Strengthens DXC’s India presence with a 200,000-square-foot facility in BengaluruBrings together customer collaboration spaces, a flagship AI Hub, and integrated security and operations capabilitiesDesigned to enable direct collaboration with DXC consultants and customers to identify, engineer, and scale AI solutions that can deliver measurable business outcomes

BENGALURU, India, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, today announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center in Bengaluru.  The new facility is one of DXC’s largest global delivery hubs and reinforces its role in helping organizations move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, expanding the company’s global network of customer collaboration sites.

Designing the AI Solutions for Enterprise

Located in one of Bengaluru’s leading technology corridors, the new 200,000-square-foot facility is purpose-built to deepen customer engagement, strengthen collaboration, and accelerate AI-enabled transformation. As DXC expands opportunities for customer collaboration around AI solutions, the site brings together immersive Customer Experience Zones, Fluid Collaboration Hubs, Ideation Studios, Co-Creation Labs, and Partner Experience Zones in a modern environment where DXC teams, customers, and partners can co-create solutions, accelerate AI adoption, and showcase innovation in real time.

“Our greatest differentiator is our people,” said Ramnath Venkataraman, President, Consulting & Engineering Services at DXC Technology. “Our new Customer Experience Center brings together our exceptional engineering talent in a space designed for deeper collaboration with customers and partners, where we can co-create, engineer, and scale AI-powered solutions that address complex business challenges. By working side by side throughout the innovation journey, we’re helping customers move faster from ideas to measurable business outcomes.”

Where Enterprises Turn AI into Deployable Solutions

As DXC continues to help enterprises move from AI experimentation to execution at scale, it is investing in environments that help customers prioritize high-value use cases, rapidly prototype solutions, and integrate AI into existing technology environments, including the core systems enterprises depend on. The new facility will showcase DXC’s capabilities across AI, consulting, engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, and network transformation, with a focus on engineering and running AI capabilities integrated with existing enterprise systems of record and IT operations.

The site includes a central AI Hub, alongside a Cyber Range, Forensics Labs, Security Operations Center, and Network Operations Center, enabling end-to-end scenarios from solution design through real-world deployment and monitoring. At the heart of the facility is DXC’s flagship AI Hub, designed to help customers translate AI concepts into deployable solutions through hands-on development and testing. These capabilities are integrated to support full lifecycle delivery, from ideation through to operation and optimization.

“Our new Customer Experience Center represents a powerhouse for AI innovation, engineering excellence, and customer collaboration,” said Rob Le Busque, President of Asia Pacific & Japan at DXC Technology. “By bringing together our consulting, engineering, and operations expertise in one environment, we’re helping customers accelerate AI adoption and create connected enterprises where people work alongside AI agents to engineer and run the systems of record for our customers.”

About DXC Technology

DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) is a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner delivering software, services, and solutions to global enterprises and public sector organizations — helping them harness AI to drive outcomes at a time of exponential change with speed. With deep expertise in Managed Infrastructure Services, Application Modernization, and Industry-Specific Software Solutions, DXC modernizes, secures, and operates some of the world’s most complex technology estates. Learn more on dxc.com.

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The sale of a family-operated construction business to private individual buyers, by Lion Business Advisors, reflects continued transaction activity in blue-collar and skilled-trade sectors

AUSTIN, Texas, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Lion Business Advisors announced today the successful closing of a confidential transaction in the construction industry, led by Claudia Bianchi of Lion Business Advisors. The transaction involved the sale of a family-operated construction-related business to private individual buyers.

The closing reflects continued demand for established construction and blue-collar businesses as buyers seek opportunities in essential service sectors with durable local demand, skilled workforces, and long-term growth potential. For many family-run and owner-operated businesses, the construction sector remains an active area for succession planning, strategic transition, and buyer interest.

“Construction and skilled-trade businesses continue to attract serious buyers because they serve real, essential needs in their communities,” said Claudia Bianchi of Lion Business Advisors. “Our role is to help owners navigate that process confidentially, professionally, and with the right buyer fit. This transaction is another example of how thoughtful preparation, buyer qualification, and disciplined deal management can help blue-collar business owners achieve a successful transition.”

Lion Business Advisors works with business owners, buyers, and operators across confidential lower middle-market and main street transactions. The firm supports clients through transaction preparation, buyer outreach, deal negotiation, due diligence coordination, and closing management, with a focus on helping private business owners pursue successful exits while protecting confidentiality throughout the process.

The transaction also points to broader momentum across blue-collar industries, where local and regional businesses remain critical to economic activity, job creation, and essential services. As more founders, family owners, and long-time operators evaluate succession and growth options, Lion Business Advisors continues to see strong interest from qualified buyers seeking established businesses in construction, skilled trades, and service-based sectors.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The buyer and seller will remain confidential.

About Lion Business Advisors

Lion Business Advisors is a business advisory and transaction firm helping entrepreneurs, family-owned companies, private business owners, buyers, and investors navigate business sales, acquisitions, and ownership transitions. The firm provides guidance across confidential transaction preparation, buyer and seller representation, valuation support, succession planning, and deal execution, with a focus on helping business owners achieve successful outcomes while protecting confidentiality.

Media Contact

Joshua Carnes, Lion Business Advisors, 1 (800) 525-3542, info@lionbusinessadvisors.com, https://lionbusinessbrokers.com/

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Powered by Apkudo Device OS™, the compact physical AI system is the only system that automates cosmetic and functional inspection for complex device form factors without hardware reconfiguration

BALTIMORE, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Apkudo, the Device Passport™ Platform company, today announced the commercial launch of the Robotic Standalone Automation (RSA) appliance. Engineered by Alpha Automatics and available exclusively through Apkudo, RSA is the first automated processing solution capable of handling the full spectrum of modern device form factors, including flip devices, foldables, and tablets, without requiring hardware reconfiguration between operational runs. The system runs on Device OS, Apkudo’s foundational platform layer that enables an open ecosystem of robotics manufacturers to build, deploy, and operate advanced device processing solutions.

While consumer adoption of flexible screens continues to accelerate, driven by highly anticipated product cycles and 24% year-over-year growth in foldable shipments (Counterpoint Research), these form factors have simultaneously become among the fastest-growing and most operationally challenging segments in mobile returns. Manual handling of foldables and tablets introduces severe grading subjectivity, slows down warehouse processing throughput, and limits the depth of verified condition data available for downstream resale programs. This processing bottleneck affects participants throughout the reverse logistics ecosystem who lack access to standardized, high-volume automation designed for modern device shapes.

The RSA appliance solves these challenges by processing smartphones, tablets, and foldable devices on a single system for precise cosmetic and functional testing with no hardware or software reconfiguration between runs. It completely eliminates manual handling and operator subjectivity in device testing and analytics. The system uses advanced robotics, integrated torque sensors, and acoustic capture to deliver precise foldable diagnostics. For larger display surfaces like tablets, the system uses stitched high-resolution imaging to preserve per-pixel detail. Apkudo’s cosmetic Device AI™ models enable robust defect detection and are compliant with the CTIA 5.1 grading standard. All generated data automatically streams to the Apkudo Platform to populate a unique Device Passport.

“Being powered by Apkudo allowed us to apply our hardware engineering expertise to an intricate industry challenge,” said Charles Xie, CEO of Alpha Automatics. “The RSA appliance provides the structural precision required to handle modern, flexible form factors safely and efficiently, creating a zero-touch compact system that integrates seamlessly into existing physical workflows.”

“RSA brings the same physical AI precision the Apkudo platform delivers for standard devices to the form factors that have historically challenged the reverse logistics industry,” said Josh Matthews, CEO and Co-Founder of Apkudo. “By using Device OS as our platform software layer, we can empower hardware innovators like Alpha Automatics to help the industry solve the foldable and tablet segment at scale, giving operators absolute data veracity without the high operational costs of manual workflows.”

Designed for straightforward deployment, the system fits through standard industrial doorways and processes up to 30 devices per hour. This agile footprint makes the unit excellent for smaller regional sellers processing as few as 5,000 units per month who want to introduce automation without major warehouse layout overhauls. Simultaneously, mid- and large-sized return centers can link multiple units, conveyor to conveyor, to scale capacity incrementally as volumes grow. High-volume centers can deploy the system as a specialized standalone workcell, extending automated diagnostics to complex device types that legacy point solutions cannot accommodate. OEM-specific RSA cells have been operational for more than a year, and initial commercial deployments are currently underway with ecosystem leaders including Likewize, MTR, and TMT First.

You can learn more about RSA at Mobile Disrupt 2026, July 7–8, in Miami. Visit Apkudo at booth #1001–1002. Learn more at apkudo.com.

About Apkudo
Apkudo is the Device Passport Platform for the connected device ecosystem. We capture and unify data from every program, transaction, and touchpoint across a device’s lifecycle, creating a single, trusted Device Passport™ for every asset. For companies that manage, sell, or buy devices, this means a verified record they can act on: to restore buyer confidence, maximize value, and reduce risk at every decision point. Our unique advantage is data fidelity and veracity, built on precision-automated robotics that have processed millions of devices, generating objective, machine-verified data that no competitor can match. To learn more, visit apkudo.com. 

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