New York – October 16, 2026 -- Corporate travel manager ALTOUR has unveiled ALTOUR iQ, an in-house conversational AI platform that lets travel managers query program data in plain language, with broader market availability planned for Q1 2027.

The platform is in a phased commercial rollout following its debut at Business Travel Show America 2026. ALTOUR iQ was an Innovation Faceoff finalist at the show. Haley Rossow, ALTOUR's Senior Director of Global Business Intelligence, presented it on October 14 in New York.

Orlando – October 16, 2026 -- Newsweek's America's Best Nursing Homes 2027 list ranked Solaris Healthcare East Orlando #19 and Solaris Healthcare Apopka #33 among facilities with 100-149 beds.

Newsweek and Statista screened 14,693 nursing homes to select 1,325

Newsweek compiles the ranking each year with research firm Statista. The 2027 edition highlights 1,325 of the 14,693 U.S. nursing homes analyzed, or about 9% of the field.

San Francisco – October 16, 2026 -- Novogradac will convene attorneys, developers, investors, lenders, tax insurance providers and advisors at the Fairmont Washington, D.C. Georgetown on Nov. 5-6 for its 2026 Fall Renewable Energy Tax Credits Conference, held immediately after the 2026 mid-term elections.

New York – October 16, 2026 -- Fox Corporation-owned sports platform OutKick closed Q3 2026 with 12.2 million average monthly desktop and mobile unique visitors, up 149% from the prior-year quarter and 40% from Q2, according to Comscore.

OutKick's Q3 views and minutes nearly triple year on year

Total multiplatform views reached 190 million, up 56% quarter on quarter and 187% year on year. Total multiplatform minutes hit 201 million, up 29% versus the prior quarter and 196% versus the prior-year quarter.

Monett, Mo. – – October 16, 2026 -- Jack Henry (Nasdaq: JKHY) will become the first core banking technology provider to integrate with Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), giving banks and credit unions a route to offer tokenized deposits.

GCUL is a fully managed, distributed ledger service. Financial institutions use it to tokenize and transfer money and assets on a shared, real-time record with programmable, 24/7 settlement.

Santa Clara, Calif. – October 16, 2026 -- DPR Construction moved up one place to No. 3 on Engineering News-Record's 2026 Top Green Contractors list, from No. 4 in 2025, as green contracting revenue across the sector's top 100 firms rose 5.9% to $101.9 billion in 2025.

Atlanta – October 16, 2026 -- Workday services partner Invisors placed no. 11 on the 2026 Fortune Best Workplaces in Technology list, its third appearance on the ranking, Great Place To Work and Fortune announced.

Ranking draws on feedback from nearly 144,000 technology employees

The list is based on survey responses from employees at Great Place To Work Certified companies in the technology industry. Nearly 144,000 of those responses form the basis of the ranking.

Orlando – October 16, 2026 -- Florida's existing single-family home sales fell 3.5% year-over-year in September to 20,537 closings, the second straight month of annual declines, as higher mortgage rates halted the modest growth of the past 12 to 14 months, according to Florida Realtors.

Third-quarter sales hold flat for houses and rise for condos

Statewide existing single-family sales totaled 65,904 in the third quarter of 2026, up 0.2% from the same period a year earlier. Existing condo-townhouse sales reached 22,664, up 3.1%.

Little Ferry, N.J. – October 16, 2026 -- Eventide Communications has completed an independent SOC 2 Type 1 examination covering the security and availability of its cloud-based mission-critical recording and analytics solutions, giving public safety buyers third-party evidence of its controls.

Fort Lauderdale – October 16, 2026 -- Community opposition blocked or delayed about $130 billion in U.S. data center projects in the first quarter of 2026, roughly matching the total for all of 2025, according to Data Center Watch. Crisis communications firm Red Banyan has released a free two-page Data Center Opposition Readiness Checklist to help developers, utilities and investors gauge their exposure before announcing a project.