Pune – – September 30, 2026 -- The global engineering plastics market reached USD 125.10 billion in 2025 and is projected to hit nearly USD 300 billion by 2034, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 7.4% from 2026, according to a new analysis by Maximize Market Research.

Bismarck, N.D. – September 30, 2026 -- MDU Resources Group (NYSE: MDU) has reached a positive Final Investment Decision for its subsidiary WBI Energy to build the Bakken East Pipeline, a project estimated to cost between $2.7 billion and $3.2 billion.

New York – September 30, 2026 -- Con Edison generated $24.8 billion in total economic output and supported 39,700 jobs across New York State in 2025, according to a new economic impact report developed with HR&A Advisors. The utility serves 9.5 million people and more than 340,000 businesses across New York City and Westchester County.

Post Falls, Idaho – September 30, 2026 -- A StanCraft-led investor group will close the 40-year-old Templin's on the River hotel on October 23, 2026, while it evaluates remodeling or redevelopment options for the Post Falls, Idaho waterfront property.

Boston – September 30, 2026 -- UpperEdge, an independent IT sourcing and vendor negotiation advisory firm, has formed its first-ever Advisory Board, bringing together five executives with decades of combined experience in technology, finance, operations and large-scale transformation.

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 30, 2026 -- Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia's AI World Sdn. Bhd. to form a joint venture deploying AI-enabled humanoid nursing robots across North American hospitals, with HCTI taking a 70% ownership stake against AI World's 30%.

Vancouver, BC – September 30, 2026 -- The global post-quantum cryptography market is projected to grow from $0.42 billion in 2025 to $2.84 billion by 2030, a 46.2% compound annual growth rate, according to MarketsandMarkets, as enterprises face pressure to migrate encryption before quantum computers mature enough to break it. Against that backdrop, Vancouver-based Quantum Secure Encryption Corp. (CSE: QSE) (OTCQB: QSEGF) (FSE: VN80) named Joseph Hall as Chief Intelligence Officer, adding more than 20 years of threat intelligence experience to its leadership bench.

Dallas – September 30, 2026 -- LateralCare has made its flagship revenue cycle management platform, revenue alai, available on Microsoft Marketplace, giving healthcare organizations worldwide direct access to deploy the Agentic AI solution within existing Azure environments.

NEW YORK – September 30, 2026 -- Eighty-six percent of advertisers say slow audience fulfillment could cause them to cut spending or abandon a retail media network partner, according to GrowthLoop's 2026 Commerce Media Investment Index. The study, conducted with Ascend2, surveyed nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian marketing professionals involved in retail media network (RMN) or commerce media network (CMN) advertising decisions.

Foshan – September 30, 2026 -- Transmart Industrial Limited is expanding its push into North America, betting that ultra-thin nanocrystalline ribbon technology will capture demand from AI data centers and power grid upgrades as U.S. electricity consumption enters its strongest four-year growth streak since 2000.