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CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., Oct. 6, 2026 -- GIGABYTE Technology, a global leader in PC hardware, today announced its Amazon Prime Big Deal Days promotions, available exclusively to Prime members for 48 hours only, from October 6 through October 7, 2026. As the fall gaming...
Elected by the NACDS Board of Directors to succeed Steven C. Anderson, Wysong will build on the Association's success and momentum, and execute its new member-driven strategic framework for the future of pharmacy and retail, and for delivering membership value CARE Pharmacies CEO and past...
Customers can discover Southwest destinations and plan flights in an experience powered by OpenAI and Amazon Web Services DALLAS, Oct. 6, 2026 -- Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today launched a first-of-its-kind U.S. airline plugin in ChatGPT, marking the first step in a phased AI-powered booking approach with OpenAI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows travelers to discover...
Amazon's investments are boosting the Bay State's economy while creating opportunities for those who call Massachusetts home.
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Paris, France--(October 6, 2026) - Autovado, a global online marketplace for automotive parts, introduces a vehicle-first, fitment-based search experience for professional and retail buyers, designed to simplify the process of finding and sourcing replacement parts.Autovado Introduces Vehicle-First, Fitment-Based Search for Professional and Retail Parts BuyersCannot view this image? Visit:https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/8814/317646_image%2001.jpgUnlike a generic product...
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 06, 2026 -- Upexi, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPXI) (“Upexi” or the “Company”), a leading Solana-focused digital asset treasury company and consumer brands owner, today announced that Brian Rudick, Chief Strategy Officer, will participate in the following October 2026 investor conferences:
West Palm Beach, FL, Oct 6, 2026 - U.S. Polo Assn.®, the official sports brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), supported several major sports events across Europe during the 2026 summer season, reinforcing the brand's authentic connection to the sport across the continent. U.S. Polo Assn. served as the Official Apparel and Jersey Sponsor for multiple events, including: 55th Sotogrande International Polo Tournament at Ayala Polo Club in Sotogrande, Spain; Barnes French Open at Polo Club de Chantilly in France; Engel & Völkers Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup in Germany; Museumplein Polo Amsterdam in the Netherlands;Barnes French Open Winners, Kazak, on stage with trophy at Polo Club de Chantilly in France Across these partnerships, U.S. Polo Assn. outfitted players, umpires, and event staff while supporting competition ranging from historic high-goal championships in iconic venues throughout the region. "U.S. Polo Assn.'s presence across Europe reflects both the global reach of our brand and our unwavering commitment to supporting the sport that inspires the brand," said J. Michael Prince, President and CEO of USPA Global, the company that manages and markets the multi-billion-dollar U.S. Polo Assn. brand. "From historic championship venues to dynamic polo-lifestyle events, these partnerships allow us to celebrate the athletes, clubs, and traditions that make the sport so compelling while introducing the sport to new audiences around the world." Dubai Polo Team on stage as winners of the 55th Sotogrande International Polo Tournament at Ayala Polo Club in Sotogrande, Spain In Spain, U.S. Polo Assn. supported the 55th Sotogrande International Polo Tournament at Ayala Polo Club as the Official Apparel Sponsor. Widely recognized as Spain's premier polo tournament, the summer competition featured Bronze, Silver, and Gold Cup play across multiple handicap levels. U.S. Polo Assn. provided staff apparel, umpire jerseys, branded giveaways, and the Most Valuable Player prize for the 22-goal Sotogrande Gold Cup Final, while introducing a custom retail collection for the first time. Dubai Polo Team captured the high-goal championship with a 16-9 victory over Sainte Mesme, earning its fifth Sotogrande Gold Cup title. The European season continued at the Polo Club du Domaine de Chantilly, where U.S. Polo Assn. returned for its third year as the Official Apparel and Jersey Sponsor of the Barnes French Open. Established in 2001, the French Open has developed into one of Europe's most respected high-goal tournaments and remains an important showcase for the sport in France. U.S. Polo Assn. supplied staff outfitting and umpire jerseys throughout Chantilly's season, as well as custom team jerseys for the mixed field, which concluded with Kazak securing a thrilling 10-6 victory over Akasha. High-speed play for the polo ball at the Engel & Völkers Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup in Germany In Germany, U.S. Polo Assn. marked its seventh year supporting the Engel & Völkers Berlin Maifeld Polo Cup, also known as the German High Goal Championship, as the Official Jersey and Apparel Sponsor. The brand provided team and umpire jerseys, caps, and player apparel for the eight-team tournament, which began at the Prussian Polo & Country Club and concluded at the Maifeld in Berlin's Olympic Park. The historic grounds hosted the sport's last Olympic appearance in 1936, creating a distinctive link between the sport's storied past and its continued growth in Germany. Bentley Berlin emerged as the 2026 champion against Plusquadrat following a competitive week of high-goal polo. Packed crowd watching action-packed polo at the Museumplein Polo Amsterdam in the Netherlands U.S. Polo Assn. further expanded its European sport presence through its inaugural partnership with Museumplein Polo Amsterdam, serving as the Official Jersey and Apparel Sponsor. Set in the cultural heart of Amsterdam alongside the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh Museum, and Stedelijk Museum, the three-day arena polo tournament brought six international teams together for fast-paced competition in a landmark cultural setting. U.S. Polo Assn. outfitted teams and umpires, supported horseback cap giveaways, and presented a branded boot bag to the event's Most Valuable Player. Lassus Tandartsen won the Museumplein Polo Amsterdam 2026 Final, defeating runner-up Wereldhave, and Lassus Tandartsen's Aki van Andel was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. "Europe continues to be an important and growing region for U.S. Polo Assn., and these partnerships create a powerful connection between the brand's sport-inspired lifestyle and its authentic roots in the sport," said Lorenzo Nencini, CEO of Incom, a U.S. Polo Assn. licensing partner in Europe. "By supporting leading polo events across key European markets, we are strengthening consumer engagement, elevating awareness of the sport and building long-term momentum for the brand throughout the region." The 2026 European season reinforced U.S. Polo Assn.'s longstanding commitment to supporting the sport around the world, from historic high-goal championships to cultural events that introduce the sport to new audiences. With a global footprint spanning 190 countries, approximately 1,200 U.S. Polo Assn. retail stores and thousands of additional points of distribution, the brand continues to bring sport, style and consumer experiences together across international markets. About U.S. Polo Assn. U.S. Polo Assn. is the official sports brand of the United States Polo Association (USPA), the largest association of polo clubs and polo players in the United States, founded in 1890. With a multi-billion-dollar global footprint and worldwide distribution through more than 1,200 U.S. Polo Assn. retail stores as well as thousands of additional points of distribution, U.S. Polo Assn. offers apparel, accessories, and footwear for men, women, and children in more than 190 countries worldwide. U.S. Polo Assn.'s Global Polo Shirt Campaign, An Icon Born from the Game, is a powerful tribute to the iconic polo shirt's authentic sports origins and its evolution into one of the world's most enduring style essentials. The global sport brand sponsors major polo events around the world, including the U.S. Open Polo Championship®, held annually at the USPA National Polo Center in The Palm Beaches, the premier polo tournament in the United States. Historic deals with ESPN in the United States, TNT and Eurosport in Europe, Star Sports in India, and BeIN Sports in the Middle East now broadcast several of the premier polo championships in the world, sponsored by U.S. Polo Assn., making the thrilling sport accessible to millions of sports fans globally for the very first time. U.S. Polo Assn. has recently been named one of USA Today's Most Trusted Brands and in 2026 was ranked the top sports licensor in the world, surpassing the NFL, PGA Tour, and Formula 1, according to License Global. The sport-inspired brand has been recognized internationally with awards for global growth and sports content. Due to its tremendous success as a global brand, U.S. Polo Assn. has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Modern Retail, WWD, and GQ, as well as on Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, among many other noteworthy media sources around the world. For more information, visit uspoloassnglobal.com and follow @uspoloassn. USPA Global is a subsidiary of the United States Polo Association (USPA) and manages the multi-billion-dollar sports brand, U.S. Polo Assn. USPA Global also manages its subsidiary, Global Polo, which is the worldwide leader in polo sport content. To learn more, visit globalpolo.com or Global Polo on YouTube. For Additional Information, Contact: Shannon Stilson - VP, Sports Marketing & Media Phone +001.561.227.6994 - E-mail: sstilson@uspagl.com Stacey Kovalsky - VP, Global PR & Communications Phone +001.561.790.8036 - E-mail: skovalsky@uspagl.com SOURCE: U.S. Polo Assn.
McKinney, TX Monday Oct 5, 2026 @ 8:00 PM Central — For a decade, the software playbook was simple: buy the best tool for each job and wire them together. idhubs says that era is over. Justin Mackenzie of The Building Texas Show sat down with two idhubs leaders, Founder and CEO/CTO Rojit Sorokhaibam and Chief Growth Officer Brandon Fears, to discuss why the integration model breaks under AI, what replacing the traditional software stack actually looks like, and how the company is addressing the challenges of enterprise migration. Justin: Start on a Tuesday morning. What does this problem look like for an actual business owner? Brandon: It looks like chaos they didn't choose. A business under 200 employees runs about 42 separate applications. A manager who wants to convert a prospect, send an onboarding agreement, bill a deposit and assign a kickoff task touches five of them: copy from the CRM, paste into a document tool, download, upload to e-signature, log into accounting to invoice, open a project board to assign. Five apps; five logins; one simple objective. Multiply that across a week and most of the day goes to running software instead of running the business. Rojit: And none of those systems actually agree with each other. The data in one is a slightly different version of the data in the next. For ten years the industry sold that gap as a feature and called it "best of breed." Justin: You're saying the integration model itself is the problem. Why does it break now? Rojit: AI. When AI was a chatbot, siloed data was an annoyance. Now that AI is becoming an agent that executes multi-step work, siloed data is a wall. An agent cannot intelligently complete a workflow if it has to reach across five databases that only pretend to talk through brittle webhooks. We call that context blindness. True intelligence needs one data foundation and you cannot bolt that on after the fact. Brandon: That's the line that matters: integrated means two databases that learned to talk. Native means there was only ever one. Justin: "Context blindness" is a great phrase, but let’s get concrete. What does an AI agent actually do in idhubs out of the box? Give me a real workflow, not just a buzzword. Rojit: Let’s look at customer success. In a fragmented stack, if a user posts a complaint in a community forum, a support agent has to manually read it, open the CRM, find the account, check the billing module and draft a reply. In idhubs, the AI agent natively reads the community post, instantly pulls the user's billing history from the unified invoicing module, identifies a double-charge, auto-drafts a credit memo and routes it to the manager for one-click approval, all without a human ever copying and pasting data between tabs. It executes the workflow because it has the context. Justin: So what did you build? Rojit: One natively unified operating system. Core business functions, CRM, E-commerce, community, invoicing, AI on a single shared data layer. We're not another tool for the stack. We replace the stack. Justin: You also offer a white-label community and social commerce layer. Why does that belong in an operating system? Brandon: Because the front office and the back office are the same database. An organization that deploys idhubs gets its own branded, private ecosystem: a secure internal collaboration suite for staff and a white-label community and commerce platform for its members or customers. When you build your community on a third-party social platform, you rent your audience; you don't own the data, you don't control the algorithm and you can't monetize without a cut taken off the top. Here the organization owns the relationship and because the community data lives natively beside the CRM and commerce data, a discussion can become a transaction or a support ticket without ever leaving the branded environment. It's a closed loop instead of five disconnected ones. Justin: Let me push on the architecture. If I put my CRM, financials, community and commerce in one platform, haven't I built a single honeypot? One point of failure? Rojit: That's the right question for any CIO to ask and it's why we didn't just stand up one central database and call it done. We run a permissioned, private Hyperledger Fabric network underneath the platform. Think of a public blockchain as a town square where everyone sees every transaction; this is the opposite. Fabric uses channels and private data collections, so sensitive records are visible only to the nodes, the users or departments, that are cryptographically authorized to see them. The organization gets the decentralization and immutability of distributed ledger architecture entirely inside its own walls, which neutralizes the single-point-of-failure risk that comes with traditional monolithic software. Justin: But running a private blockchain network sounds incredibly resource-intensive. Doesn't that introduce latency and bloat the infrastructure costs for a 50-person company? Rojit: That’s a common misconception based on public chains like Bitcoin. Hyperledger Fabric is built for enterprise performance. We don't store heavy payloads on the ledger itself; we use off-chain storage for large files and media, while the ledger only cryptographically anchors the state changes and audit trails. It runs asynchronously in the background. It doesn't slow down the user interface or query speeds, but it gives you military-grade auditability and data sovereignty without the enterprise infrastructure bill. Justin: Who's behind this and how big is the opportunity? Rojit: We're a live, revenue-generating platform, not a stealth lab. I'm a three-time exited CTO who has scaled 150-plus-person engineering teams. Brandon has launched more than $2 billion in products. Sav, our COO, is a 30-year operations leader. Our advisory board includes Grant Johnson, former CEO of a NASDAQ-listed company and Craig Kaufman of Kaufman Bros. Brandon: On the market: our total addressable market is roughly $158 billion. We've acquired more than 50,000 registered users organically, with no paid marketing spend. Justin: Let’s drill into your pricing model. You’ve mentioned a "flat, predictable annual rate" that lands well under fragmented tools. But a 5-person company and a 150-person company have vastly different needs. How does your pricing scale without becoming a new "idhubs tax" as they grow? Brandon: We specifically killed the per-seat pricing model because it punishes companies for scaling their teams. Our pricing scales based on organizational capacity and active transactional volume, not headcount. You don't get hit with hidden integration fees, per-API-call charges, or forced module upgrades. It’s a flat, predictable rate for the core OS, with transparent, tiered capacity bumps. You know exactly what your software bill will be in Q4, regardless of whether you hired five people or fifty. Justin: What do the skeptics say? Best-of-breed purists love their point solutions. Brandon: I hear it constantly and it sounds great until you price it. A five-person company ends up paying for a CRM, an automation connector, a quoting tool, an email platform and an accounting suite, spends tens of thousands a year and its data still doesn't agree across systems. The "flexibility" is a fragmentation tax in a nicer outfit. The opposite of a bad stack isn't a better stack; it's one platform, one login, one source of truth. Justin: But purists will counter: "Sure, it's unified, but is the invoicing as deep as Stripe? Is the CRM as robust as Salesforce?" How do you avoid the "good enough" trap where you hit a ceiling as the client scales? Rojit: We aren't building shallow wrappers. We are building deep, API-first modules. For example, our financials handle complex multi-currency and automated tax compliance natively because we built it for global commerce from day one. But if a company has a hyper-niche, proprietary workflow, we don't force them to rip and replace the whole OS. Because we have a unified data layer, they can build custom extensions and micro-apps on top of idhubs. They get the depth of a custom build with the unified context of an OS. Justin: Even if it’s deep, the switching cost is the real killer. Migrating data, workflows and user habits from entrenched systems is a nightmare. How do you actually get a company to switch without paralyzing their operations for six months? Brandon: We knew migration was the graveyard of great software, so we engineered it out of the equation. We built automated migration pipelines specifically for the major incumbents, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Slack. We don't do "big bang" cutovers. We run parallel environments and our onboarding team maps the data schema automatically. We measure time-to-value in days, not quarters. The user interface is designed to feel familiar, so the human habit-change is minimal. Justin: Finally, you're not the only one claiming "all-in-one." Zoho, Odoo, HubSpot, they all have unified suites and are aggressively adding AI. Why does idhubs win against them? Rojit: Because legacy suites were built as separate apps glued together later. Their data layers are still fragmented underneath; they are still fighting the integration tax internally. We are natively unified from the ground up on a single data layer. Furthermore, our Hyperledger security model is enterprise-grade out of the box, which legacy SMB suites completely lack. They are a suite of tools trying to act like an OS. We are a single, secure operating system. The skeptics are fighting the last war. In the AI era, context is the whole game. Justin: Last question. If this model wins, what's the ripple effect? Rojit: Software stops being a daily operational burden and becomes a silent partner. Eliminate the integration tax, secure the data natively and human capital goes back to strategy instead of reconciliation. For member organizations it turns a siloed directory into a connected economic ecosystem. Brandon: Owners didn't choose complexity; the market handed it to them one app at a time. Every vendor promises the next app will fix it. But the next app can't fix it, because the app was the problem. The fix was never one more tool or one more integration. It was always one secure, unified platform. That's what we built and that's why the shift is inevitable. Rojit Sorokhaibam is Founder and CEO/CTO of idhubs. Brandon Fears is Chief Growth Officer. idhubs is headquartered in McKinney, Texas.
$2 trillion a year of grocery buying across the US, Canada, EU and UK has moved to AI-led procurement. Gartner expects AI agents to outnumber human sellers ten to one by 2028. VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 5, 2026 -- GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) today released A2A-Grocery.ai, the...
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