Editor
Editorial desk, VETTDD
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.
Tech founders urge ministers to curb garden leave as well as non-competes
An open letter from AI startup bosses, backed by venture investors, says banning non-competes alone risks pushing employers onto long notice periods and garden leave, and asks the government to restrict those too
Checkout.com reports $750m run rate as US volumes more than double
Profitable since 2024 by its own account, the London payments company says it will fund a push into AI, software platforms and business accounts from its own cash flow
HFTP picks Inntelo AI to run agents across HITEC and its media titles
The US-based hospitality association will put Inntelo’s agents in front of members, exhibitors and readers, giving a hotel AI supplier backed by the British Business Bank a public test beyond guest service
Zumo turns its compliance groundwork into a free UK crypto rules tracker
The Edinburgh-based platform launched an operator’s reading of the FCA rulebook on the day the regulator began taking applications for its new regime
Oracle’s $1bn partner pledge runs through its Marketplace
Oracle has pledged $1bn to its partner network over four years. But the change with a mechanism and a date is on Marketplace, where more of customers’ committed cloud credits can now go on partner software
Bechtle buys Dublin reseller ITQuotes to build out its Irish business
The German IT group adds an enterprise and public-sector procurement specialist in Dublin and plans to sell its cloud and security services into the accounts, as it did after a 2023 London deal
Railway asked for new secrets while its customers could not deploy them
Railway says an intruder may have read customer secrets as a route to AI model providers. Its fix needed a redeploy while builds were paused, so a customer’s plan set who could act first
Canva builds its own image model after AI costs cut its forecast
Canva has released Craft, an image model its own lab trained from scratch. The rankings lead the launch, but the case for it is what Canva pays each time a customer generates an image
ATG’s Proxibid deal puts the marketplace beside the seller’s own platform
Auction Technology Group’s growth comes from art and antiques. On its industrial side, where some sellers run their own platforms, Proxibid’s new Jeff Martin Auctioneers deal makes it the only outside marketplace, not the sole channel
IFS’s AI bookings follow the operational data it already holds
IFS says customers want AI that understands their equipment and can act on live jobs, and that its AI bookings have tripled. But the base is undisclosed, and pilots are not deployments
Secure Trust Bank grows on property as asset-based lending cools
Secure Trust Bank grew its business loan book again in the third quarter. But its first-half growth came from property, and a softer market for lending against invoices, stock and equipment hit its fees again
GBG chair Richard Longdon announces retirement before interim results
Senior independent director Liz Catchpole will lead the search for a successor and take over as interim chair if no permanent appointment is made by 1 December