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New platform connects premium pet nutrition with fecal health testing, veterinary telehealth and ongoing wellness support to help brands increase engagement, retention and customer lifetime value. New York, New York, United States, 19th Aug 2026 — Pet Food Connect today announced the launch of its Connected Wellness Platform, a new solution designed to help premium pet food brands extend their relationship with pet parents beyond the food bowl by integrating nutrition with measurable health insights, veterinary telehealth and ongoing wellness engagement. As consumers increasingly seek premium, human-grade, fresh, frozen, freeze-dried, air-dried and other better-for-you nutrition options for their dogs, pet food brands face a growing challenge: delivering value that extends beyond the initi...

Every year during China’s Qixi Festival, the streets of Baoting in Hainan turn into a bustling carnival of mass water splashing. A unique blend of Li and Miao ethnic intangible cultural heritage and tropical rainforest charm comes alive here. The joyous bustle of water-splashing rituals, the elegant appeal of intangible heritage parades, and the relaxing comfort of rainforest wellness converge at the Hainan Qixian Hot Spring Water-Splashing Festival — one of Hainan’s most lively and down-to-earth folk cultural scenes. This year, this grand festival gains a new storyteller: A Bus Tour Across China · Hainan Chapter, a convergence media program launched by Yangshipin under the China Media Group (CMG). Conducting an immersive, island-wide field tour along Hainan’s island ring road, the CMG te...

Port Louis, Mauritius, August 19th, 2026, FinanceWire The Market-Maker Model developed by STARPRIME has completed an extensive beta-testing phase, working with a select number of clients. The term ‘market maker’ carries a stigma of being a bad actor in our industry. That reputation has identifiable origins, and some of it has been earned. What follows is how a properly governed market-making arrangement differs, and where it can materially improve outcomes for retail brokers.  The driver of the product innovation and development has been to find the ‘sweet spot’ in solving some of the main challenges that larger retail brokers face: Optimal efficiency in externalising Non-Risk Flow Non-Risk Revenue dilemma (aka “flattening the curve”) Optimal efficiency in externalising Non-Risk Flow Wh...

Port Louis, Mauritius, August 19th, 2026, FinanceWire The Market-Maker Model developed by STARPRIME has completed an extensive beta-testing phase, working with a select number of clients. The term ‘market maker’ carries a stigma of being a bad actor in our industry. That reputation has identifiable origins, and some of it has been earned. What follows is how a properly governed market-making arrangement differs, and where it can materially improve outcomes for retail brokers.  The driver of the product innovation and development has been to find the ‘sweet spot’ in solving some of the main challenges that larger retail brokers face: Optimal efficiency in externalising Non-Risk Flow Non-Risk Revenue dilemma (aka “flattening the curve”) Optimal efficiency in externalising Non-Risk Flow Wh...

Jersey City, NJ, USA — Travorio reviewed hotel prices across major booking platforms to see how often travelers can find a meaningful difference for the same property and travel dates. What we found The study covered 394 hotel comparisons across 18 destinations. Rates were drawn from Booking.com, Expedia, and Hotels.com for a three-night stay in September 2026 for two adults. These figures build on Travorio’s broader look at average hotel prices around the world. Most comparisons were fairly close. The median difference between the lowest and highest available rate was 4%. The average difference was 8%. The larger gaps are where comparison becomes useful. Twenty-nine percent of the searches showed a difference of more than 10%, and 10% showed a difference above 20%. The larg...

Istanbul, Turkey, August 19th, 2026, FinanceWire Istanbul, Türkiye – August 18, 2026. Freedom Yatırım Menkul Değerler A.Ş., a subsidiary of Freedom Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: FRHC), has received an operating license from the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye (CMB). Freedom Yatırım has become the first broadly authorized foreign brokerage firm to receive such a license in Türkiye since 1992. The license marks an important step in Freedom Holding Corp.’s expansion in Türkiye and supports its broader strategy to grow its brokerage business and international capital markets infrastructure in the country. “Receiving this operating license is an important milestone for Freedom Holding Corp. It marks our entry into the Turkish brokerage market as the first broadly authorized foreign firm to receive s...

Jersey City, NJ, USA — Travorio reviewed hotel prices across major booking platforms to see how often travelers can find a meaningful difference for the same property and travel dates. Travelers who want more flexibility can also book now, pay later hotels through supported payment options. What we found The study covered 394 hotel comparisons across 18 destinations. Rates were drawn from Booking.com, Expedia, and Hotels.com for a three-night stay in September 2026 for two adults. Most comparisons were fairly close. The median difference between the lowest and highest available rate was 4%. The average difference was 8%. The larger gaps are where comparison becomes useful. Twenty-nine percent of the searches showed a difference of more than 10%, and 10% showed a difference abov...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 18th, 2026, FinanceWire Tribal launches Tribal for ServiceNow, enabling enterprise teams – not just developers – to build and personalize AI where work already happens.  Tribal today announced their partnership with ServiceNow to launch Tribal for ServiceNow. Through this collaboration, Tribal’s AI agents now support the ServiceNow AI Platform, helping teams maintain, migrate, and enhance their ecosystems. By mapping the platform with Tribal’s Metadata Fabric, users can build with full enterprise context, without breaking dependencies or business workflows. When Tribal announced its $10 million seed round in May, expanding to ServiceNow was a strategic roadmap priority shaped by strong demand from CIOs. Just thirteen weeks later, ServiceNow support is live, adva...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, August 18th, 2026, FinanceWire Tribal launches Tribal for ServiceNow, enabling enterprise teams – not just developers – to build and personalize AI where work already happens.  Tribal today announced their partnership with ServiceNow to launch Tribal for ServiceNow. Through this collaboration, Tribal’s AI agents now support the ServiceNow AI Platform, helping teams maintain, migrate, and enhance their ecosystems. By mapping the platform with Tribal’s Metadata Fabric, users can build with full enterprise context, without breaking dependencies or business workflows. When Tribal announced its $10 million seed round in May, expanding to ServiceNow was a strategic roadmap priority shaped by strong demand from CIOs. Just thirteen weeks later, ServiceNow support is live, adva...

Arkansas pharmacist Austen Hacker shares how small, consistent interactions build the foundation for patient safety and better outcomes across pharmacy settings. Arkansas, USA, Aug 18, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Maria came to the pharmacy counter for the third time that month. Each visit, she asked the same questions about her medications. To an outsider, it might have looked like frustration on both sides. But the pharmacist saw something different: a patient trying to regain control after a frightening diagnosis. Instead of rushing through the consultation, he took five extra minutes to explain how the medications worked together, wrote down timing instructions, and asked what worried her most. Two months later, Maria told him she finally felt confident managing her treatment. That conversati...