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Tencent Cloud Reinforces Hong Kong as a Strategic Two-Way Gateway, Unveiling Strong Local Momentum and Commitment

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Empowering Enterprise AI Transformation and Local Expansion Highlight the Company’s Long-Term Commitment to Hong Kong

HONG KONG, June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, is accelerating its strategy to position Hong Kong as the indispensable, bi-directional gateway for global business expansion. This strategic focus was recently front-and-center at the inaugural Tencent Cloud Day in Hong Kong, where the company brought together industry leaders to outline its roadmap for driving practical, cross-border AI innovation.

Convened under the theme “AI in Action,” the flagship Tencent Cloud Day Hong Kong explores how artificial intelligence is moving from promise to practice in real-world business environments, underscoring Hong Kong’s role as a critical anchor for Tencent Cloud’s international strategy, particularly as the company’s global business — including Hong Kong — continues to achieve high double-digit growth.

Poshu Yeung, Senior Vice President of Tencent Cloud and Head of Tencent Cloud International, said, “Hong Kong represents more than a market for Tencent Cloud — it is a strategic hub for innovation and talent. At Tencent Cloud, our focus is on bringing infrastructure, models, and agents together so enterprises can finally unlock the practical value of AI. We are committed to working alongside the city to drive this next wave of growth with secure, resilient technology. By fostering collaboration and investing for the long term, we aim to reinforce Hong Kong’s role as a two-way gateway for global business expansion, helping enterprises everywhere modernize and adopt AI with total confidence.”

A Vital Two-Way Gateway for Cross-Border Growth

Hong Kong is a premier hub where finance, technology, professional expertise, and international networks converge. This powerful combination is why Tencent Cloud positions the city as an indispensable, bi-directional gateway for cross-border expansion.

Leveraging the geographic and economic strength of the city, Tencent Cloud helps Chinese mainland companies reach out to the world, while serving as the premier entry point for international companies entering mainland China. At the same time, Tencent Cloud continues to strengthen its role as a trusted partner for local enterprises, enabling them to innovate at home and scale across borders, anchoring international growth in local excellence.

This global scaling is backed by Tencent Cloud’s extensive infrastructure, which has recently expanded to 23 regions and 66 availability zones with new additions in Frankfurt, Riyadh, and Osaka. A new Cloud Region in Mexico, with two availability zones, will further bolster Tencent Cloud’s data center pipeline.

Profound Local Commitments and Ongoing Investment

This gateway role is underscored by Tencent Cloud’s long‑term commitment to Hong Kong’s market, where the company emphasizes localized focus and continuous digital infrastructure investment. Nowhere is this more evident than in financial services, where Hong Kong sets a high bar for secure and trusted operations.

To meet these rigorous standards, Tencent Cloud brings decades of proven enterprise experience from operating WeChat Pay — one of the world’s most robust digital payment ecosystems — and powering top national banks and regulators in China. This deep technical heritage allows Tencent Cloud to provide Hong Kong enterprises with the robust, enterprise-grade cloud foundations necessary to meet the city’s stringent operational standards.

This vision is already coming to life through tangible achievements and trusted partnerships across the city’s enterprise ecosystem. Tencent Cloud’s established FinTech footprint in the city includes running over a hundred core banking system modules on its tech stack for Fusion Bank, and helping other major institutions like Blue Insurance and China CITIC Bank International to support their digital transformation and the transition to an AI-driven era.

Beyond finance, Tencent Cloud is actively extending its impact into retail, healthcare, and essential city services. Crucial partners across diverse sectors such as BAPE Hong Kong Limited, Hung Fook Tong, Bupa Hong Kong, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Towngas and iAM Smart — the Hong Kong SAR Government’s one-stop personalized digital services platform, are leveraging Tencent Cloud’s capabilities to enhance citizen experiences and operational resilience.

Engaging the Community and Next-Gen Talent

Tencent Cloud’s commitment to the territory goes beyond enterprise partnerships, extending into the local community to inspire the next generation of tech talent. This dedication is coming to life right across Hong Kong’s major transit hubs and financial districts, where a city-wide visual showcase themed “AI in Action” and “Drive the Future with Tencent Cloud” invites the community to join the digital journey.

Against this active backdrop, Tencent Cloud is deeply focused on nurturing the developers, students, and researchers who are shaping the AI future of Hong Kong. Through grassroots initiatives like the “AI CAN DO IT” hackathon, local university students have turned creative ideas into impactful tools, while AI Coding programs like CodeBuddy Boot Camp help students and researchers build working applications, collaborate on academic development, and advance digital governance.

Looking ahead, Tencent Cloud emphasizes that the future of AI will be shaped not by technology companies alone, but through collaboration among developers, students, enterprises, researchers, and partners. By bringing its cloud infrastructure, AI models, agentic products, and ecosystem expertise to the city, Tencent Cloud is committed to helping more Hong Kong and global enterprises and organizations modernize, adopt AI with confidence, and drive global innovation.

About Tencent Cloud:

Tencent Cloud, one of the world’s leading cloud companies, is committed to creating innovative solutions to resolve real-world issues and enabling digital transformation for smart industries. Through our extensive global infrastructure, Tencent Cloud provides businesses across the globe with stable and secure industry-leading cloud products and services, leveraging technological advancements such as cloud computing, Big Data analytics, AI, IoT, and network security. It is our constant mission to meet the needs of industries across the board, including the fields of gaming, media and entertainment, finance, healthcare, property, retail, travel, and transportation.

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RealNex Releases Major Navigator Enhancements to Power the Next Generation of CRE Brokerage Performance

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New release expands RealNex Navigator with KRM, RealNex Insights, RealNex Vault, RealNex Bridge, MarketEdge enhancements, and CRE Marketing Hub AI tools.

STAFFORD, Texas, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — RealNex, a commercial real estate technology company, today announced a major release of updates and enhancements to RealNex Navigator, its integrated platform for commercial real estate professionals.

The release includes the evolution of RealNex CRM into KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management, embedded RealNex Insights Power BI dashboards, the launch of RealNex Vault, the upgraded RealNex Bridge transaction workflow, enhanced MarketEdge analysis and presentation tools, and CRE-trained AI tools powered through CRE Marketing Hub.

Together, the enhancements make RealNex Navigator a more connected platform for managing knowledge, sharpening strategy, and activating execution across the full CRE deal cycle. The result is what RealNex calls The CRE Intelligence Advantage: a more effective way to make brokerage knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable.

“Commercial real estate has always been a knowledge business — and the broker who knows their market deepest wins. Every AI tool in the world cannot change that. What we have built changes something more fundamental: it makes that knowledge measurable, visible, and actionable at a scale no individual broker could achieve alone.”

— Mark Kingston, Executive Chairman, RealNex

KRM reflects the reality that CRE professionals manage more than contacts. They manage properties, markets, companies, owners, tenants, activity, assignments, and transaction history. RealNex Insights turns live KRM data into Power BI dashboards covering pipeline health, market inventory, financial performance, production activity, and business development performance.

RealNex Vault is a purpose-built virtual deal room for commercial real estate, with staged bidder progression, tiered access, NDA e-signature, dynamic watermarking, two-factor authentication, audit trails, and bidder engagement analytics. Vault is included at no additional charge for MarketEdge and Navigator subscribers.

RealNex Bridge, formerly Transaction Manager, now includes a redesigned interface, nationwide commercial property database, direct MarketPlace and KRM integration, enhanced proposal comparison, and one-click branded PDF tour books.

MarketEdge enhancements include a refreshed UI, widget-based design editor, auto-sizing text, expanded demographics, and enhanced sale-leaseback and lease vs. buy reports.

CRE Marketing Hub AI tools are available to support property and market analysis, business development strategy, targeted marketing plans, content creation, underwriting and investment analysis, social media messaging, and video scripting.

All updates are live for RealNex subscribers as of September 9, 2026.

About RealNex

RealNex is a commercial real estate technology company providing an integrated platform including KRM — Knowledge and Relationship Management — MarketEdge, RealNex Bridge, RealNex Vault, and RealNex Insights, with AI tools powered through a partnership with CRE Marketing Hub. RealNex serves brokerage firms, leasing professionals, tenant representatives, investment sales teams, and property owners across the United States and internationally.

Media Contact: Sara Perez • 281.299.3161 • 416191@email4pr.comrealnex.com 

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97% of America’s Red-Eye Flights Take Off in the West, and Overnight Flying Is at a Record High, 26 Years of Federal Data Show

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Champion Traveler analysis of every US domestic flight since 2000 finds red-eyes concentrated in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, growing, and more reliable than daytime flights

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — About one in sixty US domestic flights is a red-eye, and 97 percent of them take off in the western United States, according to a new Champion Traveler analysis of 26 years of Bureau of Transportation Statistics flight records.

The study counted every scheduled domestic flight reported to the federal government from 2000 through 2025 and classified as a red-eye any flight scheduled to depart between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. and land between 3 a.m. and 10 a.m. local time. In 2025, 115,580 of 6.9 million flights met that definition.

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Red-eyes are a western phenomenon. 97 percent of 2025’s overnight flights departed from the Pacific and Mountain states plus Alaska and Hawaii, a share that has never fallen below 95 percent since 2000.The red-eye is at a record high. Overnight flights grew 54 percent, from 75,158 in 2000 to 115,580 in 2025, after a low in 2009 and a collapse in 2020.Anchorage is the red-eye capital by share: 26 percent of its departures are overnight flights. Los Angeles leads by count with 19,064. Las Vegas flew the most red-eyes in America in 2000, lost more than half by 2010, and has since recovered.The middle-of-the-night departure is disappearing. Flights leaving after midnight were 31 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 14 percent in 2025.The legacy airlines lost the overnight market. American, Delta and United flew 97 percent of red-eyes in 2000 and 64 percent in 2025. Alaska Airlines is now the most red-eye-heavy carrier, and Southwest, which flew none for 25 years, took 5.6 percent of the market in its first year.Red-eyes are more reliable. In 2025, 82.4 percent arrived within 15 minutes of schedule, against 77.6 percent of other flights, and they were cancelled less often.

The geography has a simple cause. An overnight flight from the West Coast crosses three time zones and lands on the East Coast at breakfast; the same trip westbound would land in the middle of the night, so airlines schedule almost no overnight flights in that direction. Among the 300 busiest red-eye routes in the study, 82 percent land in the Central or Eastern time zones.

The full study, with a sortable table of every US airport’s red-eye departures in 2000, 2010, 2019 and 2025, airline shares back to 2000, departure hours, seasonality and reliability, is at https://championtraveler.com/news/red-eye-flights-share-of-us-flights/. Journalists can request data for any airport, airline or route.

About Champion Traveler: Champion Traveler publishes data-driven travel research, including the Best Time to Travel tool covering more than 35,000 destinations, the Air Quality Travel Index and the Flyover States study. Champion Traveler is operated by Terra Lake Data, an enterprise data company.

Media contact: Edwin Ivanauskas, (385) 462-2956, 422341@email4pr.com 

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Rentvine Names Nat Kunes as CEO as Its AI Platform Enters Its Next Chapter

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The fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry strengthens its leadership team as it enters its next phase of growth.

ESTERO, Fla., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Rentvine, the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry, today announced Nat Kunes as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 9. Kunes will lead company strategy and assume day-to-day leadership, building on the AI and open foundation Rentvine has already established with its recent launch of MCP and Pro Skills. Rentvine founder, Dave Borden will continue as a hands-on member of the leadership team and board of directors, closely involved in Rentvine’s vision, and industry relationships.

“We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

Nat Kunes brings a rare combination of experience: more than 20 years of product leadership, including at one of the largest property management software providers in the industry, paired with a track record of leading AI software organizations through their accelerated growth stages. That blend is precisely what Rentvine has been building in its next chapter, with that vision already taking shape inside the platform.

“What drew me to Rentvine was that our product, support, and culture already set the standard,” said Kunes. “We’re not running a predefined playbook. We’re building the experience property managers deserve. The company’s focus on actively listening to property managers and executing based on their needs is rare, and it’s the foundation I get to build on as we push further into what AI can do for this industry.”

“As founder, this company has always been my passion, and that’s not changing,” said Dave Borden. “Nat’s experience within property management will undoubtedly extend Rentvine’s industry leadership in AI. I will focus on the industry relationships, strategy, and culture, all near and dear to me, as we build our next chapter.”

“Adding Nat to our leadership team alongside Dave and me is exactly the kind of move that helps our customers win,” said Jonathan Ewen, Co-Founder and President of Rentvine. “He shares our commitment to the Herd, and having all three of us driving the business forward means we can move faster without losing what makes Rentvine, Rentvine.”

Rentvine’s product, team, and commitments to property managers remain unchanged. While Borden remains active in the business, Kunes will work alongside Borden and Ewen to make sure employees, customers, and partners continue to receive the same experience they’ve always received from Rentvine.

About Rentvine

Rentvine is the fastest-growing property management software in the single-family rentals industry. Built for property managers who want to scale with confidence and clarity, we deliver the best trust accounting in property management, giving operators unmatched accuracy, visibility, and control over their financials. From leasing, maintenance, and CRM tools to owner reporting and performance analytics, everything lives in one modern, AI-connected platform with an open API.

To learn more, visit www.rentvine.com.

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