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SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As DEKRA concludes its 100th anniversary year, the global testing, inspection and certification (TIC) organization is reporting resilient performance, mid-single digit revenue growth and a clear strategic course focused on Mobility, Digital Trust and Sustainability despite a volatile macroeconomic and geopolitical backdrop.

Resilient TIC Performance in a Challenging Environment

In 2025, DEKRA operated against a backdrop of elevated volatility, geopolitical uncertainties and weak economic conditions in several European markets. Even so, the group expects mid-single digit revenue growth for the full year and overall stable results at the level of the previous year. In the first ten months alone, revenue growth in the core TIC business stood at around 4 percent, underscoring the robustness of its service portfolio.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As urban mobility systems evolve and traffic volumes rise, new data from DEKRA's Road Safety Report 2025 show that "Vision Zero" - the target of eliminating road fatalities and serious injuries - is already a reality in hundreds of cities worldwide, with the German city of Detmold now receiving the DEKRA Vision Zero Award 2025 for its outstanding performance.

Vision Zero Moves from Utopia to Measurable Reality

"Vision Zero" - the goal of zero traffic fatalities or, ultimately, serious injuries - is not unattainable. Hundreds of cities around the world have achieved zero road fatalities in at least one calendar year since 2009, according to official national statistics. Among them are now several with around 300,000 inhabitants. The DEKRA Vision Zero Award for the best performance among cities over 50,000 inhabitants has been presented to the German city of Detmold.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - As the global electric vehicle charging ecosystem races to standardize secure Plug & Charge and other transaction models, the SAE Industry Technologies Consortia's Electric Vehicle Public Key Infrastructure (EVPKI) Consortium has launched a Production Certificate Trust List (CTL) that brings multiple certificate authorities and OEMs into a shared, interoperable security framework.

Production CTL Marks Milestone for Interoperable EV PKI

The newly announced Production CTL is built to enable real-world quality assurance testing with six EVPKI root certificates from major PKI providers and automotive OEMs, including DigiCert, Hubject, Irdeto, ISS, General Motors and Tesla. Using the EVPKI production testing platform, the consortium can now validate its PKI interoperability model against a diverse set of roots that reflect the emerging EV charging market structure.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - MWC25 Doha has closed its doors after a high-profile two-day debut that drew almost 9,500 unique attendees and positioned the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as an increasingly influential hub in the global connectivity and digital innovation ecosystem.

A Landmark Debut for MWC in the GCC

Hosted in partnership with the State of Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, MWC25 Doha marked a strategic expansion of the GSMA's flagship event series into the GCC region. The show brought together senior leaders from both policy and industry as discussions focused on digital transformation, innovation and the next wave of 5G and beyond.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 28, 2025 - The BMW Group is extending its footprint in sustainable urban mobility by licensing two of its micromobility concepts, "Dynamic Cargo" and "Clever Commute", to Chinese electric two-wheeler specialist LUYUAN Group, opening the door to new lightweight vehicle offerings for city transport worldwide.

Strategic Licensing Deal Targets Global Urban Mobility Demand

Under the new agreement, the BMW Group grants LUYUAN licenses to further develop and industrialize the two concepts and bring them to market under LUYUAN's own brands. The move underscores how automotive and mobility players are broadening their portfolios beyond cars and motorcycles to capture the rapidly growing micromobility segment.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips has extended its partnership with quantitative neuroimaging specialist Cortechs.ai to integrate advanced AI-enabled neuroimaging analytics directly into Philips MR systems, giving radiologists faster, more objective and reproducible insights into brain health within their everyday workflows. By combining Philips' next-generation MR technologies with Cortechs.ai's quantitative post-processing software, the collaboration aims to set a new benchmark for precision diagnostics in neurology and strengthen Philips' position in data-driven brain imaging.

Meeting surging demand for brain MR with data-driven insight

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Royal Philips is introducing DeviceGuide, an AI-powered device tracking solution that brings real-time, 3D navigation support into one of interventional cardiology's most demanding procedures: minimally invasive repair of leaking heart valves. Built on the company's EchoNavigator platform and previewed at London Valves 2025, DeviceGuide is designed to translate complex imaging into intuitive visual guidance, helping structural heart teams perform mitral valve repair with greater clarity, confidence and reproducibility.

AI-guided navigation inside the procedure room

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - In radiology, the most transformative AI of the coming decade may not be the algorithms that make headlines, but the ones that quietly shave minutes off every case, reduce clicks, and keep worklists flowing smoothly for overburdened imaging teams. That is the vision outlined by Shez Partovi, MD, Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Business Leader Enterprise Informatics at Philips, who argues that the future of AI in radiology is the AI you barely notice - deeply embedded into workflows rather than bolted on as yet another standalone tool.

From "Will it help?" to "How fast can you implement it?"

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Nestlé is piloting a novel, patented cocoa processing technique that uses up to 30% more of each cocoa fruit, aiming to boost farmer yields, reduce waste and create new product opportunities for the global food processing and ingredients industry. By turning traditionally underused parts of the cocoa pod into chocolate flakes, the company is testing a more resource-efficient model for chocolate production in the face of climate pressure on cocoa supply.

Turning more of each cocoa pod into value
Conventional chocolate production relies almost exclusively on cocoa beans, leaving pulp, placenta and husk largely underutilized. Nestlé's R&D organization has reframed that paradigm by developing a method that leverages all of the edible material inside the pod, not just the beans. In doing so, it directly addresses both raw material efficiency and the economic potential of each harvested fruit.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - November 25, 2025 - Nestlé and its research partners have created a new cocoa core collection that captures more than 95% of the crop's global genetic diversity, laying a strategic foundation for a more resilient cocoa supply chain serving chocolate manufacturers and food producers worldwide. By consolidating genetic resources into a curated set of 96 varieties, the project aims to accelerate breeding of climate-resilient, higher-yield and quality-enhanced cocoa tailored to the needs of the global food and beverage industry.

A 'Noah's Ark' for cocoa genetics
The heart of the initiative is a core collection that condenses thousands of potential trees into a representative set of 96 cocoa varieties. This enables researchers and breeders to work on a manageable but comprehensive portfolio of genetic material, cutting time and complexity from pre-commercial research.