Chicago – September 28, 2026 -- GTCR has closed its acquisition of Tactacam, a cellular-connected camera provider serving more than one million subscribers, buying the company from Bertram Capital and its founders in a deal with undisclosed terms.

Coral Springs, Fla. – September 28, 2026 -- Zulu Pods, Inc. (ZPI) has completed altitude testing of its patented ZPOD lubrication system at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), recording bearing temperatures comparable to or lower than legacy systems on a 200 lbf class turbojet engine.

Lakewood, Calif. – September 28, 2026 -- The City Councils of Artesia, Burbank and Lakewood have voted to approve Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) home improvement financing through Home Run Financing (HRF), bringing the total number of participating California jurisdictions to more than 360.

New York – – September 28, 2026 -- Infrastructure Capital Advisors, LLC has increased monthly distributions across four exchange-traded funds, with its newest fund, the Nasdaq Option Income ETF (QVOL), raising its payout by $0.05 to $1.09 per share.

South San Francisco, Calif. – September 28, 2026 -- IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDYA) promoted Dr. Michael White from Chief Scientific Officer to President, Research and Development, effective September 28, 2026.

Waco, Texas – – September 28, 2026 -- AxisCare has launched Axi Assist, an AI-powered receptionist built into its home care management platform to handle caregiver call-offs and missed clock-ins around the clock, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Noma Security has expanded its AI and agent security platform to cover autonomous agents, MCP servers, and skills running directly on employee laptops, closing what the company calls one of the largest blind spots in enterprise AI security.

Rock Hill – September 28, 2026 -- Comporium, Inc., a communications provider serving more than 145,000 customers across the Carolinas, has named Teleste as the sole supplier of amplifiers and network management solutions for its future hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) upgrades, following a competitive RFP process.

Shanghai – September 28, 2026 -- Mikala Sposito, a 21-year-old welding student from Washtenaw Community College, won a bronze medal at the 48th WorldSkills Competition, becoming the first woman to represent the United States in the Welding skill category.

Nine-member U.S. delegation competes against global field of 1,400

The 2026 WorldSkills USA team, comprising nine SkillsUSA state champions, competed Sept. 22-27 in Shanghai against skilled professionals from 73 countries and regions across 64 skill categories, including seven new emerging occupations.

Tokyo – September 28, 2026 -- SOLA Biosciences Japan GK has secured a grant of approximately 6 billion yen over five years from Japan's Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) to advance SOL-257, a gene therapy candidate targeting the TDP-43 protein implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The award, granted under AMED's Strengthening Program for Pharmaceutical Startup Ecosystem, was announced June 5, 2026, and positions SOLA Japan as the company's central development hub for the program.