Shenzhen, China – – October 08, 2026 -- The High People's Court of Guangdong Province has issued a final, legally binding judgment in favor of Shenzhen Leqi Innovation Co., Ltd., the company behind imaging accessories brand SmallRig, in a design patent infringement case against Shenzhen Neewer Technology Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Xing Ying Da Industry Co., Ltd.

Court dismisses Neewer's appeal and upholds full damages award

The court ruled that the accused side handle products fall within the scope of protection of Leqi Innovation's design patent, dismissing Neewer Technology's appeal and affirming the trial court's judgment in its entirety. The two defendants were ordered to cease manufacturing and selling the infringing side handles, destroy remaining inventory and related promotional materials, bear all court costs, and pay damages to Leqi Innovation. The damages have been paid in full.

Beijing – October 08, 2026 -- New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (NYSE: EDU; SEHK: 9901) will convene its annual general meeting on November 13, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. local time at No. 6 Hai Dian Zhong Street, Haidian District, Beijing.

No shareholder vote is scheduled for the 2026 annual meeting

The company confirmed no proposals will be submitted for approval at the gathering. Instead, the meeting will function as an open forum allowing shareholders of record and beneficial owners of American depositary shares to raise questions directly with management on company affairs.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- Corel has rolled out a Text-to-vector AI workflow in its September 2026 Update to CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2026, letting designers convert written prompts into editable, scalable vector graphics directly inside the application. The update was reviewed by Consumer365, which flagged the feature as the centerpiece of the release alongside a reworked PowerTRACE engine and expanded CorelDRAW Web tools.

Text-to-vector tool turns prompts into editable vector objects

The new capability sits inside CorelDRAW's AI Generate docker, letting users start either from a text prompt or existing artwork. Output arrives as editable vector objects with manual node control, rather than locked raster images, and supports styles including Line art, Comic book, and Icon. Color handling follows the active document's color mode, aligning generated assets with existing production files.

Gwacheon, South Korea – – October 08, 2026 -- Park Systems Corp. captured 23.8% of global atomic force microscopy (AFM) revenue in 2025, retaining the top industry ranking for a fourth consecutive year from 2022 through 2025, according to QY Research's Global Atomic Force Microscopy Market Report.

Park Systems leads both revenue and unit shipments in 2025

The South Korea-based company sold 340 AFM systems during the year, the highest unit volume among manufacturers tracked in the study, while also topping the market on revenue share.

London – – October 08, 2026 -- Hilton Worldwide Holdings has displaced DHL Group atop Fortune's 100 Best Companies To Work For - Europe 2026 ranking, with AbbVie, DHL Group, Cisco Systems and Specsavers rounding out the top five.

Technology dominates the 100-company list with 26 entrants

The ranking spans companies headquartered in 25 countries, with roughly half privately held and women leading six of the 100 firms. Just over a third of the listed companies are European operations of large U.S. businesses. Technology leads sector representation with 26 companies, followed by health care at 17 and financial services at 15.

Allianz, Stryker, Aviva, Siemens Healthineers and Salesforce fill out the top 10

Siemens Healthineers and Salesforce newly entered the top 10 this year, joining Allianz, Stryker and Aviva in positions six through nine.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- DoubleZero Foundation has added Binance's full spot and futures market data to its Edge platform, making the exchange the first centralized venue and fifth overall data source on the network. Binance joins Solana, Kalshi, Hyperliquid, and Phoenix on the same multicast feed, delivered over DoubleZero's dedicated fiber infrastructure.

Binance becomes first centralized exchange integrated into Edge's multicast feed

Edge now normalizes top-of-book and trade data across all symbols on Binance's spot and futures markets, ingested in Tokyo and distributed via dedicated fiber. The data is formatted to the same schema used for the platform's other four venues, allowing trading teams to deploy code written for one market across all five without rebuilding integrations.

New York – October 08, 2026 -- The European Union staged a live culinary competition inside Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall to promote PDO- and PGI-certified food and beverage exports to US trade buyers and media.

Mishka Murphy wins head-to-head cooking battle with PDO and PGI ingredients

Murphy defeated fellow contestant Alexa Santos in the Taste of Europe Challenge, held October 7, with a winning dish of Marinated Runner Beans, Whipped Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO, Jambon de Bayonne PGI, fresh herbs, and European olive oil. Contestants sourced ingredients from an on-site European Market set up for the competition.

London and Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- CME Group posted international average daily volume (ADV) of 9 million contracts in the third quarter of 2026, up 22% from a year earlier, as geopolitical volatility drove risk-management demand across global markets.

Energy and agricultural contracts lead international surge

Growth outside the United States was driven largely by Energy products, up 40%, Agricultural products, up 28%, and Equity Index products, up 24%. Julie Winkler, Chief Commercial Officer at CME Group, said geopolitical issues fueled uncertainty and stoked inflation globally during the quarter, pushing customers worldwide toward the exchange to hedge risk.

Singapore – October 08, 2026 -- ONLYOFFICE has released version 10.0 of its open-source office suite, bundling context-aware AI tools, four new modular applications, and fixes for 35 security vulnerabilities. The autumn update packages roughly 50 new features and more than 1,000 bug fixes across the online, desktop, and mobile editors.

AI tools move directly into document, spreadsheet, and PDF editors

A dedicated AI tab with built-in chat now lets users draft, summarize, translate, and format content without exporting files to third-party tools. Legal teams can summarize contracts inside the editor, analysts can generate forecasts or Pivot Tables, and managers can convert raw notes into structured presentations using ready-made prompts and saved custom actions.

Barcelona – – October 08, 2026 -- Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) will convene over 600 speakers and an expected 27,000 attendees from November 3-5 at Barcelona's Gran Via venue, organized by Fira de Barcelona under the theme "Urban Solutions, Real Impact."

Four mayoral continents send representatives to Barcelona summit

The 2026 edition elevates its political profile with Anne Hidalgo, former Mayor of Paris and Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, joined by Andre Dickens (Mayor of Atlanta), Haris Doukas (Mayor of Athens), Giuseppe Sala (Mayor of Milan), Gergely Karácsony (Mayor of Budapest), Daryl Barron (Lord Mayor of Dublin) and Yvonne Aki-Sawyer (Mayor of Freetown).