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Costa Mesa, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- Synoptek has been named a Microsoft Fabric Featured Partner, a designation reserved for a select group of partners demonstrating deep technical expertise and validated customer implementations on the platform.

Synoptek meets Microsoft's qualification benchmarks for Fabric delivery

To secure the recognition, Synoptek satisfied Microsoft's criteria covering required certifications, validated client implementation telemetry, and performance benchmarks reflecting real-world delivery experience with Microsoft Fabric.

Boston – September 07, 2026 -- Pentera has been named a Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner® Peer InsightsTM Voice of the Customer for Adversarial Exposure Validation, with customers rating the company 4.8 out of 5 overall.

Customers give Pentera near-unanimous recommendation scores

Of reviewers surveyed, 94% indicated a willingness to recommend Pentera, placing the company in the upper-right quadrant of the Customers' Choice distinction. The ratings cover an 18-month consideration period ending June 30, 2026.

Gartner methodology ties recognition to experience and adoption benchmarks

Gartner Peer Insights recognizes vendors who meet or exceed both the market average Overall Experience and the market average User Interest and Adoption score to earn the Customers' Choice distinction.

Dallas – September 07, 2026 -- Integrity, LLC, a national distributor of life and health insurance, has partnered with San Jose-based Mosaic Health and Life Insurance Services, an independent marketing organization led by Ryan Dorigan. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Mosaic gains access to Integrity's AI-first agent platform

Mosaic will now use IntegrityCONNECT, Integrity's all-in-one technology platform that integrates quoting, application and enrollment with ongoing plan management. The platform includes a lead-segmentation system tied to a CRM designed to prioritize agent outreach to clients.

Agents will also gain access to Ask Integrity, an AI-powered, voice-activated digital assistant that delivers real-time coverage recommendations and policy lifecycle reminders.

Riyadh – September 07, 2026 -- COFE Tech has closed a pre-IPO funding round valuing the company at $178 million, setting a target for a listing on the Saudi Exchange by 2029. The round was announced at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh and co-led by Wa'ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of Aramco, and Aditum Investment Management, a regional fund partner to global asset managers including BlackRock. Masarrah Investment Company and Alyasra Foods also participated.

Aramco's Wa'ed Ventures Anchors Investor Consortium Ahead Of Saudi IPO

The capital injection backs COFE Tech's shift from a consumer coffee marketplace app, formerly branded COFE APP, into an enterprise AI and B2B SaaS operator. Founder and CEO Ali Al-Ebrahim said the company was built to unify procurement, sales and inventory systems that typically do not communicate with one another across Gulf enterprises.

Munich – September 07, 2026 -- AdEx Partners has completed the legal merger of BMC Strategy Consultants GmbH into AdEx Beratungs GmbH, effective August 25, 2026, relaunching the strategy unit under the new brand AdEx Strategy.

Merger creates single advisory platform spanning strategy, transformation and AI

The combined entity integrates strategic management consulting, transformation execution and applied AI into one continuous service line. AdEx Partners says the model is designed to stress-test decisions for feasibility early, keep transformation programs aligned to strategic goals, and deploy AI only where it delivers measurable value.

New York – September 07, 2026 -- Uniqode, a QR Code platform ranked highest on G2, has launched Uniqode Insights, a tool that connects dynamic QR Code scans to purchases, registrations and other conversions.

Marketers struggle to prove QR Code campaign impact despite positive results

98% of marketers report that physical QR Code campaigns have a positive impact on their marketing efforts, yet the link between scans and conversions is often unclear, making it difficult to demonstrate campaign return on investment.

Insights tracks the full journey from scan to purchase across placements

The tool identifies which QR Code placements generate conversions and revenue, and pinpoints where prospects drop off between scanning and completing a transaction. It also identifies high-intent and returning scanners by linking engagement activity across multiple sessions.

Miami and Madrid – September 07, 2026 -- Securitize Corp. (NYSE: SECZ) and Socios.com have formed a strategic partnership to develop regulated tokenized equity offerings for minority interests in professional sports teams, targeting a global franchise market estimated at $500 billion in aggregate value.

Companies to launch Socios Equity Token brand for regulated sports equity

Under the deal, the two firms plan to work with sports teams, existing owners and institutional investors to structure and tokenize minority equity stakes under the Socios Equity Token brand, subject to securities laws, league requirements, club approvals and jurisdictional restrictions. Socios.com will manage sports-industry relationships and the fan-facing engagement layer, while Securitize will handle regulated securities issuance, investor onboarding, ownership-record administration, transfer controls and ongoing servicing through its regulated affiliates.

San Francisco – September 07, 2026 -- Firstup has achieved ISO/IEC 42001:2023 certification for its Artificial Intelligence Management System and launched Model Context Protocol integration that puts workforce communications directly inside Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, part of a Q3 platform release the company says puts it on pace to deliver 60% more capability to customers in 2026 than in 2025.

ISO/IEC 42001 certification validates Firstup's AI governance controls

The certification, awarded in August following an independent audit, covers risk assessment, accountability structures, operational controls, and ongoing monitoring of Firstup's AI systems. CTO Vinod Malhotra said the certification independently validates the company's approach to human oversight, privacy, transparency and accountability in its AI deployments.

New York – September 07, 2026 -- Only 48.2% of individual contributors believe their organization is "on the same page" during change initiatives, compared with 79.4% of leaders, according to a new white paper from Dale Carnegie. The 31-point gap illustrates how transformation strategies can lose coherence as they move from executive planning into daily execution, the training firm found.

Leadership credibility gaps widen among frontline staff

Just 27% of employees strongly believe their immediate leader's actions consistently align with stated messages, a figure that drops to 18.5% among individual contributors. Dale Carnegie's report, titled "Leading Organizational Change: The Human System Behind Successful Execution," argues that this divergence between words and actions leads employees to question whether a change effort is credible enough to warrant sustained support.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 07, 2026 -- Euno, an enterprise AI-native context platform, has been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner's 2026 Coolest Vendor Innovations in Data Management report, published July 29, 2026.

Gartner flags a gap between AI agent deployment and data context

The Gartner report identifies surging enterprise investment in agentic AI for data engineering tasks, including pipeline construction, data quality monitoring and lineage documentation. It notes that while companies envision deploying thousands of agents across data workflows, the core obstacle has shifted from model capability to context: agents can access enterprise data but lack inherent understanding of its meaning, trustworthiness or business use.