WSOP to Bring Crypto to Global Events Through Solana-Powered Tournament Ticket Purchases

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The World Series of Poker (WSOP®), the longest-running and most prestigious poker tournament series in the world, today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration with the Solana Foundation to bring crypto directly into the global poker experience.

Beginning today at the 57th annual summer event at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe Las Vegas, players will be able to purchase tournament tickets using Solana, powered by MoonPay’s payment infrastructure. This will be the first time in WSOP history where players can buy tournament tickets directly with crypto, and by leveraging Solana’s technology, this payment method will have zero processing fees.

The integration will expand further at the 2026 WSOP Paradise in The Bahamas this December, where tournament winners can receive settlements in stablecoins on Solana, enabling near-instant access to payments and reduc ... Read more »

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Thursday, 11. June 2026

In an increasingly resource-constrained world, water has become critical to both economic growth and national security, driving demand for global leadership in sustainability, innovation, and water solutions.

The Saudi Water Authority has announced the return of the Innovation Driven Water Sustainability Conference (IDWS), taking place from 7 to 9 December 2026 at The Ritz-Carlton, Jeddah, as the Kingdom consolidates its position at the center of the global water conversation.

As home to one of the world’s most advanced and rapidly evolving water management ecosystems, Saudi Arabia currently operates more than 500 water production facilities across the Kingdom with total water production capacity exceeding 16.2 million cubic meters per day. The Kingdom is also the world’s largest producer of desalinated water and a global leader in energy-efficient desalination technologies; as such, it provides the ideal destinatio ... Read more »

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -
AHS Properties today announced the acquisition of Shangri-La Hotel for AED 1.1 billion, one of the largest single-asset real estate transactions recorded in recent history.

Acquired from Mismak Asset Management, the transaction cements one of the most concentrated private-sector bets on Sheikh Zayed Road's next decade.

The Shangri-La Hotel is a 43-floor, 200-metre tower on Sheikh Zayed Road, and was one of the first five-star hotels to open on the corridor when it was completed in 2003.

The acquisition adds an iconic anchor asset to a portfolio that already includes AHS Tower, a recently sold-out Grade-A commercial development on Sheikh Zayed Road, and AHS City, the developer’s flagship master-planned, mixed-use community on the corridor with a forecast gross development value of AED 25 billion.

Together, these three assets form a vertical corridor play: AHS Tower, AHS City, and now Shangri-La Hotel. The combined footprin ... Read more »

LOS ANGELES - Thursday, 11. June 2026 AETOSWire


(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Global sports brand PUMA today opened the PUMA NITRO™ Lab in Los Angeles, the latest chapter of its innovation platform, and company’s most significant yet, marking the global reveal of the Ultra Nitro 7 and NITRO™'s arrival in football for the first time on a football boot. Previous editions of the NITRO™ Lab in Paris, Tokyo, and London explored the future of running performance and cemented NITRO™ as the defining technology in elite running with Fast-R3. Now, with the world’s attention turning to football, Los Angeles is where that journey takes its next step, introducing the same innovation DNA that reshaped the track to the pitch, when it matters most.

Staying true to PUMA’s football approach of putting community first, the Lab opened its doors to the streets before the spotlight arrived. Before opening to media, the PUMA NITRO™ Lab welcomed a group of young players from the LA Breakers, a loca ... Read more »

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -
Nearly two-thirds of patients aged 80+ treated with BRUKINSA remained progression-free at six years, despite advanced age and high-risk features

New European patient research reveals safety, disease severity, and effectiveness are the top drivers for first-line CLL treatment decisions – not time on therapy



(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeOne Medicines Ltd. (Nasdaq: ONC; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company, today announced the presentation of a large Phase 3 dataset in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) aged 80 and older, showing sustained benefit with BRUKINSA after nearly 6.5 years of follow-up, reinforcing its role as the foundational BTK inhibitor. BRUKINSA is the only BTK inhibitor to demonstrate superior efficacy vs. ibrutinib in a Phase 3 trial.1 These data, one of the largest datasets of older patients with treatment-naive CLL, will be presented at the 2026 European Hematology ... Read more »

MUMBAI, India - Wednesday, 10. June 2026

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, today introduced BlueVerse™ Currency, an AI-linked commercial model that prices enterprise work by outcomes rather than effort consumed as enterprises scale agentic AI across core processes.

BlueVerse Currency brings together the full BlueVerse stack—People (expertise on demand), Accelerators (reusable assets that speed delivery), Agents (autonomous AI workforce), Platforms (orchestration layer to scale delivery), and Tokens (compute and model usage)—into a single commercial construct.

It introduces outcome-linked pricing tied to measurable business results, enabling shared productivity gains so clients can capture AI-driven efficiency value. The model also supports fungible resourcing, enabling reallocation mid-contract to evolving priorities, and faster reinvestment, with savings redirected into innovation.

It is underpinn ... Read more »

MUNICH & PFORZHEIM, Germany (BUSINESS WIRE)--For the major economies, the transformation towards a climate-neutral industry is one of the central tasks for the coming decades. While the European Union has pledged climate neutrality by 2050, China’s goal is to be climate-neutral by 2060. Hydrogen is a key to transforming their manufacturing and energy industry. However, the actual market development is lagging behind these ambitious objectives: According to the Global Energy Report 2025, only 11 percent of hydrogen projects announced since the start of the decade are now in operation or have been secured by investment decisions. This is why ees Europe, Europe’s largest and most international exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems, is putting a spotlight on hydrogen. The newly aligned exhibition segment Hydrogen Dialogue Forum & Expo in hall B2 will be giving in-depth information about the opportunities for hydrogen technology, technological innovation, savings p ... Read more »

Under the theme “One Roquette for Innovations,” the company will highlight its recently expanded portfolio to demonstrate how this unmatched range of high-performance excipients and innovative formulation solutions is powering the next generation of pharmaceuticals.



(BUSINESS WIRE)--Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients, will showcase its comprehensive portfolio of innovative drug delivery solutions at CPHI & PMEC China 2026, taking place June 16-18 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC). Under the theme “One Roquette for Innovations,” Roquette’s Health & Pharma Solutions Business Unit will exhibit at booth E3D26, highlighting how its deep scientific expertise and technical capabilities enable pharmaceutical companies to turn promising formulations into scalable commercial realities.

“As the pharmaceutical industry accelerates innovation, from GLP-1 therapies to complex biologics, the pressure ... Read more »

SAN ANTONIO - Wednesday, 10. June 2026 AETOSWire New capabilities help organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise AI environments and workflows, while preparing for the future of agentic commerce (BUSINESS WIRE)--NielsenIQ (NYSE: NIQ) today unveiled six new AI-powered capabilities at C360, the company's flagship client and industry event, marking a major milestone in the execution of NIQ’s AI strategy. The new capabilities help brands, retailers, and other organizations operationalize trusted market intelligence across enterprise workflows, AI environments, and the emerging world of agentic commerce. NIQ’s AI value creation strategy is built on two foundational principles: Delivering The Full View™: Combining the industry’s broadest and deepest datasets, advanced AI models, and rich content to help organizations unlock actionable insights and drive AI innovation at scale. Enabling AI-Powered Capabilities: Delivering trusted intelligence and propr ... Read more »

The Estonian Police and Border Guard Board has begun the issuance of the country’s new electronic identity (eID) cards, marking a major milestone in the ongoing modernisation of Estonia’s renowned digital identity programme. This new generation of cards has been developed in partnership with Thales under an eight-year contract covering the full lifecycle of national identity documents - from issuance to personalisation -for residents, citizens, and specific groups such as diplomats or refugees. The advanced eID cards1 feature cutting-edge embedded security elements that can be upgraded to counter emerging cyber threats, ensuring citizens’ digital transactions remain protected over time. (BUSINESS WIRE)--With increasing cyber risks and the rapid evolution of digital public services, Estonia is reinforcing the security, durability and adaptability of the documents that underpin its digital society: identity cards, residence permit cards, e-resident digital identity cards, diplomati ... Read more »

Driving growth for high-performance, sustainable solutions, while enabling customers to avoid 27.2 million metric tons of CO₂e emissions (BUSINESS WIRE) -- IFF (NYSE: IFF) — a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences — released its 2025 Do More Good Report, highlighting the company’s commitment to creating better products and experiences for people and the planet. IFF’s increasingly nature-based portfolio underscores the central role of sustainability and positions its innovation at the intersection of biology and chemistry. Through continued investment in R&D, expanded global innovation partnerships and measurable impact across the value chain, the report demonstrates how IFF is reducing environmental impact while delivering differentiated performance and long-term value for customers and consumers. “IFF’s 2025 Do More Good Report shows clear progress in advancing nature-based solutions and strengthening our portfolio,” said Erik Fyr ... Read more »

VC9800D delivers configurable multi-format video processing for AI multimedia, mobile, and smart edge devices (BUSINESS WIRE) -- VeriSilicon (688521.SH) today announced that its VC9800D Video Processing Unit (VPU) IP supports AV2 decoding, further expanding the company’s advanced video codec portfolio for next-generation video and streaming applications. The VC9800D enables flexible deployment of next-generation video technologies across a broad range of intelligent consumer and multimedia devices. VeriSilicon has released VC9800D with AV2 to multiple global customers and is updating the IP based on the AV2 V1.0 specification. AV2 is the next-generation video coding specification from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia). Building on the foundation of AV1, AV2 is engineered to provide superior compression efficiency, enabling high-quality video delivery at significantly lower bitrates. It is optimized for the evolving demands of streaming, broadcasting, and real-time video confer ... Read more »

CHICAGO - Wednesday, 10. June 2026 AETOSWire Print On-device AI, ecosystem integration and premium innovation reshape global smart demand (BUSINESS WIRE)--NIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a global leader in consumer intelligence, today released its 2026 Smartphone Forecast showing that an AI-driven upgrade cycle is expected to fuel 8% growth in the global telecom sector in 2026. As manufacturers accelerate investment in on-device AI and connected device ecosystems, consumers are increasingly prioritizing intelligence functionality, seamless integration, and premium experiences when choosing their next smartphone. The forecast suggests relatively stable conditions across the broader technology and durables market, with growth increasingly concentrated in premium segments. Europe is showing early signs of a new replacement cycle after two weaker years, while China is showing signals of modest growth despite subsidy rollbacks and a challenging comparison base. Insights from Mobile World Congre ... Read more »

TOKYO - Wednesday, 10. June 2026 AETOSWire


(BUSINESS WIRE)--This year marks the 35th awarding of the Blue Planet Prize, the international environmental award sponsored by the Asahi Glass Foundation, chaired by Takuya Shimamura. Every year, the Foundation selects two laureates, individuals, or organizations who have made significant contributions towards the resolution of global environmental problems. The Board of Directors has selected the following 2026 Blue Planet Prize laureates.

1. Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum (USA) born December 21, 1946
Former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
Former Director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP)

Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum led pioneering research on the toxicity of persistent organic pollutants (POPs), significantly advancing international risk assessment. By demonstrating how exposure to endocrine disruptors during “critical windows of susceptibility”—such as fetal development— ... Read more »

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -
(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cosylab and Heron Neutron Medical Corp. announced today, 10 June 2026, the signing of a Letter of Intent to establish a strategic framework for joint market development to support the global deployment of Accelerator-Based Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (AB-BNCT) systems.

The collaboration aims to accelerate the development and integration of sophisticated software solutions for use with AB-BNCT while strengthening AB-BNCT's international market access and business development. By combining Cosylab's proven expertise in mission-critical software and complex system integration with Heron's end-to-end BNCT platforms, the partnership aims to drive broader global clinical adoption of this highly targeted cancer treatment modality.

"AB-BNCT is emerging as one of the most promising approaches for treating difficult-to-treat and recurrent cancers," said Mark Pleško, Chief Executive Officer of Cosylab. "This collaboration reinforces our ... Read more »