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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,…

Photo Courtesy of Jacobi Productions Inc. VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Nicolas Jacobi didn’t set out to become a film producer. He spent more than a decade in the music business first, running a record label roster, managing talent, and directing music videos, before a 2021 opening pulled him into producing full-time. Two years of scouting scripts and building relationships later, he founded Jacobi Productions in Vancouver, BC with Zoya Jacobi in late 2023. Now the studio is chasing two very different stories at once. The first is PARLOUR, a neo-noir thriller, written by James D.…

Photo Courtesy of: Vladimir Isperov LOS ANGELES, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — California’s real estate market generates a category of deal that conventional lenders are structurally unable to serve. The timelines are too short, the property types too varied, and the income documentation too complex. Hard money lending exists to fill that gap, and professionals with the experience and infrastructure to serve it reliably are central to how the state’s real estate economy functions. A conventional mortgage from a bank or credit union can take 30 to 60 days or more to close. For a borrower trying to acquire…

KOBE, Japan, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micware Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: MWC) (the “Company” or “Micware”), a Japan-based provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions mainly focused on the automotive and mobility sectors, today announced that its subsidiary, Micware Navigations Co., Ltd. (“Micware Navigations”), in collaboration with Wiz Ltd. (“Wiz”), the provider of the “Wiz” security platform for cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) environments, has begun offering cloud and AI security solutions that utilize Wiz. BackgroundAs AI-driven development and the production use of AI applications continue to expand, cloud environments are facing increasingly complex security considerations. In…

MANCHESTER, United Kingdom, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — £100 is the smallest amount a customer can borrow through Swift Money, the company has confirmed. That figure sits at one end of a loan range that stretches up to £3,000, with the exact amount offered to any individual depending on their circumstances and the assessment carried out by the lender. Swift Money operates as a credit broker rather than a lender. When someone applies, the company passes their details to a panel of FCA-authorised lenders, and it is those lenders, not Swift Money, who decide how much to offer and…

MONTREAL, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — L’École Des Paris, a Montreal-based sports betting education school co-founded by professional bettors Olivier Jacques and Walid Tabarout, teaches a rules-based analytical framework designed to move recreational sports bettors away from the impulse-driven approach that mainstream media and marketing tend to reinforce. The school is one of the first of its kind in North America, has been operating for approximately one year, and has more than 300 students enrolled to date, according to its founders. The founders’ central argument is that sports betting can be approached the same way an analyst approaches equities.…