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Don’t Miss an AI-driven Future at Beijing InfoComm China 2025 (16-18 April)

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APAC’s premier Pro AV show set to feature over 400 new-to-market products and renowned industry tech trailblazers

BEIJING, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The future of AI integration in professional audiovisual (Pro AV) takes center stage as Beijing InfoComm China 2025 prepares to open its door from April 16-18 at China National Convention Center (CNCC). Themed “Where China is Shaping the Digital-Forward Future”, the annual show brings together 400 leading global technology brands, presenting APAC’s premier platform for showcasing advanced AI and AV integrations and innovations.

All-new “AI Tech Application Zone” Debuts with Baidu’s Ernie Bot and PaddlePaddle

Beijing InfoComm China reinforces its position of delivering the latest AI trends, introducing the all-new “AI Tech Application Zone”, in Hall P, Level 4 of CNCC. This dedicated area brings together leading and emerging AI innovators, including Baidu (showcasing its Ernie Bot and PaddlePaddle deep learning platform), Shanghai Vanadium, IDMA, LynkSoul AI, Hanhao Technology, Weshop Al, CCW Technology and Dream Portal, offering visitors a unique glimpse into the future of AI+AV integrated intelligence and creative solutions.

Highlights at AI Tech Application Zone include:

AI Empowerment, Reshaping Experience: From AI digital humans to AI gaming companions, or from AI content capture to AI one-stop movie-grade video generation, come experience how AI technology subverts traditions in creating immersive, intelligent and personalized experiences.

Scenario-driven, Future-powered: Focusing on core application scenarios such as advertising, cultural tourism, e-commerce, conferencing collaboration, education and entertainment, explore how AI technology can empower industry upgrades and open up new future formats.

Direct Access to Innovators & Trends: Connect one-on-one with industry leaders, gain in-depth understanding of the latest AI technology achievements and successful use cases, and stay ahead of the competition with the latest industry trend knowledge.

Over 400 New Products Showcasing AI+AV Integration Trends at Beijing InfoComm China

This year’s show reflects the explosive growth in AI+AV integration and reveals three major trends. First, AI technology has advanced from conceptual stages to widespread practical applications. Second, there is a significant trend of cross-vertical integration, with Pro AV technology becoming deeply interspersed with AI, cloud computing, big data, IoT and other technologies. Third, AI application scenarios are becoming more diversified and innovative.

As such, over 400 global brands, including BARCO, BOSE, Christie, Philips (TPV Group), Shure, Sony, Audio-Technica, Unilumin, Leyard, Absen, AVCIT, DIGIBIRD and Hisense, are set to demonstrate these trends in action, with a collective more than 400 new products and AI technologies debuts.

Game-changers in Cultural Tourism, Enterprises and Sports Events
Leveraging Tech to Disrupt Experiences

The landscapes of cultural tourism, enterprises, and sports events have experienced rapid transformations. Related organizations must focus on user needs, creating differentiated experiences through cross-vertical innovations. Beijing InfoComm China brings together the latest advanced display solutions, AR/VR/MR technologies, holographic immersive projection, and AI digital humans, to create different application scenarios that push creative boundaries. Visitors can look forward to seeing first-hand practical showcases from leading innovators including: Unilumin (transparent displays for commercial spaces); Christie (high-fidelity projection for theme parks, museums, art galleries and science and technology museums); Telycam (highly efficient XR production for live sports events and concerts).

Visitor Show Floor Tours, Networking Session & Awards to Enhance Visitors’ Show Experience

A bevvy of engaging show floor activities is planned to enhance the Beijing InfoComm China experience! Expert-led guided tours offer visitors opportunities to discover the latest new products and technologies, including those by Baidu, Ocean Engine, HIKVISION, Jabra, and more; as well as dedicated intelligent solutions for smart workplaces and classrooms.

Additionally, visitors can participate in pre-show voting for the ‘Most Anticipated New Product’, and the ‘Most Anticipated New Solution’ awards. Voting is conducted via the show’s official WeChat channel and will end on 14 April at 1400 hours. Be among the first to see the industry’s latest advancements unveiled!

Register Now to Explore the Future of AI+AV Technology

Beijing InfoComm China offers overseas buyers unparalleled access to suppliers and partners and within the high-potential markets in China. The event has attracted significant international interest, with industry professionals and buyers from over 38 countries and regions already registered to visit, including Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada.

Visit www.infocomm-china.com for the latest show information and pre-register at https://bit.ly/4iUEdGl for a free admission badge, applicable to all industry and trade professionals.

About InfoCommAsia

InfoCommAsia Pte Ltd. extends its influence through three marquee shows: InfoComm Asia; InfoComm China, Beijing; and InfoComm India. Each show features an exhibition that showcases the world’s most cutting-edge and in-demand professional audiovisual and integrated experience technology solutions and a summit that presents learning opportunities. The shows bring together professional audiovisual industry players and top-level decision-makers from across different markets to tap into the vast potential presented by pro AV solutions.

For more information, visit infocomm-asia.com; infocomm-china.com; infocomm-india.com

For media enquiries:

Ms Angie Eng, Marketing Director
InfoCommAsia Pte Ltd
T: +65 8163 2091
E: angieeng@infocommasia.com 

Hong Kong, China; Macao, China;
Taiwan, China & Others
Ms Vivian Yu
T: +852 3520 3638
E: vivian.yu@baobab-tree-event.com

Mainland China
Ms Coris Liang
T: +86 20 3758 3765 Ext. 8013
E: coris.liang@baobab-tree-event.com

 

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SiriusXM Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SiriusXM (NASDAQ: SIRI) today announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.27 per share of common stock. This regular quarterly dividend is payable in cash on August 26, 2026, to stockholders of record at the close of business on August 10, 2026.

About Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America with a portfolio of audio businesses including its flagship subscription entertainment service SiriusXM; the ad-supported and premium music streaming services of Pandora; an expansive podcast network; and a suite of business and advertising solutions. Together, SiriusXM reaches a combined monthly audience of approximately 255 million listeners. SiriusXM offers a broad range of content for listeners everywhere they tune in with a diverse mix of live, on-demand, and curated programming across music, talk, news, and sports. For more about SiriusXM, please go to: www.siriusxm.com.

Source: SiriusXM

Investor contacts:
Jennifer DiGrazia
investor.relations@siriusxm.com 

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Shutterstock Announces Capital Allocation Update

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NEW YORK, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK) (the “Company”), a family of brands delivering scalable creative and GenAI solutions to help customers fuel great work, today announced that at a meeting held on July 20, 2026 its Board of Directors (the “Board”) resolved to suspend the Company’s future quarterly cash dividend.

The Board’s determination reflects its ongoing review of the Company’s capital-allocation priorities and its focus on deploying capital to support long-term value creation for shareholders, including reducing debt, minimizing related interest expense and strengthening financial flexibility.

The Board will continue to evaluate the Company’s capital allocation priorities as part of its regular governance process. Any future declaration and payment of dividends, and the amount thereof, will remain subject to the discretion of the Board and will depend upon the Company’s results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements, contractual restrictions, applicable law, and such other factors as the Board deems relevant.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may discuss intentions and expectations as to future plans, trends, events, results of operations or financial condition, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and should not be relied upon as predictions of future events, as there can be no assurance that the events or circumstances reflected in these statements will occur. Forward-looking statements can often, but not always, be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology including “believes,” “could,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “ongoing,” “plans,” “seeks,” “should,” “will,”  or the negative of these words and phrases, other variations of these words and phrases or comparable terminology, but not all forward-looking statements include such identifying words. Forward-looking statements are based upon current plans, estimates and expectations that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ materially from those indicated or anticipated by such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this press release relate to, among other things, the Company’s capital allocation strategy, the suspension of the Company’s quarterly cash dividend, the Company’s plans with respect to debt reduction, interest expense management and financial flexibility, and any future declaration and payment of dividends. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by forward-looking statements, see the sections captioned “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. While those factors are considered representative, no list of risk factors should be considered a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, and the Company disclaims any such obligation, except as may be required by law.

About Shutterstock
Shutterstock is in the business of turning ideas into impact. Powered by a global network of millions of creators and our cutting-edge technology, we provide businesses, creatives, and brand leaders with the essential, universal ingredients to make their work more effective. Shutterstock offers access to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of high-quality licensable assets, specialized training datasets, evaluation tools, and end-to-end strategic partnerships for the full model training lifecycle, as well as advertising and distribution solutions, exclusive editorial content, and full-service studio production—delivering unparalleled resources to fuel great work.

Discover our impact at www.shutterstock.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, X, Facebook and YouTube.

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ICI Welcomes Bipartisan Sponsors of Bill to Stop States from Seizing Long-Term Investors’ Savings

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WASHINGTON, July 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Investment Company Institute released the following Viewpoints blog. To learn more about why this issue matters and how the SAFER Act would help protect American investors, watch our video on LinkedIn.

Millions of American investors have adopted the advice given by financial advisors to invest for the long term and then leave those savings alone. In some states, however, following this guidance can get your account seized. That was the warning sounded at an event featuring the sponsors of the bipartisan SAFER Act, Representatives Sam Liccardo (D-CA) and Mike Lawler (R-NY), who joined ICI leaders to make the case for a federal solution to the problem of state unclaimed property laws that can treat buy-and-hold investors as though they have disappeared. 

ICI President and CEO Eric Pan opened the event by outlining the nature of this growing threat. More than 128 million Americans invest in regulated funds, many with the intention of holding them for years, following the advice of many financial educators to “stay in the market, invest for the long term.” They put their money away and go about their lives, confident that the savings will be there when they need it. But under some states’ laws, an account that shows no activity can be declared abandoned and taken into state custody through a process called escheatment.

Pan walked through what seizure means in practice. When a state escheats an investment account, it typically liquidates the holdings — so even an investor who eventually recovers the money gets back only what the account was worth at seizure, with no credit for years of market gains. For retirement accounts, the forced liquidation can also trigger unforeseen tax consequences. And recovering the money at all can take years of paperwork and persistence. Meanwhile, some states are moving in the wrong direction, loosening their rules to make it easier to capture assets. 

“This is where the leadership of Congressmen Lawler and Liccardo is so important,” Pan said. “They’ve introduced the SAFER Act, a federal solution to a problem that exists across the United States. This patchwork of different legal standards, and the fact that the legal standards change constantly, creates a lot of confusion and creates this risk and harm that we’re so worried about.” 

In a panel discussion, the two lawmakers described the issue as an obvious place for Democrats and Republicans to find common ground, given Americans’ widespread use of investment accounts for saving.

“We are, for the most part, a group of Americans who sit on our investments, which is more or less the right strategy,” Liccardo said, noting that this is exactly the approach that inactivity standards put at risk. 

Liccardo pointed to the widely reported case of Walter Schramm, an investor who bought Amazon shares in the late 1990s and then did what many long-term investors do: leave the account be. Delaware deemed the account abandoned and liquidated the shares in 2008, when they worth about $8,000. By the time Schramm discovered what happened years later, the position would have been worth roughly $100,000.

The financial incentives driving state behavior are a concern, Liccardo noted. Unclaimed property has become one of Delaware’s largest sources of revenue, bringing in more than half a billion dollars a year — a powerful reason for states to loosen their standards rather than tighten them. 

Lawler contrasted legitimate unclaimed property programs and what some states are doing now. “It’s one thing to get an asset because it’s truly abandoned,” he said. “It’s another to basically target a group of investors who have a long-term strategy of just not touching the asset and being passive.”

The right standard, Lawler argued, is the obvious one: before seizing investment assets, a state should have to prove the owner is actually deceased. He posited that most Americans would be shocked to learn how little protection they have. “You think you have ownership of this asset, but the state, under current law, can just take it.”

The SAFER Act would establish federal guardrails ensuring that inactivity alone cannot be the basis for escheatment and that states confirm the death of an owner and that no estate or beneficiary has claimed the assets before escheating investment accounts. It would also require states to leave unclaimed investments in place, rather than liquidating them, until they can prove abandonment.

Both lawmakers said the path to fixing the problem is through public awareness of the threat some state laws pose to Americans financial security. “Ultimately the American people will rise up,” Liccardo said. “It may take a little while. We just have to get the information to them.”

Contact: media@ici.org 

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