Digital Transformation

Dublin – October 07, 2026 -- Devexperts, a financial technology provider whose platforms serve more than 20 million traders daily, has appointed Rainer Fuchsluger as Global Group Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.

Fuchsluger succeeds Ben Hurley ahead of company's 25th anniversary

The move follows the departure of Ben Hurley, who spent more than four years at Devexperts, including the past two as CEO. Fuchsluger takes the helm as the privately held company approaches its 25th anniversary in 2027, operating more than 800 employees across 10 offices worldwide and serving hundreds of capital markets clients.

Dublin – October 07, 2026 -- Beyond Now has launched an Agentic Revenue & Ecosystem Orchestration Platform aimed at helping Communications Service Providers (CSPs) capture a larger share of AI-driven revenue, citing industry data that CSPs have so far secured just 2% of AI revenue.

Platform targets fragmented revenue systems across telecom operators

The platform consolidates capabilities typically scattered across siloed IT and Business Support Systems (BSS) environments into a single commercial foundation. It features a headless architecture, shared catalog, single data model and centralized commercial rules, connecting customers, products, partners, pricing, orders and services for use by people, systems and AI agents.

Zoetermeer, Netherlands – October 07, 2026 -- ORTEC has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling (VRS), a report published July 17, 2026 by Gartner analysts Nathan Lease and Zee Zakaria.

Gartner Ties VRS Demand to Emissions Rules and Supply Chain Disruption

Gartner defines a VRS solution as an application that creates vehicle routes and schedules while minimizing fleet costs and mileage under multiple constraints. The research firm attributes continued market growth to supply chain disruptions, government emissions regulations and the expansion of delivery models.

Tokyo – October 07, 2026 -- NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS (NX Group) and Japan Airlines (JAL) have launched a transport partnership using a Boeing 747 freighter to serve surging demand for AI- and semiconductor-related cargo across intra-Asia and North America-Asia routes.

First flight departed Los Angeles on October 3, 2026

The 747F, secured by JAL through partner cooperation, flies a round-trip circuit from Los Angeles via Narita, Taipei (Taoyuan), Singapore and back to Narita before returning to Los Angeles. The service operates once weekly in 2026, with both companies planning further network expansion.

Milan – October 07, 2026 -- LG CNS is showcasing a pharma-specific manufacturing automation suite at CPHI Milan 2026, the world's largest pharmaceutical and biotech trade show, as the Korean AI transformation firm expands into drug-manufacturing technology. The company is the only Korean participant in CPHI's newly created "AI & Tech" zone this year, presenting its booth under the theme "Autonomous Factory in Pharma."

CPHI Milan draws 60,000 visitors and 3,000 exhibitors from 160 countries

The Milan event is CPHI's flagship show, held annually across global venues including the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and is considered the premier gathering for pharma and biotech manufacturing technology.

New Delhi – October 07, 2026 -- Fibocom unveiled its MGB Series GNSS portfolio at India Mobile Congress 2026, introducing three modules that range from cost-efficient single-frequency tracking to RTK-enabled positioning accurate to 1 cm + 1 ppm.

Three modules target different cost and accuracy tiers

The MGB180 and MGB280 handle mainstream single-frequency GNSS needs, supporting GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS with 96 tracking channels and integrated AGNSS. MGB180 is built for highly cost-sensitive tracking devices with compact, low-power design, while MGB280 adds faster startup, reacquisition and cellular coexistence for asset tracking, fleet management and vehicle telematics.

Austin, Texas – October 07, 2026 -- Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) unveiled a trio of developer initiatives at its seventh annual Works With Summit, including a public Beta AI SDK, an open-source Bluetooth LE community, and a new integration with Databricks aimed at scaling edge AI deployment across enterprise workflows.

Simplicity AI SDK enters public Beta with support for GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Codex

The Simplicity AI SDK gives developers structured access to Silicon Labs SDKs, tools, documentation, and connected hardware through AI coding assistants they already use. The first officially supported experience targets Bluetooth LE, covering project creation, building, flashing, debugging, network and power analysis, and hardware interaction.

Washington – October 07, 2026 -- U.S. News & World Report has made a strategic investment in Candid, an AI-powered engagement startup, to replace static resident surveys with real-time conversational feedback tools across senior living and post-acute care communities.

Candid's conversational platform achieves roughly 70 percent response rates, far outpacing traditional surveys

Candid uses interactive voice and text conversations to let residents, family members and employees provide feedback in their own words. The platform pairs quantitative metrics with qualitative sentiment analysis to flag recurring themes and emerging operational concerns. Across deployments spanning hundreds of U.S. senior living communities, this conversational format averages an approximate 70 percent response rate.

London – – October 07, 2026 -- Telstra has activated the Perth-Sydney route of its Aura Network, the longest segment yet in a next-generation fibre system designed to link Western Australia's resource and defence sectors to eastern cloud hubs and international subsea cables.

New route becomes part of a $1.8 billion national infrastructure build

The Perth-Sydney link forms part of Telstra's broader $1.8 billion investment in Australian digital infrastructure. With this addition, the Aura Network has now built 9,000km of a planned 14,000km total, with active routes already connecting Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.

Each path on the network is engineered to carry up to 35 times more fibre capacity than conventional fibre routes, built across two separate pathways: one dedicated to express traffic and another with regional on- and off-ramps for connectivity into regional Australia.

Seoul – – October 07, 2026 -- Amorepacific secured two Top 10 Podium Award honors at the IFSCC Congress 2026 in Perth, Australia, for research applying deep learning and real-time sensing to skin aging prediction and sensory quantification.

Deep learning models predict heat-accelerated skin aging and ingredient efficacy

Researcher Eun-Jeong Choi of Amorepacific's R&I Center presented a study titled "Skin Aging in the Era of Global Boiling: Deep Learning-Guided Transcriptomic Signatures of Heat-Accelerated Aging," building on more than 20 years of heat-aging research. The work integrated transcriptomic analysis with deep learning to forecast skin aging progression, identify ingredients that restore age-related damage, and confirm their efficacy. The study was named a Top 10 Podium Fundamental Research Award honoree.