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VETTDD is the leadership publication for UK B2B technology. Its editorial desk writes the interviews, analysis, columns and The Brief, to the standard set out on the Editorial standards page.
FluidOne names Neil Kay CFO as restructuring gives way to growth
Graham Dickie steps down after steering the Livingbridge-backed provider through what it calls a challenging trading environment. His successor brings corporate development and private equity experience
Small firms slip on cyber basics as phishing tightens its grip
The government’s annual breach survey finds attack rates flat and micro firms improving. But small businesses have lost last year’s gains in planning, just as officials warn AI is speeding up attackers
Onecom hands co-founder Aaron Brown the group chief executive role
The business communications group, which has made 14 acquisitions in five years, is putting its integration push and a new agentic AI platform in the hands of its operations chief
Your.Cloud buys Cloud Geeni in what it calls its fourth UK deal
The European buy-and-build group has now announced two UK acquisitions in a week, keeping local brands and teams in place as it builds what it calls its UK platform
Business broadband switching gets cheaper but still lacks a live date
TOTSCo has cut the price of its business switching hub and waived fees for smaller providers. But a year after it targeted early 2026, the service is only now entering integration testing
Sovereign AI opens with a Callosum stake and six compute allocations
The government’s £500m unit says it will act like a venture fund. Its first moves suggest that supercomputer time, visas and a route to public buyers matter as much as its cash
Partnership Education shows employee-owned IT firms can still sell
Redsquid has bought Partnership Education after its employee owners voted for the deal. But a trust need not be the final exit, and acquirers now have a new pool of targets
Zen adds eero mesh Wi-Fi to its full fiber plans for small firms
The Rochdale-based provider says patchy Wi-Fi inside the building is costing small businesses time even on fast lines, and it has commissioned research to back the claim
Dr Thuria Wenbar: embedded healthcare can fix what the NHS cannot
From asylum seeker to A&E doctor to CEO, the founder of Evaro is building the infrastructure that lets everyday brands deliver regulated healthcare to millions
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview signals a cybersecurity reckoning
The company is withholding its most capable model from public release, partnering instead with more than 40 tech firms to hunt vulnerabilities that decades of human effort never found
Converge UK’s carve-out: founders sell to whoever buys their buyer
Converge UK is independent again after Inspirit Capital bought it out of a US-merged group. But founders selling to a consolidator should plan for the owner after next
Treasury quadruples the EMI asset limit as scale-up tax reliefs widen
Growing tech companies can keep offering tax-advantaged share options for longer and raise more through investor reliefs. But investors in venture capital trusts now get less upfront relief