Strategic Acquisition Strengthens OSI’s Position as a Global Leader in Unified Commerce

CALABASAS, Calif., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — OSI Digital, a global digital transformation provider, is proud to announce the acquisition of E3 Retail, a premier provider of cutting-edge retail solutions recognized for its visionary Unified Commerce platform that streamlines store operations and elevates customer experiences.

OSI Digital + E3 Retail: Combining Strengths to Shape the Future of Retail
This acquisition unites two organizations with aligned cultures, complementary technical expertise, and a shared commitment to delivering transformative, client-focused solutions on a global scale. Through this acquisition, OSI Digital will offer comprehensive, end-to-end retail solutions—spanning everything from back-office operations to customer engagement—enabling faster innovation, broader global reach, and a greater impact across the retail industry. By combining strengths, OSI Digital is uniquely positioned to set a new standard for excellence in the retail space worldwide.

“This acquisition reinforces OSI Digital’s dedication to delivering next generation, client-focused solutions while expanding our global presence and accelerating growth in the retail industry,” said Glenn Gesell, President, OSI Digital. “E3 Retail’s expertise, passion, and innovative approach to retail technology perfectly complements our mission to deliver results for our valued customers. Together, we will redefine how retailers leverage technology to enhance operational efficiency and enable customer excellence.”

Expanding Our Impact in the Retail Industry
OSI Digital is a global leader in enterprise technology solutions, with extensive experience helping retailers optimize operations, streamline processes, and ensure top-tier customer experiences. With deep expertise in ERP systems, cloud solutions, and end-to-end retail technologies, OSI Digital empowers businesses to stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market. Over the years, the company has partnered with leading retailers worldwide to drive their growth, efficiency, and digital transformation initiatives.

“We are thrilled to join the OSI Digital brand and bring E3 Retail’s innovative solutions to a wider global audience,” said Michelle McElroy, former Vice-President of Business Development at E3 Retail. “The integration of E3 Retail into OSI Digital unites two like-minded organizations with aligned cultures, complementary technical expertise, and a shared commitment to re-define customer experiences. Together, we believe that E3 Retail’s Unified Commerce platform and deep retail experience will significantly enhance OSI Digital’s end-to-end offerings, empowering retailers to optimize operations and elevate customer experiences to new heights.”

Michelle McElroy will lead the new Retail practice at OSI Digital as the Vice-President, Retail.

About OSI Digital
Headquartered in Calabasas, California, OSI Digital is a leading global business and technology solutions provider that specializes in accelerating digital transformation for over 30 years and counting. Established in 1993, OSI Digital has grown into a global business & technology solutions provider, delivering a comprehensive suite of expert services—including Enterprise Applications, Customer Experience, Analytics, Cloud & IT Infrastructure, Application Development & Modernization, Enterprise Automation & Orchestration, Advisory Services, and Managed Services. OSI collaborates with top-tier partners including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Boomi, Celigo, Databricks, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Cloud Integration, Oracle NetSuite, Power BI, Salesforce, Snowflake, Tableau, Workato to drive business growth for our joint customers. With operations spanning eight countries, OSI Digital continues to expand our global footprint, strengthening our impact and presence in key markets around the world. To learn more about OSI Digital, visit: www.osidigital.com. 

For more information, contact: Karen Dosanjh, Vice-President, Marketing, OSI Digital Phone: (604) 328- 5171, kdosanjh@osidigital.com

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NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Lifespan Vision Ventures is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, Remedium Bio, Inc. (“Remedium”), has entered into a multi-target research and development collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (“Lilly”) focused on advancing innovative gene therapies for Type 2 diabetes and obesity.

This partnership underscores the promise of Remedium’s proprietary Prometheus™ platform and the company’s leadership in developing long-acting, adjustable-dose therapeutics for major unmet medical needs. This approach aims to replace repeated protein-based injections with a safer, more consistent, and more cost-effective treatment, enabling genetic medicine to address common conditions across endocrinology, immunology, and cardiometabolic disease safely, effectively, and at scale.

“We congratulate Frank and the Remedium team on this important milestone with Lilly,” said Andrew Worden, Founding Partner at Lifespan Vision Ventures. “It is a powerful validation of their platform and is an important step toward developing interventions that extend healthspan. We’re excited to support Remedium as they scale their platform and translate it into therapies that can benefit millions of patients.”

About Remedium Bio

Remedium Bio is advancing a new generation of gene therapies to address major unmet medical needs across endocrinology, immunology, neurology, and musculoskeletal diseases. Its proprietary Prometheus™ platform enables long-lasting, adjustable-dose delivery of therapeutic genes through a single subcutaneous injection. This approach has the potential to replace many protein-based treatments at significantly lower cost, while offering patients safe, durable, and tunable control over therapeutic protein expression. Remedium’s pipeline includes multiple programs with the potential to meaningfully reshape the treatment landscape for conditions such as obesity and Type 2 diabetes.

For more information, visit: www.remedium-bio.com

About LifeSpan Vision Ventures

Lifespan Vision Ventures is a forward-thinking venture capital firm specializing in investments within the aging and longevity space. Our mission is to support and accelerate the development of innovative therapies that extend healthspan, improve quality of life as individuals age, and address age-related challenges. Through strategic partnerships and investments, we aim to shape a future where advances in science and technology prevent, delay, and treat age-related diseases; ultimately enabling healthier, longer lives.

Contact: info@lifespanvision.com

BOSTON, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TraceLink, the largest end-to-end digital network platform for intelligent orchestration of the supply chain, today announced powerful new capabilities in its Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS) designed to unlock unprecedented productivity. These enhancements enable finance, commercial, and IT teams to radically improve agility and productivity while reducing costs through agentic orchestration of their end-to-end supply chain.

The new capabilities, introduced across OPUS, Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT), Process Orchestration for Empowered Teams (POET), and Serialized Product Intelligence (SPI), deliver focused innovations tailored to specific operational efficiency challenges, yet are architected to operate as a unified platform, amplifying their impact on supply chain performance when used together.

• OPUS: Helps business users design and deploy no-code supply chain solutions that make multienterprise work easier—standardizing processes, automating everyday tasks, and improving overall efficiency.
• MINT: Quickly links a company with all of its trading partners through pre-integrated network links so they can share transactional process data to infuse shared business processes with real-time intelligence.
• POET: Gives multienterprise teams a scalable capability to manage shared peer-to-peer collaboration processes and solve problems quickly with full audit control and managed user rights—no matter where they sit in their organizations.
• SPI: Provides accurate, real-time visibility into serialized product movements so companies can reconcile inventory faster and turn compliance requirements into a competitive business advantage.

While each solution delivers meaningful improvements on its own, their true power emerges when orchestrated together—linking real-time partner data (MINT), collaborative task execution (POET), and product movement intelligence (SPI) within the OPUS environment to automate end-to-end workflows, resolve issues faster, and create enterprise-wide productivity gains.

For example:

• Inventory Reconciliation and Disruption Recovery: A manufacturer detects an unexpected stock variance in SPI, triggers a POET task that assigns corrective actions across internal teams and CMOs, and uses real-time partner data from MINT to reconcile inventory within hours—not weeks—preventing stockouts and lost sales.
• Order-to-Cash Acceleration: Commercial teams use OPUS Solution Environment to automate order entry, MINT to instantly exchange order confirmations and invoices with partners, and POET to route exceptions to the right teams for resolution—cutting order cycle time in half and improving cash flow.
• Regulatory Audit Readiness: SPI provides full product movement history, while POET collects supporting documentation from external partners via email-triggered workflows, and MINT ensures all records are synchronized—making audits faster and reducing compliance risk.

Together, these orchestrated capabilities form a linked layer that helps automate processes, resolve issues faster, and strengthen collaboration, internally and with upstream and downstream partners—driving measurable gains in efficiency, resilience, and customer service.

What Supply Chain Leaders Are Saying
At TraceLink’s FutureLink 2025 conference in Boston, Swami Iyer, CEO of Aurobindo USA, one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical manufacturers, said during his keynote:

“We were looking for a digital solution [OPUS] to unify our external and internal data to create visibility on a comprehensive basis for the entire supply chain. We found TraceLink to be a great partner with an extremely powerful platform, having huge potential to transform our processes to achieve a unified supply chain system.”

“Supply chains today are under constant pressure from disruptions, regulatory demands, and the complexity of working with many partners—in many cases around the world. OPUS and its solutions are designed to give companies a smarter way to manage that complexity by linking data, automating routine tasks, and surfacing issues before they become costly problems. The result is rapid decision-making, fewer disruptions, and a supply chain that’s built to adapt—and that’s the future we’re helping our customers achieve,” said Shabbir Dahod, President and CEO of TraceLink.

Unleashing Productivity Through a No-Code Agentic Orchestration Platform
Rising demands for supply chains to be more agile, intelligent, and collaborative are still undermined by fragmented systems and manual processes that slow productivity. TraceLink addresses these challenges with its B2N Integrate-Once™ model, enabling companies of any size to operate on a shared digital network. Building on this foundation, the latest platform enhancements deliver targeted innovations designed to streamline workflows, reduce inefficiencies, and accelerate decisions—working in unison across the OPUS platform to amplify enterprise-wide productivity and lay the basis for forthcoming advancements in agentic orchestration.

Orchestration Platform for Universal Solutions (OPUS)

• Improved OPUS Solution Environment (OSE) Authoring and Usability: Accelerates the speed and ease for business users to design and deploy automated workflows, such as order processing, inventory reconciliation, and partner data exchanges. These improvements shorten development cycles and allow teams to adapt processes more quickly without heavy IT involvement—boosting overall productivity.
• Increased Message Processing Throughput: Optimizes the speed and scalability of transaction handling within the OPUS platform, enabling companies to process larger volumes of multienterprise messages and data exchanges faster and more reliably—without requiring additional internal resources.

Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT)

• Enhanced Business Process Support: Expanded support with 50 new transaction types that positively influence 15 key business processes across commerce, logistics, and manufacturing. These additions remove manual data entry, reduce errors, and give decision-makers access to clean, reliable data.
• Accelerated Insights: Access 20+ ready-to-use end-to-end reports and dashboards covering order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and inventory management—delivering fast, actionable insights without the requirement to build them in third-party business intelligence tools.
• New Download and Email Enhancements: Boosts flexibility by letting users download exchanged files directly from the UI and send transactions as email attachments—removing friction in day-to-day collaboration. This ensures partners can access critical documents promptly, streamline exception handling, and reduce delays in decision-making and issue resolution.

Process Orchestration for Empowered Teams (POET)

• Create/Update via Email Support: Let teams start, update, and track work items directly from email, making exception handling easier and helping issues get resolved faster.

Serialized Product Intelligence (SPI)

• Enhanced Lot and Serialized Product Monitoring: Gives teams complete visibility into product events and inventory status, enabling teams to proactively detect anomalies and discrepancies in real time—accelerating issue resolution and reducing work in keeping accurate inventory counts.

Showcasing the Future of Supply Chain Productivity
Join TraceLink at FutureLink Barcelona, October 6-8, 2025, to see how life sciences and healthcare leaders are boosting productivity today by automating manual processes, accelerating decision cycles, and eliminating supply chain blind spots. TraceLink also will unveil early innovations in agentic orchestration.

To explore the full scope of TraceLink’s platform and product innovations and see how these capabilities are driving real-world transformation, please visit www.tracelink.com.

About TraceLink
TraceLink Inc. is the largest end-to-end intelligent supply chain platform for life sciences and healthcare, enabling end-to-end orchestration by connecting more than 291,000 healthcare and life sciences entities through its B2N Integrate-Once™ network. Leading businesses trust TraceLink to deliver complete global connectivity, visibility, and traceability of healthcare products, ensuring that every patient gets the medicines they need when needed, safely and securely.

Challenge to take place across L.A. in anticipation of International Vodka Day

• The playful initiative driven by Smirnoff and global pop sensation Troye Sivan has been created to inspire people to connect and celebrate their ultimate IRL hangs with friends.
• This moment marks the next installment of the Chief Vibes OFFicer (CVO) story – picking up with Troye, who was appointed CVO in last November, to take viewers behind the scenes with a ‘Day in the life’ at Vibes HQ
• Legally we have to say that ‘Chief Vibes OFFicer’ is not a real title, and Vibes HQ is not a real place of work – both are used solely for promotional purposes (please do not tell Troye…)
• HERO YouTube link HERE and all assets HERE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Smirnoff, the world’s no.1 vodka brand^[1], is today launching a playful briefcase drop in partnership with global pop sensation Troye Sivan, bringing people together for the ultimate IRL hang with their friends this International Vodka Day (October 4^th). The announcement comes as Troye Sivan gives fans a glimpse into a day in the life of a Chief Vibes OFFicer at Smirnoff with a tongue-in-cheek tour of Smirnoff Vibes HQ.  

Global pop sensation, Troye Sivan, gives fans a tour of Smirnoff Vibes HQ

From URL to IRL, the briefcase drop will take place in Los Angeles, Troye’s hometown when in the US, on Oct 2nd, encouraging everyone to take their plans out of the group chat to meet IRL for the ultimate group hang (21+). Dropped in iconic spots across LA, fans (21+) will piece together clues shared from Troye and Smirnoff to find the briefcases – and, in the spirit of bringing people together, to find them they’ll need a clue and to claim the prize they’ll need their crew.** Inside, the potential winners will find a personalized video from Troye and can claim their prize including a CVO-mandated weekend in Palm Springs – think sunshine, lo-fi chill and the highest of vibes.

Troye was appointed as Smirnoff’s Chief Vibes OFFicer (CVO) in November 2024, kicking off an exciting multi-year partnership with one clear aim – to get people out, get people together and Go OFF.

With an annual performance review on the horizon, it feels safe to say that Troye has delivered some 10/10 results as CVO – a headline tour across Australia with Smirnoff Club Rush afterparties in Melbourne and Sydney, shareable Out Of Office content ahead of the festive holidays, a Vibe Check with fans ahead of his headline slot at World Pride Music Festival in D.C in June and some iconic Friday work memos for those wanting to emulate his CVO energy over the last few weeks.

The next installment of the CVO story introduces viewers to Vibes HQ, an idyllic coastal compound in the sun, the perfect setting for the meticulous monitoring of vibes, mood measurement and other very important research. Equipped with a temp-controlled Smirnoff ICE room, a dimly lit break-out room and open-air team briefings – we pick up with Troye as he is busy ‘working’, before he’s called to check on the Smirnoff ICE in storage (fear not… it’s chill) and kick off a very professional productivity check-in with his office sirens.

Stephanie Jacoby, SVP Global Vodkas, said:

“Troye has done a fantastic job as our CVO over the past year and is really ramping up his action plan as we get closer to his annual performance review. We’re thrilled to be joining forces with him this International Vodka Day to bring the vibes from Vibes HQ straight to L.A. for this playful briefcase hunt that we hope will bring people together and get the plans out of the group chat and into real life – something we all crave.”

Troye Sivan, Chief Vibes OFFicer of Smirnoff, added: 

“When I joined forces with Smirnoff last year it was to create special moments by getting people together. We’ve had such a fun (almost) year of doing just that, all around the world. This briefcase drop is a great opportunity for us to invite people in and connect with their friends, bringing them into this tongue-in-cheek world that we’ve created together – I’m excited for what’s to come!”

The briefcase drop will kick off on October 2nd with cryptic clues and hints dropped from Troye, his crew and from the @Smirnoff Instagram handle. The Vibes HQ ‘Day in the life’ video is now live and will continue to show up alongside recipe content, photography and behind the scenes clips across digital, social and OOH over the coming months in key markets such as the USA, UK, Brazil and Australia – watch this space for more updates from the Smirnoff Chief Vibes OFFicer, Troye Sivan.

More details on the briefcase drop coming soon via @smirnoff on Instagram

BRIEFCASE DROP T&CS

**Crew comprised of 3 persons, all of whom must be 21+.

†An Instagram account is required in order to see clues.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  Offered in Los Angeles area only. Must be 21+.  Crew  members should register here prior to participating.  CREW MEMBERS MUST COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF 3^RD PARTIES IN PARTICIPATING IN CONTEST. CREW MEMBERS ASSUME ANY AND ALL RISK OF LIABILITY IN CONJUNCTION WITH PARTICIPATION. AFTER FINDING BRIEFCASE, CREW MUST CLAIM PRIZE AT DESIGNATED LOCATION by 8:59 p.m. PT on 10/02/2025 or arrange with Administrator to complete prize claim process via e-mail.  A total of (3) briefcases are hidden.  If a briefcase is unclaimed, corresponding prize will not be awarded. Prize consists of a prize pack plus trip for Crew members to Palm Springs event (SMIRNOFF “Vibes HQ” Weekend),  11/15-16/2025.  If any Crew member is unavailable for Palm Springs event, no alternate prize/compensation awarded to such Crew member and Crew member will only receive prize pack (to be shared with the other [2] Crew members)  Troye Sivan will NOT attend Palm Springs event.   ALCOHOL NOT PART OF PRIZE.  Incidental expenses are winning Crew member’s sole responsibility.  Subject to Official Rules at URL. Sponsor: Diageo Americas, Inc., New York, NY. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.

ROCKAWAY, N.J., Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TOPDON US’s (https://www.topdon.us/) new BT600 Plus (https://www.topdon.us/products/bt600-plus) is a professional-grade battery tester that offers more than 14 hours of continuous, mobile standalone operation. An ideal tool for workshops, dealerships and mobile technicians, the BT600 Plus supports accurate diagnostics for 6V, 12V and 24V systems. As the premier provider of cutting-edge technology and advanced tools for auto repair professionals, TOPDON has made the new BT600 Plus available through its national distribution network.

“Our new BT600 Plus builds on our BT600, which is one of our most popular battery testers among professionals and DIYers worldwide,” said Chad Schnitz, Vice President of TOPDON US. “The BT600 Plus is a result of listening to customer feedback and integrating new features that make it an even more versatile tool. Among those new capabilities is a powerful built-in, rechargeable lithium battery so technicians can run tests even with a battery in low voltage. The mobility offered by the BT600 Plus is a real game changer for projects that need more versatility.”

The BT600 Plus offers accurate and reliable diagnostics and analysis for lead-acid, lithium, alkaline and carbon-zinc batteries. With an internal 5200mAh built-in battery, it offers more than 14 hours of cordless operation. The BT600 Plus supports battery (for 6V, 12V and 24V lead-acid batteries), cranking (for 12V and 24V lead-acid batteries), charging (12V and 24V lead-acid batteries) and system (12V and 24V lead-acid batteries) tests, as well as low voltage detection down to 2V. Using the 3.5-inch display, users can easily navigate all of the unit’s functions. The BT600 Plus also has instant thermal printing, allowing technicians the option to immediately share results, and 10-set data logging to review up to 10 historical test records.

TOPDON’s BT600 Plus specs include:

• 3.5-inch screen
• 0.000V to +/-100V measurement range
• 0.000mΩ to 200Ω
• 5200mAh built-in battery capacity
• 70.9-inch and 39.4-inch test cables
• Reverse polarity protection

“Thanks to our customers’ feedback, we’ve made the BT600 Plus even more convenient and functional,” said Schnitz. “I’m confident auto care professionals, fleet managers and technicians will love the capabilities and mobility of this new product.”

For more information visit www.topdon.us

DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has introduced 24/5 trading for selected stock contracts for difference (CFDs) on its TradFi platform, expanding market access and aligning traditional assets more closely with crypto’s always-on trading model.

The launch allows users to trade stock CFDs 24 hours a day, five days a week, uninterrupted. The first batch of 20 stock CFDs is now available under the extended trading framework. Existing positions remain unaffected, and trading as well as swap fees will continue to follow current rates.

Since its debut in May 2025, Bybit’s stock CFD offering has expanded to support more than 100 equities, spanning leading technology firms such as NVIDIA, MSTR, and META, as well as crypto-related stocks including COIN and CRCL.

To further broaden accessibility, Bybit TradFi is also waiving trading fees on stock CFDs and indices through Oct. 11, 2025. During this limited-time program, eligible users can trade a range of global indices — including CHINA50, CHINAH, HK50, HKTECH, and TWINDEX — as well as all stock CFDs such as CRCL, COIN, MSTR, BMNR, SBET, and major technology equities including NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, GOOG, and INTC, at zero transaction cost.

Previously, Bybit’s stock CFD trading followed standard U.S. market hours, limiting access to approximately 6.5 hours per day. Under those constraints, traders unable to act within the daily market window could not adjust positions or hedge risk until the next session.

By introducing 24/5 trading, Bybit reduces time-zone barriers, enables continuous risk management, and allows users worldwide to respond more effectively to market developments. The change also provides cross-asset traders with a more unified experience, bridging the gap between crypto’s 24/7 market and traditional finance products.

Key benefits of the update include:

• Always available: Stock CFDs on U.S. equities can now be traded around the clock, Monday through Friday.
• Global accessibility: Extended hours reduce time-zone limitations and open participation to a wider base of traders.
• Greater control: Users can manage positions on their own schedule, rather than being restricted to U.S. market hours.

Bybit is among the first crypto-native platforms to introduce 24/5 trading for traditional financial assets. The company has positioned the expansion as part of its broader mission to bridge digital assets and traditional finance, while redefining the future of multi-asset trading.

Disclaimer: Bybit TradFi is powered by Infra Capital Limited.

#Bybit / #TheCryptoArk / #IMakeIt 

About Bybit

Bybit is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, serving a global community of over 70 million users. Founded in 2018, Bybit is redefining openness in the decentralized world by creating a simpler, open and equal ecosystem for everyone. With a strong focus on Web3, Bybit partners strategically with leading blockchain protocols to provide robust infrastructure and drive on-chain innovation. Renowned for its secure custody, diverse marketplaces, intuitive user experience, and advanced blockchain tools, Bybit bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi, empowering builders, creators, and enthusiasts to unlock the full potential of Web3. Discover the future of decentralized finance at Bybit.com.

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