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NetSuite takes its AI-powered ERP release beyond North America
NetSuite says moving from the current release needs no data migration, and it adds more than 45 AI skills plus tools for customers to build their own agents
Attackers pose as internal IT help desks in Teams external chat
Often a flood of junk email comes first, then a Teams call from fake internal IT. Arctic Wolf says payloads can run within 15 minutes of the user engaging
APFN pays resellers £500 a line to sell CityFibre’s business Ethernet
A wholesaler backed by Fern Trading now sells CityFibre’s dedicated lines alongside four other networks. The cashback rewards three- and five-year contracts, and it arrives while CityFibre is in talks with its lenders
Microsoft lets 60,000 staff decide for themselves whether to leave
Microsoft’s Voluntary Exit Offer, announced by Amy Coleman, reaches more than a quarter of its workforce. Unlike a redundancy round, it leaves the choice of who goes to employees, and the company expects fewer takers than last time
OneAdvanced names CUBE's Emma Brown CFO as its IQ platform rolls out
The Birmingham-based vertical SaaS company turns to a private equity-backed software finance chief as it moves from rebuilding core systems to scaling its AI workflow platform
Peggy Johnson’s Agility wins two more GXO warehouses for its humanoids
GXO plans to put Agility’s Digit humanoids in two more warehouses from early 2027. But much of the demand Agility showed investors rests on unnamed customers and orders that are not yet revenue
Cisco rewards advisors for deals they influence but never transact
Cisco 360 changes announced in Vancouver raise growth and adoption rewards, add a cross-sell top-up for its top two tiers and make Cisco IQ generally available to partners
Lenders extend €1.1bn for team.blue, more than twice what it sought
The owner of Names.co.uk and LCN has pushed most of its term debt out to 2032. But the money still costs Euribor plus 4.25 percentage points, and it arrives as a new chief executive takes over
HSBC takes its first stablecoin to 3.3 million PayMe users in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong dollar coin is issued, held in custody and distributed by HSBC itself, and starts with payments between users and at shops before moving into tokenized funds
HPE fixes eight maximum-severity flaws in its wireless operating systems
The bulletin covers 72 vulnerabilities across controllers, gateways and access points running AOS-10 and AOS-8, and HPE says it has seen no public exploit code for any of them
News UK invests in AI legal-clearance startup ClearDraft
The Times publisher signs up as a client as well as an investor, in a bid to move routine libel and privacy checks off its in-house lawyers’ desks
Chester Carlson makes the first xerographic copy above an Astoria bar
The patent manager needed six years to find anyone willing to back the process, and a Rochester paper firm then spent more than a decade turning it into an office machine