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Catapult Group International ( (AU:CAT) ) just unveiled an update.

Catapult Group International Ltd has announced a change in the director’s interest notice, involving Mr. James Ventura Orlando. The change includes the conversion of FY25 Director Fee Sacrifice Rights into fully paid ordinary shares and the acquisition of FY26 Director Fee Sacrifice Rights. This adjustment reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to aligning director interests with shareholder value, potentially impacting the company’s governance and stakeholder relations.

The most recent analyst rating on (AU:CAT) stock is a Buy with a A$3.50 price target. To see the full list of analyst forecasts on Catapult Group International stock, see the AU:CAT Stock Forecast page.

More about Catapult Group International

Catapult Group International Ltd operates in the sports technology industry, providing performance analytics and wearable technology solutions primarily for sports teams and athletes. The company focuses on enhancing athletic performance and optimizing team management through data-driven insights.

Average Trading Volume: 1,379,572

Technical Sentiment Signal: Buy

Current Market Cap: A$1.61B

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AI-Powered Emotion Scanner Aims to Revolutionize Mental Health Screening Across Telehealth, Education & Consumer Platforms

MESA, ARIZONA / ACCESS Newswire / July 15, 2025 / Medical Care Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK:MDCE), a health-tech innovator pushing the boundaries of AI-powered diagnostics, today announces a major advancement in its digital health portfolio: an AI Facial Micro-Expression Mental Health Scanner designed to detect early emotional and psychological distress using nothing more than a short selfie video.

This next-gen technology merges facial coding with affective computing, decoding subtle micro-expressions that often precede visible symptoms of depression, anxiety, or PTSD. By identifying these emotional biomarkers before patients even recognize the signs themselves, MDCE is laying the groundwork for real-time, scalable, preventive mental health screening.

“This technology has the potential to redefine how mental health is approached globally,” said a company spokesperson. “With integration pathways ranging from telehealth to university counseling centers to wearable platforms, we are targeting a market that is not only underserved, but urgently in need of scalable, stigma-free solutions.”

The global mental health tech market is projected to exceed $60 billion by 2030, and MDCE’s innovation is positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital therapeutics, and mass accessibility. By enabling frictionless, non-invasive screening via smartphones and connected devices, the company believes this solution could transform both early detection and long-term outcomes for millions worldwide.

This initiative is part of MDCE’s expanding R&D focus, alongside its subsidiaries:

To learn more about the scanner or opportunities for early-stage collaboration, visit www.medicalcaretechnologies.com.

About Medical Care Technologies Inc. (OTC Pink: MDCE)

Medical Care Technologies Inc. is a forward-focused health tech company developing AI-based self-screening tools to empower users through early detection. With growing interest in AI diagnostic platforms, MDCE is developing solutions for wound care, dermatological monitoring, and mental health, targeting large and underserved markets.

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While the proven Zacks Rank places an emphasis on earnings estimates and estimate revisions to find strong stocks, we also know that investors tend to develop their own individual strategies. With this in mind, we are always looking at value, growth, and momentum trends to discover great companies.

Looking at the history of these trends, perhaps none is more beloved than value investing. This strategy simply looks to identify companies that are being undervalued by the broader market. Value investors rely on traditional forms of analysis on key valuation metrics to find stocks that they believe are undervalued, leaving room for profits.

Zacks has developed the innovative Style Scores system to highlight stocks with specific traits. For example, value investors will be interested in stocks with great grades in the “Value” category. When paired with a high Zacks Rank, “A” grades in the Value category are among the strongest value stocks on the market today.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group (EDU) is a stock many investors are watching right now. EDU is currently sporting a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), as well as an A grade for Value. The stock holds a P/E ratio of 14.77, while its industry has an average P/E of 15.43. EDU’s Forward P/E has been as high as 21.43 and as low as 11.51, with a median of 15.01, all within the past year.

Investors should also recognize that EDU has a P/B ratio of 2.23. The P/B is a method of comparing a stock’s market value to its book value, which is defined as total assets minus total liabilities. This stock’s P/B looks attractive against its industry’s average P/B of 3.47. Over the past 12 months, EDU’s P/B has been as high as 3.34 and as low as 1.76, with a median of 2.35.

Finally, our model also underscores that EDU has a P/CF ratio of 17.07. This figure highlights a company’s operating cash flow and can be used to find firms that are undervalued when considering their impressive cash outlook. EDU’s P/CF compares to its industry’s average P/CF of 45.45. Within the past 12 months, EDU’s P/CF has been as high as 32.03 and as low as 13.44, with a median of 19.29.

These are just a handful of the figures considered in New Oriental Education & Technology Group’s great Value grade. Still, they help show that the stock is likely being undervalued at the moment. Add this to the strength of its earnings outlook, and we can clearly see that EDU is an impressive value stock right now.

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Programmatic advertising is quietly transforming the landscape of women’s sports, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s vice president of ad technology and operations, Huda Kazi, says it’s just the beginning.

Speaking Beet.TV Editorial Director Lisa Granatstein at the FreeWheel Programmatic Summit in New York, Kazi said programmatic isn’t simply a tool for monetization. It’s a matchmaking engine, helping brands connect with passionate, engaged audiences in real time.

“Women’s sports aren’t background noise,” Kazi said. “People are tuned in, emotionally invested, especially in those peak moments when every second counts.”

That emotional engagement makes women’s sports a powerful environment for advertisers, especially when campaigns are informed by data and activated through automation. Kazi said Warner Bros. Discovery is “programmatic forward,” with a deep focus on preparation: ensuring supply partners, platforms and buyers all know when high-value inventory, such as a buzzy live match, is available.

Not just sports for smart targeting

For Kazi, the power of programmatic lies in its ability to surface new audiences and unlock insights.

“Sometimes the audience you think is watching isn’t who’s actually there,” she said. That’s where first-party data from platforms like HBO Max plays a critical role, helping WBD deliver better matches between brands and viewers, while maintaining privacy compliance.

And authenticity matters. Female athletes, Kazi said, bring a credibility to brand partnerships that resonates with consumers.

“When a female athlete endorses a product, viewers believe it’s one she actually uses,” she said. That authenticity is becoming increasingly attractive to brands looking to build long-term loyalty.

From experimentation to commitment

Kazi highlighted how programmatic buys often serve as a gateway to deeper advertiser investment.

“We’ve had clients start with us programmatically and return the next year with guaranteed commitments,” she said, adding that successful campaigns create a virtuous cycle. It’s good for brands, good for viewers and good for women’s sports.

While she dismissed the idea that women’s sports face unique challenges in programmatic, she acknowledged the complexities of managing demand surges during high-stakes moments. The company mitigates that by working closely with ad partners on pacing, frequency capping and campaign design to ensure quality experiences for viewers.

Democratizing opportunity

Ultimately, Kazi said, programmatic advertising has helped level the playing field.

“It democratizes access,” she said. “You come in looking for an audience. You find it in women’s sports. You track performance. And next time, you buy bigger.”

With data, automation and strategic commitment, Kazi sees programmatic as a growth engine not only for Warner Bros. Discovery, but also for equity and expansion across the sports media ecosystem.

Warner Bros. Discovery’s Kazi On The Evolution Of Programmatic Buying

Mia Qu of Gigabyte Technology gestures to a gaming laptop enhanced with a superfast Nvidia chip as AI capabilities head for personal computers during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 9, 2025 – Copyright AFP Glenn CHAPMAN

A new U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study from McGill University has found that a novel online assessment can measure a senior’s ability to live independently. The study shows that the Freeze Frame assessment, available commercially in BrainHQ, was able to provide a comprehensive measurement of a brain’s executive function, which encompasses the cognitive processes involved in goal-directed behaviours essential to independent living. 

The study shows that a novel online assessment provides a valid scientific measure of the cognitive abilities of older adults related to living independently. The self-administered assessment can be completed in four minutes on most internet-connected devices (phones, tablets, computers) — with large implications for monitoring and improving cognitive aging.

The assessment was developed by the firm Posit Science, the maker of BrainHQ brain training exercises and assessments.

“This is a game-changer in our ability to monitor and manage successful aging,” observes Dr. Henry Mahncke, CEO of Posit Science.

In a statement sent to Digital Journal, Mahncke says: “Maintaining the ability to live independently is one of the greatest concerns about growing older, yet it’s rarely measured because of a lack of easily accessible tools. It can take a long time to schedule an office visit for a full battery of neuropsychological tests, and few people do so. Now, here’s a new tool you could use as a brain fitness tracker — to permit ongoing monitoring.”

The study examined whether a very short, self-administered, online test could provide a quick look at the “executive function” cognitive abilities of older adults. Executive function includes key cognitive building blocks (such as planning, flexibility, and inhibitory control), which underpin the goal-directed behaviours needed to maintain independent living.

The study, conducted at McGill University, was designed to assess the usability and validity of Freeze Frame in predicting executive function performance in healthy older adults. Performance on Freeze Frame was analysed in relation to self-reported demographic variables and to neuropsychological function, using NIH-EXAMINER, a widely adopted measure of executive function.

Freeze Frame is designed to measure inhibitory control (a critical component of executive function), which is the rapid ability to suppress impulsive reactions in favour of task-relevant actions in rapidly changing environments — to support cognitive flexibility, working memory, and goal focus. 

In the Freeze Frame task, participants are presented a target image at the start of a block of trials, in which a rapid (often split-second) stream of targets and foils are presented. Participants withhold any response when presented with a target, and they enter a rapid response to each foil. Each block dynamically adjusts to become harder or easier depending on the participant’s performance, and to pinpoint an overall score. 

The study enrolled 92 healthy older adults (aged 65-83, average age 72). The study found that the Freeze Frame assessment significantly associated and positively correlated with the NIH EXAMINER executive function composite score. 

Because cognitive performance generally declines with age, and because women tend to exhibit slightly better executive function, the assessment (as expected) showed a small but statistically significant relationship to age and gender, but no such association with years of education. A psychometric evaluation supported its usability, with an average completion time of 4 minutes.

LADbible co-founder Arian Kalantari is launching Plus1 Assembly, a global innovation agency designed for brands that want to lead culture, not follow it.

United by a shared sense of deep frustration with the legacy agency model, the new agency’s co-founders have designed Plus1 to be the agency they all wished existed: agile, adaptive and engineered for results.

While most agencies are still built around old structures that leave them fragmented and backfooted, Plus1 has a new operating model that helps brands grow by combining creative firepower, real-time intelligence to get ahead of culture and AI-powered systems to deliver measurable commercial impact.

All projects run in clearly defined sprints, each focused on actionable insights, instead of rigid retainers that tie clients into out-dated strategies.

The new agency has secured a £5m backing from Simba Investments and launches with clients including sports, tech, and gaming company Rezzil; sports media company The Stomping Ground; and AI-powered tech consulting and delivery company CodeBlaze. It has also acquired Layfe, a strategic AI consultancy, which will help further power its work shaping and building tomorrow’s leading brands.

Plus1 Assembly is led by four co-founders with deep industry credentials:

*Arian Kalantari, Co-founder – former Co-founder of LADbible, one of the world’s biggest youth media networks and part of global digital entertainment business LBG Media.

*Jax Davey, Co-founder and CEO – former CEO of Nuevo, a creative agency known for promoting industry standards on purpose, sustainability and innovation.

(Kalantari (right) and Davey,co-founders)

*Lee Humphreys, Co-founder – former CEO of HH Global Creative + Digital, where he scaled global brand operations across FMCG, retail and tech.

*Jake Brocklesby Co-founder – is Founder and CEO of Simba Investments, a venture capital firm with $170m+ assets under management.

The Plus1 offering is built around three specialist hubs:

Halo: A live cultural intelligence system that cuts through the chaos of Reddit threads, Twitch streams, TikTok trends and conversation. It doesn’t just track where culture is going, it tells brands when to act, and how.

Layfe: An AI consultancy that powers business growth through intelligent AI and automation systems. With deep expertise in business transformation, Layfe sits at the intersection of strategy and technology.

Rise: An insight-led investment arm backing early-stage companies with capital, infrastructure, and access to Plus1’s network. Rise doesn’t just invest – it builds.

Plus1 clients can engage with any or all these hubs depending on their goals; and can expect workflows and automations designed to enable quality at pace and scale.

Curated squads of talent are assembled for each client according to the particular business challenge being addressed – and designed to deliver the best outcome.

Clients also benefit from built-in accountability and focus on sustainable growth. Individually set up Halo Programmes provide clients with access to their own insights and KPIs that will positively impact brand value.

To support its launch, Plus1 Assembly has created a social film about how the unreality of the AI-powered world in which we now live creates significant opportunities for brands with substance, value and authenticity to grow in faster, newer, smarter ways. It is also running a sticker ‘drop’ campaign around London poking fun at outdated marketing thinking and tactics.

“The market needs a new type of business. For too long, agencies have been built around old structures and misaligned incentives and chase culture from behind,” says Arian Kalantari, Plus1 Assembly Co-founder. “Jax has the vision for what will work now. So, I’ve joined with him to help define a new world where technology meets creativity, all underpinned by a commercial model that shares success with our clients. We’re not doing everything; we’re doing what works.”

“In the old world, if you believed social media was the key to growth you’d hire a social media agency. But with AI reshaping how people search and new platforms changing brand discovery, markets are shifting fast and many of the old ways of doing things no longer make sense,” adds Jax Davey, Plus1 Assembly Co-founder and CEO. “Today, we’re in a place where strategy needs to evolve. Despite this, a lot of brands are locked into a rigid model built for yesterday. Plus1 is different. We bring in the right capabilities at the right time. We stay fluid and responsive to what our clients actually need in a world that’s changing fast.”