SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Tuesday, 07. July 2026

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet for everyday finance, announced it has surpassed 100 million users globally, and that for the first time in the platform's history, daily payment users now outnumber traders. More than half of those users are based in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, and Lati ... Read more »

VICTORIA, Seychelles, - Tuesday, 07. July 2026

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced an upgraded institutional pricing framework for its PRO and Liquidity Incentive Programs, enhancing trading costs, liquidity incentives, and market structure across crypto and traditional financial markets. Effective June 30, the update introduces a more sophisticated fee model designed to better support institutional traders, market makers, a ... Read more »

JOHANNESBURG, Afrique du Sud - mercredi, 08. juillet 2026

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dans le cadre de son « Africa Media China Tour », Changan Automobile a accueilli 10 représentants majeurs des médias et des concessionnaires sud-africains dans ses installations mondiales de R&D et de fabrication intelligente en Chine. Ce programme a permis de découvrir en détail les capacités de Changan en matière d’innovation, de fabrication intelligente, de sécurité automobile et de technologies liées aux énergies nouvelles, renforçant ainsi la compréhension internationale de la puissance technologique de la marque et de sa vision à long terme.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Monday, 06. July 2026

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Changan Automobile recently hosted its Africa Media China Tour, welcoming 10 key South African media representatives and dealers to its global R&D and intelligent manufacturing facilities in China. The program provided an in-depth look at Changan's capabilities in innovation, intelligent manufacturing, vehicle safety and new energy technologies, further strengthening international understanding of the brand's technological strength and long-term development vision.< ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- ROYC today announces a strategic collaboration with PwC Sweden to accelerate the digitalization of the GP value chain. The partnership brings together PwC Sweden's market-leading expertise in fund formation and structuring with ROYC’s platform capabilities, with the shared aim of compressing time-to-market, eliminating manual friction in early-phase workflows, and improving the client experience across the full fund lifecycle for fund managers operating across any jurisdiction.

"Digitalization of fund operations is overdue. We work alongside fund managers on structuring decisions, regulatory requirements, and operational complexity every day, and the inefficiencies in the early phase are real and costly. What excites me about this collaboration is the practical ambition behind it: taking the knowledge we apply manually today and making it available through a platform that GPs can use from day one. Working directly with the ROYC team in Stockholm makes itera ... Read more »

NEW YORK & SEATTLE - Thursday, 09. July 2026


An investor consortium led by B Capital and including CalPERS will provide long-term capital to expand Russell Investments’ client capabilities and accelerate innovation

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Russell Investments, the global investment solutions provider, today announced that an investor consortium (the “Investor Consortium”) led by B Capital, a global multi-stage investment firm, and including California Public Employees' Retirement System ("CalPERS"), has agreed to acquire the firm from TA Associates (“TA”) and Reverence Capital Partners (“RCP”). The transaction comes as Russell Investments marks over $416 billion in global assets under management (AUM) and has experienced more than 15% organic growth over the past two years.

Russell Investments has been a trusted, independent partner to its clients for over 90 years. Its open-architecture model delivers portfolio solutions that source from the full landscape of ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Castel Group has published its 2025 Sustainability Report, presenting the actions carried out over the year to strengthen the resilience of its activities, reduce its environmental footprint, and contribute to the economic and social development of the regions in which it operates. Present in nearly 34 countries through its three business divisions: Castel Afrique for beverages, Somdia for agro-industry, and Castel Vins for wine production and trading, the Group is pursuing a clear ambition: to create more value locally by leveraging its industrial, agricultural and commercial presence, while addressing major climate, social and economic challenges. In 2025, the Group generated €6.954 billion in revenue, with nearly 43,000 employees, beverage operations in 22 African countries, 80 production sites, 3 glassworks, 6 sugar refineries, 13 vineyards and 11 blending and packaging sites in France. Against a backdrop of increasingly fragile supply chains, Castel contin ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, today announced the launch of LingBot-Depth 2.0, a next-generation spatial perception model, alongside its foundational visual model, LingBot-Vision. This release marks a significant leap in robotic spatial perception, empowering robots to accurately understand and navigate the physical world. From "Seeing" to "Seeing Accurately" Building upon the success of LingBot-Depth, which pioneered the Masked Depth Modeling (MDM) technique to resolve depth sensing challenges for transparent and reflective surfaces, LingBot-Depth 2.0 represents a massive scale-up in training data and performance. Trained on 150 million samples, the new model achieves top rankings in 12 out of 16 depth completion benchmarks. Most notably, in the most demanding indoor scenarios with massive depth loss, LingBot-Depth 2.0 halves the depth error compared to its predecessor, reducing RMSE from 0.132 to 0.062. Furthermore, it demonstrates partic ... Read more »

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, announced the establishment of ‘DEWA International’, a wholly owned independent subsidiary of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA. The company aims to develop conventional and clean energy projects worldwide and export Dubai’s successful energy and water infrastructure model to global markets.

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said: “Thanks to the vision and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai has become a global model for achievement and accelerated development. Through its world-class infrastructure, particularly in the energy and water sectors, Dubai has firmly established itself as a leading international benchmark. Launching DEWA International marks a strategic step towards extending this successful model to global markets and further strengthening Dubai’s position as a sourc ... Read more »

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dryad Networks, the leader in ultra-early wildfire detection technology, today announced a major achievement in the finals of the Autonomous Wildfire Response track of XPRIZE Wildfire, a four-year, $11 million global competition accelerating new solutions to end destructive wildfires.

Competing against just two other finalists selected from an original field of nearly 300 teams worldwide, Dryad successfully demonstrated the integrated capabilities of its Silvanet wildfire detection network and Silvaguard autonomous firefighting drone system during final testing in remote Alaska.

The XPRIZE Wildfire finals challenged teams to autonomously detect and suppress a wildfire without any human intervention across a vast 1,000 square kilometer test area in Alaska in June 2026. During the competition, Dryad’s Silvanet wildfire sensors detected a small wildfire within minutes of ignition and triggered an autonomous response from the company’s Silvaguard drone sys ... Read more »

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Lottery Open Through July 20

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Empire State Building Observation Deck (ESB), atop the “World’s Most Famous Building,” today announced that general lottery registration is open for this year's Empire State Building Observation Deck Run-Up (ESBRU), which will run through July 20, 2026. The annual race, presented by NYU Langone Health and powered by Merrell, will take place on Oct. 6, 2026, at 8 p.m.

This year’s race marks the 48th anniversary of the event, in which 225 runners will race up 1,576 stairs of the iconic New York City landmark to reach the world-famous 86th Floor Observation Deck.

“Every year, the Empire State Building Observation Deck Run-Up is a remarkable feat for all who participate as they race up to Tripadvisor's #1 top attraction in the U.S.,” said Tony Malkin, chairman and CEO of the Empire State Realty Trust. “We are excited to welcome this year’s runners from a ... Read more »