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Joseph Rabinowitz, CPA selects Michael Zaidman, CPA and ZBS Group LLP as Succession Partner for Tax & Accounting Practice

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ZBS Group LLP selected for fourth CPA practice transition, reinforcing the firm’s position as a trusted succession partner for accounting professionals and their clients

PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ZBS Group LLP, led by Michael Zaidman, CPA and financial advisor, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the tax and accounting practice of Joseph Rabinowitz, CPA. The transaction provides a thoughtful succession solution for Rabinowitz while ensuring continuity of service and expanded capabilities for the individuals, families, and businesses his practice has served.

Rabinowitz has built his practice around long-standing client relationships and the delivery of tax and accounting services. As he considered the future of the firm, identifying a successor capable of preserving those relationships while providing clients with additional resources was a central priority.

Following the transaction, Rabinowitz will remain actively involved during a diligent transition period, working alongside the ZBS team to help ensure continuity, facilitate introductions, and maintain the high level of service his clients have come to expect.

“Selecting a successor is about much more than completing a transaction—it is about determining who you trust with the relationships you have spent a career building,” said Joseph Rabinowitz, CPA. “ZBS has the accounting and tax capabilities to serve my clients well, along with a broader team and additional services that can provide meaningful value as their needs evolve. I am looking forward to working closely with Michael and his team throughout the transition.”

A Natural Fit for ZBS Group

The Rabinowitz practice will complement ZBS Group’s established tax and accounting capabilities while giving existing clients access to the resources of a larger, efficiently structured professional team.

A key differentiator for ZBS is its understanding of the intersection between tax strategy and financial advisory services. Rather than viewing tax preparation, accounting, investments, and financial planning as entirely separate disciplines, ZBS seeks opportunities to coordinate these areas when appropriate.

For financial advisory clients, this approach can include greater attention to tax-efficient investing, investment and account structure, and the potential benefits of consolidating professional relationships. For tax and accounting clients, joining ZBS provides access to additional capabilities should their financial needs expand over time.

“Joe has built something valuable: a practice based on trusted relationships and years of service to his clients,” said Michael Zaidman, CPA and financial advisor at ZBS Group LLP. “Our responsibility is to protect what Joe has built, make the transition as seamless as possible, and demonstrate to his clients that they will continue to receive attentive tax and accounting service while gaining access to the broader capabilities of the ZBS team.”

A Proven CPA Succession Solution

The Rabinowitz transaction marks the fourth time Zaidman and his team have been selected to facilitate the succession of a CPA practice, reflecting ZBS Group LLP’s growing experience in helping accounting professionals transition their firms as they approach retirement or the next stage of their careers.

CPA practice transitions present challenges that extend well beyond valuation and deal structure. Clients may have worked with the same accountant for decades, making continuity, communication, trust, and service quality critical to a successful succession.

Zaidman and the ZBS team have developed experience navigating these transitions from both sides of the relationship: providing retiring practitioners with a structured path toward succession while giving their clients a professional home designed to preserve existing relationships and expand available services.

“Every successful transition starts with trust,” Zaidman added. “The retiring CPA needs confidence that the team stepping in understands the responsibility that comes with taking care of longtime clients. Our goal is to give practitioners a thoughtful retirement and succession solution while giving their clients confidence about what comes next.”

Expanded Resources Without Sacrificing Relationships

For Rabinowitz’s clients, the transition is designed to provide continuity rather than disruption. Rabinowitz’s continued involvement will allow relationships and institutional knowledge to transfer deliberately to the ZBS team.

At the same time, clients will gain access to a broader organization with professionals across tax, accounting, and financial and investment advisory disciplines. This combination of additional services, an experienced team, and an established transition process helped make ZBS a compelling succession choice for Rabinowitz.

The transaction also reflects ZBS Group’s broader strategy of partnering with CPA firm owners seeking a responsible long-term home for their practices. ZBS is particularly focused on transitions where maintaining client relationships, providing high-quality tax and accounting services, and offering access to broader financial capabilities can create value for both the retiring practitioner and the clients being served.

About ZBS Group LLP

ZBS Group LLP is a tax & accounting CPA firm led by Michael Zaidman, CPA and financial advisor specializing in tax efficient investment solutions. The firm combines tax and accounting expertise with an understanding of financial planning and investment strategy, helping clients consider financial decisions through a coordinated, tax-aware lens.

For inquiries contact:

ZBS Group LLP

516-394-3344

255 Executive Dr Ste 400

Plainview, NY 11803

info@zbscpas.com 

www.zbscpas.com

www.nycpafinancial.com

Securities offered through Cetera Wealth Services, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Cetera Investment Advisers LLC, a registered investment adviser. Cetera firms are under separate ownership from any other named entity.

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Call out – Optimize’s glass-box approach provides greater insight to explainable property-specific settings, controls, and demand. Spherexx® Expands Optimize Revenue Management with CoPilot Predictive Simulation and Strategic Governance

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New internal coaching and simulation capabilities expand predictive insight, strategic governance and user control

TULSA, Okla., Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Spherexx announced the addition of CoPilot to Optimize, its neural-driven multifamily revenue management platform. CoPilot expands Optimize’s strategic governance capabilities with explainable visibility into how recommendations are developed, how operating controls influence outcomes, and how adjustments may affect future performance.

Optimize’s glass-box approach to revenue management gives greater insight into why leasing rates are recommended.

Designed to strengthen Optimize’s glass-box approach to revenue management, CoPilot provides revenue managers with greater insight into why each leasing rate is recommended based on explainable property-specific settings, controls, and demand. Users can evaluate potential adjustments while maintaining direct human oversight, decision authority, and accountability. This methodology also applies to lease-up construction apartments where previous data is nonexistent, Optimize formulated Its neural network to identify occupancy growth patterns based on lease-up data and certificates of occupancy since 2013; becoming the first revenue management platform to successfully target and exceed construction proforma expectations.

A robust, layered simulator allows revenue managers to model the potential impact of changes before implementation, helping teams understand how adaptive controls may influence future results. For each unit type, users can elect to maintain the current published leasing price, accept Optimize’s recommended leasing price, or hold a price from an earlier date. Additionally, Optimize provides a concession simulation against public comparables to reveal how the cost of recurring or one-time concessions will affect actual new lease pricing.

CoPilot consolidates these decisions within a central workspace where users can review available leasing prices by status, existing rates, recommendations, explanations for changes, and the history of prior decisions. Revenue managers can adjust directly within the workflow, while embedded training video segments provide task-specific guidance throughout the platform.

Optimize continuously incorporates client’s property data through property management software integrations, along with client-selected settings for additional intelligence providers.

Forward-looking intelligence provides revenue managers with an expanded view of asset performance. Optimize displays the property’s known upcoming performance based on scheduled expirations, notices to vacate, and future lease data. Based on this information and historical performance, Optimize forecasts future occupancy, projected renewals, and potential new move-ins three months beyond the max lease term the property offers, i.e. a twelve-month lease will forecast a 15-month horizon. Market positioning based on public-comparable data can be reviewed for rent, vacancy, concessions and leasing velocity daily, weekly, or across a custom period.

CoPilot also extends governance capabilities for affordable and rent-controlled floor plans and units, enabling additional controls for fixed maximums, lease terms, and other applicable operating parameters

“We created Optimize as one of the early neural-intelligent revenue management platforms, and its intelligence has continued to evolve,” said Becca Wilson, Owner and CEO of Spherexx. “Our original vision remains the same: give clients pertinent, accurate and accessible intelligence they can understand, evaluate, and govern. CoPilot advances that vision by allowing revenue managers to see not only what Optimize recommends, but why it recommends it, explore the potential impact of their decisions, and remain firmly in control of the outcome.”

CoPilot builds upon Optimize’s established approach to transparent revenue management by combining predictive intelligence, adaptive controls, and strategic governance within a single decision environment.

About Spherexx.com®

Spherexx.com®: Redefining Real Estate Technology

Spherexx.com® continues to lead with cutting-edge predictive, generative, agentic, AI across a suite of software solutions, setting industry benchmarks for innovation.

With over two decades of experience, Spherexx.com® delivers top-tier Software as a Service (SaaS) internet-based software, data analytics, and marketing solutions to clients across the US and Canada. Spherexx expertise spans multifamily, single-family, affordable, senior, rent control, self-storage, and manufactured housing.

Spherexx technology stack streamlines operation and enhances brand experiences for clients, and their residents, and investors. Our technology stack includes:

Website CMS/Inline EditorSEM/GEO/AEO/LLM/PPCILS SyndicationCommission & Bonus ManagementBI DashboardsCRM + AI AgentWebsite Chat & Voice AIComparable AnalyticsRevenue ManagementInteractive Site PlansTouchscreen Leasing KiosksCustom Programming

Spherexx.com® is the authoritative trusted source for innovation and transformation in real estate technology. Visit www.spherexx.com to explore the future of PropTech.

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Empowering Malaysia’s Digital Future: AWS and Elitery Celebrate Grand Finale of AWS CendekiAwan

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20 Finalist Teams from Four Top Malaysian Universities Reach the Grand Finale of AWS CendekiAwan

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elitery recently celebrated the Grand Finale of AWS CendekiAwan at Universiti Malaya (UM).

The event brings together 20 student finalist teams from four top Malaysian universities to pitch cutting-edge Generative AI solutions powered by Amazon Bedrock, tackling critical societal and enterprise challenges. Competing across five categories, the finalists will demonstrate how AI can be applied to address real-world challenges across education, healthcare, sustainability, financial inclusion, government technology, and social impact.

The CendekiAwan Malaysia program is a collaborative digital talent initiative by AWS and Elitery designed to bridge academic learning with practical industry requirements. Moving beyond theoretical AI concepts, the hands-on curriculum equipped participants from tech and non-tech backgrounds with practical skills in cloud computing, application development, and Generative AI.

Beginning at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU), the initiative expanded through self-learning, hands-on workshops, and showcase sessions across Multimedia University (MMU), Nilai University, and Universiti Malaya (UM). Utilizing AWS developer tools including PartyRock, Kiro, and Amazon Bedrock, students built functional prototypes from scratch. The program encouraged students to move beyond learning AI concepts and gain practical experience developing technology-driven solutions for real-world needs.

“CendekiAwan reflects our belief that AI should be built and deployed by hands and minds like these students to solve real challenges facing communities across Malaysia,” said Daniel Zhang, Regional Data Center Operations Leader Malaysia, AWS. “Together with Elitery and our partner universities, we are proud to see these students turn skills in Kiro and Amazon Bedrock into practical solutions for education, healthcare, sustainability, financial inclusion and public services.”

The showcase brings together key decision-makers across government, higher education, and industry, including representatives from Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL). Beyond the competition, the event underscores Elitery and AWS’s shared commitment to building a resilient, future-ready AI workforce across Southeast Asia. “The CendekiAwan training programme supports Kuala Lumpur’s vision of ‘A Prosperous City for All by 2030’ by investing in talent development, strengthening capabilities, and fostering knowledge exchange. Through sustained training and collaboration, the programme seeks to contribute to a more dynamic, inclusive, and future-ready Kuala Lumpur, in line with DBKL’s commitment to the city’s socioeconomic progress and well-being,” said Ts. Kamariah binti Kamarudin, Representative of DBKL.

Representing Elitery, President Director Kresna Adiprawira said, “Through CendekiAwan, we help students move beyond learning AI concepts to building practical applications that address real-world challenges. We are proud to see their ideas turn into meaningful innovations and help shape the next generation of digital talent.”

Finalists showcase projects across five categories:

Smart Education: Enhancing learning and accessibility.Digital Health: Improving healthcare and wellbeing.Sustainable Environment & Climate: Advancing sustainability and climate resilience.Financial Inclusion & SME: Supporting business growth and financial access.GovTech & Social Impact: Improving public services and community inclusion.

Through these categories, students demonstrate how Generative AI can translate into practical applications that address challenges faced by communities, institutions, businesses, and society.

“The development process was seamless thanks to the comprehensive technology provided by AWS. For students looking to build AI-powered solutions, the most vital factor is the core idea focus on solving real-world problems.” Dewan AI — Winner, GovTech & Social Impact, Multimedia University (MMU).

As Generative AI transforms industries, CendekiAwan equips students with practical skills and innovation capabilities to develop impactful, real-world solutions through collaboration between AWS, Elitery, and Malaysian universities.

CendekiAwan Malaysia is an AWS and Elitery initiative with partner universities, equipping students from four Malaysian universities with practical cloud computing and Generative AI skills through hands-on learning, culminating in 20 finalist teams competing across five categories using Amazon Bedrock.

PT Data Sinergitama Jaya Tbk  (Elitery, IDX: ELIT)  is an Indonesian publicly listed technology company specializing in IT Managed Services, AI, and cloud solutions, serving over 200 customers across three countries. In 2026, Elitery earned the AWS Migration Competency Designation.

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Small Joys, Big Market: Products That Spark Joy Take the Spotlight at 140th Canton Fair

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GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As emotional value becomes a key consumption driver, consumers are increasingly willing to pay for fun, companionship and peace of mind, offering an everyday interpretation of what “Better Life” truly means. This trend was on display throughout Phase 3 of the 140th Canton Fair.

Small Products, Big Feelings

In the Office Supplies Section, beyond traditional business supplies, vibrant products are capturing attention. Pens are expected to be visually appealing while staplers are designed to be cute as well as functional. Products that provide a burst of pleasure are gaining popularity.

3D stickers have emerged as a favorite among journaling enthusiasts. These stickers double as puzzles, requiring no glue and allowing users to assemble them for fun, turning decorations into interactive toys.

In the Toys Section, bag charms in various designs are ubiquitous. Meanwhile, animal-shaped sofa cushions in lazy, prone poses offer a healing touch. Filled with eco-friendly weighted glass beads, they provide a gentle hugging sensation, offering comfort and relaxation.

Emotional Comfort Across Categories

Emotional comfort was equally evident in products designed for children and pets.

A duck-shaped toy created for infants and toddlers aged 6 to 36 months attracted interest from overseas buyers. Simulating the movements of a real duck through head-turning and waddling motions alongside lights, sounds and voice guidance, the toy supports crawling, early learning and emotional comfort. Educational and bedtime-soothing modes offer music, stories, nursery rhymes and bilingual content, helping nurture development and providing a sense of security.

Meanwhile, the Pet Products and Food Section demonstrated how emotional needs also extend to animal companions. From creatively designed cat climbing structures to interactive automatic toys, exhibitors presented products aimed at enriching pets’ daily lives and strengthening the bond between pets and their owners.

As consumers increasingly seek products that deliver emotional as well as practical benefits, Phase 3 of the 140th Canton Fair offers a glimpse into evolving lifestyles and expectations. The message behind “Better Life” is clear: better living is no longer defined solely by utility, but by products that bring comfort, connection and joy.

For more convenient attendance, please click here for pre-registration:

https://buyer.cantonfair.org.cn/register/buyer/email?source_type=16

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