Atlanta – October 13, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has appointed Daniel Oldham, CPCU, as Head of Underwriting for Trucking. He grew a transportation book from $10 million to $39 million at his previous employer while maintaining underwriting profitability.

Oldham grew Canopius transportation book nearly fourfold

Oldham most recently served as Vice President and Head of Transportation at Canopius Group. There, he built the transportation portfolio from $10 million to $39 million. He also developed and launched a cannabis transportation insurance program and built an admitted trucking program.

His remit at Canopius included managing reinsurance relationships and expanding transportation offerings across admitted and non-admitted markets.

Newport Beach – October 13, 2026 -- Pilates Addiction has sold more than 350 licenses across 27 states, with 40 studios open in 12 states and another 75 scheduled to launch through early 2027.

Franchisor shifts from license sales to studio openings

The brand is entering its largest wave of openings to date, just over a year into its national expansion. It is moving from rapid franchise sales to opening studios at scale, supported by systems that guide owners through real estate, training, pre-opening marketing and launch.

New locations are planned across Texas, California, Florida, Nevada, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio and Georgia. Target markets include Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Denver and Las Vegas.

CEO Sarah Luna said the 350-license milestone matters less than the next phase, adding that "this fall will set the pace for what's ahead."

Los Angeles – October 13, 2026 -- Culinary & Cannabis, the nurse-founded experience company that has hosted more than 120 events for over 2,900 guests across nine cities, is relaunching as Savor & Solace, a wellness hospitality brand built around culinary discovery, cannabis education and restorative self-care.

The new brand debuts in Los Angeles with three events at The Resort at Playa Vista: Savor & Solace Table on November 5, and The Canna Spa by Savor & Solace and Savor & Solace Sessions on November 7. All events are open to guests aged 21 and over.

Vancouver – October 13, 2026 -- GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) has released gtinfetch.ai, a GTIN resolver that lets AI agents check any of 84 million barcodes in a single call, which the company describes as the largest open resolver on the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

GreenCore targets grocery agentic commerce in 20 countries

The service runs on Microsoft Azure and the Cloudflare edge and answers in milliseconds from wherever the agent sits. GSC built it for retail grocery agentic commerce transactions at scale across 20 countries.

GSC says $2 trillion of annual grocery procurement is about to move through AI agents, with every order tied to a GTIN. In its view, agentic procurement drifts without a second check. gtinfetch confirms the GTIN before the order is placed, then settles payment in the same call.

New York – October 13, 2026 -- Ensorcia Group Holdings, LLC has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Argentina Wildcats, LLC (AW), a deal that would add roughly 50,000 hectares of lithium ground in Argentina and take the company's combined holdings to approximately 67,000 hectares.

Cash deal for 100% of AW comes with contingent consideration

Ensorcia will buy all of AW's outstanding membership interests for cash, plus additional contingent consideration. The source gives no price or contingent terms. Closing remains subject to confirmatory legal review and other customary conditions.

AW holds interests in the former LEXI lithium property.

Drilling and brine testing preceded the decision

Ensorcia moved ahead after drilling and flow testing on the AW property and an evaluation of brine sample results. That evaluation included testing by International Battery Metals Ltd. (IBAT).

CHICAGO – October 13, 2026 -- Ozinga has opened a slag cement mill in East Chicago, Indiana, with capacity of 1 million tons per year. The company calls it the largest of its kind in North America. Its blends are designed to cut embodied carbon by up to 80% compared with traditional Portland cement mixes.

Mill targets 700,000 metric tons of annual CO2 offsets

At full operation, the plant is projected to offset more than 700,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year. Ozinga equates that to taking more than 150,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles off the road for a year.

The facility will produce ASTM C989-compliant slag cement. It will also make proprietary blends under the CarbonSenseTM brand that meet ASTM C1157 performance standards. The process recycles slag, a by-product of steelmaking. Traditional Portland cement accounts for nearly 7% of global CO2 emissions.

Oakland – October 13, 2026 -- The Vietnamese American Business Association (VABA) reports a network of more than 2,200 professionals and 720 businesses across 12 U.S. states and eight countries as it marks 15 years since its 2011 founding, and says its VABA Venture Capital arm is backed by $50 million from the Duong family office.

Founder and chairman David Duong built the group after launching a California recycling business and investing in Vietnam. His family arrived in the Bay Area in 1979 as refugees and started by collecting and selling cardboard and other recyclables. That work led to California Waste Solutions, founded in 1992, which expanded into municipal recycling services in Oakland and San Jose.

Singapore – October 13, 2026 -- YYForce Inc. (NASDAQ: YFOR) projects approximately 10% lower monthly operating costs from a planned service-robot rollout across Novotel Singapore on Stevens and Mercure Singapore on Stevens, a 772-room precinct. The figure comes from a pre-deployment comparison; deployment has not yet begun, and actual costs, productivity and guest-service outcomes will be assessed after rollout.

Cost model covers housekeeping, concierge and F&B, including robot costs

The 10% estimate applies only to selected housekeeping, concierge and food and beverage operations, and the model includes the cost of the robots themselves. A separate planning assumption estimates a potential 5% cut in rooms-department overtime costs. The two estimates use different bases and do not add up to a combined saving. Both depend on the model's cost scope, operating coverage and service assumptions.

Plano, Texas – October 13, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

Ribbon schedules 4:30 p.m. ET call with financial community

Management will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET on the day of the release to discuss the quarter's results with the financial community.

Participants in the U.S. can join via the domestic dial-in number 877-407-2991, while international callers can use 201-389-0925. The company also offers Instant Telephone Access through its Call meTM service.

Listen-only webcast available through investor relations site

A live, listen-only webcast will be available on the company's Investor Relations website.

The source material contains no preliminary financial figures, guidance or other quantitative details ahead of the October 27 release.

Dallas – October 13, 2026 -- AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has agreed to sell AT&T Mexico to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for $2 billion in cash at closing, subject to certain adjustments, plus additional contractual and contingent benefits.

AT&T redirects capital to U.S. fiber and 5G networks

The divestiture concentrates AT&T's capital allocation on its U.S. fiber and wireless networks. Chairman and CEO John Stankey said the company believes the AI future will run on converged networks with dense fiber assets, and that the sale fits its strategy of focusing capital on growth opportunities in the U.S. market.

AT&T said its effort to consolidate and modernize what it describes as Mexico's second scaled wireless network has prepared the unit for its next growth phase. The company argues that a local operator is best placed to pursue that phase and improve the overall customer value proposition.