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Teaneck, N.J. – September 14, 2026 -- Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) has been named to TIME's World's Best Companies 2026 list for the third consecutive year, placing it among 1,000 global companies ranked for employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability transparency.

TIME and Statista scored companies on three measurable dimensions

The ranking, compiled by TIME and Statista, drew on survey data from more than 200,000 employees worldwide to assess satisfaction through direct recommendations and peer evaluations. Revenue growth criteria required companies to show three-year top-line growth with revenues exceeding $100 million. Sustainability transparency was measured across environmental impact, social responsibility and governance practices.

Jacksonville, Fla. – September 14, 2026 -- Medius has integrated Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE indirect tax determination into its AP Automation platform, allowing businesses to verify US sales and use tax on every invoice before it posts to the ERP.

Tax verification now runs inside the approval workflow before payment

As invoices move through Medius AP Automation, vendor-charged US sales and use tax is recalculated against the Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE determination engine, checking each line item jurisdiction by jurisdiction. Overcharges and undercharges are automatically flagged before payment, addressing risks for finance teams operating across thousands of US tax jurisdictions.

Dallas – September 14, 2026 -- Specialty church and ministry insurer KingsCover Insurance Services has rebranded as Dominion First Insurance Services, LLC, retaining its status as the largest agency by book of business inside the KingsCover Underwriters program, a Risk Theory company.

Agency delivers $3 million in premium savings since November 2025 launch

Since its November 1, 2025 launch, the agency has generated more than $3 million in estimated premium savings for clients, expanded to over 400 church and ministry clients, and secured licensing across 16 states. That growth trajectory continues unchanged under the new corporate identity.

Ettlingen – September 14, 2026 -- German restructuring advisor Ulrich Kammerer of UKMC has outlined six concrete criteria executives can use within the first sixty minutes of a consultation to distinguish qualified crisis advisors from those offering false reassurance during liquidity emergencies.

Kammerer, who has personally overseen more than 400 insolvency and restructuring cases over the past decade and secured over €300 million in assets during those proceedings, warns that choosing the wrong advisor risks missed legal deadlines and personal liability for managing directors. He previously led an IT services company with roughly 700 employees through a protective shield procedure, emerging debt-free after eight months and one week.

Bremen – September 14, 2026 -- Ransomware group Rhysida published 5.79 terabytes of stolen data -- 1.44 million files -- from Berlin's state administration network BeLa on the darknet on September 4, after the city refused to pay a ransom of roughly €2 million. IT security consultancy team neusta and crisis communications specialist NetFed are citing the breach as a warning case for organizations of any size.

Attackers infiltrated two Berlin Senate administrations between August 7 and 12, 2026, copying data undetected for days before the intrusion into the BeLa network was discovered on August 14. The leaked dataset includes personal information on more than 12,000 individuals and emergency plans tied to critical infrastructure.

Orlando, Florida – September 14, 2026 -- Grande Lakes Orlando has completed a resort-wide renovation that expands its meetings and events footprint to more than 169,000 square feet across The Ritz-Carlton Orlando and the JW Marriott Orlando, targeting corporate conferences, incentive trips and executive retreats.

Renovated ballrooms and 56 breakout rooms now anchor the property's group business strategy

The multi-year transformation began with guest rooms and has now reached group gathering areas at both hotels. The Ritz-Carlton Orlando offers reworked ballroom, indoor and al fresco event spaces, while the JW Marriott Orlando has redesigned convention space including breakout rooms and outdoor venues. The combined 169,000 square feet includes 56 breakout rooms suited to board meetings, galas and full-property buyouts.

Irvine, Calif. – September 14, 2026 -- U.S. consumers received just under 3.9 billion robocalls in August 2026, a 10% drop from July and the lowest monthly total since October 2025, according to the YouMail Robocall Index.

August volume falls to 125.4 million calls per day, reversing a year-long upward trend

Daily robocall averages dropped to 125.4 million calls, or 1,451 calls per second, down from July's 139.3 million calls per day and 1,612 calls per second. The decline pulls August volumes back to levels last seen in January and February, breaking the upward trajectory that had persisted through most of 2026.

Reston – September 14, 2026 -- Seekr and SEMPRE have signed a strategic partnership to run sovereign, explainable AI directly on SEMPRE's hardened edge infrastructure, hardening U.S. critical infrastructure against cyberattacks and grid loss.

Seekr's AI models will execute locally on SEMPRE Total Infrastructure Devices without touching the public internet

Under the agreement, Seekr's sovereign AI platform, SeekrFlow, will operate as a supported workload inside SEMPRE's environment. Models are built, tuned, and executed on each Device's own compute, with no model call and no production data crossing the public internet. The reasoning behind every AI output is recorded on site, remaining accessible to the operator.

New York – September 14, 2026 -- EDGE Markets has partnered with Splash Sports to deploy its EDGE Connect settlement network across the platform's $21 million guaranteed NFL Survivor contest, enabling eligible players to move up to $1 million a day in and out of their accounts around the clock.

EDGE Connect replaces bank-dependent funding with real-time transfers

The closed-loop network lets eligible EDGE Boost customers fund Splash Sports accounts without the transaction limits, processing delays and fees typical of traditional banking rails. EDGE Markets says the capability is designed for players moving money on nights, weekends and ahead of Sunday kickoffs, when conventional bank transfers lag.

Birmingham, Ala. – September 14, 2026 -- The World Baseball League (WBL) will stage its inaugural Field of Dreams Festival October 15-17 in Dyersville, Iowa, at the original movie site from the 1989 film and its adjoining stadium, marking the upstart league's first multi-day showcase event.

Hall of Famer Frank Thomas and his newly launched streaming platform, Big Eye Network, have signed on as the festival's exclusive broadcast partner, producing coverage of the weekend's marquee moments including a ceremonial first pitch thrown by Thomas.

National Harbor, Md. – September 14, 2026 -- Radia is presenting WindRunner, the world's largest aircraft by volume, as a fix for a growing bottleneck in space logistics: transporting fully assembled rockets, boosters and oversized satellites that have outgrown existing roads, ports and cargo aircraft. The aircraft maker unveiled the capability ahead of the Air & Space Forces Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference, running Sept. 14-16 at National Harbor, Md.

WindRunner cuts transport time from days to hours for oversized rocket hardware

Mark Lundstrom, Founder and CEO of Radia, said the aircraft can move a fully assembled booster, a recovered launch vehicle or a next-generation satellite intact, eliminating disassembly and reassembly cycles. He attributed the design to a low cargo deck height, a nose door and a dedicated cargo loading system built to speed handling of outsized space hardware.

Frankfurt – September 12, 2026 -- Aeson Power, an Australian sodium-ion battery technology brand, unveiled a new line of auxiliary sodium-ion batteries for electric and commercial vehicles at Automechanika Frankfurt 2026, expanding beyond its established starter and start-stop battery segment.

Aeson Power's starter batteries have already logged 100,000 units sold across 30 countries

The company's sodium-ion starter and start-stop batteries are already commercialized at scale in the aftermarket, with more than 100,000 units in circulation and sales in over 30 countries. Aeson Power says the batteries deliver instant starting power, fast charging and reliable cold-start performance while offering triple the service life of conventional lead-acid batteries in start-stop applications.

Singapore – – September 12, 2026 -- The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has catalysed US$641 million in third-party and impact-investor funding commitments since 2019, according to its newly released 2025 Progress Report covering the first year of Strategy 2030 implementation.

Cumulative waste reduction reaches 378,147 tonnes since 2019

The organisation reduced 138,162 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste and valorised 165,317 tonnes in 2025 alone, pushing cumulative totals to 378,147 tonnes reduced and 418,529 tonnes captured for value since inception. Education and behaviour-change programs have reached over 1.5 million people, and the Alliance engaged 559 organisations in 2025 to finance, develop, and implement projects.

Singapore – September 12, 2026 -- The Alliance to End Plastic Waste has valorized 418,529 tonnes of plastic waste and reduced unmanaged plastic waste by 378,147 tonnes since 2019, according to its 2025 progress report, Strategy in Action, released to mark the first year of its 2030 Strategy implementation.

In 2025 alone, the nonprofit cut unmanaged plastic waste by 138,162 tonnes and valorized 165,317 tonnes. Since inception, it has mobilized $641 million in funding commitments from third parties and impact investors, engaged 559 organizations in 2025 to fund and execute projects, and reached more than 1.5 million people through education and behavior-change initiatives.

Dubai – September 12, 2026 -- Flytxt has won a Bronze Stevie Award in the "Best AI-driven Product" category at the 23rd Annual International Business Awards for its agentic AI platform Niya-X.

Niya-X moves beyond task automation to autonomous decision-making

Unlike AI co-pilots that assist humans or task-oriented agents that automate workflows, Niya-X deploys domain-specific "AI Experts" capable of understanding business goals, formulating strategies, making decisions, coordinating actions and learning continuously from outcomes. The platform relies on causal learning and counterfactual modeling to simulate and evaluate alternative market scenarios before selecting the course of action most likely to achieve a desired result, while operating within defined corporate governance and data-privacy constraints.

Hong Kong – September 13, 2026 -- YIKEDATM, a premium tomato brand, unveiled cherry tomatoes with an exclusive traceability label at ASIA FRUIT LOGISTICA 2026, held September 2-4 at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. The launch marks the first international trade show debut of the traceability system, designed to address consumer food-safety concerns through visible quality management.

Buyers from multiple countries sought collaboration at YIKEDA's booth

International buyers converged on the YIKEDATM stand to discuss partnerships, with the brand's global expansion strategy drawing significant attention at the fair. YIKEDATM products are currently sold in Hong Kong and Macao and exported to the United States, Canada, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

New York – September 13, 2026 -- BRG has appointed Jamie LaGuardia-Frie as managing director in its Healthcare practice, tasking her with leading business development and client strategy for the firm's Healthcare Advisory team.

LaGuardia-Frie brings more than 20 years of healthcare consulting and technology experience

Based in New York, she joins after serving as managing director and chief commercial officer for Alvarez & Marsal's Health Industry Group. She spent nearly a decade at Guidehouse, holding roles including Health Growth Leader and East Regional Market Leader for Commercial Healthcare. Earlier in her career, she worked in consulting, business development and technology at Accretive Health and Allscripts.

Galway, Ireland – – September 13, 2026 -- Neurent Medical has secured a €25 million growth debt financing facility from Claret Capital Partners to accelerate commercial expansion of its NEUROMARK® System for chronic rhinitis treatment.

Debt facility follows €62.5 million Series C round completed earlier in 2026

The new €25 million facility builds on Neurent Medical's €62.5 million Series C financing round, which closed earlier this year. The combined capital reinforces the company's position in minimally invasive treatments for chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases.

Louisville, Ky. – September 13, 2026 -- Induction Therapies and Collagen P.I.N., in partnership with aesthetic physician Dr. Shino Bay Aguilera, released new clinical findings on a treatment protocol combining Collagen P.I.N. microneedling with PRX8, a plant-derived exosome serum, for melasma in a patient with Fitzpatrick skin type V.

Patient shows sustained improvement after four treatments over eight weeks

The case involved a woman with longstanding facial melasma who had previously used topical hydroquinone and tranexamic acid without full resolution. She underwent four Collagen P.I.N. treatments over an eight-week period, with TRUExosomes PRX8 Plant-Exo Stimulation Serum applied after each session and daily sunscreen maintained throughout.

Visible improvement in the appearance of melasma was observed across the treatment course and persisted at the two-week follow-up after the final treatment, with no adverse reactions reported.

Lexington, S.C. – September 13, 2026 -- ElectroWire Medical's FDA-cleared LightningWire Transseptal Puncture System has completed its first six clinical cases at Spartanburg Medical Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with zero complications reported.

Six procedures spanned mitral repair, LAA occlusion and pulsed field ablation

The case mix included one mitral valve repair, one left atrial appendage occlusion, and four pulsed field ablations, performed by structural interventional cardiologist Dr. Nalin Srivastava and cardiac electrophysiologist Dr. David Rodak. The team used four different transseptal introducers and two different electrosurgical generators during the cases, testing the device's compatibility with equipment already in operator inventories.