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Written while the songwriter's own father was dying of cancer, "This Life" became a personal story of not just Ronald Reagan, but two men facing their end. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Love Lies & Fiction have released a new music video featuring scenes from the...
Sep 21 · 15:15·PRWeb
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(PR-inside.com) Winners across six categories honored during red-carpet ceremony at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center during Fierce Pharma Week LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / September 21, 2026 / Digital Health Networks announced the winners of the fourth annual CINEHEALTH International Health & Wellness Film and Video Festival, celebrating exceptional storytelling across film, episodic content, social media and podcasting. The winners were honored September 15 during a red-carpet ceremony at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, held in conjunction with Fierce Pharma Week. The evening culminated with Maria Menounos receiving the CINEHEALTH Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to health and wellness advocacy. Through ..
Sep 21 · 15:00·PR-Inside
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Monday 21 September, 2026 Thermomix® takes its ecosystem to the next level: With the new Cookidoo® Assistant and Recipe Translation benefits, the largest culinary community gains comprehensive AI features. In addition, Arabic is introduced as a new language option on Thermomix® TM7, following a long-standing community demand. Vorwerk is introducing the AI-powered Cookidoo® Assistant and Recipe Translation, two new Cookidoo® benefits designed to make the world’s largest curated recipe ecosystem more intuitive, personalised and accessible. Together, they help people move more naturally from inspiration to Guided Cooking by making it easier to explore trusted Cookidoo® content, find relevant recipes, compare options, plan meals and organise cooking ideas. As part of the same ambition to bring
Sep 21 · 14:57·Pressat
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - 21 septembre 2026) - Raj Lala, président et chef de la direction, FNB Evolve (« Evolve » ou la « société ») et son équipe se sont joints à Keith Wu, chef, Produits négociés en bourse, Bourse de Toronto (« TSX »), pour ouvrir les marchés et souligner l'inscription du nouveau FNB NASDAQ Technologie UltraYield Evolve (TSX : TECY).Cannot view this video? Visit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsHCiM2VhoLe FNB TECY cherche à procurer un revenu intéressant et une...
Sep 21 · 14:33·mlpr-newsfile
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - September 21, 2026) - Raj Lala, President and Chief Executive Officer, Evolve ETFs ("Evolve" or the "Company"), and his team, joined Keith Wu, Head, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX"), to open the market to celebrate the Company's new listing of Evolve NASDAQ Technology UltraYield ETF (TSX: TECY).Cannot view this video? Visit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFsHCiM2VhoTECY seeks to provide attractive income and long-term capital...
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NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor. NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before...
Sep 21 · 12:55·PR Newswire
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Hands-free voice commands let technicians start and stop service and inspection video recording, creating the transparency today's service customers demand. BOSTON, Sept. 21, 2026/PRNewswire/ -- TruVideo, the leader in AI video communication technology for the transportation industry,...
Sep 21 · 12:38·PR Newswire
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With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
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Miami, Florida--(Newsfile Corp. - September 21, 2026) - DesignRush has released Episode 153 of the DesignRush Podcast featuring Jeff Finkelstein, founder of Customer Paradigm, a leading Boulder, Colorado-based digital agency.Headshot of Jeff Finkelstein, Founder of Customer Paradigm, featured in Episode 153 of the DesignRush Podcast.To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit:https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/10587/314973_38e0cb7784504a25_001full.jpgIn the conversation with...
Sep 21 · 11:45·mlpr-newsfile
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HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 21, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- ViewTech Borescopes will exhibit this week at the 2026 Turbomachinery and Pump Symposia, showcasing advanced remote visual inspection solutions for pumps, compressors, turbines, and other critical rotating equipment. Among the featured technologies will be the VJ-4 3D Measurement video borescope, an inspection system that combines high-resolution imaging with 3D measurement capabilities.
Sep 21 · 11:00·Send2Press
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Monday 21 September, 2026 ‘Report It! Week’ from 21st to 27th September is a collective campaign to help people recognise and report animal cruelty online. Online animal cruelty rarely looks like cruelty at first glance. It is often dressed up as comedy, cuteness, or rescue, designed to earn views, shares, and money. Led by the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC) to raise awareness of online animal cruelty and encourage people to respond responsibly when they encounter harmful animal content online. This year's theme reminds every viewer that the choices we make online have real consequences for real animals. REPORT IT! WEEK 2026 runs from September 21 - 27, 2026, where SMACC are asking people to #ReportIt2EndIt and invites the global community to pause before reacting, question
Sep 21 · 10:30·Pressat
Finance · AI
HONG KONG, Sept 21, 2026 - (ACN Newswire) - Duiba Group Limited (Stock Code: 01753.HK), the Hong Kong-listed operator that has become one of China's fastest-scaling AI short-drama platforms, announced that its controlling shareholder, Xiaoliang Holding Limited, has agreed to transfer 120,682,000 ordinary shares — approximately 11.21% of issued share capital — for nil consideration to Kewei Holding Limited, the Company's employee share award platform.
The transfer, executed on 20 September 2026, is understood to be the largest founder-to-ESOP donation by percentage of share capital in the history of the Hong Kong stock market. It is not a disposal for cash. No shares are being sold into the market; all of them are being placed into a vehicle whose sole economic purpose is to reward and retain employees.
Crucially, the arrangement is being funded entirely from the founder's personal shareholding. It involves no issuance of new shares and therefore no dilution to existing shareholders, and it consumes no company capital — no cash, no treasury reserves, no debt. The 120,682,000 shares are being transferred at nil consideration from the founder's own account to the employee incentive platform, meaning the cost of motivating and retaining the core team is borne by the founder, not by public investors or the Company's balance sheet.
Six months of exponential growth
The transfer comes as Duiba's AI short-drama business enters a phase of compounding growth. On Douyin's native end, cumulative playback from June to August rose 178%. In July and August, Duiba ranked top three across the entire industry for two consecutive months, and was the only leading player to sustain month-on-month growth above 50% in both months.
Seven years, zero founder selling
Duiba listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on 7 May 2019. According to HKEX disclosure records, Mr. Chen Xiaoliang, the founder and controlling shareholder, voluntarily extended the post-IPO lock-up to three years at the time of listing and, from the IPO through the date of the transfer, has never reduced his personal beneficial shareholding.
The 20 September arrangement is therefore the first change in the founder's ownership structure in the seven years since listing — and its direction is unambiguously inward.
"This is the clearest possible signal that the controlling shareholder is backing the next chapter of the business rather than exiting it," a Company spokesperson said. "The shares go to an ESOP vehicle, not to the market."
After completion, Xiaoliang Holding will remain the controlling shareholder with approximately 31.01%, down from 42.21%. Kewei Holding, which currently holds only 0.17%, will hold approximately 11.38%.
A war chest for AI talent
Kewei Holding has undertaken to introduce new incentive schemes with vesting and lock-up arrangements under the Company's equity incentive management measures. The stated focus is AI businesses, with AI short drama at the centre. Existing and future awards will be subject to service and performance conditions, aligning key employees with long-term shareholder value.
The timing is deliberate. The AI short-drama sector is expanding rapidly, but hits remain scarce: fewer than 0.5% of new AI short dramas on Douyin surpass 100 million views. In that environment, the constraint on growth is not capital — it is the ability to retain writers, algorithm engineers, producers and commercialisation talent capable of turning AI tooling into repeatable hits.
By moving roughly 11% of the Company into a locked-up, performance-vested incentive pool, Duiba is, in effect, converting founder ownership into collective engineering and creative capacity.
The AI bet is already compounding
Duiba was founded in 2014, is headquartered in Hangzhou and listed on HKEX in May 2019. It built its early business on points-and-benefits SaaS and internet advertising, serving more than 16,000 enterprise clients. In late 2025 it moved strategically into AI short drama, building a full-stack pipeline spanning AI scriptwriting, AI production and AI distribution — what the Company describes as the industrialised, scaled monetisation of AI-generated content.
Financials: revenue and gross profit rising in tandem
The Company's 2026 interim results show that the growth is reaching the income statement, not merely the traffic ledger.
For the six months ended 30 June 2026:
Metric
1H2026
Change
Total revenue
RMB 434.7 million
+24.3% YoY
Gross profit
RMB 74.5 million
+30.0% YoY
Gross margin
17.1%
16.4% (1H2025)
Loss attributable to owners
RMB 25.3 million
narrowed
AI short-drama revenue
RMB 222.6 million
51.2% of group revenue
The Group's traditional SaaS and advertising operations contributed nearly RMB 70 million of gross profit in the first half and are expected to continue providing earnings support, while AI short drama has become the dominant revenue driver.
Asset quality also appears intact. The Company reported net assets of RMB 1.175 billion, cash and short-term wealth management products of approximately RMB 400 million, and prepayments of RMB 345 million, largely related to the bank instant-discount business and recyclable into working capital.
Why the transfer matters now
Three things make the move more than a symbolic gesture.
First, it is structurally a gift, not a sale. The nil-consideration transfer means the founder receives no cash. For a controlling shareholder who has not sold a single share in seven years, the decision moves equity from a personal account to a collective one.
Second, it arrives at a moment of operational inflection. Douyin rankings, view-count trajectories and the first-half revenue split all point in the same direction: AI short drama has become the core business, and locking talent into it via vesting and lock-ups addresses the binding constraint on its next phase.
Third, it creates a credible incentive currency. An ESOP pool of roughly 11.38% is large enough to be material for hires and retention, yet structured with vesting and lock-ups that prevent it from becoming a short-term payout.
The road ahead: overseas expansion and the short drama alliance business
Duiba's second-half outlook rests on two tracks: AI short-drama expansion and a stable SaaS and advertising base.
On the global front, the Company is accelerating its overseas push into a market it estimates at US$4 billion in 2026, up 390% year on year, with management expecting overseas operations to begin contributing revenue in the fourth quarter.
Domestically, it is pursuing a strategy of the short drama alliance business,expanding to tens of thousands of app media clients via SDK access. Its distribution footprint extends beyond Toutiao and Hongguo to Tencent, Kuaishou, Baidu and more than 20 mid-tier platforms.
This is not a founder exit. It is a founder-to-employee capital allocation: a seven-year holder converting personal ownership into collective incentive capacity at precisely the moment Duiba's AI short-drama business is compounding on both the view-count and income-statement lines.
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Sep 21 · 05:51·mlpr-acnnewswire