Product Launch

Chicago – – September 30, 2026 -- TeamSnap, the youth sports management platform, has launched TeamSnap Sampling, a national product distribution offering that has already scaled campaigns to more than 2 million samples through its Activation Network.

Brands including Kraft Mac & Cheese and Meiji Hello Panda are placing products directly with sports families

Meiji Hello Panda ran a sampling campaign through youth sports leagues that produced a 64% lift in brand familiarity and a 22% increase in monthly purchases among participating league families. Kraft Mac & Cheese and Capri Sun have also joined the sampling network to reach active sports households.

Plano, Texas – September 30, 2026 -- International Vacations, Inc., a Plano, Texas-based host and full-service travel agency, is preparing to launch a new group-travel initiative anchored by a partnership with an emerging travel technology platform, the company said.

Host agency model lowers entry barriers for new travel advisors

International Vacations, Inc. supplies independent travel agents with established industry credentials, consortium access, preferred supplier relationships, commission tracking and processing, basic CRM technology, and ongoing training, according to the company. Agents operate as independent contractors, building their own client bases and brands while drawing on the host agency's infrastructure.

"You don't have to know everything about the travel industry when you start. That's where having a host agency behind you can make a difference," said Shamali Przywara, President of International Vacations, Inc.

Austin – September 30, 2026 -- Ørsted has begun construction on Blackwater Solar, a 200 MW solar farm in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, marking the Danish energy developer's first project in the state.

Project will supply power equivalent to 56,000 homes under long-term contract

Located between Portales and Clovis, Blackwater Solar is backed by a long-term power purchase agreement designed to meet rising industrial electricity demand within the Southwest Power Pool territory. The facility will generate enough electricity annually to power the equivalent of more than 56,000 homes. Ørsted sourced the project's solar panels from domestic manufacturer First Solar. Commercial operations are expected to begin in late 2027.

Wilmington – September 30, 2026 -- DuPont has launched the Sugar Separation Advisor, a digital tool that helps sugar and sweetener manufacturers identify candidate DuPontTM AmberLiteTM chromatography resins for food and beverage ingredient production.

Tool draws on years of experimental laboratory data to speed resin selection

Built on decades of chromatography application expertise, the platform allows users to select a target sugar or sweetener for recovery or purification, add up to four additional sugars or impurities representing their feed stream, and generate a predicted chromatogram based on laboratory-generated separation data. The system then delivers a qualitative separation assessment and suggests AmberLiteTM resin candidates for further testing, rather than relying on a theoretical performance model.

Arlington, Virginia – September 30, 2026 -- Nisos has launched Identity Integrity, a new module within its Ascend platform that cross-references an individual's identity signals against independent intelligence sources and delivers a risk report within minutes.

Module Targets Gaps Left by Document-Based Verification

Traditional identity checks confirm that a document is legitimate or that submitted information matches a database record, but they do not establish that the person presenting that information is who they claim to be. Identity Integrity cross-references data an organization already holds — such as a name, email address, phone number, resume or professional profile — against official public records, breach data, investigation databases and digital footprint information to surface inconsistencies or gaps.

New York – – September 30, 2026 -- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is entering the second year of its official beauty partnership with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders while simultaneously expanding its retail collaboration with Amazon Beauty's U.S. store, the company announced.

Partnership enters second year with a redesigned gameday beauty wardrobe

Since launching in 2025, the deal has produced content, creator experiences, retail appearances and in-stadium activations tied to the cheerleaders' official gameday look. For its second year, Charlotte Tilbury has updated the look with a curated product set spanning skincare, complexion, cheeks, eyes, brows, lips and fragrance, including new launches such as the Airbrush Flawless Blur Loose Powder and Airbrush Flawless Blush Blur, formulated to withstand high-energy routines and Texas heat.

Santa Barbara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- Sidero Labs launched Talos Director, a single management platform positioned as a direct alternative to VMware for enterprises migrating virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters off legacy virtualization stacks. The platform is now in Limited Availability, with general availability planned for January 2027.

Talos Director runs VMs and Kubernetes on one immutable operating system

Built on Talos Linux and the Talos Hypervisor, Talos Director unifies management of virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, storage and networking under a single declarative, immutable configuration model. The company says this eliminates the configuration drift that typically affects traditional data center environments.

Cleveland – September 30, 2026 -- Park Place Technologies has launched ParkView Asset Intelligence, an AI-powered platform that assigns every server, storage, network and security device a lifecycle health score from 0 to 100, giving IT managers OEM-level visibility to decide whether to refresh, repair or retire equipment.

Platform draws on 35 years of service data across nearly one million assets

Each score combines three data streams: Park Place's own hardware maintenance records spanning more than 35 years and roughly one million serviced assets across every major manufacturer, regional spare-parts availability, and a customer's own asset performance and service history. CEO Chris Adams said a device scoring 66 carries a different risk profile once IT teams see that comparable devices in the same model family average 92.

New York – September 30, 2026 -- ProphetX, described as America's first federally regulated sports-native prediction market, has signed a technology partnership with Plaee to give distribution operators a single integration point into its CFTC-regulated exchange, avoiding custom builds for each new partner.

Plaee's stack bundles trading, CRM and compliance access for operators

Through the deal, operators connect to ProphetX via Plaee's Prediction Trader, a white-label trading interface, and PlaeeOS, a CRM, personalization and monetization engine. Plaee says the setup lets operators add prediction markets to an existing product line or launch a standalone distribution channel within weeks using their current teams, rather than building exchange connectivity, liquidity access and regulatory infrastructure themselves.

Boston – – September 30, 2026 -- HFS Research has retired its flagship Horizons provider assessment and replaced it with HFS Services-as-SoftwareTM (SaS) Star Ratings, a scoring system built entirely on more than 400 enterprise client evaluations with zero vendor input and no analyst scoring.

The shift ends a model in which provider rankings were assembled from vendor briefings, RFI responses, and vendor-selected references before being scored by analysts. Under SaS Stars, providers cannot submit scoring inputs, buy inclusion, or select client references; only current enterprise clients who own or govern an engagement and have at least 12 months of experience with it are eligible to rate a provider.