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  • Cape Breton to shine on global sports stage

    Cape Breton to shine on global sports stage

    Women’s hockey championship will bring visitors and a boost for local businesses

    January 9, 2026 · Membertou, NS · Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)

    Sports unites us, sparks pride and strengthens the communities we call home….

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  • Maryland Agricultural Commission Meeting Notice

    Maryland Agricultural Commission Meeting Notice


    Maryland Agricultural Commission Meeting Notice



    The Maryland Agricultural Commission will meet on Tuesday, January 13th at 10:00 AM at the Maryland Department of Agriculture Headquarters in Annapolis….

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  • Fiserv Launches Unknown Shopper at NRF, Helping Merchants Better Understand In-Store Customers :: Fiserv, Inc. (FISV)

    Fiserv Launches Unknown Shopper at NRF, Helping Merchants Better Understand In-Store Customers :: Fiserv, Inc. (FISV)





    New capability delivers actionable insights from card-present transactions

    MILWAUKEE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
    Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology, today announced the launch of Unknown Shopper from Fiserv, a new analytics capability designed to help merchants and their marketing partners better understand in-store customer behavior and build actionable customer segments from card-present transactions.

    Unknown Shopper enables merchants to unlock value from in-store payment activity by transforming payment data into actionable insights that support more relevant engagement, and better customer experiences. Built on Fiserv’s payments intelligence platform and informed by billions of historical transactions, the solution helps merchants across retail, restaurant, and fuel environments—industries where insight into card-present transactions has historically been limited—gain deeper visibility into purchasing patterns.

    Addressing an in-store payments challenge

    In traditional card-present environments, merchants often have limited visibility of their customers unless a transaction is tied to a loyalty program. As a result, a significant portion of in-store activity remains difficult to analyze, measure, or activate. Unknown Shopper helps close this gap by enriching transaction data with demographic information, enabling merchants to better understand in-store purchasing patterns.

    Unknown Shopper allows businesses to link transactions to actionable customer segments based on real purchase behavior, even without a loyalty program. To that end, the solution helps businesses, with the assistance of their marketing partners, to:

    • Create a more unified view of in-store and digital purchasing behavior at the segment level

    • Build customer segments based on actual spending patterns rather than inferred demographics

    • Deliver more relevant offers and experiences to non-loyalty customers

    • Improve campaign measurement and reduce media waste through stronger attribution and regularly refreshed insights

    “Unknown Shopper allows merchants to translate in-store transaction data into meaningful insights and customer segments—helping them serve their customers more effectively,” said Prasanna Dhore, Chief Data Officer, Fiserv.

    Unknown Shopper is now available to merchants and marketing agencies. Learn more about Unknown Shopper.

    Fiserv will demonstrate the solution at NRF 2026: Retail’s Big Show, January 11-13, at the Jacob J. Javits Convention Center (Booth #5451).

    About Fiserv

    Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a Fortune 500 company, moves more than money. As a global leader in payments and financial technology, the company helps clients achieve best-in-class results through a commitment to innovation and excellence in areas including account processing and digital banking solutions; card issuer processing and network services; payments; e-commerce; merchant acquiring and processing; and Clover®, the world’s smartest point-of-sale system and business management platform. Fiserv is a member of the S&P 500® Index, one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential Companies™ and one of Fortune® World’s Most Admired Companies™. Visit fiserv.com and follow on social media for more information and the latest company news.

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    Media Relations:

    Chase Wallace

    Director, Communications

    Fiserv, Inc.

    +1 470-481-2555

    chase.wallace@fiserv.com

    Additional Contact:

    Melissa Moritz

    Vice President, External Communications

    Fiserv, Inc.

    +1 516-410-1188

    melissa.moritz@fiserv.com

    Source: Fiserv, Inc.

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  • Profit-booking drags PSX down 1,133 points

    Profit-booking drags PSX down 1,133 points

    The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended the week on a bearish note as investors opted to book profits ahead of the weekend, dragging the benchmark KSE-100 Index into negative territory for most of the session.

    “KSE-100 Index largely traded in the negative zone during the trading session to close at 184,410 level (down by -0.61%), as investors preferred to book profits before the weekend,” Topline market review noted.

    Top negative contributions to the index came from HUBC, LUCK, ENGROH, NBP, EFERT and OGDC, as they cumulatively contributed -596 points to the index.

    Traded value-wise, FFC (PKR.2.14bn), PPL (PKR.1.88bn), PAEL (PKR.1.83bn), FFL (PKR.1.68bn), NBP (PKR.1.67bn) and SYS (PKR.1.64bn) dominated the trading activity.

    Traded volume and value for the day stood at 1.02bn shares and PKR.52.76bn, respectively.

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  • NASA SVS | NASA’s Pandora Satellite to Explore Exoplanets and Stars

    NASA SVS | NASA’s Pandora Satellite to Explore Exoplanets and Stars

    The NASA Pandora spacecraft will observe planets as they pass in front of their stars as seen from our perspective, events called transits.

    As starlight passes through a planet’s atmosphere, it interacts with substances like water and oxygen…

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  • Managing Carbon Stocks Requires an Integrated View of the Carbon Cycle

    Managing Carbon Stocks Requires an Integrated View of the Carbon Cycle

    Editors’ Highlights are summaries of recent papers by AGU’s journal editors.
    Source: AGU Advances

    Managing carbon stocks in the land, ocean, and atmosphere under changing climate requires a globally integrated view of carbon…

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  • Jupiter is at its best and brightest of 2026 tonight! Here’s what to expect as the gas giant reaches opposition

    Jupiter is at its best and brightest of 2026 tonight! Here’s what to expect as the gas giant reaches opposition

    Jupiter will be at its most spectacular in 2026 in the early hours of Jan. 10, as it shines above the eastern horizon among the stars of the constellation Gemini. Here’s where to look and what to expect as the gas giant draws closest to Earth…

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  • NASA is ending Crew-11 astronauts’ mission a month early

    NASA is ending Crew-11 astronauts’ mission a month early

    NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a “medical concern” with one of them. This is the first time in its history that the space agency is cutting a mission short due to a medical…

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  • Rules Changes for 78th Emmy Competition Announced

    Rules Changes for 78th Emmy Competition Announced

    The Television Academy today announced rules changes for the 78th Emmy Awards competition in 2026, including a new name for the Outstanding Television Movie category; changes to the Short Form, Sound Mixing and Music…

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  • Wearable Device Can Control Machines While in Motion

    Wearable Device Can Control Machines While in Motion

    SAN DIEGO—Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a next-generation wearable device that enables people to control robots and other machines using everyday gestures. It combines stretchable electronics with artificial…

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