Toshiba Pair SCiB Batteries With ZettaWatt Platform for AI Data Centers

Fremont, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- DIMAAG-AI, Inc. and Toshiba International Corporation (TIC) have agreed to jointly develop energy storage systems for AI data centers, pairing Toshiba's SCiB lithium titanium oxide (LTO) battery cells with DIMAAG's ZettaWatt Power Platform.

Toshiba's SCiB cells bring a decade-long safety record to the partnership

Toshiba has shipped more than 100 million SCiB cells since 2010, and the batteries are engineered to sustain continuous 10C charge and discharge cycling over a targeted service life exceeding 10 years. Under the agreement, Toshiba will supply the high-power SCiB cells while DIMAAG designs, manufactures and integrates the battery system into its Zenius modules and ZettaWatt architecture.

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