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e& reports AED 19.4 billion consolidated revenue, with 15.1% YoY growth in Q1 2026

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“e& continues to deliver growth, with consolidated revenues of AED 19.4 billion and EBITDA of AED 8.6 billion, marking year-on-year increases of 15.1% and 16.5%,” says GCEO Masood M. Sharif Mahmood Consolidated net profit reached AED 2.9 billion, with 3.9%* per cent YoY growth *excluding the gain from the sale of Khazna in Q1 2025Consolidated Group subscribers reached 248.0 millione& UAE subscribers increased to 16.6 million

ABU DHABI, UAE, April 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — e& reported a strong start to 2026, with robust Q1 financial results, asserting the Group’s leadership in shaping the digital landscape and consolidating its position as a leading global group. 

The Group’s consolidated revenue reached AED 19.4 billion, reflecting 15.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth, while consolidated net profit reached AED 2.9 billion, with 3.9 per cent YoY growth (excluding the gain from the sale of Khazna). EBITDA grew by 16.5 per cent YoY, reaching AED 8.6 billion.

The Group’s subscriber base maintained its upward trajectory with a 30.8 per cent YoY growth, reaching 248.0 million subscribers. In its home market, e& UAE maintained its strong performance, with its subscriber base reaching 16.6 million, supported by the adoption of next-generation connectivity solutions and AI applications, which are now a vital part of customer experience.

Financial Highlights for Q1 2026

Q1 2026

Q1 2025

Per cent change

Consolidated Revenue

AED 19.4 billion

AED 16.9 billion

15.1 %

Consolidated Net Profit

AED 2.9 billion

AED 2.8 billion (*)

3.9 %

EBITDA

AED 8.6 billion

AED 7.4 billion

16.5 %

Total Group Subscribers

248.0 million

189.6 million (**)

30.8 %

e& UAE Subscribers

16.6 million

15.3 million

8.7 %

(*) Q1 2025 net profit excluding the gain from the sale of Khazna of total AED 2.6bn

(**) Adjusted for Maroc Telecom reported number

Masood M. Sharif Mahmood, Group Chief Executive Officer of e&, said: “Despite economic and regional changes, our agile business model has proven e&’s inherent strength and great ability to navigate challenges. Our proactive risk-preparedness approach and international diversification have enabled us to maintain our growth momentum in our home market and internationally; a testament to e&’s agility and resilience in operating under adverse circumstances.

Today, we stand firmly on a solid foundation with a strong track record that gives us full confidence in e&’s ability to continue its upward trajectory. Throughout recent regional challenges, e& remained steadfast in fulfilling its national role by enabling business continuity, ensuring network resilience, supporting remote work and education systems, and harnessing our technological capabilities to guarantee seamless connectivity and uninterrupted digital services for all and under different circumstances.

Our strong financial performance in the first quarter of 2026 reflects the success and resilience of our operations, underpinned by our commitment to creating sustainable shareholder value. We continued to deliver growth, with consolidated revenues of AED 19.4 billion and EBITDA of AED 8.6 billion, marking year-on-year increases of 15.1% and 16.5% respectively. This performance reinforces our position as a driving force in the region’s digital economy and a leading enabler of future-defining intelligent solutions.

We remain deeply inspired by the UAE’s visionary leadership, which has fostered a stable, growth-oriented environment while remaining agile and resilient in even the most challenging circumstances, enabling us to thrive and strive for more with confidence to keep delivering continuous success.”

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GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) Goes Live with AI Orderability (AIO) Agents for Commerce Marketplaces

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AI Agents for CPG and Beauty & Personal Care brands on the SM-AMP-CPG standard, human in the loop on every order

VANCOUVER, BC and SYDNEY, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GreenCore Solutions Corp. (“GSC” or the “Company”), AI Agents that sell Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Beauty & Personal Care (BPC) brands into retail grocery procurement, today announced the AI Orderability (AIO) Agent Class — a new class of AI Agent that makes BPC brands discoverable and orderable across marketplace commerce — launching with GSC Marketplace, live at gsc-marketplace.ai.

BPC brands sell through two main B2B channels: retail grocery — physical shelves, stocked through professional procurement — and marketplace commerce, the operator-run platforms where third-party brands sell online. Marketplace commerce clears more than US$3.8 trillion a year in gross merchandise value — roughly two-thirds of everything sold online — and every operator behind that number runs a sourcing team. Those human-led teams are putting AI Agents on buy-side discovery right now, across the United States, Latin America, Asia, and Europe & the UK.

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 90% of B2B buying will be AI-agent intermediated — moving more than US$15 trillion of B2B spend through AI agent exchanges. A brand a sourcing agent cannot resolve is a brand that doesn’t get bought.

An AIO Agent is shelf space for machine buyers — with humans signing. A sourcing agent in Seoul or São Paulo calls the machine door at mcp.gsc-marketplace.ai — a live MCP server, shipping with Agent Skills on board — and the brand answers: classified, jurisdiction-resolved, terms stated, identity cryptographically proven. A record, not a listing. Discovery becomes orderability; orderability becomes orders. It runs on an agentic, published standard — SM-AMP-CPG, the Agentic Marketplace Protocol for CPG, live at sm-amp-cpg.org. A standard, not a silo — no carrying buckets of water up a bell tower for every process. One record, and each question flows to the smallest surface that answers it, once, deterministically. This is the GSC Agentic Fabric.

The fleet answers from inside the buyer’s own market: AIO Agents run live now on Microsoft Azure across ten host jurisdictions in nine regions — South Central US serving the United States and Mexico, Brazil South, France Central, UK South, Germany West Central, Central India, Southeast Asia (Singapore), Japan East, and Korea Central. Across both classes, GSC AI Agents run resident in 18 countries on 18 Azure regions plus Google Cloud — live fleet data at mcp.gsc-fleet.ai/stats.json. GSC is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner.

The AIO Class is the second shelf GSC operates. GSC’s Carrier AI Agents already run the first — retail grocery procurement across 15,688 banners, 3.29 million points of sale, 50 markets, a human signature closing every purchase order. Two shelves. One brain: the CPG Knowledge Graph — 38,350 BPC brands, 2 billion datapoints, served live at mcp.cpgknowledgegraph.ai. Settlement is machine-native too: GSC Marketplace carries a live x402 rail, every settlement flowing to the human-staffed GSC Trading Desk. A human reviews and signs every order.

“At GSC, we now operate two vital agentic commerce surfaces for our cosmetics brand customers,” said Matthew Keddy, CEO, GreenCore Solutions Corp. “The first of the great marketplaces took four years in the late 1990s to reach 10 million customers. At GSC, 120 days in, we eclipse 15 million inbound AI Agent transactions a month — roughly six every second. Retail grocery procurement, where our Carrier AI Agents already run the shelf — and discovery and orderability, now brought to marketplace commerce with the AI Orderability (AIO) Agent Class. When the sourcing AI Agents operate, BPC brands are found, resolved, and orderable.”

The proof runs in public: elyssah.ai, GSC’s proto-agentic brand case study, carries the entire rail live — graded Level 5 Agent-Native on every page load. 15 million AI Agent transactions a month says the buyers already showed up.

Discover. Decide. Deliver. Start at gsc-marketplace.ai.

About GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC)

GreenCore Solutions Corp. (GSC) builds AI Agents that sell Beauty & Personal Care (BPC) brands into retail grocery procurement, powered by the CPG Knowledge Graph with SPARKS and delivered on MCP + A2A + ACM-68000. GSC carries 15 million+ inbound AI Agent transactions a month across 2 billion datapoints spanning 38,350 BPC brands, 15,688 retail grocery banners and 3.29 million points of sale in 50 global markets. GSC AI Agents run sustainable, transact safe, human in the loop, and live on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. GSC is a Microsoft AI Cloud Partner. D-U-N-S 24-336-6774. For more information visit gsc-em.com.

About GSC Agentic Pty. Ltd.

GSC Agentic Pty. Ltd., headquartered in Sydney, Australia, is the Asia-Pacific joint venture delivering the GSC AI Agent Stack across APAC markets. For more information visit gsc-global.ai.

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Apple Announces Mac mini and Mac Studio; More Info at B&H

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Apple News – Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio systems now equipped with the latest M6 and M5 series chips, bringing greater power and capabilities to users everywhere.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — B&H is pleased to share the latest editions of Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio lineup now powered by the latest M6 and M5 series chips. With a strong focus for on-device AI processing, Apple has boosted the performance of both the Mac mini and the Mac Studio, giving everyone from creatives to developers a strong foundation. So why wait any longer? Let’s dive in!

Apple Mac Studio (M5 Max)

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MFR # MHL64LL/A Key Features

Apple M5 Max 18-Core CPU36GB Unified RAM | 512GB SSD32-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural EngineUHS-II SDXC Card ReaderWi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) | Bluetooth 5.34 x Thunderbolt 5 | 2 x USB-C 3.2 Gen 22 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 | 1 x HDMI 2.11 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet PortmacOS

Mac mini

M6 and M5 Pro Chips

The latest Apple M6 chip brings new heights of computational power to the Mac mini! These 12-core chips feature a hybrid design that leverages six efficiency cores, four performance cores, and two super cores to enhance throughput across the entire system. Handling high-end graphics is the 12-core GPU along with hardware-accelerated ray tracing to give enhanced visuals for developers and gaming enthusiasts alike. The M6 also includes enhanced Neural Accelerators and a dual 16-core Neural Engine to expand memory bandwidth up to 153 GB/s!

Apple Mac mini (M6)
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Key Features

MFR # MHQM4LL/A

Apple M6 12-Core Chip24GB Unified RAM | 512GB SSD12-Core GPU | Dual 16-Core Neural EngineWi-Fi 7 (802.11be) | Bluetooth 6.03 x Thunderbolt 4 | HDMI | 2.5GbE2 x 10 Gb/s USB-C | 3.5mm Headphone JackCompact 5 x 5″ Form FactormacOS with Apple Intelligence

Apple Mac mini (M5 Pro 15-Core)
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Key Features

MFR# MHQN4LL/A

Apple M5 Pro 15-Core Chip24GB Unified RAM | 512GB SSD16-Core GPU | 16-Core Neural EngineWi-Fi 7 (802.11be) | Bluetooth 6.03 x Thunderbolt 5 | HDMI | 2.5GbE2 x 10 Gb/s USB-C | 3.5mm Headphone JackCompact 5 x 5″ Form FactormacOS with Apple Intelligence

The built-in Media Engine includes various hardware-accelerated encoding protocols including H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW. It also offers ProRes encode and decode engines as well as the AV1 decode engine.

The M5 Pro chip is also making its way over to the Mac mini, giving you a greater uplift in performance, ideal for creatives who want to take advantage of the M5 Pro’s enhanced architecture. It includes 15 cores, spread between 10 performance cores and five super cores to assist with high-end computational workloads. It also includes a 16-core GPU, hardware-accelerated ray tracing, 16-core Neural Engine, and Neural Accelerators, giving you up upwards of 307 GB/s memory bandwidth. If you want even more power, there is also an M5 Pro with an 18-core CPU and 20-core GPU. All the features found in the M6’s Media Engine are also available on the M5 Pro chips.

Expandability

Retaining the beloved form factor while incorporating powerful components like the M6 and M5 Pro chips, additional configuration options are made available with multiple memory and storage options. For the M6, it starts at 16GB of storage and can be

expanded up to either 24GB or 32GB which also enhances the memory bandwidth speed up to 170 GB/s. Meanwhile, the M5 Pro offers 48GB or 64GB configurations. Storage wise, M6 options include 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB. The M5 Pro starts with 512GB and can be expanded up to 8TB for extreme projects.

Display Support

Both the M6 and M5 Pro models support up to three external displays using Thunderbolt and HDMI ports. Resolution and refresh rate both adjust according to how many displays you connect to the Mac mini. With three displays on the M6, you can support two displays at either 6K resolution at 60 Hz refresh rate or 4K at 165 Hz. The third display can support 5K at 60 Hz over Thunderbolt or 4K at 60 Hz over HDMI. When using two displays, you have greater support for higher resolutions with the first monitor supporting either 8K at 60 Hz, 5K at 120 Hz, or 4K at 240 Hz. The secondary display supports up to 5K at 60 Hz over Thunderbolt or 4K 60 Hz over HDMI.

Audio

Integrated audio includes support for various formats including AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless, FLAC, Dolby Digital, Dilby Digital Plus, and Dolby Atmos. The Mac mini also features a built-in speaker alongside a 3.5mm headphone audio jack with advanced support for high-impedance headphones.

Connectivity

Both the M6 and the M5 Pro models include a wide range of ports with various adjustments to connection speeds. The front panels include two USB-C ports running at USB 3.2 speeds, offering up to 10 Gb/s data transfer speeds and a 3.5mm audio jack.

Slight changes to the back panel can be found between the M6 and M5 Pro. A configurable ethernet port is available, offering either 2.5 or 10 Gb speeds. A single HDMI port is also available alongside three USB-C Thunderbolt ports which support Thunderbolt 4 on M6 systems and Thunderbolt 5 on M5 Pro systems.

Mac Studio

Coming out the gate with the latest chips, the Mac Studio takes creativity to new heights thanks to the latest M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. Taking workloads to the extreme, the new Mac Studio delivers a monumental leap in performance, leveraging massive power to run various creative suits as well as resource-demanding AI applications. This makes the Mac Studio great for creatives as well as AI researchers, developers, data scientists, and more!

M5 Max

The M5 Max is a fantastic chip designed for creatives who want to take their editing skills to new heights. Musicians, photographers, software engineers, and designers pushing real-time 3D effects and motion graphics can leverage the immense amount of power that the M5 Max provides.

Consisting of an 18-core CPU that consists of 12 performance cores and six super cores, you get greater computational power backed by an enhanced 32-core GPU. Hardware-accelerated ray tracing, 16-core Neural Engine, and enhanced Neural Accelerators provide the M5 Max with up to 480 GB/s memory bandwidth speeds, ideal for those who are performing tons of real-time tasks.

Configurations can be made to the M5 Max, giving you an upgraded 40-core GPU for an enhanced memory bandwidth of 614 GB/s.

MFR # MHL74LL/A M5 Ultra

Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra 30-Core)

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Key Features

Apple M5 Ultra 30-Core Chip96GB Unified RAM | 1TB SSD64-Core GPU | 32-Core Neural EngineWi-Fi 7 | Bluetooth 6UHS-II SDXC Card Reader6 x Thunderbolt 5 (4 x Rear, 2 x Front)2 x USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 | 1 x HDMI 2.11 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet PortmacOS

Essentially doubling the performance of the M5 Max, the M5 Ultra takes computational power to unprecedented levels of power and performance essential for managing the most demanding workloads. Filmmakers can color-grade uncompressed 8K footage in real time, VFX artists can render complex simulations quicker than before, and data scientists can rain local AI models on various datasheets with ease.

The M5 Ultra chip features a 30-core CPU made of 10 super cores and 20 performance cores to drive raw performance. Graphics are handled by the massive 64-core GPU outfitted with hardware-accelerated ray tracing capabilities. Naturally, Neural Accelerators and a 32-core Neural Engine work together to enhance throughput across the board. Altogether, this gives you an incredible 1.2 TB/s memory bandwidth!

Additional configurations of the M5 Ultra include an upgrade to a 36-core CPU and an 80-core GPU.

Both the M5 Max and the M5 Ultra include a built-in Media Engine which leverages various codecs and other operational systems to enhance video editing capabilities, enabling power users to perform a multitude of tasks in a timely manner. We have hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW profiles built into the Media Engine.

For those on the M5 Max chip, you get two video encode engines and a single video decode engine. We also get two ProRes encode and decode engines as well as a single AV1 decode engine. Those who opt for the M5 Ultra receive double the performance backed by two video decode engines, four video encode engines, and four ProRes encode and decode engines. A singular AV1 decode engine remains.

Expandability

Designed for scalability, the Mac Studio features various configurations to best suit your workload. The M5 Max starts with 36GB of unified memory that can be configured up to 48GB, 64Gb, or 128GB. Meanwhile the M5 Ultra starts with 96GB of unified memory with 256GB or 512GB options.

Storage wise, the M5 Max starts with 512GB while the M5 Ultra starts with 1TB. Expansion options include 1TB (for the M5 Max), 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB for extreme workloads. The M5 Ultra gets the additional option of a 16TB internal storage drive for even greater application usage.

Display Support

When it comes to display support, the Mac Studio offers a ton of options with ample connectivity across a mix of Thunderbolt 5 and HDMI ports. The M5 Max can support up to five displays while the M5 Ultra supports up to eight.

The M5 Max can support four displays up to a native resolution of 6K at 60 Hz or 4K at 165 Hz, plus a fifth display with up to 5K at 60 Hz over HDMI. When only using three displays, two offer support up to 8K at 60 Hz or 5K at 120 Hz or 4K at 240 Hz, plus a third display with up to 5K at 60 Hz over HDMI.

When connecting eight displays to the M5 Ultra, you get native resolution of 6K at 60 Hz or 4K resolution at up to 165 Hz. When using four displays, you get 8K at 60 Hz, 5K at 120 Hz, or 4K at 240 Hz.

Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) HDR, and Multichannel audio are all supported.

Connectivity and Audio

The Mac Studio offers the largest, most expansive connectivity options to date with a wide range of ports found on the front and back panels. On the front we have two USB-C ports which support USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gb/s) speeds on the M5 Max and Thunderbolt 5 speeds on the M5 Ultra. Both include an SDXC card slot with UHS-II speeds.

Both the M5 Max and the M5 Ultra systems are equipped with four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, and a 10Gb Ethernet port. The 3.5mm headphone jack found on the back panel supports high-impedance headphones for extra audio clarity.

Just like the Mac mini, the Mac Studio includes Apple’s N1 wireless networking chip that grants users access to Wi-Fi 7 speeds with Thread networking technology and Bluetooth 6 for enhanced peripheral support.

Learn More About the latest Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio at B&H Explora 

About B&H Photo Video

As the world’s largest source of photography, video, and audio equipment, as well as computers, drones, and home and portable entertainment, B&H is known worldwide for its attentive, knowledgeable sales force and excellent customer service, including fast, reliable shipping. B&H has been satisfying customers worldwide for over 50 years.

Visitors to the website can access a variety of educational videos and enlightening articles. The B&H YouTube Channel has an unmatched wealth of educational content. Our entertaining and informative videos feature product overviews from our in-house specialists. You can view the B&H Event Space presentations from many of the world’s foremost experts and interviews with some of technology’s most dynamic personalities. Tap into this exciting resource by subscribing to the B&H YouTube Channel here. In addition to videos, the B&H Explora blog presents new product announcements, gear reviews, helpful guides, and tech news written by product experts and industry professionals, as well as our award-winning podcasts.

When you’re in Manhattan, take a tour of the B&H Photo SuperStore, located at 420 Ninth Avenue. The techno-carousel spins all year round at the counters and kiosks at B&H. With hundreds of products on display, the B&H Photo SuperStore is the place to test-drive and compare all the latest gear.

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Texas Community Bancshares, Inc. Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend

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MINEOLA, Texas, Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Texas Community Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: “TCBS”), the holding company of Broadstreet Bank, SSB, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared the payment of a quarterly cash dividend of $0.06 per share on each outstanding share of common stock. The dividend will be payable on or about September 22, 2026, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on September 8, 2026.  

About Texas Community Bancshares, Inc. and Broadstreet Bank, SSB

Texas Community Bancshares is the holding company for Broadstreet Bank, SSB, a Texas-chartered savings bank that operates seven locations in northeast Texas. Established in 1934, Broadstreet Bank opened as a Savings and Loan Association with $4,057 in assets and has since grown into a $443 million dollar community bank. The Bank leverages over ninety years of proven strength in creating financial opportunities for the communities it serves by offering full-service personal and business banking to consumers along with residential and commercial real estate lending. For more information on the Bank, or to view investor relations for the Company, visit www.broadstreet.bank.

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