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Tencent Cloud Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Edge Services

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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Managed Edge Services 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US54122426, September 2026).

According to the IDC MarketScape, “EdgeOne natively converges intelligent acceleration, DDoS protection, web application firewall, bot management, edge compute, edge storage, edge AI inference, as well as web application and AI agent development and deployment capabilities through EdgeOne Makers. Delivered through a unified platform, these capabilities help customers reduce the integration and operational complexity associated with managing multiple products.”

Building Edge Infrastructure for AI-Native Applications and High-Performance Edge AI Services

The IDC MarketScape notes, “Content delivery performance and network proximity—the traditional value propositions of managed edge—are now baseline expectations rather than differentiators. The competitive frontier has shifted to AI inference at the edge, where vendors are being evaluated on GPU availability, model deployment tooling, inference latency, and token cost efficiency versus centralized cloud AI services.”

To address this shift, Tencent Cloud EdgeOne is evolving its global infrastructure into an edge foundation for AI-native applications. It provides enterprises with edge acceleration, security protection, edge AI inference, and full-stack capabilities to develop and deploy web applications and AI agents. On the security front, Tencent Cloud is expanding EdgeOne’s protection capabilities beyond traditional cyberattacks to include the identification and management of emerging access patterns, including AI crawlers and AI agents.

Tencent Cloud EdgeOne is bringing AI inference closer to end users to meet the real-time demands of modern applications. In scenarios such as real-time conversations, transactions, gaming interactions, and media content generation, response time directly affects user experience. Tencent Cloud EdgeOne’s edge AI inference platform, Booster, extends the platform’s globally distributed infrastructure from content delivery to AI computing. By deploying inference services closer to business applications, Booster enables image and video generation, voice and audio processing, storage, and caching to take place nearer to end users. This allows applications such as artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) production, real-time media processing, intelligent recommendations, and advertising decision-making to access computing resources closer to where they are needed, enabling millisecond-level response times.

In the managed hosting sector, the rise of “vibe coding”—the practice of using AI to build applications through natural language—is expanding application development beyond websites toward the creation of AI agents. As large numbers of newly generated agents move into production environments, businesses are placing greater demands on rapid deployment and managed hosting.

Tencent Cloud EdgeOne’s edge hosting platform, Makers, now supports both web applications and AI agents in addition to traditional website hosting. Developers can bring completed projects online with minimal adaptation, without building and maintaining the underlying runtime infrastructure. Makers currently serves more than 500,000 users and hosts more than one million websites, supporting corporate websites, cross-border e-commerce, AI SaaS applications, and agents across various industries, including healthcare, government, and legal services.

Edge AI Powers Real-Time Applications Across Gaming, Audio & Video, and E-Commerce

Today, Tencent Cloud EdgeOne operates more than 3,200 edge nodes with over 400Tbps of network capacity and more than 50 secondary ISP interconnections, covering Chinese Mainland and other major markets across Asia Pacific, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe. From supporting Tencent’s own large-scale gaming, audio and video, and e-commerce businesses to serving enterprises across industries worldwide, EdgeOne brings decades of experience in global edge infrastructure and supports sectors including finance, gaming, media, e-commerce and new retail, logistics, ticketing, aviation, and hospitality. It provides a technology foundation for enterprises expanding globally and entering the Chinese market.

Empowering the Gaming Industry with Low-Latency Delivery 

According to IDC’s China Gaming Cloud Market Tracker, H1 2025, Tencent Cloud CDN services powered by EdgeOne have ranked first in China by revenue for four consecutive years. Gaming resource delivery volume has also ranked first. EdgeOne has supported the distribution and security of Farlight 84, which attracted over 16 million pre-registrations ahead of launch, and Mecha BREAK, which registered over 5.2 million players for its global open beta. It has also defended Delta Force against hundreds of attacks. Meanwhile, EdgeOne Booster provides edge inference capabilities for emerging use cases such as AI-powered Non-Player Characters (NPCs), intelligent recommendations, and real-time content generation, bringing computing resources closer to players and enhancing real-time interactive experiences.

Accelerating Audio & Video Content Delivery Globally 

EdgeOne covers 80% of the top 10 China-based outbound audio and video social applications by scale and serves leading global customers including Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME), Japanese karaoke app Pokekara, and Pakistani internet TV platform ARY ZAP. As AI reshapes content production and interactive experiences, EdgeOne Booster enables open-source multimodal models to be deployed at the edge, allowing images, video, and audio assets to be generated and processed closer to users without being sent back to centralized cloud infrastructure. This significantly shortens the AI content production workflow and provides global media businesses with high-concurrency, low-latency edge inference capabilities.

Driving Conversions for E-commerce and New Retail with AI 

EdgeOne Makers enables one-stop deployment and hosting of e-commerce AI agents, helping AI move from “answering questions” to “solving problems.” Across customer service, logistics tracking, returns and exchanges, and product selection and marketing, AI agents can execute business tasks directly, providing 24/7 service and improving operational efficiency for global businesses.

Beyond the IDC MarketScape, Tencent Cloud has also been recognized as a representative vendor in three Gartner Market Guides covering Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) mitigation solutions, web application and API protection (WAAP), and edge distribution platforms, with related capabilities incorporated into the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) international standards.

From accelerating and protecting the internet to connecting AI computing and powering AI applications, Tencent Cloud EdgeOne continues to extend its global network, security, and edge computing capabilities for the AI era, helping enterprises across industries connect with users worldwide and bring AI-powered businesses into production.

[1]IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures supplier product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of supplier strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5- year timeframe. Supplier market share is represented by the size of the icons.

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About IDC MarketScape:

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

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About Tencent Cloud

Tencent Cloud is one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud service providers, committed to delivering innovative solutions that address everyday life and business challenges, and empowering the digital transformation of smart industries. Tencent Cloud has always upheld its mission to meet the needs of diverse industries, leveraging cloud computing, big data analytics, AI, IoT and cybersecurity, together with its extensive global infrastructure, to provide businesses with stable, secure, and industry-leading cloud products and services across a wide range of sectors, including education, finance, healthcare, gaming, media and entertainment, property, retail, travel, and transportation.

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Hanshow Unveils Nebular Lux at NRF 2026 Europe, Advancing More Responsive and Low Carbon Shelf-Edge Infrastructure

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New-generation ESL harvests ambient indoor light to support more responsive shelf-edge operations, reducing daily energy consumption by up to 46% under a representative retail operating scenario. 

PARIS, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hanshow today unveiled Nebular Lux, its new-generation electronic shelf label (ESL), at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Europe. Built on a hybrid energy architecture, Nebular Lux harvests ambient indoor light to supplement battery power, bringing together greater operational responsiveness and lower battery-related carbon impact at the shelf edge.

Under a representative retail operating scenario, Nebular Lux reduces daily energy consumption by approximately 46% compared with conventional ESL deployments. Across a deployment of one million labels, the solution can help avoid approximately 202 metric tons of CO₂ emissions associated with battery production and replacement activities over a 10-year operating period. Together, these efficiencies demonstrate how a more energy-efficient shelf-edge architecture can support both long-term operational performance and sustainability at scale.

As retailers deploy millions of electronic shelf labels, the shelf edge is becoming an increasingly important part of day-to-day store operations. At the same time, retailers need to support more frequent and responsive shelf-edge services without compromising the long operational life required at scale. Balancing responsiveness, longevity and sustainability is therefore becoming an increasingly important consideration as digital shelf infrastructure evolves.

Nebular Lux is designed to address this challenge through a hybrid energy architecture that combines ambient indoor light harvesting, ultra-low-power electronics, and Hanshow’s fifth-generation communication protocol HiLPC, reflecting system-level engineering across energy management, communications, positioning and retail-scale product integration.

This expanded energy budget supports more frequent positioning and longer-duration LED signalling, helping retailers scale high-frequency use cases such as picking, replenishment, product finding and location-based services without compromising standard product longevity. For retailers, this can translate into better product availability, greater operational efficiency and more responsive store execution. At the same time, lower battery consumption and fewer replacement requirements can help reduce lifecycle operating costs, improve total cost of ownership and strengthen the return on ESL infrastructure investments.

“The next generation of shelf infrastructure needs to do more than remain connected — it needs to become more responsive while also using energy more intelligently,” said Philippe Brochard, Chairman of the Advisory Board at Hanshow. “Nebular Lux brings these two priorities together, helping retailers create a faster connection between insight and action while supporting a more sustainable foundation for Store Digital Twin at scale.”  Nebular Lux demonstrates how the evolution of digital shelf infrastructure can support both more responsive store operations and longer-term sustainability goals.

At NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show Europe, Hanshow is demonstrating how Nebular Lux integrates with its broader Store Digital Twin portfolio at Hall 6, Booth E-020. Hanshow’s intelligent robotics solution NexMate is also making its European debut at the event, further expanding Store Digital Twin with intelligent sensing and execution capabilities.

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AB Tasty and VWO Unite Under Wingify, Launching a Unified Platform, New Brand Identity, and a Website

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The company introduces an Agentic Experience Optimization Platform built to understand, decide, act, and prove across every digital touchpoint, with Wingz as its AI engine

PARIS, DELHI, India and NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Following the merger announced earlier this year, VWO and AB Tasty today unveiled Wingify as the unified global brand for the combined business. The move also marks the unveiling of a combined platform under a single category, Agentic Experience Optimization Platform, and a single promise: Make every digital experience relevant.

One Name, One Flight Path

VWO and AB Tasty each spent more than 15 years building their businesses independently before merging. Together, the company now represents more than $100 million in revenue, 4,000+ customers worldwide, and a team of 700+ people across 11 offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

“Bringing VWO and AB Tasty together was never just about combining two platforms,” said Sparsh Gupta, CEO of Wingify. “It’s about giving our customers a clearer path forward with a strong data foundation that helps you act. AI is not another layer we’ve added to the platform; it is the platform’s operating logic, as it sees what is happening, decides what to do next, and acts while the visitor is still on the page. Every one of those decisions is measured, so relevance is something we can prove rather than promise.”

AI is changing what is possible. The new brand and platform are grounded in two ideas: clarity and curiosity. Together with AI, they create a new approach to optimization, connecting every touchpoint across the suite and turning insight into smarter action.

Introducing the Agentic Experience Optimization Platform

Wingify is now a new Agentic Experience Optimization Platform: where experimentation, personalization, behavioral insights, commerce optimization, feature management, and customer engagement run on one data foundation, one workflow, and one AI. The customer decides in moments, and Wingify closes that gap by understanding, deciding, and acting while the visit is still happening, and then proving whether it worked.

The foundation powers the Relevance Loop:

Understand. Reads behavioral, journey, affinity, intent, contextual, and emotional signals — including from anonymous visitors.

Decide. AI connects that understanding and determines the next best move: the right experience, design, feature, message, or recommendation for each person.

Act. Turns decisions into live experiences the moment they matter, using the same data and intelligence across the same connected suite.

Measure & Learn. Experimentation and analytics measure every action against business outcomes, turning results into new learning that makes every next decision sharper.

“Disconnected tools quietly cost teams time,” said Alix de Sagazan, CRO of Wingify. “An insight from one tool has to be manually rebuilt somewhere else, and every handoff invites delay and errors. Wingify closes those gaps, so insight turns into an action and action turns into a better experience.”

Wingz: AI Woven Through Every Stage

Wingz, Wingify’s embedded AI, runs across the Relevance Loop, using live behavioral data to understand visitors, recommend and activate changes, and measure their impact.

“Most AI in marketing software is an assistant sitting on top of a product. It can tell you things, but it cannot do much, and it certainly cannot tell you whether it was right. We built this the other way round. It runs inside the loop, so it sees the signal, makes the call, ships the change, and then measures it. That last part is the hard part, and it is why we spent 15 years building the experimentation layer underneath it,” said Ankit Jain, Co-founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer at Wingify.

What This Means for Customers

Existing VWO and AB Tasty customers can expect a platform that lets them see and act on the bigger picture, with a client base that includes L’Oréal, LVMH, Decathlon, Puma, Forbes, Motorola, AXA, De Beers, and more.”Our customers built real momentum with VWO and AB Tasty long before this merger,” said Rémi Aubert, Co-founder and Chief Customer & Strategy officer at Wingify. “This isn’t about starting over. It’s about giving that momentum wings: a clearer runway, a sharper set of tools, and a platform built to make every single interaction more relevant than the last”

The new site and brand are live today at wingify.com

About Wingify

Wingify is an Agentic Experience Optimization Platform that helps brands make every experience relevant. By combining deep customer understanding, AI-powered real-time decisioning, activation, experimentation, and analytics together in one continuous loop. Wingify understands each visitor, decides what is most relevant in the moment, turns that decision into a live experience across web, apps, search, merchandising, email, SMS, and push, then measures the result and learns from it.

Wingify serves more than 4,000 customers worldwide from 11 offices across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. Learn more at wingify.com.

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Unlocking APAC Semiconductor Bottleneck Opportunities: CSOP Solactive Asia AI Bottleneck Index ETF to List on HKEX tomorrow

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HONG KONG, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CSOP Solactive Asia AI Bottleneck Index ETF (3499.HK) will list on HKEX tomorrow (17th September 2026). 3499.HK seeks to provide investment results that, before deduction of fees and expenses, closely correspond to the performance of Solactive Asia AI Bottleneck Index (net total return version) (the Index). It has a listing price of about HK$7.8 per unit, a board lot size of 100, and management fee of 0.99%.

3499.HK provides focused access to APAC semiconductor bottleneck champions, investing primarily in equities listed in Taiwan (China), South Korea and Japan. The term “Bottleneck” in the ETF’s name refers to companies operating in critical bottleneck segments of the AI infrastructure supply chain, as represented by the Index. In order to achieve the investment objective of CSOP Solactive Asia AI Bottleneck Index ETF, a combination of physical representative sampling and synthetic representative sampling strategy are deployed to closely correspond to the performance of the Index.

Behind the rapid expansion of AI compute lies a highly specialized supply chain, spanning memory, advanced foundry, semiconductor materials and equipment, power and thermal management solutions, and other enabling technologies. Many of the world’s core AI bottleneck segments are anchored in Asia, particularly across Taiwan (China), South Korea and Japan. The strategic importance of Asia’s AI hardware ecosystem is reflected in the leading market positions of its key players. For example, SK hynix accounts for around 58% of the global HBM market, while Samsung Electronics holds approximately 21% in Q1 2026[1]. In advanced foundry manufacturing, TSMC commands around 70% of the global market in 2025[2]. These leading companies are directly represented in the Index. As of 8th September 2026, Samsung Electronics, TSMC and SK hynix are the top three constituents of the Index, with weights of 21.0%, 18.6% and 16.4%, respectively[3]. Beyond the top three, other major constituents include MediaTek, Advantest, Tokyo Electron, Kioxia, Hitachi, Delta Electronics and Murata Manufacturing[3], further underscoring the ETF’s exposure to leading companies across Asia’s AI compute supply chain bottleneck segments. 3499.HK is well balanced across Taiwan (China), South Korea and Japan, with geographic exposure of approximately 43%, 37% and 20%, respectively[3]. Through this ETF, Hong Kong investors can conveniently access a distinctive niche within the global AI infrastructure value chain.

The Index (net total return version) follows a transparent, rules-based methodology to identify AI infrastructure and semiconductor supply-chain bottleneck companies listed in Taiwan (China), South Korea and Japan. It selects up to 30 eligible securities from the Solactive GBS Global Markets All Cap USD Index and weights them by free-float market capitalization, subject to a 20% single-stock cap. This approach aims to provide focused yet diversified exposure to Asia’s AI hardware bottleneck opportunities while mitigating concentration risk. The Index is rebalanced quarterly on the last business day of February, May, August and November, with no ad-hoc adjustments based on short-term market sentiment.

Ms. Ding Chen, CEO of CSOP, said, “We believe Asia’s AI compute supply chain bottlenecks remain strategically important, supported by their scarcity, structural demand growth and persistent supply constraints. The launch of the CSOP Solactive Asia AI Bottleneck Index ETF marks an important step in connecting Hong Kong investors with this highly specialized segment of the Asia AI infrastructure value chain. CSOP remains committed to translating complex and fast-evolving global investment themes into accessible ETF solutions for Hong Kong investors.”

[1] Source: Counterpoint Research, “Global DRAM and HBM Market Share: Quarterly”, accessed 10 September 2026, https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-dram-and-hbm-market-share.

[2] Source: TrendForce News, “China’s No.3 Foundry Nexchip to Hike Prices 10% from June, Following SMIC, Hua Hong”, accessed 10 September 2026, https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/03/13/news-chinas-no-3-foundry-nexchip-to-hike-prices-10-from-june-following-smic-as-mature-node-supply-tightens/

[3] Source: Solactive Indices

About CSOP

CSOP Asset Management is the largest ETF/ETP issuer in Hong Kong*. As of 31st August 2026, CSOP’s total AUM stood at about US$34.3 billion (about HK$269.4 billion). Supported by a robust ETF ecosystem, CSOP offers a lineup of 71 ETF/ETPs and 5 mutual funds across Hong Kong and Singapore**. In 2026, 7 of the 10 most actively traded ETPs in Hong Kong were managed by CSOP***.

*Source: HKEX, Bloomberg, CSOP, as of 31st August 2026. Based on assets under management of all share classes of ETFs (including leveraged and inverse products) listed in Hong Kong, excluding ETFs with multiple listings.

** Source: HKEX, Bloomberg, CSOP, as of 31st August 2026.

***Source: Bloomberg, from 1st January 2026 to 31st August 2026.

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Investment involves risks. Investors should refer to the Prospectus and the Product Key Facts Statement for further details, including product features and the full list of risk factors. This material is prepared by CSOP Asset Management Limited and has not been reviewed by the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong. Please read the detailed disclosure and disclaimer carefully by accessing website (https://www.csopasset.com/en/education/disclaimer_en.html).

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