Product Launch

Denver – September 29, 2026 -- Adswerve has secured an Adobe Real-Time Customer Data Platform (Real-Time CDP) specialization, a formal recognition from Adobe requiring a verified number of successful client implementations and certified team members before approval.

Three years of Adobe Customer Journey Analytics work earns formal specialization status

The designation caps three years of hands-on deployment work and follows Adswerve's history as a three-time Adobe Solutions Partner of the Year. The firm has already deployed Real-Time CDP for several enterprise clients, unifying data from web, app, CRM, and offline sources into single customer profiles activated in real time.

Milwaukee – September 29, 2026 -- PBS Biotech has embedded Rockwell Automation technology into its MiniPRO multi-parallel bioreactor platform, a system with up to 24 independently controlled bioreactors designed to speed cell therapy process development and reduce risk during scale-up to commercial manufacturing.

Platform integrates FactoryTalk software with PlantPAx distributed control

The MiniPRO uses Rockwell's FactoryTalk software and Process Library to deliver real-time process control within an automation environment that can integrate directly into a larger PlantPAx distributed control system used to run an entire cell-therapy facility. Rockwell Automation, headquartered in Milwaukee and employing roughly 26,000 people across more than 100 countries as of fiscal year 2025, positions the collaboration as a way to standardize automation across development and GMP manufacturing stages.

Las Vegas – September 29, 2026 -- Arity, a mobility data and analytics company founded by The Allstate Corporation, has introduced Arity Lead Platform, an insurance-native operating layer designed to give carriers direct control over customer acquisition spend and decisions across publishers, marketplaces, agents, and call centers.

Platform unifies fragmented acquisition systems into a single carrier-controlled layer

Insurance carriers currently invest across publishers, marketplaces, lead and call providers, agency networks, and CRM platforms that often operate independently, limiting visibility from acquisition spend through to customer outcomes. Arity Lead Platform builds on more than a decade of Arity's experience connecting insurers with publishers and marketplaces, extending that connectivity into a full operating layer with reusable connectors intended to reduce integration effort and speed partner activation.

Greenlawn, N.Y. – September 29, 2026 -- BAE Systems has secured AIMS certification from the Department of War for its new AN/APX-127(V)1 Combined Interrogator Transponder (CIT), clearing the Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system for use on the U.S. Air Force's F-16 Fighting Falcon fleet.

Certification confirms interoperability across U.S. and NATO forces

The AIMS standard verifies the system meets joint U.S. and NATO requirements, allowing pilots to distinguish allied aircraft from potential threats in contested airspace. The AN/APX-127(V)1 is AIMS Mark XIIB IFF certified with Mode S and Mode 5 capability for encrypted data exchange, and adds receive channels for passive acquisition of Mode 5 Level 2 and Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast In signals.

New York – September 29, 2026 -- DoubleZero Foundation has integrated Phoenix, Solana's native perpetuals exchange, into its Edge market-data platform, cutting data delivery latency by more than 750 milliseconds for traders accessing the Solana perps order book.

Phoenix becomes the third perpetuals venue on DoubleZero Edge

Built by Ellipsis Labs, Phoenix joins Kalshi crypto perpetual futures, added in August 2026, and Hyperliquid perps, added earlier this month, on the Edge network. Trading firms can now pull market data from all three venues through a single connection rather than building separate infrastructure for each.

DoubleZero launched two new Phoenix feeds: top-of-book and trades, and market-by-price data, covering all Phoenix perps markets.

New York – – September 29, 2026 -- Big Idea Ventures and Mars Petcare have selected three startups for the third edition of the Next Generation Pet Food Program, drawing 83 applications from 33 countries to advance alternative proteins, fats and oils aimed at cutting the environmental footprint of pet food ingredients.

Program partners with AAK, Bühler, Givaudan and Ingredion select three ingredient startups

EcoBean, a Polish company that valorizes spent coffee grounds from industrial production into high-value ingredients for cosmetics, food and pet applications, joins the 2026 cohort. Loopworm, an Indian insect biotech firm, manufactures protein and fat ingredients from silkworms using proprietary technology. Space Ark Biomedical, based in Taiwan, upcycles okara and brewer's spent grain into functional protein ingredients through enzyme technology and precision fermentation.

Ann Arbor – September 29, 2026 -- Truven has launched MarketScan Snapshot, an AI-powered search capability that compresses what the company says can be days or weeks of cohort feasibility research into a process taking minutes.

Snapshot lets researchers query 300 million cumulative patient lives in plain language

The tool allows users to run patient-count requests against MarketScan Research Databases using everyday language, eliminating the need to specify medical codes or possess programming skills. MarketScan's underlying dataset includes more than 300 million cumulative lives, 95 million active lives, 99% claims completeness, and data access dating back to 1995 across commercial, Medicare and Medicaid populations.

Santa Clara, Calif. – – September 29, 2026 -- Forward Networks has made Forward Predict generally available, a network-change verification tool that customer IG Group says cut firewall change delivery time by roughly 95 percent and saves engineers more than 30 hours of manual work monthly.

Forward Predict verifies network changes before deployment using a mathematically accurate digital twin

The tool, built on Forward Enterprise's digital twin, models BGP, routing, path, ACL, NAT and firewall-rule changes to show connectivity, security and compliance impact before they reach production. Forward positions the capability as the verification layer required for AI agents to propose network changes safely at machine speed.

Marina del Rey, Calif. – September 29, 2026 -- CommanderAI has launched a mobile app for iOS and Android that extends its AI-powered sales and CRM platform to field representatives in the waste, recycling, and scrap industries, letting reps prospect and close accounts directly from trucks and job sites.

Reps convert roadside sightings into leads with photo-to-lead capture

The app allows a field sales representative to photograph a sign, a truck, or a job site and automatically generate a new prospect record, populated with company and decision-maker data. Outreach can begin on the spot, closing a gap that previously forced reps to log opportunities in notebooks until they returned to a desk.

Dallas – – September 29, 2026 -- Topgolf is replacing its legacy event menu with four new chef-driven buffet concepts and increasing buffet frequency to one station per 30 guests, up from one per 50, in its first major events-program update in recent years.

Four new buffet concepts replace fixed-price legacy menu

The new lineup includes Modern Mediterranean (build-your-own salad and bowl bar with chicken shawarma and grilled steak), Cantina Kitchen (a southwest taco and nacho bar with chicken tinga and fajita beef), Taste of Topgolf (sliders and Roman-crust pizza with vegetarian options) and Chef's Table, a premium entrée menu featuring beef tenderloin and herb salmon for executive events. Planners can add à la carte proteins, sliders, sides and whole pizzas, including gluten-friendly, vegan and vegetarian options.