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BOSTON, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Capstone Partners, a leading middle market investment banking firm, released its 2026 Middle Market Business Owners Survey Report, with insights from privately-owned companies across the U.S. This report combines Capstone's in-depth middle market knowledge with proprietary data obtained from 400 participating owners of privately-owned, middle market companies. Conducted between May 20, 2026, and July 7, 2026, the survey captures sentiment at a pivotal moment in the U.S., identifying CEOs' decision-making processes, growth, financial, exit plans, and value drivers that characterized middle market business in 2026. Key Findings:Improved comfortability wit

MANCHESTER, N.H., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eversource and Dartmouth Engineering have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Electricity (OE) under its Speed to Power (SPARK) program for an innovative initiative designed to improve reliability and keep costs as low as possible for customers. Referred to as the Dynamic Rating Enhancement Advancements and Modernization (DREAM) initiative, the collaboration between Eversource and Dartmouth Engineering will leverage grid-enhancing technologies to increase the capacity of the existing electric grid, enhance system resiliency, and help lower costs for customers. As developed by Eversource and Professor Junbo Z

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. and NOVI, Mich., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BSF, a leading seafood processor and distributor, and Lineage, Inc., the world's largest global temperature-controlled warehouse REIT, announced on Wednesday, September 23, a two-year extension of their commercial agreement, continuing a relationship that spans nearly 25 years. The extension runs through June 30, 2028. Under the renewed agreement, Lineage will continue to manage warehousing and distribution operations for BSF, which stores more than 800 cooked and raw seafood SKUs across two dedicated facilities built specifically to serve the seafood company's needs. BSF, which rebranded from Beaver Street Fisheries e

APEX, N.C., Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE:TOL), the nation's leading builder of luxury homes, today announced its newest Raleigh-area community, Madison Downs, will open soon in Apex, North Carolina. This exclusive community will feature just 40 single-family homes with modern designs and expansive floor plans in one of the Triangle’s most desirable locations. Site work is underway at 8608 Humie Olive Road in Apex, and the community is anticipated to open for sale in early 2027. Madison Downs will offer a serene landscape just minutes from downtown Apex. Home shoppers can choose from a variety of new home designs starting from the mid-$900,000s, with 4,025+

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- F.N.B. Corporation (NYSE: FNB) announced today that it plans to issue financial results for the third quarter of 2026 after the market close on Monday, October 19, 2026. Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Vincent J. Delie, Jr., Chief Financial Officer, Vincent J. Calabrese, Jr., and Chief Credit Officer, Gary L. Guerrieri, plan to host a conference call to discuss the Company's financial results on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 8:30 AM ET.A live listen-only webcast of the conference call will be available under the Investor Relations section of the Corporation's website at www.fnbcorporation.com. Participants can access the link under

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ:VTRS), a global healthcare company, today announced it was named to Forbes' World's Best Employers list for the sixth consecutive year. The ranking is presented by Forbes and Statista, the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider, and is based on independent employee feedback collected globally, highlighting employee trust, workplace experience and organizational culture at Viatris."Being recognized on Forbes' World's Best Employers list for the sixth consecutive year reflects the dedication and ingenuity of our colleagues around the world who make Viatris a place where people feel connected, supported and e

Dover, DE, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AstraBit, a Veteran-owned and operated U.S. broker-dealer registered with the SEC and a FINRA member firm, announced today the appointment of Lisa Wade and Josh Hawes to its Strategic Advisory Board. Wade and Hawes join John Buckley, the former Co-Chief Operating Officer and Head of Exchange Operations at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. AstraBit’s Strategic Advisory Board members bring distinct vantage points: Buckley from exchange operations and Asia-Pacific market structure, Wade from digital asset markets and central bank infrastructure, and Hawes from systematic trading, capital formation, and public-company governance. The Board advi

Eligible OpenAI customers can use a portion of their existing commitments to procure the Falcon platform, expanding the companies’ partnership to secure the agentic enterprise – unlocking more spend for Falcon platform adoptionOpenAI DevDay – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD) today announced the Falcon platform is available in the OpenAI Marketplace, giving eligible OpenAI enterprise customers a new way to purchase CrowdStrike using a portion of their existing OpenAI commitments.The announcement builds on CrowdStrike and OpenAI’s expanding partnership to secure the agentic enterprise. Falcon Guardian extends runtime protection to OpenAI Codex agents, while OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Cyber brings advanced cybe

Enterprises will be empowered to accelerate AI innovation to machine speed NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced new capabilities that enable enterprises to accelerate their adoption of agentic AI with secure, in-place, zero-copy data activation. The heterogeneous metadata capability of NetApp AI Data Engine (AIDE) helps organizations discover, understand, govern, and operationalize data where it lives, while an expanded integration with Commvault connects the NetApp Platform with Commvault recovery orchestration workflow to help customers detect attacks earlier and recover cleaner data faster. As AI agents move from experimentation into pro

New hybrid multi-cloud capabilities remove borders between on-premises and cloud operations NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced new hybrid multi-cloud capabilities with autonomous controls to maximize enterprise flexibility and efficiency for any workload. Enterprises can now more easily adopt modern data strategies across on-premises and cloud environments leveraging new capabilities for consistent operations that account for sovereignty, governance, and controlled consumption. As enterprise applications and AI workloads increasingly span on-premises environments, public clouds, sovereign regions, and emerging AI Factory architectures, or

New architecture delivers fastest storage on the planet, designed to maximize GPU utilization and architected for up to 100 TB per second aggregate throughput NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced NetApp Novus™, the fastest storage on the planet designed for AI infrastructure providers operating large GPU environments. Built to support a zettabyte-scale file system, this next-generation architecture will allow AI factories to keep millions of GPUs continuously fed with data, maximizing the efficiency, utilization, and profitability of their investments. Neoclouds and GPU-as-a-Service providers are building AI factories at a scale that tradit

Storage-as-a-Service will enable qualified European customers to use data sovereignty controls in support of their compliance and data residency journeys NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced NetApp Keystone Sovereign, which will enable qualified European customers to use data sovereignty controls in support of their compliance and data residency journeys. Enterprises will more easily be able to keep data and support within specified geographic boundaries. As organizations modernize IT and adopt cloud-like operating models, customers in regulated industries face increasing pressure to keep sensitive data, support, and operations within defin

NetApp to explore integrating NetApp capabilities with SAP Cloud Infrastructure storage architecture, to support secure, resilient, high-performance infrastructure for SAP and customer workloads NetApp, the intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced its intent to expand its long-standing partnership with SAP, with plans to explore deeper cloud-native integration of NetApp capabilities into SAP Cloud Infrastructure, SAP’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. The NetApp Platform supports key elements of the SAP Cloud Infrastructure storage architecture, delivering reliable, highly available and high-performance file and block storage services. The NetApp Platform also provi

Trial validates a seamless path to higher-capacity services on Calix One, enabling providers to scale networks, pursue new revenue opportunities, and respond to evolving market demand Calix, Inc. (NYSE:CALX) today announced that Astound, a recognized leader in Wi-Fi, mobile, TV, and fiber optic solutions, has successfully completed a trial of the Calix 50G-PON (passive optical network) access solution. By enabling 50 gigabits per second of downstream speeds and flexible upstream speeds, the trial demonstrated how Astound can build upon their existing network and operational investments to deliver high-capacity, multi-gig converged services for both commercial and residential customers on

Secure, reliable, and performant NetApp storage is planned to be available as a native service to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure customers NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, and Oracle today announced a new fully managed storage service that brings enterprise-grade NetApp storage natively to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service will bring NetApp ONTAP® data management capabilities natively to OCI to help organizations simplify the migration and management of critical AI and enterprise workloads in the cloud. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure NetApp Storage Service is designed to be a fully managed OCI-native storage service that brings NetApp ONTAP data

Joint solution combines compute and data infrastructure to optimize GPUs at scale NetApp® (NASDAQ:NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Supermicro to deliver jointly validated AI infrastructure solutions spanning large-scale AI factories, enterprise deployments, neoclouds, and sovereign AI initiatives. By combining Supermicro's AI-optimized compute and rack-scale systems with the NetApp Platform, the companies will help customers accelerate deployment, improve GPU utilization, strengthen data governance, and reduce operational complexity. NetApp and Supermicro are creating a full-stack foundation for AI that extends beyond hig

IFS.ai-powered platform will streamline Flynn's complex manufacturing, construction and service operations, enabling its near-term Industrial AI and automation strategy ITASCA, Ill., September 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, today announced that Flynn Group of Companies, North America's leading building envelope contractor, has selected IFS Cloud to support the next phase of its growth. The investment will support more than 6,000 employees across Canada and the United States while strengthening the operational consistency, data quality and governance needed to advance Flynn's AI and automation ambitions. From roofing and waterproofing to architec

FREEHOLD, NJ, Sept. 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UMH Properties, Inc. (NYSE:UMH, TASE: UMH)) announced that it will present to the Philadelphia Securities Association (PSA) on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. The Forum will be held at the Union League of Philadelphia, located in Philadelphia, PA. Samuel A. Landy, President and Chief Executive Officer, will present an overview of the Company followed by a question and answer session. It is a luncheon meeting that will start at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time. The presentation materials will be available on the homepage of the Company’s website at www.umh.reit. UMH Properties, Inc., which was organized in 1968, is a public equity REIT that currently ow

Shareholder-funded grants are Expected to Help Provide the Equivalent of More Than 3.13 Million MealsLink to the B-roll video and soundbite, along with a list of grant recipients and the amount awarded to eachOAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- With food insecurity affecting one in five Californians, The PG&E Corporation Foundation (The PG&E Foundation) is providing $1.32 million to local organizations on the front lines of hunger relief. The funding will help more than 50 food banks, tribal food banks and senior meal programs across 45 counties provide the equivalent of approximately 3.13 million meals to families and individuals in need.

TORONTO, Sept. 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- Scotiabank is pleased to join Project Agorá, the global public-private collaboration convened by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Institute of International Finance (IIF), exploring how tokenization and programmability can enhance cross-border payments and settlement. Scotiabank looks forward to contributing to the project, building on successful real-value testing completed in July 2026.Project Agorá is assessing how a platform for tokenized commercial bank deposits and tokenized central bank reserves can deliver atomic, multi-currency settlement of wholesale cross-border tr