Belgrade – November 09, 2026 -- More than 19,000 candidates from Serbia and 153 other countries have applied to the Expo Playmakers volunteer programme for Expo 2027 Belgrade, just over six months before the Specialised Expo opens.

International applicants make up over one-third of the pool

More than 7,100 applications come from abroad, over a third of the total. Submissions arrived from Russia, China, Germany and Italy, among other countries.

The most sought-after assignments are support roles for the digital team and the pavilions of international participants, followed by positions in protocol and the sports programme.

Selected volunteers receive tailored training and a certificate

Chosen volunteers get training matched to their assignment and hands-on experience at an international large-scale event. After completing their service, they receive an internationally recognised volunteer certificate.

Gütersloh – November 09, 2026 -- Bertelsmann's 2025 annual report won platinum at the LACP Vision Awards and placed third in the global "Top 100" ranking, two positions higher than a year earlier.

Report ranks first in the Media category at the LACP Vision Awards

The League of American Communications Professionals (LACP), a US body, awarded the report platinum. It also took first place in the Media category. The report was published in March 2026 and covers a fiscal year in which Bertelsmann generated revenue of €19 billion.

ARC and Stevie Awards add three bronze distinctions

At the international ARC Awards, the report earned bronze in two categories: "Design/Graphics" and "Cover/Home Page". The online version won bronze at the Stevie Awards.

Frankfurt am Main – November 09, 2026 -- 64% of MDAX companies appointed at least one new supervisory board member, against 25% in the DAX40, according to the first standalone MDAX governance report from executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

The 50 MDAX companies added 87 new board members. The DAX40 added only 16. The study draws on annual reports and corporate governance disclosures for fiscal 2025. It is benchmarked against the Spencer Stuart Board Index 2026 for the DAX40, published in June.

MDAX boards are younger and open the door to first-time members

Members under 50 make up 21.8% of MDAX supervisory boards, versus 12% in the DAX40. At 22 of the 50 companies, that age group holds more than a quarter of board seats. Of the newly appointed MDAX members, 23% hold their first supervisory board mandate.

Munich – November 09, 2026 -- Turkish contract manufacturer Alpplas Endüstriyel Yatırımlar A.S. will exhibit at electronica 2026 in Munich from November 10 to 13, presenting a vertically integrated electronic manufacturing services (EMS) offer at a trade fair traditionally dominated by component makers and distributors.

Alpplas covers the product lifecycle from toolmaking to box-build assembly

The company says its main competitive edge is handling the entire product lifecycle under one roof. Its capabilities span precision plastic injection mold tooling, injection molding, high-speed SMT electronics production and final box-build assembly. Global OEMs can use these services instead of managing fragmented supply chains.

Castres – November 09, 2026 -- Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and XtalPi Holdings Limited (2228.HK) have signed a drug discovery agreement that includes an upfront payment, multiple milestone payments and downstream economic participation. Neither company disclosed the financial terms.

XtalPi to design small molecules de novo against undisclosed targets

XtalPi will apply its integrated AI capabilities and robotics platform to design and deliver novel small molecule therapeutics. The research programs cover oncology, potentially dermatology, and rare diseases. The targets were not named.

Pierre Fabre takes on compound selection and clinical and commercial development

Pierre Fabre will contribute expertise in disease biology, discovery, translational research and clinical development to select and advance the most promising compounds. It will also be responsible for subsequent clinical and commercial development.

TAIPEI – November 09, 2026 -- Delta Electronics is joining its 19th consecutive UN climate conference, COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, where it will back the host country's "35x35" initiative targeting 35% electrification by 2035. The company will show how smart microgrids can speed up that transition at an official side event.

Delta hosts its 9th official COP side event with REA and DBU

The session takes place in the Blue Zone. Delta is joined by the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA) and the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) to exchange insights on microgrid applications. Delta will also present its experience deploying microgrids in Indigenous communities to strengthen disaster resilience.

Delta's EMEA leadership and Delta Electronics Foundation staff will also take part in discussions at the France Pavilion. The company is running the events under the theme "Smarter is Greener."

Wenzhou – November 09, 2026 -- The 2026 China-Europe-Africa Green Energy Development Forum in Zhejiang, China, placed coordination on technical standards, certification, carbon markets and innovative financing at the center of renewable energy cooperation across the three regions.

CPAFFC and China-EU Association organize forum with CHINT foundation and StarTimes as co-organizers

The event ran under the theme "Deepen Green Partnerships, Build a Shared Zero-Carbon Future." The Commonweal Foundation of CHINT and StarTimes Group co-organized it with the China-EU Association and CPAFFC.

Discussions covered cross-regional industrial cooperation under the new global climate governance landscape, green finance for developing countries, technological innovation and digital transformation, and global green value chain development.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 09, 2026 -- Outbuild, a construction scheduling platform, has launched an integration that syncs submittals, RFIs and drawings from Trimble ProjectSight directly into its scheduling and planning software, removing manual updates across spreadsheets and systems for general contractors running both products.

The companies point to two figures behind the launch: only 8.5% of construction projects finish on time and on budget, and teams lose an average of 5.5 hours a week searching for revised drawings and updates. Outbuild says documentation and scheduling have long sat in separate systems, so a slipped approval or revised drawing often reaches the scheduler days later, typically in a status meeting.

MUNICH – November 09, 2026 -- Rivada Space Networks has lined up more than $20 billion of business globally for its Outernet low-earth-orbit (LEO) constellation, and it has now added Telespazio Brasil as a partner to bring the network to government and enterprise customers in Latin America.

Telespazio is a 67/33 joint venture between Leonardo and Thales. Its Brazilian subsidiary has operated since 1997 from Rio de Janeiro. It supplies satellite communications, earth observation and ground-system services to government and enterprise customers in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Peru.

Shenzhen – November 09, 2026 -- Huawei has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Infrastructure Platform Consumption Services. It is one of only three vendors worldwide in that tier and the only Chinese company among them. It is also the only non-North American vendor to make the Leaders group.

Gartner evaluates platform capability, service delivery and operations management

The report assesses vendors on IT infrastructure platform capabilities, service-oriented delivery and operations management. Huawei's entry is its DCS data center solution, which draws on 18 years of technical work. DCS combines storage, compute, network, virtualization, data and AI, and intelligent management functions.