Friday, 9 October 2026
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The Brief

Channel news with a view. The facts, what it means and the quote that matters, in about three minutes.

GTIA

Vendor satisfaction among UK and Irish MSPs halves as AI prompts rethink

Adfin

Adfin raises $18m to automate how small businesses get paid

IONOS

UK small businesses keep AI on a tight budget, Ionos survey finds

FluidOne

FluidOne names Neil Kay CFO as restructuring gives way to growth

Onecom

Onecom hands co-founder Aaron Brown the group chief executive role

Your.Cloud

Your.Cloud buys Cloud Geeni in what it calls its fourth UK deal

Zen Internet

Zen adds eero mesh Wi-Fi to its full fiber plans for small firms

HM Treasury

Treasury quadruples the EMI asset limit as scale-up tax reliefs widen

PXC

PXC brings CityFibre’s Ethernet Flex to its SMB connectivity partners

ClearCourse

ClearCourse buys garage software firm Motasoft to add embedded payments

Intruder

Mid-market security teams are caught between SMB and enterprise tools

hedgehog lab

Malcolm Seagrave succeeds co-founder as chief executive of hedgehog lab

Google DeepMind

DeepMind CEO questions OpenAI’s fast move to ads in ChatGPT

Made Tech Group

Made Tech lifts revenue 28% while new bookings fall by two-thirds

Information Commissioner’s Office

Court of Appeal says firms must secure data hackers cannot identify

Extreme Networks

Extreme Networks refocuses partner program on predictable rebates and MSPs

Distology · Tenable

Distology Tenable deal signals shift toward value-led distribution

Nebula Global Services

Nebula Global Services ties partner loyalty to ESG outcomes

iomart Group

Churn pushes iomart’s expected earnings just below forecasts

Broadcom

Broadcom channel chief outlines partner opportunity in private cloud and AI