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November 2026
- OpenAI launches ChatGPT Wallet to let its agents pay online
- Jade raises £450,000 for university agent software
- Microsoft 365 outage disrupts email at Openreach
- Tribal to leave AIM and wind up after Main Capital sale
- Haloid staked a decade of earnings on the Xerox 914 in 1959
- Ingenta refocuses on AI as largest customer cuts contracts
- Xero sets out how it will charge customers for AI
- Employment Hero’s UK revenue rises 84% in a year
- Griffin raises $20m to add cards and stablecoin services
- Sage picks Adyen and Mastercard to put business accounts in its software
- Blackbird promotes product chief Sumit Rai to chief executive
- Crediflow AI raises £1.5m to cut the paperwork behind commercial loans
- Westcon-Comstor ties Palo Alto Networks partner perks to pipeline targets
- Rillet opens a London office 12 weeks after its $100m Series C
- Metro Bank starts a formal sale process
- Sumary raises $25m and moves two co-founders to London
- ancep raises $8.5m for AI that handles small policies
- Kia prices PV5 Chassis and high-roof electric van
- Avanade agrees to buy Manchester automation firm Robiquity
- Giacom names Susie Buckridge chief executive
- Lloyds launches a £50 AI document check for exporters
- Kainos chief Mooney says few clients run AI beyond pilots
- Roy Mann moves monday.com customers to seats plus AI fees
- Automattic’s Spacefast prices AI app hosting by the seat
- Renault prices its first software-defined van from £38,000 before VAT
- Bechtle buys Manchester’s Bespoke XYZ and Savvy
- Drax and Brookfield plan a 1GW AI data center in Yorkshire
- Virgin Media O2 halts fiber upgrades and trims O2 Business
- Mobile robots from rival makers get one ISO language for shared floors
- London market maker LO:TECH raises $12m to open in New York and Singapore
- Onecom puts its AI receptionist online for any business to test free
- Navro adds Texas as its US payments map grows one license at a time
- RWS values Acolad, a rival with £182m of revenue, at £22.4m
- OpenAI puts ChatGPT and Codex on one token meter from December
- HMRC picks Salesforce over Pega in CRM deal worth up to £2bn
October 2026
- Binance's $6.3bn theft may have begun on one laptop, and did not stop there
- Oracle charges for AI work in Fusion on top of per-seat fees
- Toyota builds Waymo's bZ4X robotaxi in Japan from 2027
- Bytes sells AI licenses and funds a study saying licenses are not enough
- Microsoft goes quiet on Copilot seats as the meter starts running
- Cisco reports attacks on a new firewall VPN flaw that forces reboots
- Ravical raises $17m for AI that spreads accountants’ expertise
- Illumion’s £1.7m round puts an optics group behind its battery imager
- Amazon asks its engineers to explain where AI does not help their work
- Tailscale patches SSH flaws after researcher’s ‘Tailworm’ report
- Hewlett and Packard formalize their partnership and toss for the name
- Check Point turns the firewall refresh into a three-year subscription
- Haven runs holiday home Wi-Fi at 27 parks over Vodafone 5G, not fiber
- NetSuite takes its AI-powered ERP release beyond North America
- Attackers pose as internal IT help desks in Teams external chat
- APFN pays resellers £500 a line to sell CityFibre’s business Ethernet
- Microsoft lets 60,000 staff decide for themselves whether to leave
- OneAdvanced names CUBE's Emma Brown CFO as its IQ platform rolls out
- Peggy Johnson’s Agility wins two more GXO warehouses for its humanoids
- Cisco rewards advisors for deals they influence but never transact
- Lenders extend €1.1bn for team.blue, more than twice what it sought
- HSBC takes its first stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users in Hong Kong
- HPE fixes eight maximum-severity flaws in its wireless operating systems
- News UK invests in AI legal-clearance startup ClearDraft
- Chester Carlson makes the first xerographic copy above an Astoria bar
- Tech founders urge ministers to curb garden leave as well as non-competes
- Checkout.com reports $750m run rate as US volumes more than double
- HFTP picks Inntelo AI to run agents across HITEC and its media titles
- Zumo turns its compliance groundwork into a free UK crypto rules tracker
- Oracle’s $1bn partner pledge runs through its Marketplace
- Bechtle buys Dublin reseller ITQuotes to build out its Irish business
- Railway asked for new secrets while its customers could not deploy them
- Canva builds its own image model after AI costs cut its forecast
- ATG’s Proxibid deal puts the marketplace beside the seller’s own platform
- IFS’s AI bookings follow the operational data it already holds
- Secure Trust Bank grows on property as asset-based lending cools
- GBG chair Richard Longdon announces retirement before interim results
- Stolen Microsoft 365 sessions beat MFA at 79 organizations, Huntress finds
- IBM’s Krishna puts open models at a tenth of the cost but sees a skills gap
- Fintel buys the rest of Mortgage Brain for £38.4m
- Equinix opens liquid cooling test sites in London and four other cities
- Gearset names Mark Johnston chief marketing officer after AI launch
- Mastercard brings its friendly-fraud program to European merchants
- Ocado’s robots move into the freezer at AEON’s new Tokyo warehouse
- Dext opens practice data to ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot
- Tech supplier breaches account for most victims in Kroll's cases
- Chery outsells Ford in Europe in September as Chinese brands gain ground
- Bidfood hangs truck charging points above its Slough depot bays
- IBM adopts an 80-column punched card that only its machines can read
- Senior leaders like their AI tools, but only 29% see them fully integrated
- Microsoft opens contact center agents to Five9, Cisco and Avaya users
- Dexory tests Nvidia’s Halos safety platform on its warehouse robots
- Robotiq opens pre-orders for a gripper that can feel what it holds
- Barclays grows corporate lending 14% as small-business loans shrink
- LSEG to pay nearly 12 times forecast revenue for data firm Octus
- IntelliAM raises £6.3m to move to AIM and push into the US
- Google’s London cloud outage spread to the zones meant to absorb it
- LiteLLM’s second hijacked release reached the keys behind the gateway
- SAP turns AI into the reason to move ERP to its cloud
- Vertice adds invoice agents and payments to its procurement platform
- Microsoft matches Copilot Studio packs on large E7 deals in CSP
- The Gentlemen overtake Qilin as ransomware listings climb to 2,894
- Attackers take three days on average to exploit new flaws, Rapid7 finds
- SAP built its first system at ICI in 1972 and would not cut the price
- SentinelOne opens services to partners and Wayfinder delivery to LevelBlue
- Qilin and Inc ransomware crews break in through a Palo Alto VPN flaw
- Used electric car values climb 14% on Autorola’s auction platform
- Tesla sells cheaper cars and banks on what drivers pay after the sale
- Western Union picks Noah to pay out money transfers in stablecoin
- Microsoft’s AI poll points to a hiring gap at the bottom of the ladder
- SThree gives Circle8 until 18 November to firm up a cash offer
- Finance leaders trust AI’s numbers but not the board’s timetable
- Barclays unveiled a cash machine in 1967, then shared it with rivals
- EE extends 5G standalone network to more than 80% of the population
- Azoma raises $11.2m to measure how AI shopping agents rank brands
- Hammer Distribution adds Acronis security and MSP tools to its range
- Google Cloud adds OpenAI’s GPT-6 models to its model garden
- Forrester puts AI at a fifth of 2027 tech spend, and services pay for it
- Chainguard plans 200 roles and a London hub in $200m EMEA push
- Zoom’s partner points now reward growth inside existing accounts
- Tether backs Mural to wire AI agents into the banking system
- Legora’s $8.8bn round follows legal AI into the in-house team
- IBM built its 1981 PC from other firms’ parts and lost control of it
- Pigment raises $250m at a $2.3bn valuation to build planning agents
- Vodafone sent the first text in 1992 and could bill for it in 1994
- Opply raises $7.5m for AI that buys and finances stock for consumer brands
- Visa pilots AI agents paying invoices as its supplier checks wait for 2027
- Hotel chargers become the charge point operator’s capital cost
- PHP2Shell fix is out, and Cisco Talos expects half of PHP to miss it
- Why a London teashop firm built the first business computer
- Team UAV images 500 transformers for NGED test of AI condition checks
- Acorn, Apple and VLSI form the chip designer that became Arm
- Hyperlayer raises £19.5m as Flintlock leads its round again
- FinTrU’s second round of cuts tests a model built on headcount
- Standard Chartered signs deal to take full control of Zodia Custody
- Checkout.com brings online acquiring to the shop counter with Mollie
- Flotek's Jay Ball on exceptional growth and a year of investment
- The AI hype problem: extraordinary results that nobody can check
- Brave Bison’s System1 bid runs into its own largest shareholder
- Vianet doubles interim dividend as first-half profit rises 14%
- OVHcloud raises server prices as memory and disk costs climb
- HP’s first small-business subscription puts the refresh cycle with Raylo
- CBRE agrees to buy data center integrator Onnec for up to £760m
- Ahold Delhaize’s ‘right decision’ and the price of pulling the plug
- Cisco finds 55% of IT professionals say they cannot control AI costs
- CEOs plan more tech spending as 44% struggle to show AI returns
- TeamUpdraft breach exposes keys used to backdoor WordPress sites
- Zoom opens its meeting and call record to outside AI assistants
- Anne Boden’s exit at a reported £1.7bn resets Starling’s price
- Google Cloud power event in London disrupts Revolut payments
- Without remedies, Netomnia’s £2bn sale to nexfibre faces a block
- Jobseekers use AI to apply, then write to avoid sounding like it
- Zoho brings its payroll software to PAYE employers from £5 a month
- Salesforce agrees to buy customer engagement platform Braze
- Bullhorn cyber incident stalls hiring and contractor pay at agencies
- GBG holds its cut growth guidance as core revenue rises 4.5%
- London office districts lose mobile speed at weekday lunchtimes
- ConnectWise’s backup outage shows who holds the keys to Microsoft 365
- Microsoft leaves Loughton, and AI capacity waits on the grid
- Microsoft extends Project Perception to treat AI agents as insiders
- Pax8’s 8os puts its own meter under MSPs’ managed AI services
- Openreach asks business customers to help plan fiber installs
- Voiceworks drops SIP channel charges and bills partners on minutes
- Google widens Gemini 4 Argon access at half its December API price
- Cyber incident hits IT systems behind Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles
- Starling trains its own AI model and keeps it off the hyperscalers
- Softcat keeps hiring as it points its AI tools at winning sales
- Pliant wins FCA authorization as an electronic money institution
- Nokia agrees to sell its campus private 5G business to a buyout firm
- YouGov swaps its dividend for a buyback as adjusted profit falls 11%
- LINX brings AWS and Google Cloud links to Manchester from £50
- In buying CPS, mhance pays for a Copilot practice it did not build
- French supermarket attack exposes refrigeration kit outside IT’s reach
- Small firms using AI now build their own, and pay in review hours
- Opensignal finds Starlink twice as fast as rural fixed wireless
- One in five security leaders skips Patch Tuesday, Socura finds
- ApprovalMax agent checks supplier bills against payment history
- Bytes buys CyberOne for £19.4m to bring security operations in-house
- Freshworks agrees to buy Torii to govern SaaS and AI spending
- Connect bets on checking every mortgage file, not a sample
- LHV Bank appoints former Starling lending executive as its next CEO
- Centeca hires former Moneypenny chief Jesper With-Fogstrup as group CEO
- GitLab patches maximum-severity flaw in self-managed servers
- A non-renewal and slower wins outweigh ActiveOps’s 110% retention
- Oxford Nanopore co-founder takes commercial lead at Matter Machine
- Nexora sale hands Hammer and Almo to a reseller group’s owner
- PolyAI names former Rapid7 finance executive Sunil Shah as CFO
- AI recruiter Dex hires two former founders as COO and head of design
- Behavox’s $8m Civo deal turns compute into a product line
- Oxford Metrics buys Move AI assets as it cuts its profit forecast
- Google unveils a Gemini agent that works across Microsoft 365 and Slack
- IBM’s VMware handover leaves UK hosters a three-way choice
- Academia’s 23% services growth leaves half of revenue years away
- PlannerPal raises £4.3m to wire AI into advisers’ core systems
- ASOS shows why customer messaging tools are a board-level risk
- Akamai expects $5.5bn of capex to serve an $11.6bn Anthropic deal
- Gamma shareholders vote on £1bn Epiris takeover on 20 October
- Bango grows recurring revenue 31% as it cuts back payment routes
- UK funds £90m of heat networks as zoning rules loom for data centers
- Nscale raises $3.36bn in convertible notes ahead of planned IPO
- Basware closes Trustpair acquisition to verify supplier bank accounts
- Model ML hires ex-Trade Desk finance chief Alex Kayyal as CFO
- Nutanix buys Ryax to add GPU scheduling to its AI platform
- Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 ERP agent connectors are generally available
- Quartix lifts recurring revenue 11% as continental Europe outpaces the UK
- When a UK arm stalls, NFON puts a sales leader in charge
- BT buys TalkTalk and wholesale arm PXC out of administration
- Pearson warns AI is outrunning training in skilled trade jobs
- Ofsted finds reasonable progress at new apprenticeship provider ITP
- Airspan buys Cambium’s PMP 450 and PTP radios out of administration
- NetScaler’s new flaw shows why a patched gateway is not proof of safety
- Ofcom investigates Vonage and Voxbone over suspected number misuse
- Virtus closes £2.45bn bank financing for UK and European growth
- Exabeam says partners are now its highest-volume sales source
- Accenture Edge sells six packaged AWS offers to the mid-market
- ShareGate survey finds stale access tops Microsoft 365 incidents
- Westcoast hands leadership to four executives as Madhani steps down
- Nscale’s operator hire shows what a founder should hand over, and when
- ENISA report says shared suppliers widen Europe’s attack surface
- Outsourced threat hunting falls to 18%, SANS survey finds
- Teradata rebuilds Tera around agents and claims lower token costs
- Databricks buys Row Zero to put governed spreadsheets inside Genie
- Government plans vocational GCSEs, with Digital Tech a possible subject
- Apple moves to tighten Mac Full Disk Access as AI agents raise risk
- The AI front desk is now a metered utility – so govern the meter
- Fortinet warns of exploited FortiMail flaw with no fixed release out
- Flotek buys Fife network specialist Comvista Networks in its 17th deal
- ServiceNow forecast puts UK tech job growth at about 430,000
- Brigantia retires its name to trade as Elovade UK and Ireland
- OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol at half the price of GPT-5.6 Sol
- AI skills report puts the prize at £80bn and asks for a tax credit
- Brussels proposes data center ratings and consults on minimum standards
- Civo names Hertfordshire as first of 40 planned UK edge data centers
- Westcoast Cloud adds Gamma's Teams calling to its marketplace
- ISACA finds European cyber teams understaffed as attacks rise
- Barracuda bundles AI governance into SecureEdge for MSPs
- IT buyers widen AI supplier lists and trim the rest, BCG survey finds
September 2026
- Double the CVEs: patching everything is no longer a security strategy
- Tribunal time limits double: every tech exit now needs a paper trail
- ElevenLabs at $22bn: buyers should judge voice agents on resolution
- The job ad is losing its grip on UK technical hiring
- UK tech employers should hire for judgment, not AI tool names
- Pinewood.AI’s last results make the case for leaving the market
- No buyer at 30p: what Checkit’s failed sale process tells boards
- Vodafone’s 50G fiber trial puts business parks first, not homes
- Global Switch exits give UK colocation buyers more bargaining power
- Distology’s Harmonic deal: AI governance pays in services, not licenses
- Microsoft partner marketing: too much activity, too little proof
- PixelLeak: coding agents are publishing what security teams can’t see
- BMW’s AI bet: the savings are in the org chart
- VodafoneThree’s merger scorecard is redacted: buy coverage by contract
- Great British Grid: power certainty becomes a contract term
- Gamma’s bid deadline: partners should count their exposure now
- Don’t wait for the National Cyber Action Plan: the pledge sets the bar
- Forward-deployed engineering is a services deal: contract it like one
- Containing AI agents is now the buyer’s job too
- The UK cyber skills shortage is one employers are building
- Maintel’s record pipeline masks a shrinking recurring base
- The Tribal contest shows an exit is won on structure, not just price
- Deepfake fraud: fix the approval chain before buying a detector
- Healey’s Budget signal: public contracts will reward firms that train
- AWS puts Moonshot’s Kimi K3 on Bedrock with US and global routing only
- Scotland requires impact assessments for data centers above 50MW
- Orca Security's new partner program rewards net retention
- Insight wins consultancy role in Scotland’s AI adoption program
- Only one in 10 sure of meeting 24-hour breach reporting, VinciWorks finds
- NCSC sets out the standard for assured red-team providers
- Cohere signs deal to combine with Germany’s Aleph Alpha
- VodafoneThree switches on Ericsson 5G core for network slicing
- Softcat agrees $1.05bn deal for GDT and raises its profit outlook
- Oracle partner de Novo names Lynette Slater chief executive
- Matrix IT’s returning founder is Onecom’s bet on people over brand
- Whitehall’s insourcing unit is a pricing test for mid-tier suppliers
- Redcentric’s pure-play year shows what the acquisitions were hiding
- TD Synnex’s record quarter and the SMB channel that is nowhere on AI
- The £20bn sovereign AI letter is a bid for the market it describes
- Sky’s £38 for 1.6Gbps puts the business broadband premium on notice
- The altnets won at Ofcom, and the channel paid the bill
- Bytes lifts its FY27 outlook as costs hold back operating profit
- Arctic Wolf opens a sensorless MDR tier to MSPs only
- Vectra AI launches Ascent partner program with three levels
- Capgemini sees $230bn of bank payments revenue at risk from stablecoins
- Google sets a mid-2034 end date for ChromeOS updates
- NetApp plans to buy Manchester AI storage startup PEAK:AIO
- Agentforce flaws let a poisoned web lead leak CRM data over DNS
- Kiteworks tells every customer to switch off over a zero-day warning
- Citrix patches eight NetScaler flaws as two zero-days are exploited
- NatWest puts UK business AI use at 44% and finds size beats region
- Nvidia moves AI agent containment out of the model and into the silicon
- Meta opens an enterprise AI arm with MongoDB’s chief executive in charge
- Cyber Essentials passes 61,000 certificates, mostly renewals
- Digital Space promotes Wendy Broughton to chief sales officer
- Cirata warns 2026 breakeven may slip as one partner’s outlook changes
- CyberMaxx buys Avertium to add Microsoft security skills
- Sophos survey says MSPs act as CISO for almost half their customers
- Nebius raises on-demand GPU prices from 1 October
- HubSpot adds ChatGPT Ads campaigns to its CRM in beta
- Openreach prices its PSTN safety net and adds broadband retention
- IBM buys UK defense security consultancy Logiq Consulting
- TD Synnex posts record quarter and pitches AI factories to the channel
- Softcat, TD Synnex and Westcon-Comstor make UK tech workplaces list
- Raspberry Pi’s early memory buy pays off as first-half revenue rises 90%
- Microsoft puts advanced Copilot work on metered credits
- Revolut pilots facial recognition checkout with 0% merchant fees
- UK education’s cyber gap is the patch queue, not the attack count
- One letter a year: UK tech employers’ Employment Rights Act test
- Whitehall’s Russia briefings must not stop at the boardroom door
- The Storm-3168 Azure attack is about credential hygiene, not agentic AI
- Agent sprawl: the hard part is the count, not the agent
- AlphaSense’s 25-fold token surge is the new meter for channel margin
- Meta gives Prospect access to 5,000 UK staff ahead of October law change
- UK IT leaders want out of US clouds but only 15% have moved, Civo finds
- Nscale’s Loughton AI site slips as 315 data centers queue for the grid
- Customers before capacity: what a UK chip fab can teach distributors
- If the AI can’t trace its answer to the ledger, it’s a demo
- AI writes the code now: the software bill of materials is the control
- Channel firms need a real CFO long before the buyer turns up
- Smaller AI models put the spend back where partners earn margin
- Top-end AI and data architect pay in London rises 20%, says Michael Page
- Seven UK banks put tokenized sterling deposits into live customer use
- Egress founders return with $16m to police what AI agents do
- OneClickComply raises £1m to fix what compliance audits only report
- The £26,000 apprentice is still the cheapest engineer an MSP will hire
- UK workers pay £958m a year for their own GenAI tools, Deloitte finds
- AI-ready ERP is a slogan until someone unifies the data
- Nozomi’s independence promise is one partners should hold it to
- Microsoft and the Met dismantle EvilTokens, an AI phishing kit for hire
- The NCSC has told MSSPs what an ‘autonomous SOC’ is really worth
- Mantic raises $25m to sell its tournament-tested forecasts to traders
- TMU’s two-name brand is a merger decision deferred, not made
- Win the user first: the channel should ride the pull, not fight it
- Quorum Cyber agrees to buy Ontinue from EQT in Microsoft MDR deal
- Every channel board should be able to name tomorrow’s chief executive
- Eurostar puts an app in ChatGPT as AI traffic outruns bookings
- Cabling bottlenecks leave a third of data centers with wasted AI hardware
- Airband at £4.6m: altnet consolidation is a fire sale, not a merger
- Advania’s interim year was a hiring window, not a holding pattern
- Computacenter’s record half: the AI money is in America, not the UK
- Salesforce’s new editions end the add-on sale partners lived on
- The Bank of England has made AI supplier concentration your problem
- Distology’s second backer is a bet that vendors prefer specialists
- Orchestra raises $3.3m to put data teams in charge of AI agents
August 2026
- Sovereign AI’s £100m scheme makes Whitehall an early customer
- Identity, not the SOC, is where the next MSSP premium sits
- Microsoft’s October CSP changes pay for growth, not renewals
- Itoflow raises $2.5m for AI agents that run an investor’s own process
- GCSE computer science entries fall 7% as the digital pipeline narrows
- Callosum raises $100m to split AI work across models and chips
- Lanarkshire’s £202m guarantee is the real price of sovereign compute
- Telecoms security review should end the limbo for smaller providers
- TalkTalk Business can buy an MSP faster than it can become one
- Beacon breach shows what supplier questionnaires miss
- Mindgard raises $30m to sell AI red teaming beyond its research lab
- Cytix raises $7m to govern the risk in AI-era software changes
- The gap between two suppliers is where breaches live
- G-Cloud 15 rewards SME suppliers that sell like a catalog
- Altnet consolidation is coming, but it will not be tidy
- Treasury puts £100m behind first-time VC managers beyond London
- Quickline passes 60,000 rural premises under Project Gigabit
- Government opens its first AI Growth Lab to law firms and lawtech
- Alfa raises £1m to take its AI recruiter to staffing firms
July 2026
- Openreach warns 350,000 business sites to get off copper phone lines
- Intropy raises $11m to let AI set spare parts prices and stock
- The reseller’s job description changed on Ingram Micro’s earnings call
- The CMA’s Copilot case won’t check small firms’ Microsoft renewals
- Beyond the seat: what Nadella’s consumption pivot means for CSP partners
- The founder who stays is what private equity is really buying
- Shortage list advice keeps data analysts and drops sales hires
- Openreach can now grow without you: renegotiate value, not volume
- Evergreen’s Pine Services Group buys Sage partner Datel
- ONS finds a third of UK firms with 10 or more staff use AI
- Flotek’s 16th deal tests the IT-plus-comms roll-up for SMBs
- Free Cyber Advisor sessions work, but too few small firms know to ask
- Applied Computing raises $20m with engineering group KBR in the lead
- Everflow’s £44m raise tests whether SMEs want broadband with their water
- Co-CEOs are a merger sedative, not a leadership model
- The most inflated role in tech
- Half of surveyed security providers refer to UK security codes
- Axle Energy raises $25m as device makers carry its virtual power plant
- UK venture money is back, but it is reaching fewer small firms
- geoSurge raises $12m to shape what AI models remember about brands
June 2026
- Claranet buys rival MSP Six Degrees through an administrators’ sale
- The SME ‘CTO as a service’ is still a discovery project
- Openreach trims leased line costs as business fiber rivals spread
- UK organizations now need a data protection complaints process
- Isometric raises $40m to take AI certification beyond carbon removal
- FortiBleed shows the VPN password is still the weakest door
- Most UK firms using AI have no policy for it, official survey finds
- Conduct raises $60m to map the custom code buried in SAP estates
- Capsa AI raises $18m to give private capital funds a memory
- Whitehall’s scale-up concierge and the capital question it leaves open
- UK funds £20m alliance to track AI’s impact on entry-level tech jobs
- Small firms are paying resellers more, and the memory squeeze will test it
- Airspeed raises $20m to let AI agents do the work after the sales call
- Skills England’s digital jobs forecast comes with an AI warning
- The chaos underneath the transformation story
May 2026
- Six months to decide: the unfair dismissal change tech employers face
- Geordie AI raises $30m to find the AI agents companies cannot see
- Assurix’s first certified MSP shows where due diligence is heading
- A proposed 60-day payment cap strengthens small tech suppliers’ hand
- Vendor satisfaction among UK and Irish MSPs halves as AI prompts rethink
- Greenpixie raises £4.7m to sell cloud carbon data as a cost cut
- AI sandboxes are only worth having if small firms get through the door
- UK cyber sector reaches £14.7bn, but its biggest SME rival is ‘do nothing’
- Adfin raises $18m to automate how small businesses get paid
- Fifth Dimension raises $26m to move property AI from leases to deals
- Openreach makes copper exits free and tests a £2,200 fiber price
- CodeWords raises $9m to automate work before staff ask for it
- UK small businesses keep AI on a tight budget, Ionos survey finds
- FluidOne names Neil Kay CFO as restructuring gives way to growth
April 2026
- Small firms slip on cyber basics as phishing tightens its grip
- Onecom hands co-founder Aaron Brown the group chief executive role
- ManaMind raises $1.5m for AI agents that replay games to find bugs
- Your.Cloud buys Cloud Geeni in what it calls its fourth UK deal
- Business broadband switching gets cheaper but still lacks a live date
- Firenze raises £6m to sell its Lombard lending engine to banks
- Sovereign AI opens with a Callosum stake and six compute allocations
- Partnership Education shows employee-owned IT firms can still sell
- Zen adds eero mesh Wi-Fi to its full fiber plans for small firms
- Price, problems and performance: three conversations every leader must master
- Dr Thuria Wenbar: embedded healthcare can fix what the NHS cannot
- Round raises $6m to take its treasury software into payroll
- Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview signals a cybersecurity reckoning
- Converge UK’s carve-out: founders sell to whoever buys their buyer
- Treasury quadruples the EMI asset limit as scale-up tax reliefs widen
- Day-one rights mean small tech employers must get hiring right first
- Trent AI raises $13m to build security agents for AI agents
- Stop renting customers: Sandy Hogan on earning them for life
March 2026
- Riplo wants to sell consultancies the AI McKinsey built in-house
- Why Microsoft Copilot should be a priority for UK SMEs
- Agents are optimizing AI workflows, but humans remain key to ROI
- PXC brings CityFibre’s Ethernet Flex to its SMB connectivity partners
- Origin raises $30m to show multinationals what their benefits cost
- Why inclusive hiring practices expose the talent shortage as a myth
- The 2G switch-off charter leaves small firms to find their own SIMs
- Memory shortage moves price risk down the channel to smaller resellers
- Why purpose-driven leadership is the future of business
- Why creative bravery in marketing is your last real competitive advantage
- The business technology strategy every leader needs in 2026
- What it takes to maintain culture and pace after a merger
- Systems don’t run companies, people do – and AI won’t change that
- BCC finds half of SMEs use AI, but job cuts cluster among bespoke users
- Companies House filing flaw leaves directors to check their own records
- Ministers fund the apprentice but streamline the manager’s training
- ClearCourse buys garage software firm Motasoft to add embedded payments
- Tracebit raises $20m to take security decoys beyond elite teams
- Microsoft licensing errors are quietly costing UK businesses thousands
- Mid-market security teams are caught between SMB and enterprise tools
- Loxa raises £2.7m to design the cover it sells at checkout
- Ex-Candy Crush chair Mel Morris on why efficiency could decide the AI race
- Malcolm Seagrave succeeds co-founder as chief executive of hedgehog lab
- How MSPs should prepare for the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill
- How Lenovo 360 is reshaping the UKI channel around customer outcomes
- Netcall’s half-year shows the second sale is the one that pays
- Cybersecurity training still doesn’t stick, and that’s a leadership problem
- Why companies with invisible executives are quietly losing growth
- ‘Everyone wins’: Dialpad’s channel director on AI-powered communications
- Punching above your weight by focusing on specialist value in the channel
- Microsoft Copilot is changing how cybersecurity leaders think about risk
- Meeting surging full fiber demand as rural connectivity expectations rise
- The channel is quietly driving SME digital transformation in the UK
- MSPs are still missing the Microsoft Copilot opportunity
- The PSTN switch-off creates a compressed window for IT and telecoms partners
- DeepMind CEO questions OpenAI’s fast move to ads in ChatGPT
February 2026
- Made Tech lifts revenue 28% while new bookings fall by two-thirds
- Alpa’s $3.5m round bets restaurant groups want a weekly P&L
- Why strong leaders act before they have perfect information
- Why Jay Janes left a £275,000 executive role to build xpandly
- Court of Appeal says firms must secure data hackers cannot identify
- Fyld’s US-led raise shows the UK is a proving ground, not the prize
- Xero folds AI receipt capture into its plans as Making Tax Digital nears
- SurrealDB raises $23m to make its database the memory for AI agents
- Cyber Essentials needs the IT provider, not just the business owner
- Tech hiring holds up, but employment law is about to change the math
- Extreme Networks refocuses partner program on predictable rebates and MSPs
- Distology Tenable deal signals shift toward value-led distribution
- Nebula Global Services ties partner loyalty to ESG outcomes
- Churn pushes iomart’s expected earnings just below forecasts
- Overmind raises £2m to supervise AI agents once they go live
- Broadcom channel chief outlines partner opportunity in private cloud and AI
- Pulsant invests £10m in AI-ready data hall in Milton Keynes
- The PSTN deadline that matters for small firms is April, not 2027
- Microsoft’s end to free CSP grace periods hands partners the renewal clock
- Government shelves its AI Management Essentials tool for businesses
- Cisco’s Joachim Mason on aligning partner goals with customer outcomes
- Pure Storage adds Ambassador tier and solution designations for partners
- AppFactor raises $4m to hand legacy code upkeep to AI agents
- Dell raises incentives for partners that co-invest in growth
- IBM’s Krishna urges partners to start early on enterprise AI
- Value-based selling is redefining partner growth in cloud communications
January 2026
- CrowdStrike’s Kurtz calls 2026 the breakout year for the agentic SOC
- CrowdStrike CEO calls 2026 the ‘breakout year’ for agentic SOCs
- Free AI courses answer the wrong question for small firms
- Flowla raises $2.5m to turn the sales room into an engine
- Nutanix pitches hybrid multi-cloud for a ‘decade of platform wars’
- Microsoft Copilot is the door most MSPs are walking past
- Nvidia’s channel chief sees neoclouds as the next partner opportunity
- The 2G switch-off will find the devices small firms forgot
- Antidote’s $5m seed moves law-firm billing checks to the timesheet
- CityFibre opens business broadband across its whole network
- Elyos AI raises $13m to answer the phones for trades businesses
- Pax8’s email error shows how much MSP data distributors hold
- Record tech startup numbers meet a funding market built for scale
- BCN moves its Microsoft business to Arrow as an indirect reseller
- IT vacancies slide as candidate numbers climb into 2026
- Omnea tops the Startups 100 having met its Series A hiring target
- Beyond connectivity: Gamma’s Rob Kittler on the trusted IoT advisor
- CFC insures SMEs against a cyberattack on a key customer
- Whitehall’s cyber plan makes every supplier part of the audit
- WholeSum raises £730,000 to put statistics behind AI text analysis