TORONTO, Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AACSB International (AACSB) and Academy of Management (AOM) in collaboration with eight leading organizations from the business academic and scholarly community today released the Global Research Impact Framework: Exposure Draft, a major step toward expanding the reach, relevance, and rigor of business school research worldwide. The Global Research Impact Task Force, comprising representatives from AACSB International, Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, American Accounting Association, American Marketing Association, Asia Academy of Management, Association for Information Systems, European Accounting Association, Journal of Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management Society—represents an unprecedented collaboration across disciplines, regions, and academic societies to redefine the future of research impact in business education. For decades, the existing system for recognizing research impact has upheld academic excellence. Yet as societal expectations shift and demands for relevance intensify, the research ecosystem faces a pivotal moment. This coalition recognizes that meeting these new demands will require bold, coordinated action to lead a systemwide transformation, ensuring that research continues to shape business, policy, and society in meaningful and measurable ways. The framework was guided by four critical objectives: Redefine Impact: Expand the definition of research impact beyond traditional scholarly metrics. Strengthen Evaluation: Identify principles for assessment that reflect meaningful, empirical, and practical contributions. Empower Innovation: Provide business schools and their disciplines with flexibility to determine incentives that encourage and reward evidence-based impact. Broaden Engagement: Ensure that research impact reflects the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including academia, industry, policymakers, regulators, and society. “Advancing research impact isn’t something any one group can do on its own,” said Lily Bi, president and CEO of AACSB. “It takes all of us—the academic community, practitioners, and policymakers—working together toward a shared vision. This framework is a catalyst for that change. It’s about evolving how we assess and

Powering digital play across the world, QuickTopups enters Pakistan Quick Topups launches in MENAP regionBringing digital play and entertainment to all Karachi, Pakistan, Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Karachi, September 18th, 2025. QuickTopUps.com has officially launched in Pakistan as a one-stop platform for gaming top-ups and digital vouchers. The service arrives at a time when demand for seamless digital entertainment is rising rapidly among Gen Alpha, and Gen Z. QuickTopUps.com addresses a critical gap in the market and sets the foundation for broad adoption by offering secure, instant, and localized transactions As part of its launch, QuickTopUps.com has partnered with leading financial Institutions in Pakistan such Askari Bank and Easypaisa, to allow direct voucher and top-up purchases, and to ensure that millions of users can enjoy simple and reliable digital transactions. These collaborations mark an important step in establishing QuickTopUps.com as a trusted global player in Pakistan’s fast-growing digital economy. Already a leading global platform for digital recharges and entertainment access, QuickTopUps.com is now accelerating its expansion across the MENAP region, recognizing its immense untapped potential. The company’s MENAP strategy began with a successful launch in Pakistan, one of the region’s fastest-growing digital markets and is rapidly advancing toward key markets like Saudi Arabia and the broader Middle East. With the MENA gaming sector on a steep growth trajectory and Saudi Arabia emerging as a powerhouse in the global gaming economy, QuickTopUps.com is investing in localized payment solutions and an Arabic-first user experience to serve this next wave of digital consumers. Strategic partnerships with regional wallets, telecom providers, and e-commerce platforms will support this expansion and strengthen QuickTopUps.com’s presence in new markets. The company’s global vision is to democratize access to digital entertainment by making vouchers affordable and secure for users worldwide. QuickTopUps.com seeks to establish a borderless ecosystem where

FDA cleared and U.S. manufactured implant system positions SINTX to enter billion-dollar U.S. market SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SINTX Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SINT) (“SINTX” or the “Company”), a leader in advanced ceramics specializing in biomedical applications of silicon nitride (Si₃N₄), today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for the SINAPTIC® Foot & Ankle Osteotomy Wedge System, enabling SINTX’s commercial entry into reconstructive foot and ankle surgery in the United States. SINTX plans a U.S. commercial launch in Q1 2026, leveraging its U.S.-based manufacturing to drive revenue acceleration and operating efficiency. The SINAPTIC implant system combines SINTX’s proprietary silicon nitride biomaterial with surgeon-informed implant designs and a planned sterile, single-use instrument kit engineered to enhance surgical efficiency, precision and reproducibility. By combining differentiated material science with practical surgical innovation, the SINAPTIC implant system exemplifies SINTX’s strategy to leverage its unique biomaterials platform into scalable, high-value medical solutions that address unmet clinical needs and drive long-term growth. “Orthopedics is evolving beyond traditional materials,” said Lisa Marie Del Re, Chief Commercial Officer. “With growing demand for non-metal solutions, the SINAPTIC system delivers the proven performance of silicon nitride to foot and ankle reconstruction—elevating expectations for surgical outcomes.” As cleared under the FDA submission, some of the material claims of SINTX’s silicon nitride relevant to the device include: Pro-osteogenic: Unique surface chemistry mechanisms have demonstrated superior protein absorption and osteointegration when compared to traditional biomaterials. Bacteriostatic: Surface properties have been shown to actively repel and/or inhibit the growth of various types of bacteria in a laboratory and animal studies. Hydrophilic: Attracts fluids, further deterring bacteria colonization and enhancing bone-building mechanisms. Enhanced visibility on imaging: Unlike metal implants, silicon nitride allows for clear visualization of the surrounding tissues in X-rays and CT scans. “FDA clearance of

Golpo AI secures oversubscribed seed round to transform communication through interactive AI videos SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Golpo, the AI-powered platform that transforms documents and prompts into interactive explainer videos, announced today it has raised $4.1 million in a heavily oversubscribed seed round led by BNVT Capital (spin out from the Gates Foundation and Hedosophia), alongside Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, Afore Capital and others. The raise attracted overwhelming investor demand, forcing the founders to turn away significant additional capital. Golpo was founded by brothers Shraman Kar (19) and Shreyas Kar (20) who dropped out of their computer science degrees at Stanford to realise their vision of making AI video communication practical, scalable, and accessible to everyone. “One year ago, I was sitting in my final high school class, thrilled to be heading to Stanford,” said Shraman Kar, co-founder of Golpo. “If you told me then that I’d drop out a year later to build a company with my brother, I’d have laughed. But some problems are too important to ignore.” The brothers saw a fundamental gap in the AI video landscape. Current generation models like Sora and VEO 3 excel at short, cinematic, and flashy videos (“a dog dancing on the moon”), but fail at practical communication tasks like explaining a 10-step onboarding workflow or teaching multivariable calculus. Their reliance on scaling compute-heavy approaches is both unsustainable and misaligned with real-world use cases. Golpo AI takes a different path. It is purpose-built for explainer videos: Up to 30 minutes of coherent, interactive video (vs. <10 seconds in other models) World’s first customisable AI video platform with frame-by-frame editing, turning one-shot AI generations into controllable, reliable workflows. For the first time, AI videos can actually be reliable 45x cheaper than existing AI video models like VEO Technically