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Hilton Head Island, S.C. – September 23, 2026 -- FirstService Residential has secured a full-service property management contract for Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, expanding its footprint in the coastal luxury community sector.

Board Awards Contract After Lagoon Repair Project

FirstService Residential initially partnered with the Sea Crest board to manage a large lagoon reparation project. Based on that performance, the board decided to hire the firm for ongoing full-service management of the community.

Sea Crest Offers Oceanfront Amenities in Forest Beach District

Located in the Forest Beach area of Hilton Head, Sea Crest features two outdoor pools with ocean views, a fitness center with a therapy pool, a poolside restaurant and beach bar, and garden areas.

Portland, Ore. – September 23, 2026 -- Nearly half of all calls to US businesses -- 47% -- occur outside traditional Monday-to-Friday working hours, according to new call data from AnswerConnect covering 5,906,476 minutes of call logs between April and June 2026.

The finding indicates a widening gap between when companies operate and when customers actually try to reach them, with businesses that limit availability to standard hours risking missed leads, sales, and referrals to competitors who answer around the clock.

One customer converted four after-hours calls into roughly $200,000 in business

AnswerConnect reported that a single client generated approximately $200,000 in return from just four calls, illustrating how a small number of captured after-hours conversations can carry outsized commercial value.

Houston – September 23, 2026 -- PCS Software has launched PCS Advantage, a benefit program that pools the purchasing power of its entire customer base to secure enterprise-level pricing on fuel, lodging and driver recruiting for small and mid-sized carriers. Three benefits are live immediately for all active PCS customers, with additional categories in development.

Collective scale unlocks discounts previously reserved for the largest fleets

Negotiated national rate programs have historically required volume that individual mid-market operators could not reach on their own. PCS Software aggregates demand across its full customer community and negotiates contracts on that combined basis, then passes the terms back to each enrolled carrier regardless of fleet size.

Montreal – September 23, 2026 -- Seventy-seven percent of organizations experienced at least one Microsoft 365 governance incident in the past year, even as two-thirds now run multiple AI tools against the same tenant content, according to the second annual State of M365 report released by ShareGate.

Three-quarters of organizations report Microsoft 365 governance incidents in the past year

The survey of nearly 1,800 IT professionals and leaders across nine countries found 38% left former employees or guests with access they should have lost, 35% hit an audit or compliance gap, and 26% had sensitive content reach the wrong people. A fifth incident category -- users unable to find content -- was reported by 41% but excluded from the headline figure, which would otherwise reach 82%.

Los Angeles – September 23, 2026 -- Fashion Trust U.S. has appointed Dr. Omar Mir to its Board of Directors and named him the lead figure behind its 2027 Sustainability Award, the nonprofit fashion platform announced.

Mir takes charge of the nonprofit's sustainability honor for emerging U.S. designers

The Sustainability Award recognizes American designers advancing responsible luxury and ethical production. Tania Fares, Founder of Fashion Trust U.S., said Mir brings "a rare combination of global perspective, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine commitment to the next generation" to the role.

Prior award recipients include Batsheva Hay, Nana Kwame Adusei and AnOnlyChild designers

Laura Brown presented the inaugural 2024 award to Batsheva Hay of Batsheva. Kate Hudson handed the 2025 honor to Nana Kwame Adusei of Kwame Adusei, and Jodie Turner-Smith presented the 2026 award to Maxwell Osborne and Kristy Chen of AnOnlyChild.

Washington – September 23, 2026 -- Blue Star Families will host its 2026 Welcome Week from September 26 through October 4, mobilizing hundreds of events nationwide to support the more than 600,000 military-connected families who relocate annually. Presenting sponsor Target will anchor the effort alongside corporate partners including Macy's, Starbucks, CSX, Chobani, Mondelez International, Leonardo DRS, Morgan Stanley, T-Mobile and Amazon.

Target volunteers to assemble 1,000 pantry kits at each of two marquee events

The campaign will open aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego on September 28 and close at the Virginia Air & Space Science Center in Hampton, Virginia, on October 5. At both sites, hundreds of Target employee volunteers will assemble and distribute 1,000 pantry kits containing Target-owned brand food essentials for families who recently completed a permanent change of station move to the San Diego and Hampton Roads regions.

San Diego – September 23, 2026 -- Werfen has secured U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance and a CE Mark under the EU's IVDR for its Aptiva Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) IgA Reagent, completing a three-isotype APS testing portfolio on its Aptiva platform.

Aptiva now covers all three APS antibody isotypes for global laboratories

The clearance means Aptiva offers IgA, IgG, and IgM testing for both anti-cardiolipin (aCL) and anti-beta 2 glycoprotein 1 (aβ2GP1) antibodies, giving laboratories a full antibody profile for antiphospholipid syndrome, an autoimmune disease linked to thrombotic events and pregnancy complications that is often difficult to diagnose due to overlapping clinical symptoms.

Jacksonville, Florida – September 23, 2026 -- Theragen presented machine-learning findings at the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) 2026 Annual Forum showing that daily wear time of its ActaStim®-S bone growth stimulator predicts clinically meaningful pain improvement after spinal fusion surgery, with benefits plateauing around 13 hours of daily use.

Nearly 7,000 patients and 195,000 patient-days of data feed predictive model

The analysis drew on almost 7,000 patients and approximately 195,000 patient-day observations collected through ActaStim-S, a wearable electrical stimulation device paired with a digital health platform. A standardized device-to-electronic medical record pipeline achieved 99.2% data completeness across the dataset, according to Theragen.

NEW YORK – September 23, 2026 -- M&A litigation settlements in the Delaware Court of Chancery hit 25 in 2025, the highest count since 2012, yet aggregate settlement value collapsed to $326.6 million from an inflation-adjusted peak of $734.8 million in 2023, according to a Cornerstone Research report released today.

The median settlement fell to $10 million in 2025, the lowest figure recorded across the 14-year study period, which draws on a hand-collected sample of 143 settlements with known monetary amounts between 2012 and 2025.

Oceanside, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- LAMVIN, a Catalyst Acoustics Group brand, has launched Sonic Theater Board, a rigid, black sound-absorptive panel targeting reverberation control in commercial, educational, hospitality, and entertainment spaces.

Product ships in field-cuttable boards for renovation and new-build projects

The panels are offered in standard 4' x 8' boards, plus 2' x 2' and 2' x 4' tiles, and can be trimmed on site with a standard utility knife to fit virtually any ceiling grid. LAMVIN says the design targets faster installation timelines for contractors working across both retrofit and new construction jobs.

Tokyo – September 23, 2026 -- TOYO Co., Ltd (Nasdaq: TOYO; OTC: TOYWF) will host its 2026 Analyst Day via live webcast on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, starting at 10:30 AM ET and concluding around 12:00 PM ET.

TOYO to brief analysts on vertical integration strategy across the solar supply chain

Management will use the session to outline the Company's strategy, current market trends, and expansion plans. TOYO has positioned itself as a vertically integrated solar manufacturer, spanning upstream wafer and silicon production, midstream solar cell manufacturing, and downstream photovoltaic module output.

Provo, Utah – September 23, 2026 -- Qualtrics unveiled Healthcare XM, a new platform built on Press Ganey's proprietary data and what the company calls the world's largest human experiential dataset, aimed at helping health systems and health plans simulate care changes, predict patient behavior, and act on safety risks before they escalate.

Qualtrics builds Healthcare XM on Press Ganey data to close the industry's experience gap

The platform runs on the Qualtrics XM Data & AI Platform and combines decades of Press Ganey benchmarks, regulatory expertise, and predictive analytics. It covers five domains: patient experience across HCAHPS and CAHPS journeys, member experience including Medicare CAHPS and Stars ratings, workforce engagement and retention, safety and quality signals such as NDNQI and PSO data, and consumer and brand positioning.

West Chester, Pa. – September 23, 2026 -- Mole Street, an Elite HubSpot Solutions Partner, will exhibit at Booth 5 during the Digital Marketing for Financial Services Midwest Summit at the Hilton Chicago on September 22-23, presenting data from a new report co-authored with HubSpot based on a survey of 270 U.S. financial services leaders.

San Diego – September 23, 2026 -- CollegeSource CEO Kerry Cooper has been named a Best Global EdTech Leader Finalist in the 2026 Tech Edvocate Awards, recognizing more than five decades of work on transfer credit and degree-planning technology for higher education institutions.

Cooper has led CollegeSource since 2005 after joining the firm in 1973

Cooper's tenure spans the transition from printed college catalogs to cloud-based platforms and current AI-enabled tools used by registrars and academic advisors. CollegeSource serves more than 2,100 institutions and millions of students through its transfer and degree-completion products.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Juniper Square, which operates as the technology and fund administration partner for more than 2,300 private markets general partners (GPs) worldwide, has launched Capital Intelligence, a new CRM product that embeds Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens institutional data directly into GPs' existing investor relations workflows.

Product taps a database of 30,000+ institutional firms and 70,000+ mandates

Capital Intelligence is built on Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens, which covers more than 30,000 institutional firms, 70,000-plus mandates, and 100,000-plus investment professionals. The tool automatically refreshes investor and consultant records inside Juniper Square's CRM, combining structured relationship data with qualitative signals such as pacing plans, consultant sentiment, and allocation trends.

Atlanta – September 23, 2026 -- Altitude by Geotab has secured a four-year statewide contract with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), granting the agency full access to its commercial-vehicle data analytics suite for freight planning and infrastructure investment decisions.

TDOT gains full access to Altitude's commercial vehicle analytics portfolio

The agreement, procured through the Eastern Transportation Coalition (TETC), provides TDOT with origin-destination matrices, truck parking demand analytics, and corridor flow data specific to commercial freight movement across the state's highway network.

Toronto – September 23, 2026 -- Cardiol Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDL) (TSX: CRDL) has hit its 110-patient enrollment target for the pivotal Phase III MAVERIC trial ahead of its end-of-September guidance, and will now expand recruitment to as many as 150 patients.

Blinded review shows fewer recurrences than expected in pericarditis trial

A blinded review of patients randomized 1:1 to CardiolRxTM or placebo found a lower-than-anticipated rate of pericarditis recurrence, according to Cardiol. The MAVERIC Steering Committee recommended the enrollment increase to capture enough clinical events for a statistically robust efficacy read.

President and CEO David Elsley said the company is not aware of any change in routine clinical practice that would explain the reduced recurrence rate, calling the finding encouraging.

Quakertown, Pa. – September 23, 2026 -- DEXIS unveiled a coordinated set of upgrades spanning hardware, software, cloud and service offerings across its dental imaging ecosystem, unveiled during the company's ILLUMINATE virtual keynote.

NOMAD Pro 3 upgrades handheld X-ray hardware with improved image quality and durability

The new NOMAD Pro 3 builds on DEXIS' handheld X-ray system, adding enhanced image quality and durability while maintaining safety-first engineering standards. Separately, the ORTHOPANTOMOGRAPH OP 3D gains a Motion Correction feature that reduces the impact of patient movement on CBCT image clarity without requiring hardware changes.

Gaithersburg, Md. – September 23, 2026 -- DRB Group will launch two mortgage joint ventures in January 2027, pairing its DRB Homes and DRB Elevate 55+ brands with regional lending partners Acrisure Mortgage and Alta Home Lending.

DRB Group splits U.S. mortgage strategy into east-west joint ventures

The homebuilder will operate DRB Mortgage with Acrisure Mortgage across its eastern markets, while DRB Home Loans will serve western buyers through Alta Home Lending. Both platforms are scheduled to go live in January 2027, aligning financing with DRB's national homebuilding footprint.

Richmond Hill, ON – September 23, 2026 -- Edsby has launched Forms & Workflows, a digital approvals system designed to eliminate paper-based permission slips, medical disclosures and code of conduct sign-offs across K-12 school districts.

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board becomes first deployment partner

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, an Ontario district serving 34,000 students and an Edsby client since 2014, is among the first to roll out the new system, using it to digitize field trip permission processes. Owen McIntosh, the district's Information Technology Manager, said the board evaluated multiple vendors before selecting Edsby, citing the company's willingness to tailor the solution to the board's specific approval hierarchy.