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Hospitality · Sep 26

My Place relaunches Trend with an introductory royalty for franchises executed before Dec. 31

Hotel conversions are up 15% year over year. My Place has relaunched Trend as three tiers, pitched as a franchise path without heavy capital requirements.

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Retail · Sep 26

Retail

Open questions in agentic commerce extend beyond the AI model

The hard part of AI shopping is not the agent. It is deciding what an agent may do and who is responsible when something goes wrong.

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Professional AV · Sep 26

ViewSonic now ships a 136-inch LED wall that skips the permanent install

Professional AV

ViewSonic now ships a 136-inch LED wall pitched to avoid permanent installs

The 4th generation LDS136-152 folds into a flight case, rolls on 360-degree wheels and adds a 3.7-foot motorized lift for back-row visibility.

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Building Management · Sep 26

Building Management

A maintenance software migration is the moment to fix asset data

A new maintenance system inherits old asset records, so many migrations are also a chance to improve them.

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Hospitality · Sep 26

Hotel Effectiveness data shows hotels cut labor hours per room every month of H1

Hospitality

Hotel Effectiveness: HPOR gains continued through H1 2026

Labor hours per occupied room fell in H1 2026, but the year-over-year gains were smaller in Q2. Hourly wages rose 2.9% to 3.3%.

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Engineering & Construction · Sep 26

Cat brings driverless hauling on the smaller 775 truck to two more Luck Stone quarries

Engineering & Construction

Cat expands autonomous Cat 775 haul trucks to two more Luck Stone sites

After 3.5M+ tons at Bull Run, Luck Stone and Caterpillar expand autonomy to Cat 775 fleets at Boscobel and Bealeton in Virginia.

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Sciences · Sep 26

Sciences

Clinical data harmonization is the bottleneck for life sciences AI

AI results in life sciences depend less on the algorithms than on whether clinical trial data is clean, harmonized and ready for machine learning.

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Business Services · Sep 26

Business Services

The Early Scale: Instacart reports no-markup grocers grew 10 points faster

Instacart reports no-markup grocers grew 10 points faster, digital health drew $7.4B in H1 2026 VC, and Chinese energy imports reached $75B. Dive in!

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Education Technology · Sep 26

Education Technology

Organizational support is positively tied to faculty agility in a survey of 497 faculty

A survey of 497 faculty at Indian universities found organizational support was positively and significantly associated with faculty agility.

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Retail · Sep 26

Retail

Grocers matching store prices on Instacart grew 10 points faster, Instacart says

Instacart says grocers that match store prices on its marketplace grew faster and kept customers better than those charging a markup.

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Energy · Sep 25

Energy

Importers paid roughly $75 billion for Chinese batteries and grid equipment in 2026's first seven months

Importers paid roughly $75 billion for Chinese batteries and grid gear in 2026's first seven months, versus around $19.4 billion for solar, Ember data shows.

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Business Services · Sep 25

Integrating VR in Education: Hermantown Leads the Way

Business Services

The Early Scale: Dunwoody technical courses, digital health funding and CRM updates

Dunwoody brings dual-credit technical courses to Hermantown; Rock Health reports concentrated H1 funding; CRM vendors announce AI workflow updates.

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Education Technology · Sep 24

Education Technology

Strada's $25M HBCU bet started with listening, not a program to fund

Strada Education Foundation invested $25M in HBCUs by listening first, then building flexible scholarships for work-based learning that institutions direct to…

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Marketing Tech · Sep 24

Marketing Tech

Salesforce and HubSpot are taking CRM updates out of the CRM screen

Salesforce, HubSpot, Zeotap and Zendesk are pushing CRM data into AI agents and collaboration tools. The customer record now has more editors.

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Healthcare · Sep 24

Healthcare

Rock Health: $7.4B went into digital health in H1 2026, and 20 rounds took 45%

Rock Health counted $7.4B across 244 U.S. digital health deals in H1 2026. The data shows funding concentration, with 20 rounds taking 45% of dollars.

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Business Services · Sep 24

Hermantown High School integrates VR in CTE courses

Business Services

The Early Scale: Hermantown High School to add VR to CTE

Dunwoody dual-credit courses at Hermantown, Toyota’s estimated automation requirements and KKR-managed funds’ Akrapoint commitment lead today’s B2B digest.

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Sports & Entertainment · Sep 23

Sports & Entertainment

NFL TV audiences rebound in Week 2 after a 13% Week 1 drop

Fox drew 27.2 million for Cowboys-Commanders and CBS set a Week 2 record. With Nielsen changing its counting again, some of that growth comes from the method.

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Transportation · Sep 23

Transportation

Malibu to start installing 8,000 feet of underground fiber in October 2026

Malibu will install about 8,000 linear feet of underground fiber from October through December 2026, connecting City Hall and City traffic signals along Civic

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Education Technology · Sep 23

Education Technology

Hermantown to add Dunwoody dual-credit courses in fall 2026, including VR DC Circuits labs

Hermantown High School will add two hybrid Dunwoody dual-credit CTE courses in fall 2026, including DC Circuits with virtual reality vision goggles for parts of

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Retail · Sep 23

Retail

Suja's CEO says wellness drinks win in produce, not center store

Walk the floor at Expo West and the better-for-you beverage category looks like a sea of near-identical bottles. Every brand claims low sugar, functional ingredients, and clean labels. The question for anyone selling in that space is not whether the product is good, but whether a shopper will ever f

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Industrial IoT · Sep 23

Industrial IoT

Toyota estimates 1T yen/year for automation from 2028

Toyota told investors automation across its factories and major suppliers could cost about 1 trillion yen a year from 2028 and involve roughly 400,000 robots.

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Healthcare · Sep 23

Medicare will pay up to $137.53 per case in 2027 for Aidoc’s BriefCase-Triage

Healthcare

Medicare will pay up to $137.53 per case in 2027 for BriefCase‑Triage

According to Holland & Knight, CMS approved an NTAP designation for Aidoc’s CARE Body CT Multi-Triage AI diagnostic technology.

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Sports & Entertainment · Sep 23

Sports & Entertainment

NHL still expects more clarity on Texas expansion by December

Gary Bettman said the NHL expects more clarity by December on a possible second team in Texas, but stressed there is no fixed timetable for a decision.

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Industrial IoT · Sep 23

Flexxbotics claims 125% capacity gains by turning factory data into governed actions

Industrial IoT

Flexxbotics touts 125% capacity gain as it updates platform controls

At IMTS 2026, Flexxbotics announced the latest release of the Flexxbotics Platform.

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Healthcare · Sep 23

Healthcare

Blair Health raises CAD $4.24M to expand its LLM-guided specialty care workflows

Blair Health raised CAD $4.24 million in pre-seed funding to expand across Canada and the U.S.

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Business Services · Sep 23

Business Services

KKR launches Akrapoint with $350 million commitment for equipment finance

KKR launched Akrapoint Commercial Capital with a $350 million commitment from funds it manages to finance vocational assets, trailers, and equipment.

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Business Services · Sep 23

Meta's Muse tops app charts, altering enterprise AI landscape

Business Services

The Early Scale: Meta’s Muse tops app charts, signaling a new phase in AI utility

Meta's Muse tops app charts, reshaping enterprise AI. Logistics Plus expands in Europe with a new office in Portugal. Atmosic launches AI-driven asset tracking.

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Education Technology · Sep 23

Education Technology

Morgan State taps Google’s GPAR GPUs to expand research capacity

Morgan State University is pairing Google Public Sector GPU access with its Obsidian AI platform, aiming to scale research and keep governance on campus.

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Sciences · Sep 22

Sciences

CDMOs’ new capacity skews stainless by liters, but single-use leads by system count

BDO’s bioTRAK data shows CDMOs plan about 120 new bioreactors by 2030: 71% of added liters are large-scale stainless steel, but 61% of systems are single-use.

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Marketing Tech · Sep 22

Marketing Tech

Captello says its new Event Revenue Intelligence links event interactions to revenue at the lead and meeting level

Captello announced Event Revenue Intelligence, which attributes revenue at the level of the individual lead and meeting rather than a program-wide average.

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What is happening across MarketScale right now.

My Place relaunches Trend with an introductory royalty for franchises executed before Dec. 31

Open questions in agentic commerce extend beyond the AI model

ViewSonic now ships a 136-inch LED wall pitched to avoid permanent installs

A maintenance software migration is the moment to fix asset data

Hotel Effectiveness: HPOR gains continued through H1 2026

Cat expands autonomous Cat 775 haul trucks to two more Luck Stone sites

Clinical data harmonization is the bottleneck for life sciences AI

The Early Scale: Instacart reports no-markup grocers grew 10 points faster

See the platform in 20 minutes.

Organizational support is positively tied to faculty agility in a survey of 497 faculty

Grocers matching store prices on Instacart grew 10 points faster, Instacart says

Importers paid roughly $75 billion for Chinese batteries and grid equipment in 2026's first seven months

The Early Scale: Dunwoody technical courses, digital health funding and CRM updates

Strada's $25M HBCU bet started with listening, not a program to fund

Salesforce and HubSpot are taking CRM updates out of the CRM screen

Rock Health: $7.4B went into digital health in H1 2026, and 20 rounds took 45%

The Early Scale: Hermantown High School to add VR to CTE

What is actually working in B2B content.

NFL TV audiences rebound in Week 2 after a 13% Week 1 drop

Malibu to start installing 8,000 feet of underground fiber in October 2026

Hermantown to add Dunwoody dual-credit courses in fall 2026, including VR DC Circuits labs

Suja's CEO says wellness drinks win in produce, not center store

Toyota estimates 1T yen/year for automation from 2028

Medicare will pay up to $137.53 per case in 2027 for BriefCase‑Triage

NHL still expects more clarity on Texas expansion by December

Flexxbotics touts 125% capacity gain as it updates platform controls

How Bose Professional turned an experience center into a content engine.

Blair Health raises CAD $4.24M to expand its LLM-guided specialty care workflows

KKR launches Akrapoint with $350 million commitment for equipment finance

The Early Scale: Meta’s Muse tops app charts, signaling a new phase in AI utility

Morgan State taps Google’s GPAR GPUs to expand research capacity

CDMOs’ new capacity skews stainless by liters, but single-use leads by system count

Captello says its new Event Revenue Intelligence links event interactions to revenue at the lead and meeting level