Plover, Wisconsin – October 12, 2026 -- Amazon has returned as a Gold Partner of the Women In Trucking Association (WIT) and has appointed Janelle Bubnes, senior regional transportation manager, to represent it on the WIT Board of Directors. Amazon first became a Gold Partner in 2019.

Bubnes joins WIT board to help set strategic direction

Bubnes will help guide the association's strategic direction and work alongside fellow board members on WIT's mission and initiatives.

Plover – – October 12, 2026 -- Bridgestone Americas has renewed its Gold Partnership with the Women In Trucking Association (WIT), extending a relationship that began with the company joining the association in 2021.

Bridgestone has backed WIT as a Gold Partner since 2023

Bridgestone has sponsored WIT's Accelerate! Conference & Expo since 2022. Megan Miller, the company's director of network & solutions development and deployment, sits on the WIT board of directors.

Plover – October 12, 2026 -- Perdue Transportation, Inc has become a Gold Partner of the Women In Trucking Association (WIT), a 7,700-member organization, and has secured a seat on the WIT Board of Directors for Carrie Johnson, its senior transportation director.

Perdue names senior transportation director to WIT board

Johnson will represent Perdue on the board. Under the partnership, Perdue will help advance initiatives covering professional growth, access to industry resources, professional connections and recognition of women at every career stage.

Tokyo – October 12, 2026 -- KDDI, NTT DOCOMO, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile signed a memorandum of understanding on September 11, 2026, to jointly study how 5G millimeter-wave base stations can serve customers across operator boundaries. The four carriers announced the agreement on September 16.

France -- NTT, Inc. signed a Memorandum of Understanding on September 17, 2026, with France-based photonics company Cailabs to explore direct optical links between satellite networks and terrestrial data infrastructure.

Valley View – October 12, 2026 -- Peak Nano and E&P Technologies have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop high-energy-density capacitors built on Peak Nano's NanoPlex HDC dielectric film, targeting fusion drivers, aerospace and aviation systems with million-shot duty cycles.

Valley View – October 12, 2026 -- Peak Nano and Advanced Conversion, a wholly owned subsidiary of ETI of Clearwater, Florida, have formed a partnership to co-develop DC-link capacitors for 800V+ e-mobility, with initial product releases slated for late 2026.

Engineering teams from both companies are already developing joint products. The partnership is structured for long-term co-development across passenger EVs, commercial vehicles, off-highway platforms, electrified aviation and DC fast-charging infrastructure.

Toronto – October 12, 2026 -- Profound Medical Corp. (NASDAQ:PROF; TSX:PRN) has signed a co-education agreement with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX:TLX; NASDAQ:TLX), giving it wider access to urologists in the U.S. and internationally through a strategic partner in prostate cancer imaging.

Oslo – October 11, 2026 -- TGS and Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) have agreed to jointly invest in research and development of next-generation seismic imaging technology, the companies announced.

Partners target eFWI and machine learning workflows

The R&D effort covers key technical domains including Elastic Full Waveform Inversion (eFWI) and machine learning–driven workflows. The work will draw on TGS' Imaging AnyWare platform and Chevron's proprietary algorithms.

New York – October 11, 2026 -- CLEAR (NYSE: YOU) has integrated its CLEAR1 secure identity platform with Amazon Web Services' Amazon Connect, allowing contact centers to verify a caller's identity before or during a support interaction.

The integration targets fraud, impersonation and high-friction verification, which the company identifies as weak points in contact center support. Organizations can place identity checks earlier in the support journey, before the customer speaks with an agent.