BROOKLYN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 15, 2026--
Vibe Retail, the cloud-based point of sale and retail operating system built for independent and multi-location retailers, announced today that it has been awarded the Summer 2026 Top Performer Award by SourceForge. SourceForge is the world’s largest B2B software review and comparison website, with nearly 20 million in-market B2B software buyers per month. This award recognizes exceptional companies and products with a high volume of recent excellent user reviews that puts them in the top tenth percentile of highly reviewed products on SourceForge.
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“We’re happy to announce this year’s outstanding Summer 2026 Top Performers,” said SourceForge President Logan Abbott. “Vibe Retail showed that they are loved by their users, as evidenced by their large amount of outstanding user reviews.”
To win the Summer 2026 Top Performer Award, each recipient had to receive enough high-rated user reviews to place the winning product in the top 10% of favorably reviewed products out of the 100,000 products listed on SourceForge — a distinction that reflects the quality Vibe Retail delivers to retailers every day. The award follows Vibe’s Spring 2026 Top Performer recognition, marking back-to-back wins driven by a 4.8-out-of-5 rating from verified user reviews.
“At Vibe Retail, we’re excited to accept the SourceForge Summer 2026 Top Performer Award — our second consecutive Top Performer recognition this year,” said Shmuly Preizler, CEO and Co-Founder of Vibe Retail. “We built Vibe for the independent retailer who has been overlooked by legacy POS providers. Vibe brings everything a modern retailer needs into one platform — fast, intuitive checkout, real-time inventory tracking, smart purchasing and receiving, customer profiles and loyalty, and reporting that actually helps store owners make decisions — whether they run one location or twenty. Seeing our users take the time to share outstanding reviews tells us we’re delivering on that promise, and we’re honored to be recognized by SourceForge and, most importantly, by our customers.”
About Vibe Retail
Vibe Retail is a cloud-based point of sale and retail operating system designed for independent and multi-location retailers. Vibe unifies the entire retail operation in one platform: point of sale, real-time inventory management, purchasing and receiving, customer management and loyalty, employee management, integrated payments, and multi-location reporting and analytics. Built to replace the patchwork of disconnected tools retailers typically rely on, Vibe gives store owners enterprise-grade retail technology with the simplicity an independent merchant needs to run and grow their business. Learn more at www.viberetail.com.
About SourceForge
SourceForge.net is the world’s largest B2B software comparison directory, serving nearly 20 million users every month and featuring user reviews, product comparisons, software guides, and more. SourceForge features over 105,000 B2B software products across 4,000 B2B software categories. SourceForge’s mission is to help businesses find the best software to fit their needs and their budget.
Vibe Retail's cloud-based point of sale and retail operating system, winner of the SourceForge Summer 2026 Top Performer Award. Vibe unifies POS, real-time inventory, purchasing, customer loyalty, and multi-location reporting in one platform for independent retailers. Learn more at www.viberetail.com.
Stock indexes were mostly rising in premarket trading on Wall Street Wednesday and oil prices rose modestly after Iran threatened to block Middle East energy exports in retaliation for the U.S. resuming its blockade of Iranian ports.
Futures for the S&P 500 inched up 0.1% before the opening bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged. Nasdaq futures climbed 0.5%.
Morgan Stanley shares rose 2% in premarket trading after the bank reported revenue of $21.3 billion in the second quarter and profit of $5.6 billion, both records. That follows a slew of strong reports from big U.S. banks on Tuesday, with all of them to some degree crediting their trading desks.
It marks the second straight quarter of robust results from the banks, which have benefited from market volatility since the Iran war began in late February.
Coming later Wednesday is the government's report on wholesale inflation in June.
Stock price gains overall were moderate given worries that the United States and Iran may return to an all-out war. Renewed attacks in the Middle East have raised the risks of further disruptions of transport of oil and gas through the Strait of Hormuz, pushing oil prices higher.
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Wednesday to halt all energy exports from the Middle East over the U.S. blockade. U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday that the blockade was resumed as an interim agreement on ending the war unraveled.
“The export of oil and gas from the region will be either for everyone or for no one,” said the statement by the Iranian side.
Brent crude, the international standard, rose 63 cents to $85.36 a barrel, while benchmark U.S. crude gained 46 cents to $79.80 a barrel.
“The U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding signed last month has proved to be anything but. The two sides are once again exchanging military strikes, and they hold completely different views on the state of affairs in the Strait of Hormuz,” said Tim Waterer, chief market analyst at KCM Trade.
“With shipping around the Gulf becoming increasingly fraught with danger, traffic flows are declining once more,” he said.
In early European trading, France's CAC 40 dipped 0.2%, while the German DAX shed 0.8% and Britain's FTSE 100 declined 0.2%.
South Korea’s Kospi led gains in Asia, surging 6.2% to 7,284.41 as prices rebounded from a recent sell-off in semiconductor stocks. Shares in computer chipmaker SK Hynix rose 8.8%, while those of Samsung Electronics surged 6.3%.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 1.5% to finish at 68,751.51.
Australia's S&P/ASX 200 rose 0.4% to 8,841.10.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng edged up 1.4% to 24,681.10, while the Shanghai Composite lost 0.3% to 3,955.58 after the Chinese government reported the economy expanded at a 4.3% annualized pace in April-June, slowing sharply from 5% in the first quarter of the year.
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People walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A woman walks in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man walks past near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), right bottom, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, right top, at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
The screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) is displayed at a dealing room of Hana Bank in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
