Blizzard Announces Next Diablo 4 Developer Update Livestream
Blizzard announced a Diablo 4 developer update livestream scheduled for March 5 at 11 a.m. PST on Twitch and YouTube. The broadcast will focus on the newly revealed Warlock class, detailing its occult talents and lore origins. Developers will also preview upcoming seasonal content, including new Killstreak and Bloodstained item mechanics. Viewers who watch eligible channels can earn the exclusive Omen’s Glimpse wand and Syphon of Malefaction Scythe as in‑stream drops.
Vietnam Emerges as Global Economic Growth Leader: Harvard, S&P Research
Vietnam is projected to outpace all economies in GDP growth over the next decade, according to Harvard’s Growth Lab and S&P Global research. Manufacturing activity accelerated in February, with the PMI rising to 54.3, marking eight months of expansion and...
Dana Petroleum Puts IKM Testing UK on FPSO Shutdown Duty in North Sea
IKM Testing UK has secured a three‑year offshore shutdown contract with Dana Petroleum for the FPSO Triton operating in the UK Central North Sea. The agreement covers shutdown support across eight fields, including vessel entries, valve replacements and engineering modifications,...
Legal Fight over Propane Terminal Clouds Canada's Energy Export Push
AltaGas and Royal Vopak’s $1.35 billion REEF propane terminal, now 70 % complete at the Port of Prince Rupert, would add roughly 20 percent of Canada’s propane and butane export capacity. The Metlakatla First Nation has withdrawn its support and filed a lawsuit...
A New Media Empire
Paramount announced a $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, paying $31 per share—a 150% premium to the pre‑talk price. The deal includes a $7 billion regulatory fee and a $2.8 billion breakup fee for Netflix, which withdrew its bid. Combining Paramount, CBS,...
Exhibitor Viewpoint: ElevenLabs at the 2026 NAB Show
ElevenLabs, a leader in generative AI for voice, speech, music and video, is gearing up for the 2026 NAB Show where it will demo its latest offerings. The company highlights breakthroughs in controllability and consistency that move AI from experimental...
Mortgage Renewal Headwinds Near a ‘Turning Point’ for Pandemic Buyers, Report Says
TD Bank’s latest report signals that the mortgage renewal shock for pandemic‑era borrowers is easing. The household debt‑service ratio dropped to 14.6% in Q3 2025, aided by nearly eight‑percent disposable‑income growth in 2024 and 4.7% in 2025. Homeowners are lengthening amortizations,...
Are You Using ‘Authenticity’ as an Excuse Not to Grow? Here Are some Signs that You Are
Authenticity is praised as a leadership cornerstone, yet senior executives often weaponize it to sidestep growth. The article shows how leaders like Meg label development requests as inauthentic, using extreme descriptors to reject feedback. By reframing authenticity, leaders can adopt...
Nanjing Tanker Orders Trio of Chemical Carriers
Nanjing Tanker, a Shanghai‑listed subsidiary of China Merchants Group, has signed a contract for three 6,600 dwt stainless‑steel chemical carriers with Yangzhou Dingheng Shipyard. The $71 million deal, including tax, targets delivery in the first half of 2028 and adds to the...
True Beauty Lashes Taps Perfect Corp. For Personalized Lash Recommendation
True Beauty Lashes has partnered with Perfect Corp. to launch LashLovr, an AI‑driven personalized lash‑matching and virtual try‑on platform. The service uses Perfect Corp.’s Virtual Try‑On and Face Analyzer APIs to overlay recommended lashes on a shopper’s face in real...
Consumers Spending More Time to Find Best Price
Synchrony’s March 2026 "In Sync with Consumers" survey shows more than half of U.S. shoppers are devoting extra time to locate the best price, with generative AI playing an expanding role. Over 52% of consumers used Gen AI during the holiday...
Creative Studio 3 Chillies Launches with Nick Bell as Co-Founder
Creative studio 3 Chillies has officially launched, appointing Nick Bell as co‑founder. The venture also secured former Dark Horses CEO Melissa Robertson as a non‑executive director. 3 Chillies aims to deliver end‑to‑end brand storytelling, blending creative production with data‑driven insights....
WPP's Jon Cook on Designing the Company Around How a “Consumer Consumes a Brand”
WPP Creative chief executive Jon Cook announced that the agency will redesign its operating model around how consumers actually experience a brand. He emphasized that customers no longer view media and creative as separate entities, prompting a unified, consumer‑first approach....
U.S. Air Force Conducts Minuteman III Missile Test Launch
The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 3, carrying two test reentry vehicles to a target near Kwajalein Atoll. The flight, designated GT 255, is part of a long‑running reliability program that has...
Middle East Crisis Increases Southeast Asia’s Coal Risk
Escalating Middle East conflict has spiked LNG prices, prompting Southeast Asian nations to reconsider energy security. A 50% jump in gas costs followed a drone strike on Qatar’s premier LNG hub, exposing the fragility of regional supply chains. Governments risk...
Ras Tanura Hit Again as Projectile Strikes Saudi Aramco Facility
Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil export terminal was struck by an unidentified projectile, marking a second incident within days. The earlier drone attack forced a temporary shutdown, and the latest strike’s damage details remain unclear. Ras Tanura handles a large share of...
Sailor Piece Boss Guide
PocketTactics’ Sailor Piece boss guide catalogs every world and mob boss, detailing HP, locations, spawn timers, and drop tables. It highlights rare loot rates for items such as boss tickets, rerolls, and exclusive gear. The guide also links to code...
SiteMinder’s Hotel Booking Trends Reveals the Top 12 Revenue-Drivers for UK Hotels
SiteMinder’s 2025 Hotel Booking Trends report shows a more predictable UK hotel market, with average daily rates (ADR) edging up 1.35% to £191.55 and cancellation rates holding steady at 18%. Lead times remain long at 35 days, while Friday nights...
U.S. Army Converts 56th Stryker Brigade to Mobile Brigade
The U.S. Army announced that the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team will be restructured into a Mobile Brigade Combat Team by March 31 2026. The conversion will retire the brigade’s Stryker armored vehicles and replace them with the lightweight...
Irish Consumers Amongst European Leaders in Digital Payment Adoption
BearingPoint’s Europe‑wide payment study shows Irish consumers leading digital payment adoption, with 73% regularly using contactless and 62% favoring Revolut for peer‑to‑peer transfers. Cash usage in Ireland fell to 58%, and 24% say they will definitely abandon cash within ten...
Calls for Global Digital Estate Standard as Posthumous Deepfake Fraud Risk Grows
The OpenID Foundation released a report urging the creation of a global digital‑estate framework to protect deceased users’ online accounts. It warns that the absence of consistent standards leaves devices, social media, email and cryptocurrency vulnerable to fraud, especially as...
Labyrinth of Aetheria PC Version Demo Appears via Steam
Japanese indie studio Jimineko Games has released a Steam demo for the PC version of Labyrinth of Aetheria, announcing an Early Access launch. The title, originally a mobile dungeon crawler on iOS and Android since January 2024, now adds a...
US Apparel Import Data in 2025 Points to Four Key Sourcing Trends
U.S. apparel imports in 2025 show the category’s share of consumer spending slipping to 2.08%, down from 2.10% in 2023 and 2.23% in 2021. The decline signals a reshaping of sourcing strategies, with analysts highlighting four emerging trends: accelerated nearshoring...
Maronan Metals Secures MDL for Silver Project in Australia
Maronan Metals has secured Mineral Development Licence (MDL) 2028 from the Queensland Government for its Maronan Silver Project, permitting a box‑cut and a 200‑metre decline for bulk sampling and resource validation. The licence was granted in less than 12 months, highlighting...
Olympia To Open First Hospitality Venue This Month
London’s historic Olympia exhibition centre is nearing the completion of its £1.3 billion regeneration, which will house more than 25 food and drink venues, two hotels, office space and a 3,800‑seat music venue. The first hospitality offering, Pillar Hall, opens on...
Adidas Attributes 2025 Sales, Profit Surge to ‘Strategic Discipline’
Adidas reported a robust sales surge in 2025, propelling net profit up 67 percent. The company credited the growth to heightened consumer demand across its footwear and apparel ranges. Executives highlighted a renewed focus on "strategic discipline," encompassing tighter cost...
Medtronic, GE HealthCare Expand Patient Monitoring Alliance
Medtronic and GE HealthCare have broadened a multi‑year partnership to embed Medtronic’s pulse oximetry, brain monitoring, capnography and regional oximetry technologies across GE’s bedside, telemetry and ambulatory monitoring platforms. The agreement accelerates integration of next‑generation Nellcor pulse oximetry and BIS...
SWR Freight Surge Puts Focus on Mormugao Coal Handling
South Western Railway posted a 14.3% rise in gross revenue to ₹8,550 crore in FY 2025‑26, driven by an 18.3% jump in freight earnings. Freight tonnage climbed 17% to 47.5 million tonnes, with coal loading up 16.6% to 9.3 MT. The surge has spotlighted...
Greenwashing Has Just Become a Much More Serious Issue – Are You Ready?
Retail brands face heightened scrutiny in 2026 as the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) wields expanded powers under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024. Greenwashing can also be prosecuted as a criminal offence under the Economic Crime...
Evri and Bloq.it Join Forces to Expand UK OOH Parcel Locker Network
Bloq.it and Evri have sealed a multi‑year partnership to embed Bloq.it’s NEXT smart lockers and its new standalone returns unit, drop, across hundreds of Evri locations in the UK. The first installations launch in March 2026 at East of England...
Factory Building Sim Shapez 2 Hits the Big 1.0 in April with Major Upgrades
Shapez 2, the shape‑cutting factory‑building simulation, will launch its full 1.0 version on April 23, 2026, bringing a suite of major upgrades. The update introduces Manufacture Mode, enabling large‑scale, permanent factories with resource chains and Trade Stations. Full Steam Workshop support and robust...
‘Khamenei Out’ Market Becomes Legal Headache for Kalshi
Law firm Lieff Cabraser is probing Kalshi over its "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader" prediction market, which generated over $50 million in volume before being halted. Kalshi invoked a contractual "death carve‑out" clause, settling contracts at the last price prior...
Germany’s Texxecure Launches Standardized Quality Rating for PV Systems
Germany’s Texxecure Rating Foundation has launched a standardized quality rating for photovoltaic (PV) systems that grades modules, inverters and whole projects on a AAA‑to‑D scale. The two‑step process combines a document review with an on‑site inspection, producing a single risk...
Uniterrupted Power for Farmers: Haryana to Set up Agri Discom
Haryana will launch a dedicated power utility, Haryana Agri Discom, to serve the state’s 7.12 lakh farm consumers across 5,084 agricultural feeders. Announced in the 2026‑27 budget by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, the new entity aims to deliver uninterrupted electricity,...
Tehran’s UNESCO-Listed Golestan Palace Damaged by US-Israeli Strikes
Tehran’s Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was damaged by a missile strike on March 1 amid escalating US‑Israeli attacks on Iran. The blast shattered windows, cracked glass, and buckled asphalt within the palace’s buffer zone. Iranian officials have secured...
Evlo Partners with CreditLadder to Tackle Financial Exclusion and Boost Renters’ Credit Profiles
UK fintech Evlo has announced a partnership with CreditLadder, the country’s leading rent‑reporting platform, to automatically submit renters’ monthly payments to major credit bureaus. The collaboration targets tenants with thin or non‑existent credit files, aiming to convert rent—one of the...
Zoom Appoints Global Media Agency of Record
Zoom has appointed independent agency PMG as its global media agency of record. PMG will set up a cross‑functional team to handle Zoom’s media planning, buying, and analytics across markets. The partnership is intended to strengthen Zoom’s brand positioning as...
Thinkbox Strategy Chief Urges Industry to Switch “Acronym Soup” For “Total TV”
Elliot Millard, chief strategy officer at Thinkbox, warned that the advertising industry’s reliance on a maze of acronyms—CTV, OTT, AVOD and the like—obscures a clear view of television consumption. He advocated replacing this "acronym soup" with a single, unified metric...
NEP OB Truck Upgrade Drives Software-Based Live Production Across the Nordics and Beyond
NEP Europe has relaunched its OB unit as EU‑03, a software‑centric mobile production truck designed for 1080p HDR live events. The upgrade fully adopts SMPTE ST 2110, allowing broadcasters to run license‑based, scalable workflows that blend software and hardware. Based in...
Ecoflow Debuts 5 kWh Residential Inverter Battery with 100% Depth of Discharge
EcoFlow unveiled the Ocean 2 all‑in‑one battery inverter at the Key Energy show in Rimini. The system pairs a 5 kWh LiFePO₄ battery with a single‑phase inverter, delivering 3.4 kW continuous discharge and 100 % depth of discharge. Units are compact, IP66‑rated and can...
Zeeman Appoints Former Ahold Delhaize Manager as New CEO
Zeeman announced that Boudewijn van Nieuwenhuijzen will assume the chief executive role on August 1, 2026, succeeding Erik‑Jan Mares after a nine‑year tenure. Van Nieuwenhuijzen brings more than two decades of international retail, FMCG and wholesale experience, most recently as CEO of Super Indo,...
Heybike Launches New Lightweight Commuter E-Bike that Retains the Speed and Power
Heybike introduced the Venus, a lightweight commuter e‑bike priced at $1,499. It features a 750 W rear hub motor delivering 70 Nm torque and a top speed of 28 mph, paired with a 680 Wh battery that the company claims can travel up to...
BlackRock Says Buy AI Energy Stocks Over Big Tech in 2026. Here Are 3 Top Picks.
BlackRock’s 2026 outlook shifts focus from AI chip makers to the energy firms powering AI data centers, citing a projected thirty‑fold rise in U.S. power consumption through 2035. The firm highlights three stocks—Bloom Energy, Constellation Energy, and GE Vernova—as top...
Aqua Bio Technology ASA: Share Capital Increase Registered
Aqua Bio Technology ASA announced that its NOK 10 million share‑capital increase, approved at the extraordinary general meeting on 16 February 2026, has been formally registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises. The company’s total share capital now stands at NOK 26,139,675, divided...
Is NuScale the Smartest Investment You Can Make Today?
NuScale Power’s small modular reactor (SMR) stock is trading near its 52‑week low, down more than 75% from its October 2025 peak. The company retains a unique first‑mover advantage as the sole NRC‑approved SMR design, bolstered by a partnership with...
Circuits Integrated Launches Ka-Band Integrated Switch Power Amplifiers
Circuits Integrated Hellas has introduced the CI-ONE family, a small‑form‑factor Ka‑band module that combines a high‑performance power amplifier with a single‑pole double‑throw switch. The integrated solution delivers 5 ns switching, up to 36 dBm output, and about 22% efficiency at the 1 dB...
Floatel International Ltd: Presentation at the DNB Energy & Shipping Conference
Floatel International Ltd announced that CEO Peter Jacobsson will present at the DNB Energy & Shipping Conference on March 4, 2026. The Norwegian‑based firm operates four semi‑submersible offshore accommodation vessels with capacities ranging from 440 to 560 beds, all equipped...
VSB Supplies Solar Power to METRO Group: VSB IES Strengthens METRO’s Self-Supply with Onsite PPA
VSB Integrated Energy Solutions has begun construction of a 1.3 MWp rooftop photovoltaic system on the newly built METRO Deutschland store in Hamburg‑Rahlstedt, operating under an 18‑year onsite power purchase agreement. Installation starts in spring 2026 with commissioning slated for Q3‑Q4...
CH Media Adds RTL+ to Oneplus in Swiss Streaming Partnership
Swiss media group CH Media will embed German streaming service RTL+ into its oneplus platform on 23 March 2026, creating a bundled offering that also includes Paramount+ and a slate of Swiss originals. The integration delivers selected RTL+ titles—reality, drama and family...
Extracellular Vesicles: The Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine and Drug Delivery?
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as a versatile platform for regenerative medicine and targeted drug delivery. Researchers highlight their ability to transfer proteins, RNA, and lipids between cells, mimicking natural signaling pathways. Recent advances in isolation, engineering, and loading techniques...