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MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Four Corners Property Trust (NYSE:FCPT), a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the ownership and acquisition of high-quality, net-leased restaurant and retail properties (“FCPT” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce the acquisition of a 7-Eleven convenience store property for $1.5 million. The property is located in a strong retail corridor in Pennsylvania and corporate-operated under a long-term, triple net lease with approximately ten yea...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO) (“BitGo” or the “Company”), the digital asset infrastructure company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement and completed the acquisition of the institutional trading business and related assets of NYDIG. The transaction expands BitGo’s institutional service offering and allows NYDIG to focus its resources on its vertically integrated power generation, bitcoin mining, and high-performance computing (“HPC”) da...

NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, “Pfizer”) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech”) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for the companies’ 2026-2027 COVID-19 vaccine formula targeting the XFG variant (COMIRNATY® XFG; COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) for use in adults ages 65 years and older, as well as in individuals ages 5 through 64 years with at least one underlying con...

SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affirm expands its global partnership with Shopify to launch Shop Pay Installments in Australia. Powered exclusively by Affirm, it provides Australians the added flexibility to pay over time with no hidden fees, using the Shop Pay button they already trust. Millions of shoppers have made billions of dollars in purchases since Shop Pay Installments launched in 2021, making it one of Shopify's most popular payment options across the US, Canada, and the UK. The launch mark...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tagup today announced that its existing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II contract has been modified to extend Manifest®, its AI-powered logistics platform, to selected theater sustainment use cases supporting U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific (MARFORPAC). The effort will apply Manifest to improve data integration, course-of-action analysis, and risk-informed sustainment planning in the Indo-Pacific. Manifest is currently in use at the tactical and op...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Auburn University’s Applied Research Institute (AUARI) announced the installation of its new superconducting 200 MeV proton accelerator, an important step in opening the nation’s first university-led proton testing facility dedicated to qualifying space electronics. The RAD-FX-200 superconducting synchrocyclotron, manufactured and installed by Mevion Medical Systems, is the centerpiece of AUARI’s new Radiation Hardening Facility, created to address the...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hark today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with NVIDIA to advance personalized agentic AI, including a deep technical collaboration and gigawatt-scale compute capacity on the next-generation NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. This announcement comes just ahead of Hark’s upcoming platform launch, which will be available to the public before the end of summer. AI infrastructure is essential for Hark’s development of useful AI that’s accessible through exis...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpenSea, one of the world's largest digital asset platforms, today announced a partnership with Perplexity Computer, Perplexity's agent platform. With the connector enabled, Perplexity draws on OpenSea's onchain market data to answer users' questions, surfacing the most-traded tokens over a given period, top assets by market activity, and other onchain signals sourced directly from OpenSea. Perplexity Computer carries out multi-step tasks for its users and grounds its an...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV”), a global defense technology leader, today announced that its MacCready Works advanced solutions team has been awarded a contract for the co-design and co-manufacture of three Mars helicopters for NASA’s SkyFall mission with the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), taking the project from future concept to a formally funded Mars science mission and a path toward launch in late 2028. SkyFall is the first mission to fly a team of th...

CARY, N.C. & MESA, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the past three years, to support the growth of pickleball in the United States, Veolia, a global leader in the water, waste and energy sectors, is demonstrating how large sporting events can reduce waste and conserve resources through its ongoing partnership with the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA). Veolia sponsors six tournaments on the professional tour per year, including two tournaments this September: - Veolia Pickleball National Cha...