CHICAGO - Wednesday, 03. June 2026 Award recognizes NIQ’s scalable commerce intelligence, data enrichment, and measurement solutions built on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NielsenIQ (NYSE:NIQ) today announced that it has been named the 2026 Retail & Consumer Goods Snowflake Product Partner of the Year award recipient by Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company. NIQ was recognized for its achievements at Snowflake’s annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, for delivering scalable, cloud-native solutions on Snowflake that enable retailers, brands, and media partners to securely enrich data, measure performance, and unlock more precise, actionable commerce intelligence. Through Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud, NIQ helps joint customers collaborate across organizations, activate high-value data assets, and power advanced measurement while maintaining strong governance and data privacy controls. By embedding NIQ’s AI-driven data, models, and harmonization capabilities wit ... Read more »

CHICAGO - New solution structures and enriches fragmented product data to help brands and retailers fuel AI discovery, recommendations, and agentic commerce (BUSINESS WIRE) -- NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) today announced the launch of NIQ Product Intelligence, a new solution designed to help retailers and brands transform fragmented product data into structured, interoperable intelligence that fuels AI-driven commerce. As AI increasingly shapes how consumers discover, evaluate, and purchase products, the quality and completeness of product data have become a defining competitive advantage. In AI-mediated commerce environments, products that lack structured, enriched, and machine-readable data risk becoming invisible to recommendation engines, AI assistants, and autonomous purchasing agents. NIQ Product Intelligence addresses this challenge by creating a unified product intelligence layer that standardizes attributes, resolves product identity across systems, and enriches product data a ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology and standards organization, today announced the release of the Open Footprint® Standard, Edition 1.0, that will help organizations streamline scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions reporting.

The new standard is the first open emissions data model to address all three scopes, providing a comprehensive framework that enables organizations to collect and standardize data from their value chain and report across multiple jurisdictions.

“There is an urgent need to streamline emissions data management and reduce the manual effort required to capture data within supply chains, perform data conversion, and report out to various regulators,” said Steve Nunn, President and CEO of The Open Group. “The Open Footprint Standard removes friction and lowers cost, helping organizations identify emissions reduction opportunities.”

Key features of the model include:

Standardized emissions data definitions and relationsh ... Read more »

NEW YORK - Oversubscribed Fund More than Doubles Capital Raised for Predecessor Vehicle (BUSINESS WIRE)--Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced the final close of Blackstone Capital Partners Asia III (“BCP Asia III”) at $13.1 billion, exceeding its $10 billion target and marking the firm’s largest private equity fundraise in the region. The oversubscribed fund reached its hard cap and builds on the strong performance of the strategy’s first two vintages, with this close representing more than double the amount of capital raised for its predecessor vehicle. Joe Baratta, Global Head of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies, said: “We are grateful for the continued trust of our investors in Blackstone and our leading Asia Private Equity franchise. This successful fundraise reflects the strength of our platform and our ability to perform through cycles. Asia Pacific is the fastest-growing region in the world, presenting compelling opportunities to invest at scale behind our high-con ... Read more »

SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday, 02. June 2026

UpsideOnly draws more than 30,000 active users from 185 countries in its first two weeks
Perpetuals signs exchange agreement with Datavault AI, bringing tokenized gold, copper, geothermal energy, and critical minerals to 24/7 regulated global trading


(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perpetuals.com Ltd (Nasdaq: PDC) today reported strong early results for its breakout UpsideOnly trading and market prediction platform and announced an agreement with Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) to list tokenized real-world commodity assets on the Perpetuals platform.

In its first two weeks, traders flocked to the UpsideOnly platform, attracting more than 30,000 active users, generating $4.5 billion in cumulative platform volume across 186,000 fills and 25 instruments. Reflecting the widespread demand for a risk-free product, users came from 185 different countries. Surprisingly, gold was the top instrument with $1.4 billion in volume, outpacing b ... Read more »

LONDON & AMSTERDAM -
A new core capability within Experian’s Ascend Platform, designed to help financial services organisations safely scale agentic AI across the lending lifecycle
Brings together Experian, client and partner AI agents within a trusted operating layer for data, decisioning, governance and control
55% of consumers say they would allow an AI agent to make an autonomous purchase on their behalf
ServiceNow becomes first partner to integrate with Experian’s Agent Operating System


(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Experian today announces the launch of the Agent Operating System™, a trusted agentic AI layer within the Experian Ascend Platform, unveiled at Money20/20 Europe.

The Experian Agent Operating System is designed to help financial services organisations move successfully beyond AI experimentation and safely scale agentic AI to transform decision-making, customer experiences, and day-to-day operations. It enables AI agents from Experian, clients ... Read more »

WIESBADEN, Germany - Tuesday, 02. June 2026 AETOSWire

New solution helps HPE Nonstop teams modernize SSH & SSL/TLS security using quantum-safe cryptography, centralize key and secrets management, and automate certificate and key lifecycles.

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- comforte AG, a global leader in data-centric security for HPE Nonstop environments, today announced the launch of TAMUNIO Assure, a purpose-built solution for HPE Nonstop that helps organizations modernize cryptographic security without application rewrites or disruption to mission-critical systems.

TAMUNIO Assure helps organizations enhance SSH & SSL/TLS security, centralizing keys, credentials, certificates, and secrets, and automating certificate and key lifecycle management across HPE Nonstop systems. The result is stronger security, more cost-effective operations, and a quantum-safe security posture without rewriting critical applications or introducing high-risk platform changes.

The c ... Read more »

LAS VEGAS - Tuesday, 02. June 2026 New engineering-led engagement model helps organizations co-build AI-native operational solutions using the Maestro platform (BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinaxis® Inc. (TSX:KXS), a global leader in supply chain planning and orchestration, today introduced Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE), a new engagement model designed to help enterprises operationalize AI and translate decisions into measurable business outcomes. FDE reflects the broader Kinaxis vision for operational orchestration, an approach that coordinates signals, decisions, actions and learnings across the business fast enough to change outcomes. The opening keynote at Kinexions, the company’s global customer conference, delivered by CEO Razat Gaurav will be livestreamed globally on June 2 @ 11:30 am EST via LinkedIn Live. This approach combines a unified data foundation with semantic intelligence that understands the relationships, dependencies, and trade-offs that shape enterprise operation ... Read more »

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Tuesday, 02. June 2026 AETOSWire


Organizations can now seamlessly procure Laserfiche document management to support and scale information governance and workflow automation.

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Laserfiche — the leading SaaS provider of intelligent content management — has partnered with AWS to make Laserfiche available through AWS Marketplace. This collaboration enables AWS customers to seamlessly procure Laserfiche’s document management platform to manage content, automate workflows and implement agentic AI capabilities.

“We’re excited about this evolution of our long-standing partnership with AWS,” said Thomas Phelps, Laserfiche senior vice president of corporate strategy and CIO. “AWS Marketplace provides a near-frictionless experience for Laserfiche direct customers who want to accept negotiated private offers, manage billing and payment history, and apply eligible purchases toward their AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) commitme ... Read more »

Pan-African network, led by Carnegie Mellon University Africa, drives digital transformation on the continent through research, education, and entrepreneurship (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced today that the African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) has signed its tenth university partner, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University (AASTU). The network, launched in 2022, provides a vehicle for technology-focused universities in Africa to engage in deep collaboration to drive digital growth, create technology development, build pathways to opportunities for youth, and shape policy change. Afretec Network members span the entire continent and represent North, South, East, West, and Central Africa. University partners include: Carnegie Mellon University Africa (Rwanda), Agostinho Neto University (Angola), Al Akhawayn University (Morocco), the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal), University of Lagos (N ... Read more »

Lenovo’s Near Real-Time AI Infrastructure Enables IPTV Delivery, Operational Control, and Transformative Fan Experiences at Unprecedented Global Scale (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lenovo today announced it is delivering a near real-time AI-powered infrastructure platform for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ to enable ultra-low-latency IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) video distribution in addition to the traditional cable and satellite broadcast, intelligent content delivery, and mission-critical decision-making across the event ecosystem and operations. As the world’s largest sporting event prepares for an unprecedented scale—spanning three host countries, featuring 48 teams, and engaging an estimated 6 billion fans—FIFA, broadcasters, and event operators will benefit from a live, always-on environment designed to perform at the highest level. As FIFA’s Official Technology Partner, Lenovo will deploy servers at the International Broadcast Center in Dallas, Texas, to help deliver the computing p ... Read more »

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Tuesday, 02. June 2026 AETOSWire Print CINDE Assortment and Space closes the loop between assortment, planogram, and in-store execution, proven across 500-plus global CPG deployments (BUSINESS WIRE)--Planogram compliance failures, undetected out-of-stocks, and the lag between headquarters planning and store-level execution cost grocers measurably in comp sales, shrink, and associate labor hours. The tools built for category planning have never been designed to close that execution gap. In response, SymphonyAI, a global leader in Vertical AI, today announced the availability of CINDE Assortment and Space for CPGs, an AI platform that closes the loop between assortment strategy, planogram execution, and in-store compliance, compressing the category review cycle from four to six weeks to a matter of days. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260602137061/en/ The platform is underpinned ... Read more »

CINDE RMI connects merchandising and retail media in a single closed-loop platform — without replacing your existing retail media stack



(BUSINESS WIRE)--Retail media has become the fastest-growing profit line in grocery, yet the billions of dollars CPG advertisers invest in it every year flow through a system where media buyers and merchants never see the same data. Merchants plan assortments, negotiate trade spend, and execute resets with no visibility into which CPG media investments are driving category velocity, while CPG advertisers renew or walk based on incrementality proof that most retailers cannot provide. To solve for this, SymphonyAI, a global leader in Vertical AI, today announced the general availability of CINDE Retail Media Intelligence (RMI), an AI platform that connects merchandising, media, and shopper intelligence into a single closed-loop system, giving retailers and CPG partners shared visibility into how every media dollar moves category turns, ... Read more »