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FLO Living Partners with Leading Femtech Innovators to Conduct Study on the Cycle Syncing® Method

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First-of-its-Kind Research Aims to Fill the Gap in Women’s Hormonal Health

NEW YORK, April 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — FLO Living is leading a groundbreaking study to evaluate the impact of the Cycle Syncing® Method on menstrual cycle symptom burden (total number of symptoms) and symptom severity (intensity of those symptoms). Backed by Mira, Hello Inside, and Citruslabs, this research is a major step toward validating a dietary and lifestyle-based approach to hormonal health.

“We’re living in historic times for women’s health,” says Alisa Vitti, founder of FLO Living. “With the rise of femtech solutions, women have more control over their hormonal health than ever before. Our partnership with Mira, Hello Inside, and Citruslabs demonstrates how the femtech community can work together to push research forward. Most importantly, it lays the foundation for a new standard of care that integrates dietary and lifestyle interventions with pharmaceutical options—helping women receive more holistic, research-backed support.”

The Cycle Syncing® Method, first introduced in Vitti’s book In the FLO (HarperCollins, 2020), aligns nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle choices with the four phases of the menstrual cycle. By adjusting calorie intake, food type, workout intensity, and other daily habits, the method aims to support blood sugar, cortisol, and progesterone levels—helping to reduce hormonal symptoms throughout the month.

Addressing a Critical Gap in Women’s Health

Women’s health research remains critically underfunded, and menstrual health is still widely misunderstood. This study aims to change that by providing gynecologists and healthcare professionals with evidence-backed confidence in a practical, non-pharmaceutical approach that can be used between annual visits.

“Women’s health remains one of the most underserved areas in scientific research, and the menstrual cycle is still largely misunderstood,” says Susanne Mitschke, Co-Founder & CEO of Citruslabs. “This collaboration marks a historic step toward closing that gap. At Citruslabs, we’re honored to be part of this initiative—validating Cycle Syncing® through robust clinical evidence and championing a new era of research that finally centers on women’s lived experiences.”

At the heart of the study is real-time data tracking to measure how the Cycle Syncing® Method influences blood glucose levels, hormone patterns, and menstrual symptoms. By leveraging Hello Inside’s metabolic health insights, Mira’s hormone tracking expertise, and Citruslabs’ research capabilities, the study will offer clinical validation for a lifestyle-driven approach to hormone health.

“We are thrilled to be at the forefront of advancing women’s health research alongside the brilliant teams at FLO Living and Mira Health,” says Mario Aichlseder, CEO & Founder of Hello Inside. “By combining their expertise in menstrual health and fertility with Hello Inside’s metabolic health insights, we are uncovering invaluable data on how women’s bodies function at all life stages. This partnership is unlocking the powerful signals of the female body, giving women deeper insights into their health and empowering them to take control.”

“At Mira, we believe data is power—especially in women’s health,” says Sylvia Kang, CEO & Founder of Mira. “This study is a critical step toward understanding how Cycle Syncing® affects hormone levels, symptom severity, and metabolic health. If successful, this research could provide doctors with a trusted, non-invasive way to help women manage PMS, cramps, and heavy bleeding—while also setting a new standard for gender-specific health research.”

This study marks a turning point in women’s daily hormonal care—filling in research gaps and laying the foundation for more personalized, proactive support. With a united effort from industry-leading femtech companies and a growing community of empowered participants, the future of hormone health looks brighter than ever.

Click here to participate in the study.
For all media inquiries, contact press@floliving.com / alisa@floliving.com.

About FLO Living

FLO Living is a digital-first hormone health company founded by Alisa Vitti, author of WomanCode and In the FLO. The company is on a mission to help women eliminate period problems, balance their hormones naturally, and optimize their health through every life stage. Through proprietary programs, supplements, and the MyFLO® app, FLO Living delivers personalized, phase-based hormonal support rooted in the Cycle Syncing® Method.

About Mira

Mira is a San Francisco-based hormonal health company providing integrative care and hormonal testing for over 130,000 customers. Mira was founded in late 2015 by a group of scientists, engineers, OBGYN doctors, and business execs to solve the problem of the unavailability of advanced home health testing. The company’s mission is to develop data-driven hormonal health solutions to help women make confident health decisions during every stage of their lives – from the menstrual stage to menopause.

About Hello Inside

Hello Inside is a science-driven health company helping women make smarter, more personalized choices through real-time glucose tracking. By combining continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with holistic metabolic health insights and nutrition consultations, Hello Inside helps users understand their own body and its response to diet, exercise, sleep and stress. In-app educational programs specifically tailored to women’s needs transform daily wellness into actionable self-care, reducing hormonal imbalances, alleviating PMS symptoms and supporting health during menopause.

About Citruslabs

Citruslabs is a leader in accessible clinical research for health and wellness brands. Their platform connects companies with real users to conduct IRB-approved studies that generate reliable data and substantiated health claims. By making clinical research faster, more affordable, and more transparent, Citruslabs is helping build a healthier, more evidence-based future in consumer wellness.

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SiriusXM Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share of common stock. This regular quarterly dividend is payable in cash on August 26, 2026, to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 10, 2026.

About Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America with a portfolio of audio businesses including its flagship subscription entertainment service SiriusXM; the ad-supported and premium music streaming services of Pandora; an expansive podcast network; and a suite of business and advertising solutions. Together, SiriusXM reaches a combined monthly audience of approximately 255 million listeners. SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.

Source: SiriusXM

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Shutterstock Announces Capital Allocation Update

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the “Company”), a family of brands delivering scalable creative and GenAI solutions to help customers fuel great work, today announced that at a meeting held on July 20, 2026 its Board of Directors (the “Board”) resolved to suspend the Company’s future quarterly cash dividend.

The Board’s determination reflects its ongoing review of the Company’s capital-allocation priorities and its focus on deploying capital to support long-term value creation for shareholders, including reducing debt, minimizing related interest expense and strengthening financial flexibility.

The Board will continue to evaluate the Company’s capital allocation priorities as part of its regular governance process. Any future declaration and payment of dividends, and the amount thereof, will remain subject to the discretion of the Board and will depend upon the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, applicable law, and such other factors as the Board deems relevant.

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This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may discuss intentions and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, results of operations or financial condition, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as predictions of future events, as there can be no assurance that the events or circumstances reflected in these statements will occur. Forward-looking statements can often, but not always, be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology including “believes,” “could,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “ongoing,” “plans,” “seeks,” “should,” “will,”  or the negative of these words and phrases, other variations of these words and phrases or comparable terminology, but not all forward-looking statements include such identifying words. Forward-looking statements are based upon current plans, estimates and expectations that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release relate to, among other things, the Company’s capital allocation strategy, the suspension of the Company’s quarterly cash dividend, the Company’s plans with respect to debt reduction, interest expense management and financial flexibility, and any future declaration and payment of dividends. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements, see the sections captioned “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While those factors are considered representative, no list of risk factors should be considered a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, and the Company disclaims any such obligation, except as may be required by law.

About Shutterstock
Shutterstock is in the business of turning ideas into impact. Powered by a global network of millions of creators and our cutting-edge technology, we provide businesses, creatives, and brand leaders with the essential, universal ingredients to make their work more effective. Shutterstock offers access to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of high-quality licensable assets, specialized training datasets, evaluation tools, and end-to-end strategic partnerships for the full model training lifecycle, as well as advertising and distribution solutions, exclusive editorial content, and full-service studio production—delivering unparalleled resources to fuel great work.

Discover our impact at www.shutterstock.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube.

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ICI Welcomes Bipartisan Sponsors of Bill to Stop States from Seizing Long-Term Investors’ Savings

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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Investment Company Institute released the following Viewpoints blog. To learn more about why this issue matters and how the SAFER Act would help protect American investors, watch our video on LinkedIn.

Millions of American investors have adopted the advice given by financial advisors to invest for the long term and then leave those savings alone. In some states, however, following this guidance can get your account seized. That was the warning sounded at an event featuring the sponsors of the bipartisan SAFER Act, Representatives Sam Liccardo (D-CA) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), who joined ICI leaders to make the case for a federal solution to the problem of state unclaimed property laws that can treat buy-and-hold investors as though they have disappeared. 

ICI President and CEO Eric Pan opened the event by outlining the nature of this growing threat. More than 128 million Americans invest in regulated funds, many with the intention of holding them for years, following the advice of many financial educators to “stay in the market, invest for the long term.” They put their money away and go about their lives, confident that the savings will be there when they need it. But under some states’ laws, an account that shows no activity can be declared abandoned and taken into state custody through a process called escheatment.

Pan walked through what seizure means in practice. When a state escheats an investment account, it typically liquidates the holdings — so even an investor who eventually recovers the money gets back only what the account was worth at seizure, with no credit for years of market gains. For retirement accounts, the forced liquidation can also trigger unforeseen tax consequences. And recovering the money at all can take years of paperwork and persistence. Meanwhile, some states are moving in the wrong direction, loosening their rules to make it easier to capture assets. 

“This is where the leadership of Congressmen Lawler and Liccardo is so important,” Pan said. “They’ve introduced the SAFER Act, a federal solution to a problem that exists across the United States. This patchwork of different legal standards, and the fact that the legal standards change constantly, creates a lot of confusion and creates this risk and harm that we’re so worried about.” 

In a panel discussion, the two lawmakers described the issue as an obvious place for Democrats and Republicans to find common ground, given Americans’ widespread use of investment accounts for saving.

“We are, for the most part, a group of Americans who sit on our investments, which is more or less the right strategy,” Liccardo said, noting that this is exactly the approach that inactivity standards put at risk. 

Liccardo pointed to the widely reported case of Walter Schramm, an investor who bought Amazon shares in the late 1990s and then did what many long-term investors do: leave the account be. Delaware deemed the account abandoned and liquidated the shares in 2008, when they worth about $8,000. By the time Schramm discovered what happened years later, the position would have been worth roughly $100,000.

The financial incentives driving state behavior are a concern, Liccardo noted. Unclaimed property has become one of Delaware’s largest sources of revenue, bringing in more than half a billion dollars a year — a powerful reason for states to loosen their standards rather than tighten them. 

Lawler contrasted legitimate unclaimed property programs and what some states are doing now. “It’s one thing to get an asset because it’s truly abandoned,” he said. “It’s another to basically target a group of investors who have a long-term strategy of just not touching the asset and being passive.”

The right standard, Lawler argued, is the obvious one: before seizing investment assets, a state should have to prove the owner is actually deceased. He posited that most Americans would be shocked to learn how little protection they have. “You think you have ownership of this asset, but the state, under current law, can just take it.”

The SAFER Act would establish federal guardrails ensuring that inactivity alone cannot be the basis for escheatment and that states confirm the death of an owner and that no estate or beneficiary has claimed the assets before escheating investment accounts. It would also require states to leave unclaimed investments in place, rather than liquidating them, until they can prove abandonment.

Both lawmakers said the path to fixing the problem is through public awareness of the threat some state laws pose to Americans financial security. “Ultimately the American people will rise up,” Liccardo said. “It may take a little while. We just have to get the information to them.”

Contact: media@ici.org 

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