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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Sotheby’s International Realty Canada today announced the historic sale of Turnagain Island, a private island estate on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, setting a new record as the highest-value residential property transaction ever recorded on the Sunshine Coast through the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®). Nestled in the heart of Secret Cove, Halfmoon Bay, located north of the district municipality of Sechelt, the sale marks a landmark achievement for British Columbia’s luxury real estate market. Listed at $14,749,000 CAD, the property sold for $13,000,000 CAD to a purchaser from Greater Vancouver, reflecting underlying…

Miami, FL, USA, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KITRUM, a software engineering company that helps funded product companies stabilize, extend, and scale live, business-critical systems, is clarifying how its AI Code Handoff & Stabilization offering fits into a broader approach the company calls Live-Product Engineering — taking ownership of a system’s stability over time, not delivering a fixed-scope technical fix and moving on. KITRUM today outlined its approach to AI Code Handoff & Stabilization, an engagement designed for companies whose production codebases were built or extended using AI coding tools and now need a clear technical owner. The offering…

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple’s landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as “meritless.” In a motion filed yesterday to dismiss the complaint, OpenAI says that Apple is mischaracterizing both the actions of the AI startup’s employees as theft, and “generic” product development information as “trade secrets,” adding that Apple made no reasonable efforts to maintain such secrecy.Several aspects of that blog make a more formal appearance in OpenAI’s dismissal request, alleging that Apple’s case is poorly investigated, built on selective or out-of-context communications, and “rotten to its core.”…

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Motoswap, an Ethereum-based decentralized exchange, today announced the launch of a new educational initiative designed to highlight peer-reviewed academic research on decentralized exchange security, scam token risks, and protocol incentive design. The initiative aims to encourage informed discussions around permissionless trading, user protection, and evolving approaches to decentralized finance while sharing publicly available research with the broader Web3 community. As millions of new tokens launch across decentralized exchanges each year, researchers and developers continue to examine whether permissionless trading and user protection must remain mutually exclusive. The same open-listing…

Norwich, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Targetfollow is offering for sale The Pantiles, the celebrated Georgian arcade at the heart of Royal Tunbridge Wells. It comes together with Tunbridge Wells and Rusthall Commons and the historic Lord of the Manor of Rusthall title. This is one of the rarest offerings to reach the UK property market in a generation. The Pantiles has not been offered publicly since Targetfollow bought the estate in 2008. A thriving commercial estate paired with a centuries old manorial title, assets like this almost never come to market. The Pantiles today The Pantiles spans 40,074…

TORONTO, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Greater Toronto Area (GTA) resale housing market conditions tightened in July 2026 compared the same month a year earlier. Home sales edged slightly lower over that period, while new listings were down substantially. This suggests that active homebuyers faced more competition from other potential purchasers. If this trend continues, average selling prices could level off in the second half of this year. “With sales accounting for a larger share of listings, buyers may find there is less room to negotiate moving forward. If current trends continue, home prices could start to level off…

SINGAPORE, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 25,000 attendees, 500 exhibitors, 300 speakers and 1,000 side events will bring the global crypto industry to Singapore this October. TOKEN2049, the world’s largest crypto event, returns to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on 7–8 October, bringing together 25,000 attendees from over 7,000 companies across 160 countries. The first 100 speakers have been announced, including Shayne Coplan, Founder and CEO of Polymarket; Jeff Yan, CEO of Hyperliquid Labs; Adena Friedman, Chair and CEO of Nasdaq; Jenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton; Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization; Raoul Pal, Co-Founder…

Photo Courtesy of Don Carlos Lee Gibson Jr. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Don Carlos Lee Gibson Jr. has marked the launch of The Stewardship Standard: A Hospitality Operating System for Private Golf Clubs, a book aimed at club executives, general managers, and board members responsible for shaping the day-to-day and long-term direction of private clubs. The book’s central premise is that hospitality functions not as a customer service department but as the operating system underlying how a club runs. Gibson’s perspective is shaped by a career that includes automotive management, golf operations, and resort leadership. He currently…

Photo Courtesy of Ihab Badawi VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Master coach and corporate trainer Ihab Badawi has launched a professional development program that pairs accredited certification with one-to-one launch mentoring, aimed at employed professionals who plan to become coaches, trainers, or consultants. The program addresses a pattern Badawi says he has watched for two decades. Professionals complete a certification, hang it on the wall, and never convert it into income, because certification alone does not teach anyone how to find clients, price services, or run a practice. His program bundles the two halves together. Participants…

SINGAPORE, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Uppsala Security, a Singapore-based blockchain intelligence and crypto forensics company, announced today that it has joined the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) as an Affiliate Member, becoming the first blockchain intelligence company to join the alliance. CTA is a nonprofit organization that brings cybersecurity organizations together to share actionable threat intelligence, improve situational awareness and strengthen collective defenses against malicious actors. Uppsala Security’s membership adds an on-chain perspective to CTA’s intelligence-sharing community at a time when cybercrime increasingly spans both traditional digital infrastructure and blockchain networks. Many cyber incidents begin with phishing, ransomware, malware,…