Digital Transformation

Charlotte, N.C. – October 01, 2026 -- Linewize, the North American division of Qoria, has won the Primary Education category of the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2026 for its EdTech Manager platform, while simultaneously launching the product's new Screen Time reporting feature nationwide this month.

EdTech Manager gives districts device-level visibility from classroom to student

The platform allows IT leaders and administrators to track daily screen time at the district, school, grade and individual student level, including splits between time spent at school versus at home. It also tracks app inventory, approval status, license costs, adoption rates and data privacy agreement compliance.

Duluth, Ga. – October 01, 2026 -- Codoxo has been named to the second edition of TIME's World's Top HealthTech Companies 2026 list, a ranking produced with Statista Inc. that evaluated thousands of health-tech firms before selecting the top 500.

TIME and Statista screened companies on financial performance, reputation and online engagement

The list was announced on September 17, 2026, and is published on Time.com. Companies were assessed using three primary data sources: Financial Performance Metrics, Reputation Analysis, and Online Engagement.

Lyon, France – October 01, 2026 -- TCL SunPower has opened order books across Europe for its X5 industrial hybrid energy storage system, a factory-assembled unit the company says cuts last-mile transport and installation costs by up to 60% compared with site-built systems.

Factory-assembled cabinet eliminates on-site inverter installation

The X5 integrates a 50kW hybrid inverter directly inside the cabinet, arriving pre-wired rather than requiring separate transport, mounting and wiring of inverter components on site. The base unit is rated at 50kWh/100kWh and scales to 400kWh by paralleling up to four units, letting sites expand capacity without replacing hardware.

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) has opened its first U.S. AI Innovation Lab in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, an investment expected to create up to 300 jobs in AI, technology consulting and design engineering over the next four years.

Kyndryl ties the Dallas lab to a four-phase model for enterprise AI deployment

The facility runs on the company's Agentic AI Framework combined with Kyndryl Consult, AI and infrastructure services, and the Kyndryl Vital design practice. Customers move through customer immersion, co-design, build and roadmap stages, using workshops and rapid prototyping to turn AI use cases into working prototypes within days and a defined path to production deployment.

Detroit Lakes – October 01, 2026 -- Nexa has launched a creator marketplace that lets UGC creators and influencers keep 100% of their self-set rates, generating revenue instead through a brand-side platform fee.

Nexa connects brands and creators without subscription fees

Businesses can join Nexa for free, browse creator profiles with rates listed upfront, and secure promotional content deals directly without needing a subscription to access the marketplace.

Platform targets startups and e-commerce brands seeking faster UGC deals

Nexa is built for startups, e-commerce companies and established brands seeking UGC, social media promotions and creator-led campaigns without lengthy agency processes or fragmented outreach across social platforms.

New York – October 01, 2026 -- Sharon AI Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: SHAZ) has closed its inaugural US$356 million committed senior secured, GPU-backed SPV debt facility, priced at a fixed rate of 9.95% excluding fees.

Facility backs GPU deployment for customer contracts

The debt is secured against the Company's GPUs and associated cash flows, funding the deployment of compute infrastructure dedicated to signed customer contracts. The facility supports Sharon AI's plan to build out more than 68,000 NVIDIA GPUs by mid-2027 and is the first in an expected series of GPU financings.

Goldman Sachs and private credit funds join syndicate

The facility drew marquee Australian, Asian and global investors, including Goldman Sachs and select large private credit funds. Jarden Australia acted as sole financial advisor and arranger on the transaction.

Boston – October 01, 2026 -- HoneyNaps, an AI-based sleep health technology company, has completed registration as a clinical research organization (CRO) with South Korea's National Enterprise for Clinical Trials (KoNECT), broadening its role in pharmaceutical and medical device trials worldwide.

HoneyNaps secures CRO registration with KoNECT, expanding multicenter trial capacity

The company has supported clinical trials involving more than 10,000 participants and can now operate multicenter, multidisciplinary studies under its new CRO status. The registration formalizes HoneyNaps' position as a provider of standardized sleep data analysis for pharmaceutical companies, medical device developers, and research organizations.

San Jose, Calif. – October 01, 2026 -- AppZen has launched ZenLM Plus, a family of finance-specialized large language models that outperformed seven frontier AI models on expense audit accuracy while cutting inference costs, the company announced.

Denver – October 01, 2026 -- LandGate has expanded its spatial intelligence platform to track more than 2,100 data center facilities across 10 European markets, adding site-level power, permitting and connectivity data to its existing U.S. coverage.

The expansion follows LandGate's acquisition by Wood Mackenzie in June 2026 and positions the company as a supplier of site-selection intelligence for hyperscale and AI-driven data center developers operating across Europe.

UK leads European coverage with 500+ facilities amid 70 GW of pending connection requests

The United Kingdom dominates LandGate's European dataset with more than 500 tracked facilities concentrated in the London and Slough corridor, where power connection requests now exceed 70 GW. Germany follows with 450+ facilities centered in Frankfurt, where the EnEfG Act will require new builds to hit a PUE of 1.2 or lower from July 2026 and shift to 100% renewable electricity by 2027.

San Francisco -- October 01, 2026 -- Beyond, a short-term rental revenue management platform, has launched three major features, Owner Hub, Advanced Connectivity, and Performance Manager, bundled with more than 40 additional product updates in its October 2026 Horizons release.

Owner Hub cuts owner-reporting time from 20 minutes to 2 minutes per report

Owner Hub consolidates three existing tools, Owner Projections, Listing Lens, and Owner Reports, into a single workflow for property managers. Running a revenue projection for one listing now takes 1 minute instead of 60, reviewing a listing via Listing Lens drops from 30 minutes to 1 minute, and building an owner report falls from 20 minutes to 2 minutes. Owner Projections generates three scenario-based revenue forecasts from any address or listing URL without a PMS connection, while Owner Reports delivers owner-ready summaries with market context and an editable AI narrative.