• After launching successfully in Q1 2025, MUSE plans its strategic expansion into Asia
• The world’s first investment-grade luxury asset platform opens a limited window for Asia’s most visionary investors to co-create a new financial order

SINGAPORE and KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MUSE (MUSE Technology Pty Ltd), an Australian-headquartered technology firm, today announced the expansion of its business into Asia. MUSE will expand into key Asian markets to explore capital alignment opportunities and build strategic partnerships with sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and leading local financial institutions. Through these engagements, MUSE will establish itself as a pioneering financial infrastructure platform built for the region’s next wave of investors.

Earlier this year, MUSE launched the world’s first digital investment platform, using data-driven insights, proprietary AI, and blockchain technology to give participants access to an investment ecosystem. The MUSE platform connects investors and high-net-worth buyers to the world’s leading suppliers of investment grade real assets, with over $150 million in inventory at launch.

The Asia Roadshow is not only a geographic expansion, but also an invitation to Asia’s most visionary investors, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds. For the first time, MUSE will open its Founding Partner designation – an opportunity to co-create the financial infrastructure of a 20 trillion-dollar market in collectible luxury assets.

Features of the MUSE digital investment platform:

• Digital Vault: Verified listings of investment-grade assets, blockchain-authenticated and transparently catalogued.
• Sale & Resale Engine: A structured transaction pipeline with commission logic, from listing to liquidity, designed for yield and reinvestment.
• Integrated Compliance: Fully-functional onboarding and KYC systems, including supplier verification and payout automation.
• Data and AI Powered Intelligence: Proprietary models authenticate assets, monitor global demand patterns, and deliver dynamic price forecasts.

MUSE to introduce more world-first solutions to the industry

As part of this expansion, MUSE is introducing two world-first innovations:

• MUSE Luxury Investment Index (MLII): A benchmark standardizing luxury assets as a measurable, investable class, comparable to equities and real estate.
• MUSE ETF: A publicly-traded fund providing diversified exposure to luxury assets, offering liquidity and accessibility to investors at all levels.

These innovations will empower Asian investors and institutions to engage in a new financial ecosystem designed to unlock capital within an asset class defined by scarcity, cultural significance, and global demand.

Asia expansion on the back of business momentum and product development

MUSE is planning its expansion into Asia, building on strong business momentum and recent product innovations, positioning the firm to unlock new opportunities across the region.

“While MUSE is still at an early stage of our journey, we have already achieved significant milestones. With the trust and support of our suppliers, partners and investors, we are now ready to take our first step toward international expansion and Asia has a natural sensitivity and passion for real assets,” says Michelle Zhang, Founder and CEO of MUSE.

MUSE’s entry into Asia marks more than just geographic expansion – it is a pivotal milestone in the firm’s global growth strategy. MUSE will spend the next few months building strong partnerships, collaborating on innovation with financial institutions, and advancing new value-sharing programs with chosen sovereign entities and wealth funds.

“Our Asian growth strategy has in fact already been underway since the beginning of the year. We secured strategic partners and engaged leading investment groups ahead of our launch. These established partnerships now allow MUSE to expand into Asia with confidence, as we look to align our existing investment platform and new financial infrastructure products, with potential partners and investors in the region,” shares AJ Lee, CCO & Asia Director, MUSE.  “The engagement initiatives we launch over the next few months will serve not only as platforms for interaction, but also as incubators for cultivating MUSE’s first group of partners, investors and clients,” he adds.

About MUSE

MUSE is a technology company on a mission to empower investors with clarity, confidence, and control. By fusing data-driven insights, proprietary AI, blockchain technology, and transparent processes, MUSE is redefining how investors engage with alternative and luxury assets.

By combining advanced technology with a deep understanding of global investor needs, MUSE is creating the foundation for a new financial ecosystem where alternative assets are more transparent, accessible, and aligned with institutional standards.

For more information visit: www.jointhemuse.com

Combined offering empowers agencies and property managers to simplify operations, accelerate growth, and better serve owners and residents

SYDNEY, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — MRI Software, a global leader in real estate solutions and services, today announced the acquisition of Melbourne-based Proptech Labs, a market-leading software provider dedicated to simplifying operations for property professionals in Australia and New Zealand. The integration of Proptech Labs’s specialised capabilities will complement MRI Property Tree and MRI Palace – the company’s flagship property management solutions in the region – adding expert functionality for advanced maintenance, invoicing, key management, inspection management, and AI-driven automation.

“This acquisition deepens our ability to serve the unique needs of property professionals in Australia and New Zealand,” said David Bowie, Executive Managing Director, APAC, MRI Software. “By combining our solutions, we’re not only transforming the way agencies manage properties, we’re leapfrogging current market capabilities and setting a new benchmark for intelligent, end-to-end property management.”

This strategic move builds on the enduring partnership already in place between MRI and Proptech Labs, a longstanding collaboration that has delivered proven results for over 2000 agencies and property managers in the region. Moreover, the acquisition brings together two companies with a shared vision, reinforcing the value of their combined solutions and further establishing MRI as an innovative technology leader for real estate professionals and agency owners in ANZ. Together, they deliver comprehensive, scalable, future-ready technology tailored to the region’s needs.

“Working together under one roof will accelerate our innovation to deliver a fully integrated suite of solutions with AI-enabled capabilities embedded directly into our clients’ core workflows,” continued Bowie. “Following the acquisition, new efficiencies will be unlocked for Property Tree and Palace users by making Key Automate available as part of their subscription by December 31^st 2025. This marks the beginning of a clear roadmap for further integration, ensuring our clients gain early advantages and continue to benefit from sustained innovation at scale.”

“We’re incredibly proud to join forces with MRI Software,” said Rafael Niesten, CEO and Co-Founder of Proptech Labs. “Our shared values, deep understanding of the property management sector, and relentless focus on innovation make this a natural fit. We’re excited to converge capabilities and expand our reach across the real estate market.”

In alignment with MRI’s open and connected strategy, Proptech Labs will continue to maintain its existing property management system integrations, providing choice and flexibility for clients. Proptech Labs will continue to serve its clients without interruption. 

About MRI Software
MRI Software is a leading provider of real estate solutions and industry data that transform the way communities live, work and play. MRI’s open, intelligent platform empowers owners, operators, agents and occupiers in commercial and residential property organisations to stay ahead in rapidly changing markets. A trailblazer in the PropTech industry, MRI serves more than six million users worldwide, including the social and affordable housing sector. Through innovative solutions and a rich partner ecosystem, MRI gives real estate companies the freedom to realise their vision of building thriving communities and stronger businesses. For more information, please visit mrisoftware.com/au.

About Proptech Labs
Proptech Labs is a software development company dedicated to revolutionising how property management is conducted through advanced technological solutions. Our mission is to simplify property management processes while enhancing the overall experience for property managers and their clients.

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DUBAI, UAE, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Off-roaders have convoys. Gamers have squads. Jeep just merged those two worlds with “Rescue Squad,” an all-new live gaming experience, turning stuck into epic.

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Usually, when a car gets stuck in a game, it’s game over. But Jeep doesn’t believe in game overs. Jeep believes in breakthroughs. For two weeks, 13 of Saudi Arabia’s biggest streamers, including Peerless, Ryan MJRM and KLO25 are firing up nightly streams where players team up to show what Jeep does best: rescue, recover, and ride on.

The mechanics are simple but powerful:

• Got stuck in-game? Type /RescueSquad in the game chat.
• A convoy of Jeeps pulls up to pull you out.
• Players get rescued, adventures continue, streams go wild.

Just like in real life, where Jeep owners drop everything to recover a fellow off-roader in the desert, the same spirit is playing out in front of thousands of live viewers online. Players’ frustration is turned into fun.

And Jeep isn’t stopping at rescues. The brand has built a custom in-game showroom, where players can explore Jeep vehicles virtually. Digital flyers invite them to book a real-life test drive, so they can go on to experience the off-road capability of Jeep in the offline world as well.

“Rescue Squad is the perfect example of how Jeep continues to innovate, not just in vehicles but in experiences,” said Melhem Najm, Regional Chief Marketing Officer, Stellantis Middle East and Africa. “We are showcasing Jeep’s 4×4 DNA in a completely new space, while connecting it back to real-world adventure and business objectives.“

“Rescue Squad isn’t about imposing a logo in a game,” added Yara Maroun, Head of Marketing for Jeep Middle East. “Community and adventure, which is unique to Jeep in real life, also exists naturally in the gaming world. So does Jeep’s 4×4 capability. This has allowed us to create an authentic brand experience, which is why I believe the response is so powerful. No other brand can own this narrative so completely.”

As if it isn’t enough to make this the smartest gaming hack of the year, Jeep keeps the momentum going with surprise giveaways during the streams. Instead of just merch, players unlocked physical Jeep Rescue Squad gear: ropes, jerrycans, shovels, and towing hooks. Tools for real-world adventure.

For many, it is their first taste of what makes Jeep unique: the sense of belonging that comes with being part of something bigger than oneself.

“Gamers are used to hitting restart when they’re stuck. Jeep players don’t restart, they regroup,” said Tuki Ghiassi, Executive Creative Director, Publicis Middle East. “Rescue Squad flips one of gaming’s biggest frustrations into surprise and community. That’s pure Jeep DNA.“

One second you’re stuck. The next, you’re surprised by your favorite gamer in a Jeep rescuing you.

Rescue Squad comes hot on the heels of the Esports World Cup, held in Saudi Arabia in August. The country’s gaming and esports industry is experiencing explosive growth, driven by massive government investment and a young, tech-savvy population. (Sources: Economy Middle East, Vision 2030)

For Jeep, the experiment proves that the brand isn’t locked to rocky trails or desert dunes. It thrives anywhere there’s a challenge to face. And this is how Jeep entered the gaming world.

With Rescue Squad, Jeep shows gamers what off-roaders have known for decades: getting stuck isn’t the end. It’s just the beginning of the story.

Contact:

Yara Maroun (Head of Marketing, Jeep), +971551045298

JEEP NEVER LEAVES ANYONE BEHIND. EVEN IN VIDEOGAMES.

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SYDNEY, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Miroma Project Factory (MPF) has partnered with the University of Sydney to deliver a high-stakes, deeply technical modernisation of Bridge2Practise—a clinical skills training platform used by medical students and educators to simulate and assess procedural learning.

Behind the scenes, Bridge2Practise was running on a five-year-old version of MeteorJS, linked to a deprecated database platform, with manual deployments, missing infrastructure documentation, and broken user flows. A growing backlog of bugs, performance issues, and unfulfilled feature requests had placed the platform under increasing operational strain.

This extensive rebuild transformed Bridge2Practise from a brittle, developer-dependent system to a scalable, maintainable platform ready for continued innovation.

“Miroma came to our rescue, brilliantly responding to our immediate needs to sustain the platform, while supporting us to continuously improve the user experience with improved design and clever intuitive additions. Their agile and immediate problem solving has meant B2P has been free from any outages, and student/instructor support has been delivered globally within the promised timeframes. Our students continue to have improved learning outcomes using B2P and we are thrilled to have an ongoing partnership with them to elevate the product to commercialisation.” said Dr Cate Madill, Associate Professor, at the University of Sydney.

MPF’s work was both urgent and surgical. Over the course of the engagement, the team:

• Recovered lost server configurations and redeployed a staging environment from a production AMI clone.
• Migrated all platform data from the deprecated Compose service to MongoDB Atlas with zero loss.
• Incrementally upgraded MeteorJS from version 1.4.3.2 to 2.8.1—spanning nearly a decade of framework evolution—while preserving critical functionality.
• Set up modern CI/CD pipelines using AWS ECS and GitHub Actions to future-proof ongoing development.
• Conducted end-to-end QA and performance checks throughout the upgrade process, ensuring platform integrity at every step.

“At Miroma Project Factory, we thrive on turning complex, high-stakes challenges into stable, scalable solutions,” said Katherine Robinson, Global CEO of Miroma Project Factory. “Bridge2Practise wasn’t just a rebuild, it was a rescue mission. Our team worked hand-in-hand with Cate and her team at the University of Sydney to stabilise a critical platform for clinical education, while laying the groundwork for future innovation. This project reflects what we do best: making technology more resilient and intuitive.  Ready to meet the demands of tomorrow.”

Following the infrastructure transformation, MPF responded to a series of long-standing enhancement requests from platform stakeholders. These enhancements were prioritised to address known pain points for educators and students alike, and delivered in close collaboration with the University’s team – laying the foundation for a more intuitive, data-informed platform experience, with additional improvements planned under ongoing support.

Bridge2Practise is now fully operational, faster, and better equipped to support digital clinical education at scale. MPF remains the digital delivery partner, supporting ongoing enhancements as part of a structured support agreement.These new features were designed to improve usability for instructors, admins, and students alike, including:

• Auto-archiving for inactive groups, including time-based reminders and admin override access.
• A new admin analytics dashboard, providing insights into usage patterns, activity uptake, and data uploads.
• Comparison video tooltips within clinical assessment forms to assist learning via reference media.
• Written feedback tools for instructors to leave contextual guidance on tagging tasks.
• A new student view impersonation feature, allowing instructors to preview content from the learner’s perspective.
• Early groundwork for automated scoring logic, replicating current Excel-based macros for assignment marking.

About Bridge2Practise

Bridge2Practise is a simulation-based digital training platform developed by the University of Sydney to help medical students and health professionals build clinical decision-making skills. The platform offers structured scenarios, video-based assessments, tagging tasks, and feedback tools for educators and learners across a range of procedures and competencies.

About Miroma Project Factory (MPF)

MPF is a multi-award-winning digital strategy and product studio that delivers innovative digital solutions across web, platforms, and systems. Specialising in purposeful technology, MPF works at the intersection of strategy, design, and engineering to create impactful digital products for organisations ready to lead. With deep expertise in healthcare, MPF helps clients scale responsibly, communicate clearly, and connect meaningfully with their audiences. For more information, visit www.theprojectfactory.com.

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Miroma Project Factory
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By embedding AI agents and MCP servers into enterprise compliance workflows, Avalara is evolving compliance into a smart, interoperable global framework, that operates at unprecedented scale

DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Avalara, Inc., the agentic tax and compliance leader, today announced breakthroughs in enterprise compliance: Avi, Avalara’s AI agent is now embedded directly where users work; cutting-edge Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers provide easy access to Avalara’s AI-powered platform; and a series of AI innovations are newly available in its product suite.

Avi Everywhere

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These capabilities enable third-party agents and systems to more seamlessly discover and connect with APIs across Avalara’s ecosystem, embedding compliance directly into customer workflows and systems. The result is a shift from isolated features to a fully interoperable framework that ensures compliance happens wherever business happens.

“Compliance is no longer a back-office burden, but a mission-critical function,” said Scott McFarlane, CEO and Co-Founder of Avalara. “With Avalara’s agentic solutions, our customers are cutting filing times from days to hours, reducing compliance risk, and freeing teams to focus on growth.”

Avi Everywhere, Compliance at the Point of Work Powered by Agents

Avalara’s AI agent, Avi, is now embedded directly where users work, observing, advising, and executing compliance for daily workflows:

• Avi Browser Extension: Guides users interactively through ERP configurations and detects compliance actions on the fly (e.g. “do you need an exemption certificate for the vendor you just added?”). It is also there to answer any compliance-related questions users may have with Avalara’s industry-leading content.
• Avi in Outlook: Scans inbound invoices, digitizes and validates them for taxes, duties, tariffs, and certificates, then integrates results into ERP systems. This reduces invoice processing costs while catching compliance risks earlier.

MCP Servers: The Backbone of Intelligent Interoperable Compliance

Avalara pioneered cloud-based tax automation and quickly rose to market leadership over the past two decades. Now, as agentic AI reshapes enterprise software, Avalara is once again first to transform the category with an agentic operating model built on MCP servers, enterprise LLMs, domain-specific SLMs, AI agents, and the most expansive compliance content network—all residing in the market’s most resilient, scalable, performant, multi-cloud platform.

Third-party agents and systems can connect to Avalara’s MCP servers to discover and call APIs across Avalara’s platform, enabling applications to connect more seamlessly and extend functionality. By embedding AI agents and MCP servers into enterprise workflows, Avalara is evolving compliance into a smart, interoperable framework, extending trusted category intelligence across global systems at unprecedented scale.

New Enterprise-Grade AI Features

Avalara is introducing a series of new AI-driven capabilities including:

• Advanced Rules with AI Visualization – Users can now create, edit, and visualize compliance rules through natural language prompts. Whether writing an entire rule, tweaking logic, or seeking AI-driven recommendations, compliance teams gain unprecedented precision, speed, and control.
• AI-Powered Reporting and Insights – Avalara’s reporting suite has been reinvented with embedded AI. New intelligence surfaces anomalies, highlights trends, and generates custom reports and visualizations—helping finance teams move from reactive reporting to proactive compliance management.
• AI-Driven Global E-Invoicing – Avalara is using AI to auto-map standardized invoice fields to country-specific compliance requirements worldwide. Customers face only minimal customizations, supported by visual mapping tools—accelerating time-to-compliance while helping to ensure greater accuracy across global jurisdictions.

These enterprise-grade capabilities reinforce Avalara’s leadership in compliance automation, as recognized in the IDC MarketScape Report: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled SaaS Sales and Use Tax Automation Software for Enterprise 2024 Vendor Assessment.

Expanded AI Capabilities
Avalara is also extending its agentic platform across new compliance domains:

• Exemption Certificate Validation – Digitizes and validates certificates with AI, preventing costly audit exposure.
• Cross-Border Classification – Determines harmonized system (HS) codes and flags trade restrictions, solving two of the toughest challenges in global trade.
• Generative Tax Research – Provides compliance-critical answers with authoritative citations, leveraging Avalara’s unrivaled tax content for accuracy that eclipses generic AI models.
• Property Tax – Offers AI-driven classification of fixed assets and geography assignment.

“The AI-powered search in Avalara Tax Research has been a game changer, cutting my research time by more than 80 percent,” said Dakota Cox, Accounts Payable at Averitt Express, an Avalara customer.

Ecosystem and Market Rollout

Avalara is driving adoption of these innovations through its partner and customer networks:

• Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Registry: Avalara will register Avi in Google AgentSpace and in other registries, making Avalara’s tax and compliance capabilities discoverable to other enterprise AI systems, helping to ensure they can be invoked wherever businesses operate.
• MCP Server Registries: Avalara will register its MCP servers in many popular marketplaces and registries for discovery and inclusion in customer agentic workflows.
• Face-to-Face Meetings: Avalara account managers are in the field meeting with partners and VARs, demonstrating new capabilities and educating customers on their impact.
• Avalara Events: The company is hosting events for developers, partners, and customers to gain hands-on access to Avalara’s latest offerings.

About Avalara
Avalara is the agentic tax and compliance leader. For more than two decades, Avalara has developed one of the most expansive libraries of tax content and integrations in the industry, supporting over 43,000 businesses and government entities across more than 75 countries. The company’s purpose-built AI agents automate end-to-end compliance processes with greater precision, from tax calculations and return filings to exemption certificate management and beyond. For more information, visit Avalara.com.

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TOKYO, Oct. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As a leading global provider of real-time communications technology and IP optical networking solutions, maintaining and optimizing networks of many of the world’s largest service providers and critical infrastructure operators, Ribbon Communications Inc. (based in Texas, USA; Japanese subsidiary: Ribbon Communications K.K., hereinafter referred to as “Ribbon”) held their first “Ribbon Workshop 2025” for customers and partners at the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, September 8, 2025, with approximately 70 people in attendance.

At the beginning of the workshop, Drazen Lukic, Senior Vice President Technology  & Solutions IP Optical Business Unit,  presented his vision for the future of products related to IP & optical transmission solutions. Lukic indicated the direction of the business strategy by stating that “Ribbon’s future direction is to focus on automation and openness in IP & optical transmission.” Then, Apollo Product Line Manager Ronen Cohen described the latest Apollo products, noting the various investments and optical wavelengths that have been made in the Apollo series and how each feature has been added by integrating them.

In addition, Saravanan Venkatesan, Neptune Product Line Manager, gave a presentation on the Neptune product line and analyzed market trends shaping the next generation of networks. Venkatesan presented the product strategy for the latest IP routing platforms based on this, and emphasized the importance of capital investment, indicating that “as competition intensifies and pressure on profitability increases, cost performance as well as core capacity will become increasingly important.”

Finally, Erez Segev, the Product Line Manager of the multi-layered automation platform MUSE, took the stage to give a detailed presentation on the company’s latest product line. In particular, he focused on operational automation with MUSE and demonstrated its practicality with live demonstrations using actual systems.

Ribbon will continue to deepen relationships of trust with their customers and partners, and to wor to accurately meeti their needs.

■ Event Summary

• Date : September 8, 2025 (Monday)
• Time : 14:00-17:00
• Venue: Tokyu Cerulean Tower Hotel, B2 Banquet Hall

About Ribbon Communications
Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) provides communications software, IP and optical networking solutions to service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide. Ribbon Communications supports their customers through close relationships and optimizes customer networks, to ensure more competitive positioning is secured, leading to business results in today’s smart, always-connected and data-driven environment. The company’s innovative end-to-end solution portfolio includes software-enabled solutions from core to edge, service delivery through cloud environments, cutting-edge security and analytics tools, IP and optical networking solutions for 5G and more, which are delivered with unmatched scale, performance, and agility. The company also places a high priority on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) contributions and provides an annual sustainability report to stakeholders. For more information about Ribbon, visit rbbn.com. (English website).

Official Japanese website https://learn.rbbn.com/jp

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