News•Feb 20, 2026
RemoFirst Expands RemoVisa Service to Support Visa and Work Permit Applications in 110+ Countries
RemoFirst announced that its RemoVisa service now supports visa and work‑permit applications in more than 110 countries, spanning Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa and Oceania. The offering is built into RemoFirst’s Employer of Record (EOR) platform, letting companies manage immigration, payroll, tax and benefits through a single partner. The expansion covers the entire visa sponsorship lifecycle—from eligibility checks to ongoing administration—aimed at easing compliance for global hires. RemoFirst’s EOR pricing starts at $199 per month and the firm serves over 185 countries with thousands of customers.
By HR Tech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
Ex-Novartis CMO John Tsai Joins Daiichi Sankyo
Daiichi Sankyo appointed former Novartis chief medical officer John Tsai as its new CMO, succeeding Ken Takeshita after a five‑year tenure. Tsai brings a record of launching 160 projects and 15 regulatory approvals, including Zolgensma and Pluvicto, and recent experience leading biotech...
By pharmaphorum
News•Feb 20, 2026
Identity Cyber Scores: The New Metric Shaping Cyber Insurance in 2026
Identity cyber scores are emerging as the primary metric insurers use to underwrite cyber‑insurance policies in 2026. Insurers now scrutinize password hygiene, privileged‑access management and MFA coverage, linking weak identity controls to higher breach likelihood and premium costs. The global...
By The Hacker News
News•Feb 20, 2026
NexEos Bio Receives US FDA IND Clearance to Advance NTX-1024 Into P-II/III Study for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
U.S. FDA has granted IND clearance for NexEos Bio’s ophthalmic solution NTX-1024, allowing the company to commence a combined Phase II/III clinical trial in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC). The upcoming study will assess safety and efficacy after an open‑label investigator‑initiated trial...
By PharmaShots
News•Feb 20, 2026
The Six Tech Trends Banks Need on Their Radar for 2026
Banks face mounting regulatory, economic and consumer pressures as digital expectations rise, and their technology choices will dictate future competitiveness. nCino outlines six 2026 tech trends, from AI‑driven mobile banking that acts as a personal financial command centre to AI‑powered...
By Fintech Global
News•Feb 20, 2026
OtterlyAI Unveils Groundbreaking Data: AI Search Engines Depend 95% on Third-Party Sources
OtterlyAI released a study of over 1 million AI‑generated citations from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, finding that roughly 95% of AI answers draw on third‑party sites rather than brand‑owned domains. The report, titled “The AI Citation Economy,” maps citation...
By AiThority
News•Feb 20, 2026
Global Alliance Emphasizes Operational Resilience and Verification Practices in Digital Account Management
Global Alliance announced enhanced operational safeguards for its digital platform, including multi‑factor authentication (MFA) for logins and sensitive actions. The firm now requires verification checkpoints before adding external withdrawal destinations, tightening outbound transaction controls. Real‑time data backups and DDoS mitigation...
By TechBullion
News•Feb 20, 2026
Former Rep Cites Privacy, Public Safety in Push for AM Radio Bill
Former Congressman Thaddeus McCotter is urging Congress to pass the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, a bipartisan bill that would require new vehicles to retain functional AM receivers. He argues that AM radio offers a privacy‑friendly, data‑free listening option...
By Radio Ink
News•Feb 20, 2026
Funnel Processes the World’s First Rent Payment Inside ChatGPT
Funnel, the AI‑driven CRM for multifamily operators, completed the world’s first rent payment inside ChatGPT in partnership with BH Management, which oversees over 93,000 units. The transaction leveraged Funnel’s existing Resident Portal workflows, requiring no new software integrations. This proof‑of‑concept...
By MarTech Series
News•Feb 20, 2026
Compass Points Sperling To Affiliate Sales Director Role
Compass Media Networks has promoted Sydney Sperling to Director of Affiliate Sales, expanding her responsibilities for affiliate strategy and network growth. Sperling, a Trinity College graduate, joined the company in July 2023 and has helped broaden affiliate relationships for syndicated...
By Radio Ink
News•Feb 20, 2026
Tech Gives Traffickers a Devastating New Weapon
Traffickers are exploiting artificial intelligence, digital platforms and generative AI to scale sexual exploitation, financial sextortion and online scams targeting women and children. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime reports 162 nationalities trafficked to 128 countries, with a 77%...
By ITWeb (South Africa) – Public Sector
News•Feb 20, 2026
Lead Generation Statistics for 2026: Key Marketing Data
Lead generation remains a top priority for B2B marketers, yet 85% struggle to tie performance to revenue outcomes. Conversion challenges persist, with 79% of leads never converting without effective nurturing and inbound SEO leads achieving a 14.6% close rate versus...
By G2 Learn
News•Feb 20, 2026
What the Nike Breach Teaches Us About the Microsegmentation Imperative of Integrating with EDR
On January 22, 2026 Nike disclosed that 1.4 terabytes of R&D, supply‑chain and pricing data were posted on the WorldLeaks leak site. The breach, driven by compromised VPN credentials, bypassed traditional endpoint detection and highlighted the rise of value‑chain extortion. WorldLeaks,...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 20, 2026
How Medical Device Manufacturers Can Overcome Recruitment Gaps and Accelerate Innovation Hiring with Rapid Prototyping
Medical device makers face a perfect storm of innovation pressure and a severe talent shortage, causing development cycles to stretch 18‑24 months. Rapid prototyping technologies can compress these cycles by up to 40%, enabling faster design iteration and ISO 13485‑compliant...
By Onrec
News•Feb 20, 2026
Razorpay and NPCI Bring Agentic Payments to Claude at India AI Impact Summit
Razorpay and India’s National Payments Corporation (NPCI) have partnered with Anthropic’s Claude to launch Agentic Payments, a pilot that lets users complete purchases from Zomato, Swiggy and Zepto directly within a conversational AI interface. The solution combines Razorpay’s UPI‑based Reserve...
By Entrackr
News•Feb 20, 2026
CityMall Reports Rs 534 Cr Revenue in FY25; Flour, Sugar, Oil, and Ghee Form 40%
CityMall posted Rs 534 crore in operating revenue for FY25, a 25% year‑on‑year increase driven largely by grocery sales. Product sales accounted for 96% of revenue, with staples such as atta, sugar, oil and ghee contributing 39% of total product...
By Entrackr
News•Feb 20, 2026
Hexagon Multivista Connects to Revizto
Hexagon Multivista has integrated its Analyze deviation‑detection service with Revizto’s BIM collaboration platform, enabling users to push clash and deviation data directly into Revizto’s issue log. The workflow lets project managers select individual or grouped deviations from reality‑capture scans and...
By AEC Magazine
News•Feb 20, 2026
En Carta Diagnostics Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for EC Pocket Lyme Test
En Carta Diagnostics announced that its EC Pocket Lyme test has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, accelerating its path to U.S. market entry. The point‑of‑need molecular assay detects Borrelia DNA directly from skin interstitial fluid using a microneedle sampler, delivering...
By Health Tech Digital (UK)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Pella Workers Talk to Machines, Errors Plummet
Window and door maker Pella has deployed a proprietary voice‑activated connected‑worker platform built on Honeywell software. The system guides operators through tasks, slashing error rates and shortening the time needed to reach full productivity. By standardizing on a scalable solution...
By IndustryWeek
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI Ethics in Action: Bending the AI Curve with Nasser Jones – Bonus Episode with Jotform
Monica Burns hosts a podcast with Nasser Jones, founder of the nonprofit Bending the AI Curve, to discuss practical AI ethics for education. The conversation highlights how bias, access disparities, and an overabundance of AI tools can widen the digital...
By Class Tech Tips (Monica Burns)
News•Feb 20, 2026
Urban Vs. Rural: Why Data Centers Are Built Where They Are
Data center development in the United States is moving beyond the traditional urban corridors of Northern Virginia, Silicon Valley, and Chicago. Expanding power capacity, new long‑haul fiber routes, and aggressive state incentives are making rural states such as Pennsylvania, Louisiana,...
By Data Center Knowledge
News•Feb 20, 2026
Coca-Cola Turns to AI Marketing as Price-Led Growth Slows
Coca‑Cola is pivoting from price‑driven growth to AI‑enabled persuasion, testing generative AI across its marketing pipeline. The company is using AI to draft scripts, create images, and tailor campaign messaging in near real‑time as inflation eases. This shift positions AI...
By Artificial Intelligence News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Renovations and Conversions: The New Focus for University Facilities
Higher education institutions are curbing new construction as budgets tighten, redirecting capital toward renovating and repurposing existing campus assets. A 2023 report shows a 26% year‑over‑year increase in strategic investment for existing facilities, while some universities project capital budgets shrinking...
By Facilities Management Advisor
News•Feb 20, 2026
How AI Could Kill the Return to Office
Executives are pushing return‑to‑office (RTO) mandates even as they pour billions into AI initiatives that automate tasks traditionally done on‑site. Recent research shows RTO does not improve productivity, innovation, or team cohesion, but it does erode morale and increase turnover....
By Fast Company — Leadership
News•Feb 20, 2026
AngioDynamics Expands European Indications for NanoKnife System
AngioDynamics announced that its NanoKnife system now holds European CE‑mark indications for soft‑tissue ablation of liver, kidney, prostate and pancreas tumours, including intermediate‑risk prostate cancer. The device uses irreversible electroporation (IRE), a non‑thermal technology that destroys cancer cells while sparing...
By Hospital Management
News•Feb 20, 2026
Sunoyster Offers Lightweight 440 W Glass-Covered TOPCon PV Panel
German solar tracker developer Sunoyster Systems has launched the G440, a 440‑watt TOPCon photovoltaic module that weighs just 12 kg and features a 2 mm tempered‑glass cover. The panel delivers 22.2 % efficiency using 108 half‑cut monocrystalline cells and can be glued directly...
By pv magazine
News•Feb 20, 2026
Realbotix Appoints Eric Olsen, as Chief Operating Officer
Realbotix Corp. announced the appointment of Eric Olsen as Chief Operating Officer of its U.S. subsidiary, Realbotix LLC, based in Nevada. Olsen, formerly Director of Customer Success at Agility Robotics, will oversee operational execution, manufacturing readiness, and commercial scale‑up of...
By AI-TechPark
News•Feb 20, 2026
Serina Therapeutics Enrols First Patient for SER-252 Trial
Serina Therapeutics has enrolled the first patient in its Phase Ib registrational trial of SER‑252 for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The study, conducted with Parkinson’s Australia and Neuroscience Trials Australia, will assess safety, pharmacokinetics, tolerability and early efficacy, with dosing slated to...
By Hospital Management
News•Feb 20, 2026
Syngene and VivaMed Collaborate on Therapeutic Programmes
Syngene International has entered a strategic collaboration with VivaMed BioPharma to advance AI‑derived drug repurposing programmes. The partnership combines Syngene’s pre‑clinical development capabilities with VivaMed’s AI‑generated therapeutic hypotheses, creating a pathway from computational hits to translational validation. Together they will...
By Hospital Management
News•Feb 20, 2026
Two Petabytes Worth Data of Israeli’s Siphoned, Says Cyber Head
Israel’s National Cyber Directorate disclosed that roughly two petabytes—equivalent to 100 National Library of Israel archives—have been exfiltrated from citizens and institutions over recent years. The breach scale eclipses prior megabyte‑ and terabyte‑level incidents, marking an unprecedented data loss. Concurrently,...
By The Cyber Express
News•Feb 20, 2026
FLYR Hospitality Now Available on Shiji Daylight PMS
Shiji announced that its cloud‑native Daylight PMS now integrates directly with FLYR Hospitality’s AI‑first commercial optimization platform. The connection lets hotel groups automate pricing, forecasting and performance analytics within their existing PMS, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows. FLYR’s Optimize and Insights...
By Hospitality Net – Technology
News•Feb 20, 2026
AuthorityStack.ai Launches to Help Brands Track and Improve Visibility in AI-Generated Search Results
AuthorityStack.ai launched an AI visibility tracking platform that monitors how large language models cite and summarize brand content. The service covers major LLMs such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, providing real‑time citation alerts and traffic attribution....
By Techpoint Africa
News•Feb 20, 2026
Researchers Uncover Signalling Pathway Behind Nitrate-Stimulated Root Growth
Researchers identified a MAPKKK called MEKK14 that activates a nitrate‑driven signalling cascade in Arabidopsis thaliana. The cascade triggers the circadian transcription factor CCA1, which in turn up‑regulates MEKK14, forming a positive feedback loop. This loop amplifies auxin signaling, leading to...
By Bioengineer.org
News•Feb 20, 2026
Salesforce Acquires Momentum
Salesforce announced the acquisition of Momentum, a San Francisco‑based conversational‑insights platform, with the purchase price undisclosed. The transaction is slated to close in the first quarter of Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027, pending standard conditions. Momentum’s technology captures and structures data from Zoom,...
By FinSMEs
News•Feb 20, 2026
PTZOptics Aims to Make Video More ‘Actionable’ with Visual Reasoning Initiative
PTZOptics announced a Visual Reasoning initiative that fuses its robotic PTZ camera systems with Moondream’s open‑source vision‑language models. The partnership enables real‑time video interpretation, powering features such as auto‑tracking, smarter search, automated indexing, and event‑driven triggers. By offering an open...
By TVBEurope
News•Feb 20, 2026
Boston Launches Curb Lab to Digitise and Coordinate Kerb Space
Boston’s Office of Emerging Technology has launched the Curb Lab, a cross‑department effort that uses artificial intelligence and open‑data assets to produce a live, citywide digital map of curb‑side parking rules. The initiative builds on a three‑year asset‑management platform and...
By Cities Today
News•Feb 20, 2026
Brazil Imposes Anti-Dumping Duties on Chinese Steel
Brazil’s foreign trade committee approved five‑year anti‑dumping duties on a wide range of Chinese steel products after a 2024 investigation revealed pricing below market levels. The duties range from US$323 to US$670 per ton for cold‑rolled coil and US$285 to...
By Just Auto
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News•Feb 20, 2026
[Industry News] Second Stage Brings Innovation in Wishlist Forecasting, Attribution, and More to the Games Industry
Second Stage has launched the TRACKS platform to give PC and console game marketers precise attribution of ad spend to wishlist adds and purchases. The solution consolidates over 65 data integrations, turning fragmented reporting into a single, real‑time dashboard. Backed...
By MCV/Develop
News•Feb 20, 2026
Smile Sets Sail for Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana
The ESA‑China SMILE spacecraft has completed its Atlantic crossing and arrived at Kourou’s Europe’s Spaceport, ready for integration with a Vega‑C launcher. A launch window from 8 April to 7 May 2026 has been set, targeting a comprehensive study of Earth’s response...
By European Space Agency News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Discover Network Shows How Sharing Data Can Turn the Tide on Fraud
Fraud is evolving into a fast‑moving, AI‑driven threat across e‑commerce, payments and identity, outpacing traditional, institution‑by‑institution defenses. Discover Network argues that sharing data through a consortium enables real‑time signal aggregation, tokenization and enhanced decisioning to spot patterns no single bank...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
I Tried Building My Startup Entirely on European Infrastructure
A founder rebuilt his startup using only European cloud and SaaS providers, swapping AWS for Hetzner, Scaleway, Bunny.net, Nebius, and Hanko while self‑hosting core services on Rancher‑managed Kubernetes. The migration revealed lower infrastructure costs and clear data‑residency benefits, but also...
By Hacker News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Omni Hotels & Resorts Modernizes Guest Engagement with Canary Technologies
Omni Hotels & Resorts announced it will integrate Canary Technologies’ Guest Experience Platform across its portfolio. The rollout includes AI‑powered Guest Messaging via SMS, WhatsApp and 100+ languages, plus a mobile‑friendly Digital Compendium that consolidates property information. The partnership aims...
By Hospitality Net – Technology
News•Feb 20, 2026
Middle-Market Confidence Splits in 2026 as Tariffs and Supply Chains Weigh on High-Uncertainty Firms
The 2026 Certainty Project surveyed CFOs of U.S. middle‑market firms (revenues $100 M‑$1 B) and found overall uncertainty stable, but a sharp split between goods and services sectors. Tariff policy shifts and supply‑chain exposure pushed high‑uncertainty among goods producers up 27% year‑over‑year,...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Not Everyone Has the Same Reason.
The Wage to Wallet Index reveals that roughly 60 million hourly workers earning $50,000 or less are turning to side work, with one in five performing regular gigs. While overall job‑security sentiment is rising, financial confidence is splitting: higher‑income salaried professionals...
By PYMNTS
News•Feb 20, 2026
A Great Idea for Space? EUSPA CASSINI Challenge Could Help, Jana Kominek Vecerkova
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has opened the CASSINI Challenge to attract innovative startup ideas for upcoming EU satellite launches. The competition seeks concepts that can transition quickly from prototype to market‑ready solutions, offering participants access...
By Irish Tech News
News•Feb 20, 2026
Application Spotlight: AI-Designed Patient-Specific Spinal Implants Set for First In-Human Procedures in 2026
Nivalon, founded by Todd Hodrinsky and Marcel Janse, is preparing to launch its AI‑designed, patient‑specific spinal implant system, EvoFlex, in first‑in‑human trials slated for 2026. The implants are generated through machine‑learning algorithms that model each patient’s vertebral geometry, aiming to...
By TCT Magazine
News•Feb 20, 2026
Accelerating Rare Disease Cures with ASOs, Gene Editing, and AI
Professor Matthew Wood, Oxford’s leading neuroscientist, heads the Oxford‑Harrington Rare Disease Centre, a partnership designed to fast‑track therapies for rare neuromuscular and genetic disorders. He outlines a vision to make antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and gene‑editing tools more modular, scalable, and...
By Labiotech.eu
News•Feb 20, 2026
LTG Infra CEO: ‘Keeping the Green Course Is More Important than Ever’
Lithuania’s railway electrification will rise from 8% to 28% by year‑end, driven by the Vilnius‑Klaipėda line upgrade and the introduction of the Baltic region’s first battery‑train charging station. CEO Vytis Žalimas highlighted that Rail Baltica will push electrification to 38%,...
By RailTech.com
News•Feb 20, 2026
AI-Empowered Cybersecurity: Key Events and Emerging Trends in 2025
In September 2025 Anthropic disclosed the world’s first autonomous AI‑driven cyberattack, where an AI system executed 80‑90% of the malicious workflow with only a handful of human interventions. The attackers masqueraded as a cybersecurity firm, using Claude Code and the Model...
By Security Boulevard
News•Feb 20, 2026
JAPANNEXT Ships 31.5-inch 6K IPS Monitor with USB-C and KVM
Japanese monitor maker JAPANNEXT has launched the JN‑IPS326K‑HSPC9, a 31.5‑inch IPS display with a native 6K resolution of 6016 × 3384 and a 60 Hz refresh rate. The panel delivers 500 nits brightness, a 1500:1 contrast ratio, full sRGB and 96 % DCI‑P3 coverage, and...
By Guru3D