Greenville, Illinois – October 28, 2026 -- Enertech Global LLC has signed two financing partnerships that let HVAC contractors offer residential geothermal heat pump installations with $0 down, targeting the upfront cost that makes homeowners hesitate.

THE BRONX – October 28, 2026 -- Holliswood Center and Bushwick Center, two skilled nursing facilities in the Centers Health Care network, have earned the American Heart Association's Skilled Nursing Facility Heart Failure Certification, aimed at cutting preventable readmissions in a patient population projected to exceed 8 million U.S. adults by 2030.

ORLANDO – October 28, 2026 -- The U.S. Army Capability Program Executive Simulation, Training, Test and Threat (CPE ST3) has purchased HAVIK ATLAS and SCOUT kits to inform future Joint Fires Training (JFT) requirements, with government acceptance and payment completed. The release did not disclose the purchase value or the number of kits.

EWING, N.J. – October 28, 2026 -- GS1 US has launched Rapid Record, an SMS-based tool that lets produce growers log traceability data in the field without installing an app or relying on Wi-Fi. The tool is included with a GS1 US membership.

Text prompts guide growers through four event types

Growers record harvesting, cooling, initial packing and shipping events through guided text prompts. Completed digital records go to an email address designated by the grower's organization.

CHICAGO – October 28, 2026 -- Commercial property insurer FM is the presenting partner of Ireland's Kicking King, a final that puts four Irish kickers in front of a U.S. college football audience at halftime of the Northwestern-Iowa game on November 7 at the new $875 million Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois.

San Francisco – October 28, 2026 -- Plato, a startup that builds simulated workplaces for training AI models, raised a $16 million Series A round led by Nava Ventures, lifting its total funding to $19 million.

Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman also participated. Gradient Ventures had led the company's earlier seed round. Nava Ventures founder Freddie Martignetti joins Plato's board.

New York – October 28, 2026 -- Ibis, an onchain credit platform, has emerged from stealth with a $250 million credit facility from FalconX, giving eligible crypto trading firms institutional credit capacity from launch. The company also closed its pre-seed round, led by FalconX alongside investors and executives from digital assets, institutional credit, capital markets and financial infrastructure.

TAMPA, Fla. – October 28, 2026 -- Yara North America has made two biostimulant products commercially available in the U.S., reporting trial returns on investment of up to 15:1 in potatoes for one of them.

The products, YaraAmplix PROCOTE OPTIMIZE and YaraAmplix OPTITRAC, follow more than 10 years of research and development, multiyear global trials and four years of U.S. field trials across diverse growing conditions and crops.

FORT LAUDERDALE – October 28, 2026 -- iBusiness Funding has integrated its digital SBA financing capabilities into the Amazon seller experience, connecting eligible sellers with its network of U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)-approved lenders. The announcement follows Amazon's recent introduction of the offering to its seller community.

LAS VEGAS – October 28, 2026 -- MGM Resorts International has amended its Voting Agreement with People Incorporated, capping the investor group's ownership at 29.9% of outstanding shares and binding it to the Board's recommendation on any change of control transaction.

The amendment follows People's withdrawal of its previously announced proposal to acquire MGM Resorts.