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SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Restaurant operators facing tight margins and rising equipment costs have a new digital sourcing option as CrazyGoodBuy.com officially launches with a combination of deeply discounted commercial kitchen gear and a weekday "one-cent" auction format aimed squarely at independent and multi-unit foodservice businesses across the United States.

Auction-Based Equipment Buying for Cost-Pressed Operators

At the core of the new platform is the CrazyGood Buy Daily Deal Auction, a simple but aggressive model designed to help operators access premium equipment without tying up unnecessary capital. Each weekday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern, the site lists a single piece of brand-new equipment-ranging from refrigeration and prep tables to cooking lines and bar essentials-with bidding starting at just one cent and running until 5:00 p.m.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Butler National Corporation's Avcon Industries has secured European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) approvals for its non-halon portable fire extinguisher retrofit on Learjet cabins, giving operators a certified, drop-in path to meet the looming December 31, 2025 halon phase-out deadline. The new approvals extend an earlier FAA Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) and position Avcon as a one-stop regulatory solution provider for Learjet fleets operating across North America, the UK and Europe.

Halon Phase-Out Drives Urgent Retrofit Decisions

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Info-Tech Research Group has released its 2025 Network Monitoring Data Quadrant Report, spotlighting six user-rated "champion" platforms that promise deeper visibility, faster incident response and stronger operational resilience for enterprise networks. Built entirely on verified end-user feedback from its SoftwareReviews platform, the new rankings give CIOs and network leaders a peer-validated lens on which tools are delivering real value in increasingly complex and threat-exposed environments.

Data-Driven Rankings for an Always-On Network Economy

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Cresta Fund Management is expanding its senior leadership team to support the next phase of growth, appointing industry veteran David Altshuler as Partner and Head of Capital Formation and promoting two long-standing team members into expanded roles. The Dallas-based private equity firm, which focuses on energy infrastructure across industrial, logistics and agricultural sectors, is sharpening its institutional capital-raising capabilities as limited partners seek specialist managers with operational depth and clear energy-transition strategies.

Bringing a Capital Formation Heavyweight Into the Partnership

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Blend360 has been named Sustainability Partner of the Year - LATAM and Public Sector Solution Provider Program Partner of the Year in the 2025 AWS Partner Awards, highlighting how AI- and cloud-driven analytics are moving to the center of sustainability and public sector modernization across Latin America and beyond. Announced at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the dual recognition positions Blend360 as a key services partner for governments and institutions looking to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for climate resilience and better resource allocation.

AWS Honors Partners Driving Innovation and Real-World Impact

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Workday has secured its position as a four-time Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Financial Planning Software, underscoring how the company's AI-enabled platform is becoming a strategic hub for finance teams navigating volatility, pricing pressure and tighter capital markets. The recognition highlights Workday Adaptive Planning's role in helping financial planning and analysis (FP&A) organizations shift from static budgeting to always-on, scenario-based planning.

Four Years as a Gartner Leader in Financial Planning

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Ubicquia has unveiled a coordinated next-generation smart streetlighting portfolio built around its new UbiCell® Micro controller, major enhancements to the UbiVu® infrastructure management platform and the launch of UbiScout™, an AI video accessory that turns existing streetlights into multi-purpose urban sensors for safety, mobility and energy efficiency.

Integrated portfolio targets utilities and cities under pressure to modernize

With grid operators and municipalities facing rising energy costs, decarbonization targets and aging infrastructure, Ubicquia's new offering is designed to make large-scale modernization of streetlighting networks faster and more manageable. The company positions the portfolio as a way to deliver asset intelligence, remote control and AI analytics without wholesale replacement of installed luminaires.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Velvære, a 60-acre wellness-focused, ski-in/ski-out residential community in Deer Valley's new East Village, has secured a restructured $555 million construction revolver to complete its luxury estates, vertical residences and private amenities, underscoring continued investor appetite for high-end U.S. residential destination projects.

$555 million revolver anchors a $1 billion alpine masterplan

The new capital structure combines $197 million in fresh financing from Anchor Loans with existing commitments into a multi-product construction revolver. Arranged and advised by LFB Ventures, with equity backing from Toba Capital, the facility is designed to fund land development, amenity construction and vertical build-out across the project's diverse product mix.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 4, 2025 - Vortex Control Technologies (VCT) has signed a fleet-wide retrofit agreement with Norwegian to equip all Boeing 737-800 aircraft with its patented Finlet fuel-saving modification, aligning the Nordic carrier's cost discipline with a more aggressive sustainability strategy in short- and medium-haul aviation.

Aerodynamic retrofits move from trial to fleet standard

Under the new agreement, Norwegian will install VCT Finlets across its entire 737-800 fleet, following in the footsteps of early adopters such as Avelo Airlines, SunExpress and the U.S. Air Force. The deal marks a pivot from pilot programs to full-fleet deployment, signaling growing confidence among operators that incremental aerodynamic improvements can deliver material savings at scale.

SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 3, 2025 - AGC Biologics is expanding its Cell Line Development Center of Excellence through a new partnership with ATUM, integrating the Leap-In Transposase® expression platform to help biopharma developers move monoclonal antibodies and complex next-generation biologics into the clinic faster and more cost-effectively.

New options for faster, more flexible cell line development

As pressure grows to launch high-value biologics at lower cost, drug sponsors are looking for cell line development (CLD) solutions that combine speed, robustness and scalability. AGC Biologics' collaboration with ATUM adds a modern transposase-based expression platform to its CLD toolkit, creating a menu of fit-for-purpose options for standard monoclonals, multi-specific antibodies and other complex molecules.