Expanding its indoor air quality leadership, Levoit makes cleaning easier and home environments fresher with its most advanced vacuum yet

TUSTIN, Calif., Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Levoit, VeSync’s leading smart home wellness brand, today unveiled the AERO, a cordless vacuum engineered to reduce cleaning hassles and support cleaner homes and living. Built on Levoit’s expertise in indoor air quality, AERO combines advanced filtration, a sealed self-emptying system, and minimal-maintenance convenience that keeps cleaning simple and less of a chore. Available now on Amazon and Levoit.com for $499.99.

• Cleaner Air, Cleaner Floors: Five-stage filtration with HEPA filter, capturing up to 99.99% of particles down to 0.5 μm, including pollen, dust, and debris to help households support a cleaner home environment.
• Truly Hands-Free: Levoit AERO’s auto-empty station uses patented HyperPulse™ negative pressure technology to create powerful suction that fully empties debris into a sealed dust bag with a protective flap that locks in dust and allergens, minimizing dust release. Combined with auto-charging that keeps the vacuum ready for the next session, Levoit AERO is designed to deliver exceptional no-mess convenience.
• Large Dust Bag, Less Maintenance: A generously sized 3.5L dust bag designed to allow significantly more time between emptying, up to 60 days, reducing the need for frequent upkeep.
• No More Hair Hassles: The upgraded, third-generation TripleStrike™ Technology brush head with four silicone blades resists tangling, moving hair directly into the bin for a smoother, hands-free cleaning experience.
• Consistent Cleaning Power: With 180 AW suction, AERO maintains reliable pickup across carpets and hard floors.

As people spend more time indoors^[1], controlling dust, allergens, and pet dander has become essential to everyday wellness. AERO was designed with that in mind, carrying Levoit’s indoor air-quality expertise from air purification to floor care.

“The launch of AERO marks a pivotal moment in Levoit’s journey to redefine what home wellness means,” said Simeon Jupp, Vice President, Global R&D at VeSync. “For years, we’ve led the market in air purification, and with Levoit AERO, we’re extending that expertise from the air you breathe to the surfaces you walk on. Every feature was designed with one goal in mind: making home wellness effortless, so our customers can live cleaner, better lives.”

AERO joins Levoit’s line of award-winning cordless vacuums—including the LVAC-200 and LVAC-300—that have earned thousands of positive reviews and become trusted favorites among households globally.

The press kit with images can be found HERE.

About Levoit

Levoit elevates home wellness. From the air you breathe to the ground you walk on, we design smart humidifiers, air purifiers, vacuums, and fans that transform your home into a space of ease and comfort. Our app gives you full control of your home base, enabling you to monitor air quality, adjust humidity, and set timers and schedules with the tap of a screen. As part of the VeSync family of brands, Levoit continues our company’s mission to build the home of the future. Learn more at www.levoit.com and follow Levoit on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and TikTok. 

About VeSync

Headquartered in Tustin, Calif., VeSync is a leading global smart home technology company empowering everyday wellness through innovative technology and thoughtful design. The company designs and delivers consumer appliances and wellness products that simplify routines and support better living under its family of brands: Levoit, Cosori, and Etekcity, all integrated through the VeSync app for seamless smart living. VeSync holds more than 125 patents worldwide, and its award-winning products lead in their categories. VeSync develops smart, connected solutions that enhance everyday life for millions of households across North America, Europe, and Asia. www.vesync.com. 

Prioritizing test rides, the purchase experience, and after-sales service, Velotric continues to expand its dealer network across the U.S.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Velotric, a premium Ebike brand trusted by over 150,000 riders across North America, today announced a major milestone in its dealer network growth. The company has surpassed 1,200 premium bicycle retail partners, now operating in 49 states, marking a remarkable 100% year-over-year growth in revenue.

This rapid expansion reflects both the rising demand for Ebikes, as well as Velotric’s strong foundation in providing excellent products, with every model engineered for superior design and lasting quality trusted by dealers. With its growing network, Velotric continues to go from strength-to-strength, gaining valuable customer insight that directly informs future development of its next-gen Ebikes.

Beyond bikes themselves, Velotric prioritizes a seamless end-to-end customer journey – streamlining every touchpoint from in-store test rides and purchases to ongoing maintenance and service. This commitment is the driving force behind building its local dealer network.

Velotric champions flexible and customized partnership models, working with different stores to co-create high revenue, sustainable businesses. Thanks to the local sales representatives and technical experts, who are waiting to provide responsive assistance and in-store visits for dealer success. 

“The numbers don’t lie, this expansion is a result of our hard work and trust we’ve earned from bike shop owners across the U.S,” said Adam Zhang, CEO of Velotric. “With over 1,200 partners, we have created a truly professional, responsive, and reliable ecosystem.”

The company continues to collaborate with top-tier dealers, launching Velotric Showcase Stores, dedicated spaces where customers can experience a full model lineup. To further enhance efficiency, Velotric is continuing to expand availability of parts and accessories.

“I have tested Ebike brands, and Velotric stands tall among the choices out there,” said Steve Smolenski, owner of Joltbike Uniontown in Pennsylvania. “Their quality has never changed since day one. They (Velotric) definitely act on customer feedback, which is great to see.”

For consumers, this expanded dealer presence means easier access to test rides, professional assembly, and localized maintenance and service, removing key barriers to Ebike adoption and delivering a truly seamless and satisfying ownership experience.

About Velotric
Velotric is a leading Ebike brand in North America, trusted by over 150,000 riders and supported by a network of 1,200+ local shops and service partners. Founded by industry veterans, including Lime’s former hardware co-founder, Velotric unites experts from top brands such as Lime, Giant, Specialized, and Decathlon to create Ebikes that blend innovation, style, and practicality.

Powered by industry-leading technologies like ComfortMax™ and SensorSwap™, Velotric makes riding simpler, smoother, and fun. All bikes are UL2271 / UL2849 certified by UL, with IPX7-rated batteries and IPX6-rated frames, engineered for safety, durability, and all-weather performance.

Velotric: Building a better ride.

For more information visit https://www.velotricbike.com/.

This recognition highlights Hitachi Digital Services’ industrial AI leadership, strategic execution, and customer-focused innovation accelerating measurable transformation at scale.

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan is pleased to announce that Hitachi Digital Services has received the 2025 North America Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition in the Artificial Intelligence Services Industry for its outstanding achievements in delivering production-ready AI capabilities, optimizing cloud workloads, and enabling cost-effective, scalable digital solutions for industrial enterprises. This recognition highlights Hitachi DS’s strong market position and consistent leadership in driving measurable outcomes while accelerating customer innovation in a rapidly evolving competitive landscape.

This recognition highlights Hitachi DS’s strong market position and consistent leadership in driving measurable outcomes while accelerating customer innovation in a rapidly evolving competitive landscape.

“Hitachi’s legacy runs deep in industrial sectors worldwide, with our outputs spanning software and hardware design, development, and delivery. As such, we as a technology partner hold unique insight that allows enterprises to confidently place their futures in our hands. We’ve co-created some of the most pivotal digital transformations seen in recent years. And, we’re proud to be recognized for that work by Frost & Sullivan as this acknowledgement underscores the commitment we strive for every day,” said Roger Lvin, CEO, Hitachi Digital Services.

Frost & Sullivan evaluates companies through a rigorous benchmarking process across two core dimensions: strategy effectiveness and strategy execution. Hitachi DS excelled in both, demonstrating its ability to align strategic initiatives with market demand while executing them with efficiency, consistency, speed, and scale. “Hitachi Digital Services embeds reliability and alignment from the outset, making true production-ready AI systems. Its flagship HARC for AI service, originally designed for cloud workload optimization, operationalizes AI using Gen and Agentic AI tech for reliability, observability and cost control. This enables the company to focus on production operations rather than prototype showcases,” said Nishchal Khorana, Associate Partner – Growth Opportunity Analytics at Frost & Sullivan.

Guided by a long-term growth strategy focused on integrating information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) for industrial transformation, Hitachi Digital Services has shown its ability to adapt and lead in a rapidly evolving AI services landscape. Its deep domain expertise across manufacturing, energy, mining, logistics, and transportation enables it to deliver targeted, high-impact AI solutions, from predictive maintenance and quality control to supply chain optimization and fleet monitoring.

Sustainable innovation remains central to Hitachi DS’s approach, particularly regarding AI solution delivery as illustrated by three disruptive, proprietary services: R2O2.ai, HARC for AI, and HARC Agents.

The Reliable, Responsible, Observable, and Optimal AI (R2O2.ai) framework uses Gen AI to solve the critical challenge of moving AI models through conceptualization to proof-of-concept to production, ensuring solutions are reliable, observable and fit for purpose. Hitachi Application Reliability Center (HARC) for AI runs AI applications with greater reliability, efficiency, and governance while mitigating scaling challenges such as unpredictable costs, performance degradation over time, and limited oversight of complex models.

The company’s newest release, HARC Agents is an Agentic AI platform combining HARC for AI and R202.ai with a library of AI agents and an enterprise-grade management system. The platform jumpstarts AI system development (decreasing development time by 30%) and simplifies cross-environment oversight of all AI systems—providing stronger control over governance, performance monitoring, and compliance.

“At Hitachi Digital Services, we believe AI must be reliable, responsible, and production-ready from day one. Our focus is not on prototypes but on outcomes—solutions that scale, integrate deeply with operational environments, and deliver measurable value. By combining industrial domain expertise with intelligent architecture, we’re helping enterprises move beyond experimentation to sustainable AI at scale.” said Premkumar Balasubramanian, CTO at Hitachi Digital Services

Hitachi DS’s hybrid AI approach blends off-the-shelf models with custom-built solutions tailored to client needs. Its work with organizations such as Hitachi Rail and WMATA, illustrating its ability to deliver mission-critical, high-accuracy AI systems that drive operational efficiency and business value.

Frost & Sullivan commends Hitachi Digital Services for setting a high standard in competitive strategy, execution, and market responsiveness. By embedding AI across all digital transformation initiatives and pioneering intelligent architectures for the agentic AI era, the company is shaping the future of enterprise modernization.

Frost & Sullivan’s Competitive Strategy Leadership Recognition is its top honor and recognizes the market participant that exemplifies visionary innovation, market-leading performance, and unmatched customer care. This recognition honors companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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About Hitachi Digital Services
Hitachi Digital Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is a global systems integrator powering mission-critical platforms with people and technology. We help enterprises build, integrate, and run physical and digital systems with tailored solutions in cloud, data, IoT, and ERP modernization, underpinned by advanced AI. By combining Information Technology and Operational Technology (ITxOT), we drive efficiency, innovation, and growth across industries. With over 110 years of Hitachi Group’s engineering and technology leadership, Hitachi Digital Services is powering smarter platforms for a safer, more sustainable future. For more information on Hitachi Digital Services, please visit the company’s website at www.hitachids.com.

About Hitachi, Ltd.
Through its Social Innovation Business (SIB) that brings together IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products, Hitachi contributes to a harmonized society where the environment, wellbeing, and economic growth are in balance. Hitachi operates globally in four sectors – Digital Systems & Services, Energy, Mobility, and Connective Industries – and the Strategic SIB Business Unit for new growth businesses. With Lumada at its core, Hitachi generates value from integrating data, technology and domain knowledge to solve customer and social challenges. Revenues for FY2024 (ended March 31, 2025) totaled 9,783.3 billion yen, with 618 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 280,000 employees worldwide. Visit us at www.hitachi.com.

Retailers are accelerating digital investments to meet rising demands and increasing fulfilment complexity, with a focus on automation across material handling and management software.

NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Retailers are planning significant investments in advanced digital solutions and warehouse automation to help address supply chain challenges and optimize fulfilment operations. A recent survey by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research found that more than 90% of retailers plan to deploy AI for both decision support and network optimization.

“Gen AI applications have slowly been applied by retailers over the last year, with most exploring system support chatbots and customer-focused support tools. More eyes are turning towards agentic AI applications, and more than 40 percent of respondents strongly agree that AI agents can help automate decision-making for tasks such as adjusting inventory levels, re-routing shipments, and triggering automatic re-orders,” said Ryan Wiggin, Senior Analyst.

In addition to software and automation investments, retailers are getting serious about cybersecurity. More than 35% of respondents plan to spend over US$50,000 on IT security within the next year, while OT security spending has shown even stronger growth in recent years due to heightened threat awareness and regulatory mandates.

“Data privacy concerns and difficulty upgrading or integrating with legacy systems are seen as the biggest challenges to improving workflows in retail companies,” said Wiggin. “Providers should ensure strong onboarding and ongoing support with a key focus on data management and security throughout.”

These findings are from ABI Research’s Supply Chain Survey 2025: Retail and Wholesale report, part of the company’s Supply Chain Management Software research service, which includes research, data, and ABI Insights.

About ABI Research

ABI Research is a global technology intelligence firm uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology solution providers and end-market companies. We serve as the bridge that seamlessly connects these two segments by providing exclusive research and expert guidance to drive successful technology implementations and deliver strategies proven to attract and retain customers.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia and WUHU, China, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — As a globally recognized automotive brand, OMODA & JAECOO parent company is delivering its vision of harmonious mobility between technology, humanity, and nature through consistent, tangible green actions.

Over the past three years, OMODA & JAECOO parent company’s CSR ride has evolved from a corporate philanthropic initiative into a global green cultural IP, fostering the spread of green ideas worldwide. Building on the dual-drive model of “Green Ride + Public Good” from previous editions, this year’s event deepened collaboration with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), integrating the ride into the global ecological protection network.

At the event, OMODA & JAECOO parent company announced the renewal of its three-year strategic partnership with UNICEF, committing an additional USD 6 million to support education in under-resourced regions worldwide. This initiative further strengthens the integrated “Green Mobility – Ecological Protection – Educational Equality” responsibility ecosystem.

Leaders and representatives from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa gathered at the event. Cultural volunteers wearing traditional attire from their countries formed unique formations, creating a vivid tableau of “appreciating each beauty, sharing all beauty” in global dialogue.

At 9:30 a.m., as the starter’s gun fired and the checkered flag waved, a “green dragon” of cyclists set off along a 9-km scenic route, passing landmarks such as the Yangtze Bend and Luhua Wetland — a vivid dialogue between technology and nature.

The most striking innovation appeared at the finish ceremony. Two Argos robotic dogs assisted IUCN representatives and China Cycling Association officials in awarding medals, delighting guests with agility and reliability. As a key member of OMODA & JAECOO parent company’s ecosystem, the AI-powered robotic dogs perfectly combined technology with environmental awards, exemplifying harmony between tech and nature.

At the 2025 OMODA & JAECOO International User Summit, OMODA & JAECOO parent company successfully built a multi-dimensional global communication ecosystem. By integrating diverse user communities — including technology, cycling, outdoors, environmental protection, public welfare, and animation — the summit connected offline experiences with online platforms and China with the global stage. This approach amplified the company’s voice and actions, fostered international resonance on sustainability, and spread the “Ride Green Life” philosophy worldwide.

As the last rider of the nearly 3,000 cyclists crossed the finish line, OMODA & JAECOO parent company’s green journey had just begun. On its path to becoming a global leader in green intelligent mobility, the company will continue to move forward with technology as its vessel and responsibility as its sail toward a greener tomorrow.

In Malaysia, OMODA & JAECOO currently offers models including J7, J7 PHEV, J8, and C9, and will continue to introduce more new models that meet local market demand. Under the same group, OMODA&JAECOO has 3 sister brands in Malaysia – Chery, iCAUR and Lepas.