Business & Professional Services

Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County Partners With Wesco To Strengthen Educational, Home Preservation Programs

October 7, 2026 11:30 AM

Habitat for Humanity Greater Orlando & Osceola County is proud to continue its partnership with Wesco to help strengthen its educational and home preservation programs. Wesco, a leading global supply chain solutions provider with a distribution center, warehouses and sales offices in Orlando, will generously support the continued delivery and enhancement of Habitat Orlando & Osceola's home preservation, financial education, and housing...

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Sound Money Defense League's Jp Cortez to Speak at New Orleans Investment Conference

October 7, 2026 11:25 AM

Sound Money Defense League Executive Director Jp Cortez will speak at the 52nd annual New Orleans Investment Conference, October 28-31, 2026, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. This globally renowned conference will feature many of the world's top investors, geopolitical analysts, and sound money policy experts. The title of Jp's talk is "What Has Government Done to Our Money? (And What We Can Do About It)." He will trace the undermining of...

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Good Intentions Don't Count; Measured Plastic Does

October 7, 2026 10:35 AM

The economics of plastic have turned recycling from an act of corporate responsibility into a financial imperative. SMX sits at the center of that shift, providing the authentication and traceability technology that allows recycled plastic to function as a trusted industrial material. With war, volatile oil prices, inflation, supply-chain pressures, higher diesel and transportation costs, tariffs and the threat of plastic taxes driving up the...

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Turning Ocean Data Into Impact: How AI, Trusted Data, and Partnerships Can Help Accelerate Sustainability

October 7, 2026 10:35 AM

Cisco Every day, thousands of data points are collected across our oceans - measuring temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide concentrations, and biodiversity. These insights are essential for understanding a changing climate. But collecting data is only the first step. The real challenge is transforming data into decisions - and decisions into meaningful, measurable actions. That challenge came to life for my Cisco colleagues and I during our...

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Now Book It Makes a Series A Investment of $5M in Apero, an AI-Powered Restaurant Reservation Platform Built for Québec

October 7, 2026 10:35 AM

Now Book It, a restaurant reservation technology company within Valsoft Corporation Inc. ("Valsoft"), today announced a Series A investment of $5M in Apero, an AI-powered restaurant reservation platform designed specifically for the Québec hospitality market. The investment is part of the Valsoft Venture Program initiative, which supports the development of new AI software businesses within the Valsoft ecosystem. Built for Québec restaurants,...

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ESG Symposium 2026 Unites ASEAN Efforts, Moving from Proposals to Real Action: Building on Three Key Agendas Toward 4P Collaboration That Links Policy, Business and Communities to Drive a Tangible and Scalable Transition

October 7, 2026 10:30 AM

ESG Symposium 2026 is advancing from a forum for dialogue to regional-level action. Under the theme "ASEAN in Action: Powering Inclusive Green Transition," the Symposium builds on last year's proposals to advance three key agendas: Energy Transition, Just Transition and Climate Adaptation. It also links these agendas with Public-Private-People Partnership (4P) collaboration, in order to move approaches from the policy level to implementation in...

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Venar Ayar Selected to 2026 Michigan Super Lawyers List for Tax Law

October 7, 2026 10:30 AM

Venar Ayar, founder of the tax law firm Ayar Law, has been selected to the 2026 Michigan Super Lawyers list for Tax Law. The honor follows many years on the Super Lawyers Rising Stars list. Super Lawyers rates outstanding attorneys through a selection process that combines independent research, peer nominations, and peer evaluations. No more than five percent of lawyers in each state are named to the Super Lawyers list. Venar Ayar's practice is...

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NEXTAFF Announces New Osceola County Healthcare Staffing Office

October 7, 2026 10:15 AM

NEXTAFF, a leading provider of staffing solutions, has announced the opening of NEXTAFF of Osceola County - Healthcare, a locally owned and operated healthcare staffing agency serving healthcare organizations throughout Osceola County and Central Florida, as well as clients nationwide. The new office is owned and operated by experienced business and operations leader Michael Grant. Grant brings more than a decade of experience in operational...

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Transcend Joins The Hack Factory to Accelerate Next Phase of Growth

October 7, 2026 10:00 AM

Transcend, the company building auditable AI systems for peace, national security, and geopolitical risk decision-making, today announced that it is joining the Hack Factory, the Reston Town Center start-up studio and growth lab funded by longtime technology entrepreneur Matt Devost. The move places Transcend inside a curated community of founders, operators, and investors working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, national...

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Leidos Australia Recognised As MRO Business of the Year at the Australian Aviation Awards

October 7, 2026 9:35 AM

Leidos Australia is proud to announce that its Mission Equipment Service Centre (MESC) has been recognised as MRO Business of the Year at the 2026 Australian Aviation Awards. The award highlights the critical role the MESC plays in supporting the availability, reliability and performance of airborne mission systems used in national security, emergency response and defence operations across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Cairns,...

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Net Impact Launches Impact Career Fellows, Championing Emerging Impact-Driven Leaders

October 7, 2026 9:30 AM

Net Impact, the nation's largest and longest-running network of globally connected and locally activated students and professionals bringing analytical and strategic thinking to drive impact, today announced the launch of the Impact Career Fellows, a new recognition and mentorship opportunity designed to support the next generation of impact-oriented business leaders. This year, two emerging leaders will receive direct access to expert...

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Clear Capital Closes a Longstanding Industry Blind Spot by Bringing Image-Derived Property Insights Directly into ClearAVM

October 7, 2026 9:00 AM

Clear Capital, the national real estate analytics, data solutions, and valuation technology company, today announced a transformation to ClearAVM™, its lending-grade automated valuation model (AVM), that incorporates available condition and quality insights into its market analysis delivering more accurate automated valuations, enabling access to further actionable, underwriting-ready values. Understanding qualitative property information, such...

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Steelcase 2025 Impact Report Highlights Progress in Reducing Emissions and Strengthening Communities

October 7, 2026 9:00 AM

Steelcase, a global design and thought leader in the world of work, today released its 2025 Impact Report, "Our Work Toward Better Futures." Steelcase recorded reductions in scope 1 and 2 emissions by 33% from its 2019 baseline and activated 324 Better Futures Community partnerships across 38 locations. The report details how Steelcase members, customers and partners are helping communities thrive and moving the organization closer to net zero....

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Inaugural NatSec + Space Innovation Summit Converges Military Innovation Units, National Labs, Universities, Investors and Industry with Veteran Founders

October 7, 2026 8:00 AM

VetsinTech, in partnership with The Bay Area Council and its network of more than 350 member companies, will host the NatSec + Space Innovation Summit (NSSIS), a two-day convening at the intersection of national security, space innovation, and veteran talent. No region is better positioned to lead this work than the Bay Area. This is where the world's frontier AI companies, NASA Ames, and the Defense Innovation Unit converge with research...

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INFUSE Named an OpenAI Select Partner

October 7, 2026 8:00 AM

INFUSE, a global leader in full-funnel demand generation, today announced that it has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network. The OpenAI Partner Network is a global program for partners to build, sell, and deliver AI solutions with OpenAI. It brings together partners with deep industry expertise, delivery capabilities, and customer relationships while equipping them with resources, enablement, and support to help...

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Luce di Monti to Introduce First Collections on 1 November 2026

October 7, 2026 7:25 AM

Luce di Monti will introduce its first three collections on 1 November 2026. Each piece is made in 18K gold vermeil and set by hand with a ZEVERRA™ stone, and is accompanied by a certificate identifying the individual stone it contains. The ZEVERRA™ stone is grown over a period of weeks and cut by hand. It carries a refractive index of 2.65, compared with 2.42 for diamond, and a dispersion of 0.104 compared with 0.044, returning more than twice...

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New Research by LLM Scout Reveals ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity Disagree on Brand Mentions in More Than One in Four Evaluation Queries

October 7, 2026 7:20 AM

New industry research released today by London-based AI consultant Frank Vitetta reveals that major conversational AI assistants frequently return conflicting brand recommendations for identical commercial evaluation prompts. When ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity were evaluated using 749 identical product-selection questions-extracted from a dataset of nearly 27,000 AI answers logged by LLM Scout over a nine-month period-the platforms...

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G&A Institute Shares Key Updates From the SBTi's Corporate Net-Zero Standard 2.0 Release

October 7, 2026 2:45 AM

Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A), a leading sustainability consulting and research firm, has published a new resource to support companies in understanding key changes to the Science Based Targets initiative's (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard and how they can prepare for future target setting. The paper, "There's a New Way to Set Science-Based Targets: Using the Corporate Net-Zero Standard 2.0," is available here. "As clients...

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Alset AI Provides Update on Shares for Debt Transaction

October 6, 2026 4:30 PM

Alset AI Ventures Inc. (TSXV:GPUS)(OTC:GPUSF)(FSE:1R61, WKN:A428RQ) ("AlsetAI" or the "Company"), announces that, further to its news release dated September 21, 2026, it will be settling its previously announced debt settlements (the "Debt Settlement"), by issuing an aggregate of 2,763,134 common shares (the "Shares") at a price of $0.185 per Share. The Debt Settlement remains subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Shares...

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If It Glitters, is it Gold? SMX has the proof

October 6, 2026 3:00 PM

As gold surges toward new highs and investors seek refuge in assets they can physically own, SMX is giving the world's most enduring store of value something it has never had: a persistent digital identity embedded directly into the metal. Through its molecular marking technology and trueGold platform, SMX can mark gold at the molecular level, creating an invisible, tamper-resistant identity designed to remain with the material through refining,...

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