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Zurich – September 10, 2026 -- BEYOND Hospitality, the Official Hospitality provider for UEFA EURO 2028TM, has appointed CSTS Hospitality as its exclusive Sales Agent for Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, opening a direct commercial channel into six key Asian markets ahead of the tournament.

Official hospitality sales open in September 2026 across six markets

UEFA EURO 2028TM runs from 9 June to 9 July 2028, featuring 24 national teams across 51 matches in nine venues across England, Wales, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. Official Hospitality Packages, available exclusively through BEYOND Hospitality and its appointed agents, go on sale in September 2026, with prices starting at £900 per person excluding VAT.

New York – September 10, 2026 -- Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund (NYSE: BPRE) has lifted its distribution rate to 7.0% of net asset value as of June 2026, up from 5.25% at its December 2025 listing, following four separate increases in six months.

Fund schedules October 6 webinar to detail capital rotation progress

BPRE will host a semi-annual progress report webinar on October 6, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. ET titled "BPRE Strategic Roadmap: A Progress Report." Chief Investment Officer Ryan MacDonald and Head of Listed Products Steven Baffico will present updates on the Fund's two-pillar strategy: shifting capital out of legacy core+ institutional real estate holdings into specialty direct property investments, and sustaining distribution growth.

Fairfax, Va. – September 10, 2026 -- CoAspire has appointed Brigadier General (Ret.) Jason L. Hawk as Executive Vice President, adding a former Pentagon capability-development chief who oversaw roughly $200 billion in Air Force RDT&E and procurement decisions across three programming cycles.

Hawk led Air Force Futures capability development before retiring in August 2025

Hawk retired from the U.S. Air Force in August 2025 after serving as Deputy Director, Capability Development, Air Force Futures, at Headquarters U.S. Air Force. In that post he directed capability development and Joint integration across next-generation airpower, weapons and sensors, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence, command and control, space and cyber, base defense, and mobility portfolios. His work touched modernization efforts for Next Generation Air Dominance, Collaborative Combat Aircraft, C3BM, and B-21.

Irvine, California – September 10, 2026 -- PeproMene Bio, Inc. reported that seven of nine patients (80%) treated with its BAFF-R-targeted CAR-T therapy PMB-CT01 achieved complete remission in a Phase 1 trial, with results now published in The Lancet.

All complete responses remained relapse-free at data cutoff, with the longest sustained remission reaching 35 months

Four of six patients who had previously progressed after conventional CD19-directed CAR-T therapy also achieved complete response under the new BAFF-R approach, described in the study as "CAR after CAR" treatment. No relapses were observed among any of the seven complete responders as of the data cutoff.

Almaty – September 10, 2026 -- The Bulat Utemuratov Foundation has allocated 460 million tenge (approximately US$1 million) to fund the gasification of private residential homes in Almaty, partnering with the city's Akimat (Mayor's Office) on the project.

Foundation funding targets coal-to-gas conversion for private homes

Under a newly signed memorandum, the Almaty City Akimat will inspect private residences, consult with residents on connection procedures and coordinate the transition to natural gas heating. Qualified contractors will then carry out the construction and installation work required to connect each home to the gas network.

Pembroke Pines, Fla. – September 10, 2026 -- Alocity, the AI Operating System for physical spaces, has announced support for Mercury Security's open access control platform, integrating Mercury's controller infrastructure with Alocity's cloud-native access control, AI Video, intercom, and visitor management software.

Alocity pairs Mercury's open hardware with its AI operator Aimee

The integration lets integrators and enterprise customers combine Mercury's established access control foundation with Alocity's AI-driven software layer, avoiding a choice between legacy infrastructure and modern cloud tools. Marco Quintero, Founder and CEO of Alocity, said Mercury represents the open infrastructure and customer choice the physical security industry needs, and that Alocity can now pair that foundation with a new generation of AI-driven software.

Beijing – September 10, 2026 -- Waterdrop Inc. (NYSE: WDH) reported second-quarter 2026 net operating revenue of RMB1,448.2 million (US$213.4 million), up 72.8% year-over-year and 16.6% quarter-over-quarter, as the Beijing-based insurance and healthcare technology platform scaled its AI-driven underwriting tools. Operating profit rose 14.3% year-over-year and 39.2% sequentially to RMB111.3 million (US$16.4 million).

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- Gamehaus Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: GMHS) reported fiscal year 2026 revenue of US$104.7 million, an 11.4% decline from US$118.0 million in fiscal year 2025, as the mobile game publisher scaled back user acquisition spending amid what it called structural shifts in casual-game economics.

Fourth-quarter revenue drops 20.8% as advertising spend is cut

Total revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 fell to US$24.3 million from US$30.7 million a year earlier. In-app purchases contributed US$21.7 million, down 22.2% from US$27.9 million, while advertising revenue slipped to US$2.6 million from US$2.8 million. Advertising costs were cut 13.5% in the quarter, reducing traffic and new player acquisition.

Redmond, Wash. – September 10, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has updated its ezAccounting payroll and business software, offering small businesses a desktop-based alternative to cloud subscription platforms with a flat annual fee of $199.00 per installation.

Small businesses face rising costs from forced monthly cloud subscriptions

Accounting platforms have increasingly shifted toward mandatory monthly fees and remote server storage, squeezing small business owners, contractors, and bookkeepers with escalating overhead and data privacy concerns. Halfpricesoft.com positions ezAccounting as a response, storing financial data on local hard drives without mandatory cloud sync.

Hsinchu – September 10, 2026 -- Spirox Corporation (TWSE: 3055) has launched the SP7000G High-Speed TGV Crack Inspection System, a tool capable of scanning a full 510 mm x 515 mm glass substrate panel in under 20 minutes to detect internal microcracks in high-volume Glass Core and Through Glass Via (TGV) manufacturing.

New system targets microcrack detection after critical build-up processes

The SP7000G is designed to identify internal microcracks that emerge after metallization and Ajinomoto Build-up Film (ABF) processes, key stages in advanced packaging production. Spirox positions the system to improve inspection efficiency, monitor process quality and defect distribution, and optimize manufacturing yield as TGV technology scales toward high-volume output.

San Francisco – September 10, 2026 -- Eliza, an AI-native consulting firm, has appointed Lori Borg as Chief Operating Officer as the company expands its partnership with OpenAI and scales enterprise AI deployment work.

Borg brings two decades of Microsoft ecosystem experience to Eliza's leadership team

Borg founded and served as CEO of Northwest Cadence, a Microsoft partner focused on DevOps, software development, data, and AI. The company was acquired by 10th Magnitude in 2018, which was later acquired by Cognizant. She subsequently served as Cognizant's Global Head of the Microsoft Alliance, led MCA Connect's Azure, data, and AI business, and most recently held the role of Microsoft's Vice President of Go-to-Market for Americas Enterprise Partner Sales.

Shanghai – September 10, 2026 -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has graduated Karmada, an open source engine that coordinates applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters, clouds, and regions without requiring changes to the applications themselves. The milestone was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026, where three foundations shared a single stage in China for the first time.

Karmada v1.19 advances scheduling for distributed AI training workloads

The release adds multi-component scheduling for distributed AI training jobs and promotes priority-based scheduling to Beta status, enabled by default, ensuring critical workloads are scheduled ahead of lower-priority tasks. Short for Kubernetes Armada, the project extends the standard Kubernetes API with centralized placement, propagation, failover, and multi-cluster autoscaling.

Frankfurt am Main – September 10, 2026 -- Germany has a realistic chance of restoring potential economic growth to more than 1% annually over the coming decade, according to a new KfW Research study, up from a rate that has slipped to barely above zero after standing near 2% in 2015.

KfW ties growth recovery to labor, capital and productivity gains

The study, titled "Standort Zukunft. Wie Deutschland zu neuer Stärke und Wachstum findet," identifies productivity as the most critical lever for reversing more than a decade of stagnation. KfW CEO Stefan Wintels and Chief Economist Dirk Schumacher presented the findings alongside a twelve-point policy paper in Frankfurt.

Aachen – September 10, 2026 -- FEV Consulting has been included in the World's Best Management Consulting Firms 2026 list, published jointly by Forbes and Statista, marking a repeat recognition following its 2022 and 2023 appearances on the global ranking.

FEV Consulting secures back-to-back Forbes-Statista recognitions in 2026

The Aachen-based firm was also named to the America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2026 list earlier this year, adding to its 2022 and 2023 inclusions in the global Forbes ranking. The consultancy positions the latest listing as confirmation of its sustained standing as an internationally recognized management advisory firm.

Berlin – September 10, 2026 -- German Cancer Aid (Deutsche Krebshilfe) collected roughly 4.6 million euros in donations during a televised charity quiz special broadcast on public broadcaster ZDF.

Celebrity contestants earn 80,000 euros in quiz duels against subject experts

Actors Moritz Bleibtreu and Henning Baum, alongside model Franziska Knuppe, competed on "Der Quiz-Champion - Das Spenden-Special," hosted by Johannes B. Kerner, against five specialists: Anna Thalbach, Johann Lafer, Felix Neureuther, Elton and Katrin Bauerfeind. The three celebrities' combined quiz performance generated 80,000 euros for German Cancer Aid.

Pune, India – September 10, 2026 -- QKS Group has positioned Raynet as a Leader in its SPARK MatrixTM: Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), 2026, citing the vendor's integration of device management with deeper technology asset intelligence.

QKS Group ranks Raynet among top UEM vendors for technology and customer impact

The SPARK MatrixTM evaluates UEM vendors on technology excellence and customer impact, benchmarking platforms that manage laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, rugged devices, kiosks, and other enterprise endpoints from a single console. Sofia Ali, Associate Director and Principal Analyst at QKS Group, said Raynet's differentiation stems from linking device management, software lifecycle data, patching, and vulnerability visibility rather than treating them as separate functions.

York, Pa. – September 10, 2026 -- Air Dynamics Industrial Systems Corporation is pushing manufacturers to recover energy already generated inside their facilities rather than purchasing new equipment to boost efficiency.

Company shifts focus from single exhaust stacks to full facility energy flow

"We don't want to look at one exhaust stack or one piece of equipment in isolation," said Dan Lehman, President of Air Dynamics Industrial Systems Corporation. The engineering firm evaluates heated exhaust air, process air, equipment heat, hot process streams, compressed-air systems and ventilation as potential recovery sources.

Frankfurt – September 10, 2026 -- The German agricultural industry association IVA has dismissed a new study by the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) claiming more than 400 million pesticide-related poisoning cases occur globally each year, calling the figure scientifically indefensible.

IVA says PAN conflates exposure with confirmed poisoning

The Industrieverband Agrar e.V. (IVA) argues the PAN study fails to define what qualifies as a poisoning, relying heavily on self-reported symptoms rather than medically confirmed diagnoses. According to IVA, this methodological gap means exposure and actual poisoning are not properly separated, inflating the headline figure. A previous PAN study on global poisoning cases was withdrawn after similar criticism of its methodology and data sources.

Bönen – September 10, 2026 -- Tengelmann Energie Renewables (TER) has nearly doubled the photovoltaic capacity at KiK's European headquarters in Bönen with a second solar installation delivering 89.2 kWp, financed and operated under an on-site power purchase agreement (PPA).

Second PV plant adds 89.2 kWp of capacity on KiK's office building

The new installation comprises roughly 200 solar modules mounted on Office Building 2 at KiK's headquarters. More than 70% of the electricity generated flows directly into the retailer's own consumption for logistics and administrative operations under a long-term supply agreement.

Guangzhou – September 10, 2026 -- GAC's overseas exports of proprietary brands hit 26,978 units in August, up 177% year-on-year, as the Chinese automaker's cumulative exports from January to August reached 172,008 units, a 136% YoY increase. GAC's total exports to date have approached 600,000 units.

Africa emerges as GAC's fastest-growing market with 881% YoY retail sales surge

August retail sales in Africa soared 881% year-on-year, making it GAC's fastest-growing overseas market this month. GAC International signed a localized production agreement in Egypt with Jameel Motors and officially entered Ghana, introducing a model lineup that includes the S7, GS8, and AION V.