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ASTRI Showcases Pioneering Technologies at Inaugural Leap East, Forging Hong Kong-Middle East Innovation Ties

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Hong Kong’s largest government-funded R&D centre showcases 17 cutting-edge innovations aligned with the Middle East’s aspirations for sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy, and smart city.

HONG KONG, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is presenting a range of transformative technologies at the inaugural Leap East (8-10 July), underscoring Hong Kong’s leadership in applied innovation and its growing role as a strategic bridge connecting Asia to the burgeoning technology landscape of the Middle East.

Hong Kong is seizing opportunities to align with the Middle East’s visionary blueprints for economic diversification, which target key sectors such as innovation and technology (I&T), renewable energy, and smart city development. With its globally renowned financial services, vibrant I&T ecosystem, and position as a gateway to Chinese Mainland and Asia, Hong Kong offers complementary strengths that can support the Middle East’s strategic goals while unlocking new growth avenues for its own economy.

Fostering Cross-Regional Innovation Partnerships

Since its establishment in 2000, ASTRI has been at the forefront of innovation, amassing over 1,500 patents and transferring more than 2,200 next-generation technologies to global industry partners. As Hong Kong’s flagship government-funded R&D centre, ASTRI remains steadfast in its mission to drive Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied science and technologies.

“The emergence of cross-regional innovation hubs in Asia and the Middle East presents a transformative global opportunity,” remarked Ir Dr Ted Suen, Chief Executive Officer of ASTRI. “ASTRI’s participation at Leap East exemplifies Hong Kong’s pivotal role in building technological bonds with the Middle East, bringing practical, impact-driven innovations that drive sustainable growth and economic diversification.”

“Our disruptive solutions showcase ASTRI’s strengths in integrating AI, advanced materials, microelectronics, communications technologies, and IoT sensing to address the region’s priorities in renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure, and smart city development. The Middle East offers vast potential for collaboration, and we enthusiastically invite partnerships, dialogues, and exchanges to maximise the mutual benefits our technologies can deliver,” he added.

ASTRI is featuring a curated selection of advanced solutions at LEAP East, including:

Renewable Energy: A groundbreaking photovoltaic-storage hybrid inverter designed to tackle challenges in solar energy storage and large-scale grid management.Intelligent Mobility: A cutting-edge low-altitude economic navigation and communication system, coupled with a V2X autonomous system and traffic management platform, addressing infrastructure gaps in urbanising regions.Sustainable Construction: Next-generation materials like lightweight concrete for modular integrated construction (MiC) and self-compacting backfill, advancing both efficiency and sustainability in large-scale infrastructure projects.Green solutions: Future-ready immersion coolant for high-performance computing, essential for expanding data centre infrastructure, and wireless smart water meters supporting resource management in challenging environmental conditions.

Award-winning innovation on display

Eight award-winning technologies are also featured at the Hong Kong Pavilion organised by the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau of the HKSAR Government, including recent recipients of the prestigious R&D 100 Awards and Edison Awards 2026, demonstrating Hong Kong’s excellence in applied research and innovation.

Future of Physical AI

Ir Dr Ted Suen will speak on the panel “Autonomous Everything: The Dawn of Physical AI” on 10 July. The session will explore the real-world integration of physical AI, from robotaxis to autonomous urban systems, poised to redefine mobility and infrastructure on a global scale. Key discussions will include regulatory frameworks, public trust, safety standards, and strategies for commercial deployment.

LEAP EAST: https://leapeast.com/
ASTRI’s technologies on display: https://bit.ly/4p0tRZp

About ASTRI

Founded in 2000 by the HKSAR Government, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is the city’s largest government-funded R&D centre. Committed to transforming high-impact research into practical innovations, ASTRI drives market-driven, interdisciplinary advancements across sectors, including Smart City, FinTech, Digital Health and Life Sciences, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Advanced Electronics, New Energy and Energy Storage, and Green and ESG Technologies. Following its merger with the Nano and Advanced Materials Institute, ASTRI has further strengthened its capabilities, with over 1,500 patents and 2,200 successful cases of technology transfer. Recognised with numerous international awards, ASTRI continues to nurture top I&T talent and foster collaborations among the I&T ecosystem, contributing to Hong Kong’s high-value economic development. For more information, please visit: https://www.astri.org

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Insurify Exceeds 250 Million Auto Insurance Quotes Served

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The milestone reflects Insurify’s industry dominance as an insurance comparison platform that helps Americans compare quotes, saving consumers up to $1,100* on their auto insurance policy.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Insurify, the leading online insurance comparison platform, announced today that its total number of real-time auto insurance quotes served to American consumers has reached a landmark 250 million. With a quote database that’s more than three times larger than the publicly reported volume of major competitors, Insurify empowers auto insurance shoppers to compare quotes and buy policies entirely online.

Since its launch in 2016, millions of drivers have turned to Insurify to find better coverage at a lower price. In the last year alone, Insurify users saved up to $1,100* on their auto insurance policy, annually.

“Reaching this landmark speaks to the trust insurance shoppers place in Insurify,” said Snejina Zacharia, founder and co-CEO of Insurify. “This volume of quotes enables Insurify to provide insurance shoppers with the most accurate quotes possible, and provide data-driven consumer insights.”

Insurify is also the go-to source for major media outlets needing verified auto insurance quote data. Its robust database spans all 50 states, Washington, D.C., including metropolitan and rural areas, and multiple coverage levels, and driver profiles.

How Insurify differs from lead-generation ‘comparison’ sites

Insurify’s 250-million-quote database of real-time insurance quotes sets it apart from lead-generation sites, which gather information from insurance shoppers and then sell it to third parties.

Every auto insurance quote Insurify provides comes from its integrations with more than 120 partner insurance companies. Quotes reflect real-time auto insurance rates, and are personalized to each driver’s actual location, driver profile, driving record, credit history (where state law permits it), and additional rating factors insurance companies use when setting rates.

Leading in data-driven consumer insights

The scale of Insurify’s database enables precise national, state and city-level analysis that reflects an authentic consumer experience. Insurify translates these analyses into relatable, highly digestible consumer-focused insights that help drive insurance shoppers’ decision making.

This empowers consumers to:

Track insurance costs by car modelKnow when auto insurance rates dropGet insight into how DUIs, accidents, and tickets, change rates over timeUnderstand how factors like, age, gender and credit history, affect rates

“When drivers come to our platform they are not just shopping for insurance. They are trying to find more room in their budget for groceries, housing costs, and other necessities,” Zacharia said. “To meet the diverse needs of all U.S. consumers, Insurify partners with national, regional, and niche insurers. We want someone who comes to our platform to find a policy that meets their needs and fits their budget.”

About Insurify:

Insurify is America’s top-rated online insurance marketplace, offering a secure, spam-free way to compare and buy coverage. With a network of 120-plus carrier partners, Insurify empowers consumers to compare auto, home, pet, and renters insurance in minutes, online or with the help of a licensed agent. Since 2016, Insurify’s AI-powered technology has served over 250 million quotes. By using Insurify, customers can save hundreds of dollars annually, with some saving up to 50% on their premiums. In 2026, Insurify expanded its innovation with Insurify Car, providing liability-only coverage through flexible, weekly payment options underwritten by its insurance carrier partners.

* Average potential savings based on initial quotes received by 31,051 customers seeking insurance through Insurify. Actual savings may vary depending on state of residence, individual circumstances, coverage selections, and insurance provider. Savings and lowest rates do not reflect typical results.

For more information, contact:
jessica.edmondson@insurify.com
Press@Insurify.com
https://Insurify.com

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Alta Raises $25M to Redefine the Go-to-Market Architecture for Revenue Teams

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By transforming the GTM stack, Alta’s AI team brings a learning curve managers can only dream about

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Alta, the AI System of Actions for go-to-market teams, today announced $25 million in Series A funding. The round was led by IN Venture, with participation from Mindset Ventures, Skywell Capital, LeumiTech77 and existing investors Entrée Capital, Target Global, and Verissimo Ventures, along with prominent angel investors and scout funds.

Alta will use the funding to accelerate growth by expanding its team globally, growing its customer base, and enhancing the platform – adding new data, CRM, and advertising integrations, as well as introducing agents for account management and cross-selling.

Alta hit its first million in revenue within months of commercializing and is on track for 800% revenue growth this year. Its platform is already being used by Snowflake, Deel, Atlassian, and Atoms, as well as hundreds of businesses, from Fortune 500 companies to SMBs.

For decades, GTM has run on “systems of record”: CRMs and data warehouses storing information until a human acts on it and dozens of disjointed tools that don’t communicate.  As companies increasingly implement AI, the industry has bet on AI agents as point solutions for automating outbound or inbound GTM at scale. The results, however, often fall short, and can even exacerbate problems by scaling broken playbooks. Even though AI allows teams to generate more activity, pipelines remain flat, lead quality has fallen, and reply rates have dropped as buyers’ inboxes are filled with generic, monotonous, AI-generated outreach.

Industry leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot have introduced agent-enablement layers through APIs, MCP tools, and CLI interfaces, underscoring a broader race to add intelligence to systems originally designed for data storage and workflow management. But retrofitting intelligence onto legacy architectures is fundamentally different from building an intelligence-native platform from the ground up – one that understands business context, orchestrates every customer and operational touchpoint, and continuously compounds value through real-world outcomes. Recognizing this need, Alta designed and built its solutions.

Alta tackles the challenge of deploying AI agents by first building a “Company Brain” that serves as a centralized intelligence layer that maps exactly how a business’s GTM engine works. Instead of relying on a fragmented stack of disconnected software, Alta replaces them with a single, coordinated network of AI agents that learn from every action. Powered by this shared “Brain” and fueled by more than 50 data sources and hundreds of buying signals, these agents orchestrate and act on existing systems of record, collaborating and evolving as a single unit with every single interaction. The platform partners with Salesforce, HubSpot, IBM, and Google, and connects to 60+ GTM tools, including Attio and Clay, enabling Alta to run on top of the stack teams already in use rather than locking them into a closed box.

“Before the cloud, every company building software racked and maintained its own servers,” said Stav Levi-Neumark, CEO and Co-founder of Alta. “We’re doing for go-to-market what AWS did for infrastructure and the cloud: transforming a stack of cobbled-together tools that never communicated into one system that simply runs well, learns, and drives revenue pipelines and sales.”

“The market spent three years adding tools to the sales stack. The team at Alta went the other way and built the intelligence layer the whole stack was missing,” said Eitan Naor, Managing Partner at IN Venture (Member of Sumitomo Corporation’s Venture Group). “Alta isn’t competing in a category — it’s defining one. That’s why we wanted to lead this round, and why we’re excited to introduce Alta to Japan and Southeast Asia, backed by Sumitomo’s global reach.”

“Having worked closely with Stav at monday.com, I knew firsthand her rare ability to turn complex data into explosive growth,” said Avi Eyal, Managing Partner at Entrée Capital. The Alta team is not just building another AI feature; they are fundamentally redefining GTM architecture. Watching them scale from inception to this milestone proves that the market is starving for a single, intelligent system of action.”

About Alta

Alta is the AI System of Actions for go-to-market. We run your GTM, replacing the fragmented sales stack with coordinated AI agents that share one Company Brain and compound with every interaction. Founded in 2023 by Stav Levi-Neumark and Tom Hoffen, both ex-monday.com, and serial entrepreneur Mor Shabtai, Alta handles prospecting, research, multi-channel outbound, inbound qualification, AI calling, and continuous optimization. Alta hit its first million in revenue within months of commercializing and is on track for 800% revenue growth this year. Its customers include revenue teams at Snowflake, Deel, Atlassian, Atoms, Riverside, and Sabio Group. Learn more at altahq.com.

Contact:

Rebecca Ash
rebecca@gova10.com

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PTC to Announce Fiscal Q3’26 Results on Wednesday, July 29, 2026

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BOSTON, July 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) will release its fiscal 2026 third quarter results on Wednesday, July 29th after the stock market closes. Senior management will host a live webcast and conference call to review the results on Wednesday, July 29th at 5 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). The earnings press release, accompanying earnings presentation, and financial data tables will be accessible prior to the conference call and webcast on the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at PTC Investor Relations.

What:

 PTC Fiscal Q3’26 Conference Call and Webcast

When:

 Wednesday, July 29, 2026 5:00 p.m. ET

Webcast:

 Register Here

Replay:

 To access the replay via webcast, please visit this page.

Please note that statements made on the conference call and webcast are as of the date of the conference call and webcast and PTC does not assume any obligation to update any statements made live or the archived call. Matters discussed may include forward-looking statements about PTC’s anticipated financial results and growth, as well as about the development of products and markets, which are based on current plans and assumptions. Actual results in future periods may differ materially from current expectations due to a number of risks and uncertainties, including those described from time to time in reports filed by PTC with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including PTC’s most recent reports on Form 10-K and 10-Q.

About PTC

PTC (NASDAQ: PTC) is a global software company enabling manufacturers and product companies to digitally transform how they design, manufacture, and service the physical products the world relies on. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, PTC employs over 7,000 people and supports more than 30,000 customers globally. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com.

Investor Contact

Michael Maguire
mmaguire@ptc.com
investor@ptc.com 

 

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