Arlington, Va. – September 16, 2026 -- Azure DevOps leads the 2026 Application Lifecycle & Release Management Data Quadrant with a Composite Score of 8.9, based on verified end-user feedback compiled by Info-Tech Research Group through its SoftwareReviews platform.

Potomac Falls, Va. – – September 16, 2026 -- Destinations International (DI) will convene destination leaders, policymakers and industry partners on September 16, 2026, for its second global Virtual Advocacy Day, a one-day program running 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET aimed at helping tourism organizations counter funding cuts and shifting political support.

Redmond, Wash. – September 16, 2026 -- XKL LLC has begun global shipments of its MediaLight Xponder and Muxponder systems, a 1RU optical transport platform offering 100G and 400G capacity with zero recurring software licensing fees, the company announced. The systems started shipping to customers in August 2026, targeting enterprise, cloud, and regional service provider networks facing hardware lead times of 20 to 60-plus weeks industry-wide.

Orem, Utah – September 16, 2026 -- Agilix Labs said its BusyBee AI assistant has now graded 6 million K-12 student submissions, returning roughly 150,000 hours of grading time to teachers, with monthly volume already running near 1 million submissions and a seventh million expected within weeks.

Baton Rouge, La. – September 16, 2026 -- APTIM has been selected for a $145 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Multiple Award Contract with the US Department of the Navy to provide Architect-Engineer services for Petroleum, Oils, and Lubricants (POL) systems worldwide, with work scheduled through August 2031.

Paris – September 16, 2026 -- Cuprum Metals has won the Grand Prix Scale-Up Award at the World Materials Forum, recognizing technology designed to unlock copper from chalcopyrite ores that have historically constrained global supply.

Cuprum's technology targets copper locked in hard-to-process sulfide ores

The award, presented September 4 in Paris, singles out Cuprum's approach to copper recovery from primary and secondary sulfides, including chalcopyrite, a mineral form that has long limited extraction efficiency across the mining industry.

Chattanooga, Tenn. – September 16, 2026 -- Fenix24 has been named a Cool Vendor in the Gartner Coolest Vendor Innovations in Cyber Resilience report for its Argos99 Cyber Resilience and Recovery Intelligence Platform.

Toronto – September 15, 2026 -- Manulife has appointed Sarah Chapman as Global Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer, effective January 1, 2027, giving her oversight of brand, marketing and customer experience strategy for a company serving more than 37 million customers worldwide.

Baltimore -- T. Rowe Price, which manages $1.87 trillion in client assets as of July 31, 2026, is rolling out Anthropic's Claude across its investment organization, giving portfolio managers, analysts and developers direct access to the AI system for research and tool-building.

Global – September 15, 2026 -- G-P has been named a top technology leader in the inaugural 2026 HR Technology Advice EOR VendorFit Matrix, a report evaluating Employer of Record (EOR) vendors across global coverage, customer experience, technology integration and pricing transparency.

G-P operates 100+ wholly owned legal entities across 180+ countries

The company's infrastructure supports compliant hiring at scale, positioning it among the vendors with the broadest global operational footprint assessed in the report.