Las Vegas – October 13, 2026 -- oneworld has relaunched its dedicated Meetings & Events product, giving event planners preferential fares across the alliance's 15 member airlines and access to a network serving nearly 1,000 destinations.

Santa Barbara – October 13, 2026 -- Rona Therapeutics will receive up to $100 million in upfront and near-term milestone payments from Roche under an exclusive worldwide license for its investigational RNAi candidate targeting activin receptor-like kinase 7 (ALK7), with potential for a further $1.06 billion in milestones.

Stockholm – October 13, 2026 -- Sinch AB has added Rich Communication Services (RCS) to its native integration with SAP Engagement Cloud, giving businesses on the platform a seventh messaging channel alongside SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, LINE, Viber and KakaoTalk.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has appointed Frieda He as Chief Procurement Officer, placing a executive who oversaw more than $3 billion in annual global spend at Polestar in charge of its global procurement organization.

He will focus on strengthening supply chain resilience, enabling growth, optimizing cost and value, and driving supplier quality. Her remit covers Vertiv's portfolio of end-to-end power and thermal management solutions for data centers, communications networks, and commercial and industrial applications.

Singapore – October 12, 2026 -- NEU Battery Materials has closed an oversubscribed US$7.6 million funding round to scale the recovery of battery-grade lithium from lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, following the commissioning of its 1,300-ton-per-year Singapore factory.

PUNE – – October 12, 2026 -- The global robotics market will grow from USD 92 billion in 2025 to USD 480.1 billion by 2034, a compound annual growth rate of 20.15% over 2026–2034, according to a new analysis by Maximize Market Research.

Seoul – – October 12, 2026 -- Arirang TV will put 20 Korean small and medium-sized sports enterprises in front of 169 million households in 140 countries when it premieres "K-Sports Beyond" on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 9 a.m. KST.

The program was built to support the overseas expansion of the 20 companies amid the global K-culture boom. It covers sports safety equipment, recovery solutions, AI-powered motion analysis and health management, smart fitness, taekwondo IT convergence and screen sports, along with functional sportswear.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Wiwynn unveiled a 6kW double-sided cold plate that it says cuts power delivery loss by up to 80%, alongside AI rack platforms for NVIDIA and AMD and a co-packaged optics (CPO) rack, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose.

Pittsburgh – October 12, 2026 -- STERIS, a roughly $6 billion-revenue infection prevention provider with 18,000 Associates, has agreed to acquire Pittsburgh-area surgical safety specialist Xodus Medical, adding a portfolio of operating room consumables.

Financial terms were not disclosed in the announcement.

Paris – October 12, 2026 -- Geely Auto Group's three brands sold more than 10,000 vehicles in Europe in September 2026, the first time their combined monthly figure has crossed that threshold. The group disclosed the number as it made its first group-level appearance at the Paris Motor Show, where Geely Auto, Lynk & Co and Zeekr share a stand at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles.