Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

New York – September 18, 2026 -- DanAds, a SaaS provider of automated self-service advertising tools for publishers, has promoted Michael Gelb to the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Growth & Product. Gelb will now control the company's product roadmap and AI strategy while simultaneously leading commercial growth across its enterprise accounts.

DanAds merges commercial and product leadership under a single executive

Peo Persson, Chief Commercial Officer at DanAds, said the decision to combine growth and product functions under one leader ensures the company's roadmap is driven directly by publisher needs rather than internal silos. Gelb joined DanAds in New York as a Senior Account Manager before rising to Head of Account Management, working with major media companies to grow advertising revenue through the platform.

New York – September 18, 2026 -- OX Security launched OX Cloud, a cloud security platform built to monitor AI agents that now operate autonomously in production environments, access sensitive data and call tools without human oversight.

OX Cloud adds AI Detection and Response to track agent behavior in real time

The platform's AIDR capability detects and governs AI activity across cloud and runtime environments as it happens, rather than relying on static configuration snapshots. Traditional cloud security tools identify misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and excessive permissions but cannot show security teams what an AI agent is actually doing once it operates inside an environment.

Munich – September 18, 2026 -- Hexnode, the enterprise software division of Mitsogo, unveiled Hexnode Synapse at its HexCon26 user conference, an agentic orchestration layer designed to coordinate IT and security actions across multiple enterprise systems from a single governed workflow.

Synapse turns fragmented IT handoffs into one automated sequence

Apu Pavithran, CEO and Founder of Hexnode, said IT tasks such as onboarding or threat response typically require manual coordination across identity systems, devices and HR platforms, with a person connecting each step every time. Synapse is built to eliminate that manual bridging by having specialist AI agents reason through requests and execute actions within defined limits.

Hong Kong – September 18, 2026 -- ViaBTC, a global multi-cryptocurrency mining pool, has partnered with Mempool to expand access to Bitcoin transaction acceleration services, deploying its mining pool infrastructure to help unconfirmed BTC transactions get processed faster.

ViaBTC has accelerated more than 800,000 BTC transactions since 2016

Bitcoin transactions can stall for extended periods when network congestion rises or fees are set too low. ViaBTC became one of the first providers to launch a Bitcoin transaction accelerator in 2016, offering both free and paid options, and has refined the technology since. As of September 16, 2026, the company has processed acceleration requests for over 800,000 BTC transactions.

Mountain View, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- NewsBreak has appointed Nicolas Zylberstein as its first Chief Business Officer, tasking him with commercial growth across the core NewsBreak platform and two new AI ventures, Nearby AI and NDot AI.

NewsBreak creates first-ever Chief Business Officer role to scale two AI businesses

The newly created position places Zylberstein over strategic growth for NewsBreak's flagship local news and life platform, which serves more than 40 million monthly active users across the U.S. He will also oversee commercialization of Nearby AI, an agentic local intent marketplace connecting consumers to local businesses, and NDot AI, a B2B media technology platform offering publishers audience growth, personalization, engagement and monetization tools.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: DLB) has granted incoming President and Chief Executive Officer Marc Whitten inducement equity awards worth approximately $10 million in time-based restricted stock, plus a performance package that vests only if Dolby's share price climbs as high as $175.

Dolby ties CEO pay to five escalating stock-price hurdles

The compensation package, disclosed under Dolby's newly adopted 2026 Inducement Stock Plan, splits into two components. The first is a time-based award of 160,256 restricted stock units, valued at roughly $10 million using the average closing price of Dolby's Class A shares over the 30 trading days preceding the grant date. Those units vest semi-annually over two years, contingent on Whitten remaining employed at Dolby through each vesting date.

Redmond, Wash. – September 18, 2026 -- Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.98 per share, an 8% increase of 7 cents over the prior quarter's payout.

Dividend rises to $0.98 per share with December payment date

The dividend is payable Dec. 10, 2026, to shareholders of record as of Nov. 19, 2026. The company also set the ex-dividend date as Nov. 19, 2026.

Annual shareholders meeting scheduled for Dec. 8, 2026

Microsoft confirmed its 2026 Annual Shareholders Meeting will take place virtually on Dec. 8, 2026. Shareholders of record as of the close of business on Sept. 30, 2026 will be entitled to vote their shares at the meeting.

San Francisco – September 18, 2026 -- Harness Web Application & API Protection (WAAP) scored a 99.8% Security Efficacy rating and 98.2% Operational Efficiency rating in SecureIQLab's Cloud WAAP v5.0 CyberRisk Validation Comparative Report, earning Leader status among 12 tested vendors.

Harness is one of only five vendors meeting both Secure by Design and Secure by Default criteria

SecureIQLab tested 12 leading Cloud WAAP vendors, with just six achieving Leader status. Harness was among only five vendors to satisfy both the Secure by Design and Secure by Default criteria, a distinction it also held in 2025 when its solution was evaluated under the Traceable by Harness name in the Cloud WAAP v4.0 report.

Southlake, Texas – September 18, 2026 -- Sabre Corporation's wholly owned subsidiary, Sabre Financial Borrower, LLC, priced an upsized private offering of $1.35 billion in 9.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2032, increased from an initial $1.1 billion target. The Nasdaq-listed travel technology firm (SABR) expects the transaction to close on September 28, 2026.

Calabasas, Calif. – September 18, 2026 -- Faye has launched a new integration connecting Intercom and Oracle NetSuite, allowing support, sales, and success teams to view a customer's financial history directly inside Intercom without switching platforms.

Integration eliminates the finance-data bottleneck for support reps

Support agents previously had to escalate billing or order questions to finance teams because that data lived outside Intercom. Faye's integration syncs contact, company, and financial records between NetSuite and Intercom automatically, reducing tool-switching and back-and-forth between departments.