Digital Transformation

New York – October 15, 2026 -- CorelDRAW Graphics Suite's September 2026 Update makes its PowerTRACE bitmap-to-vector tool up to four times faster and adds Text-to-vector AI, a combination Better Business Advice has singled out for apparel and sign-making production workflows.

Text-to-vector AI generates editable graphics from prompts or existing artwork

The headline feature is available through the AI Generate docker or inspector. It creates editable, scalable vector graphics from text prompts or existing artwork, so the output is not a flattened image. Generated graphics can be refined inside CorelDRAW and placed into larger projects.

Three visual styles are named: Line art, Comic book and Icon. Results follow the document's color mode, which matters when artwork is prepared for specific production requirements.

Madrid – October 15, 2026 -- Iberdrola, BBVA and Santander have arranged a €150 million syndicated loan whose entire lifecycle is administered on distributed ledger technology (DLT), the first live syndicated facility to be run that way.

Platform handles every stage from execution to maturity

The facility covers execution, disbursement, interest, waivers, repayments, assignments and maturity on a single blockchain-based platform. ioBuilders developed the platform together with BBVA and Santander. Gómez-Acebo & Pombo acted as legal advisers.

The platform also manages interest calculation and notification, principal and fee payments, early repayments, monitoring of financial covenants and information undertakings, certain contractual consents, and transfers of participations between lenders. Authorised participants see all events in real time. The agent bank retains operational control of the financing.

Redmond – October 15, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com released ezW2 2026, tax software that starts at $119.00 per single installation for the E-File version and $69.00 for the Print-and-Mail edition, ahead of the 2027 tax season.

Both editions support unlimited forms for unlimited companies. The software covers W-2, W-3, 1099-NEC and 1096 preparation.

Direct in-app filing removes the need for agency accounts

The recommended filing path transmits W-2/W-3 data to the Social Security Administration (SSA) and 1099-NEC/1096 forms to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from inside the application. Users do not need an IRS Transmitter Control Code (TCC) or SSA registration, so they skip those application processes.

Submissions run through Halfpricesoft's authorized systems. The company says users get real-time status updates and error monitoring.

Italy – October 15, 2026 -- Anatomage has added two obesity reference bodies, Class I (BMI 30–34.9) and Class III (BMI above 40), to its Anatomage Table software. Eligible tables receive the update at no additional cost.

Obesity models target a condition affecting one in eight people worldwide

The models follow WHO and CDC classifications and are described as one of the first full-body, interactive 3D resources for studying clinical obesity. They show external changes such as skin folds, stretch marks and increased subcutaneous and visceral fat, which can displace and compress organs. Internal changes include muscle hypertrophy, myosteatosis, liver changes linked to MASLD and ovarian changes linked to PMOS.

Sydney – October 15, 2026 -- Integrated Research (ASX: IRI) has launched Clarion, its first standalone SaaS product, giving employees and IT teams a shared real-time view of what is degrading calls and meetings. The product is available from 15 October 2026 with a 30-day free trial.

Clarion runs on Iris, IR's new AI-powered platform. It targets organizations with remote, hybrid and contact center workforces, where IT often cannot see what an employee experiences during a failed call. The tool is built to tell users whether a problem lies with their own setup or with the communications platform.

Desktop widget and fleet dashboards combine device, network and platform signals

Employees get a lightweight desktop widget that explains in plain language what is affecting their calls, plus a pre-call health check. Weak Wi-Fi or poor headset connectivity, for example, can be spotted and fixed without contacting IT.

Groenlo – October 15, 2026 -- Nedap grew third-quarter 2026 revenue by 7% year on year, with its four key markets up 9% and year-to-date key-market growth at 12%. Recurring revenue rose 17% in the first nine months of 2026 and made up 42% of total revenue for the period.

Recurring revenue grew faster than total revenue and increased in all four key markets in the quarter. CEO Rob Schuurman said the company remains on track with its Step Up! strategy.

Livestock revenue falls on delivery timing and subscription shift

Livestock revenue declined against a strong third quarter of 2025. Nedap attributes the drop mainly to delivery timing and a further move toward subscription-based offerings. Recurring revenue in the unit rose as adoption of as-a-service offerings grew, and the installed base expanded across multiple regions.

Beijing – October 15, 2026 -- Huawei projects that the number of AI agents worldwide could reach 900 billion by 2035, roughly 100 times the global population, and argues that mobile core networks must be rebuilt to handle them.

The projection comes from Huawei's Intelligent World 2035 report. The company says core network architecture must be able to support long-term growth in new connections and services. It describes the shift as a move from transporting data bits to enabling task-oriented tokens, with agentic services becoming typical mobile network scenarios as AI terminals and applications spread.

Huawei defines three agentic service scenarios for experience assurance

Agent Over New Radio (AoNR) targets task latency. Portable AI devices are limited by computing power, battery capacity, size, and cost, so end-to-end task latency must stay below demanding thresholds.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Revinate has launched what it calls hospitality's first data activation platform, built on 1.25 billion guest profiles, with the global release of Revinate Pathways, Revinate Vault and a new version of Revinate Chat. The company says 60% of its customers report an ROI of 20X or more on the platform.

The launch targets a gap between AI adoption and results. In h2c's AI Opportunity Study 2026, 91% of hotel chains said they use AI, but only 13% reported a measurable return so far. Revinate says the releases advance its move into the enterprise segment, where major hotel brands are already customers.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Medeo, the AI video platform built by One2X, has expanded into a Creative OS that covers four stages in one system: trend discovery, video creation, distribution and monetization through a built-in creator marketplace.

The company targets a fragmented production chain. Creators typically use separate products for research, generation or editing, social media management and publishing, and monetization. Each handoff adds time in a media environment where trends can lose relevance within days.

Four-stage workflow keeps video inside one platform

Medeo surfaces trends and cultural moments for discovery. Users then describe the video they want in natural conversation, and the AI video agent manages production stages from concept to final edit. Finished videos publish directly to social platforms without file exports to a separate tool. The creator marketplace connects creators with paid opportunities.

New York – October 15, 2026 -- TEN Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: XHLD) will present at the LD Micro 20th Annual Main Event on October 15, 2026, at 11:00 AM PT, with CEO Virgilio Torres leading the session in Track 3 at the Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel in Los Angeles.

Torres to meet investors throughout the three-day conference

Torres will hold investor meetings for the duration of the event. He said the conference gives the company a way to speak directly with potential investors about its strategic vision as it expands its technology footprint and executes growth initiatives.

LD Micro event brings more than 100 public companies to Los Angeles

The conference runs October 19-21, 2026. Registration opens at 2:00 PM PT on Monday, October 19, followed by keynote programming and an opening networking reception.