Entrepreneurs Bet on Growth and AI Despite Geopolitical Risks, UBS Survey Finds
The UBS 2026 Global Entrepreneur Report, based on 215 founders across 26 markets generating $34.3 billion in revenue, shows 68% of entrepreneurs remain optimistic despite geopolitical tensions. Over half plan to hire new staff this year and 80% expect headcount to rise over five years, while 45% are eyeing cross‑border expansion. More than 60% view artificial intelligence as the most compelling emerging technology, primarily for efficiency gains. At the same time, roughly one‑third anticipate exiting their businesses within five years, creating a looming wealth‑management wave.
The Hidden 'Motherhood Penalty' Costing UK Mums Careers and Tens of Thousands – and What Bosses Must Change
British research reveals a substantial "motherhood penalty" in the UK, where mothers earn £302 less per week than fathers – roughly a 33% wage gap. Over the first five years after a child’s birth, women’s earnings are about 42% lower,...
The Missing Piece in Multi-Location Marketing: Location-Level Attribution
Multi-location brands are scaling campaigns across dozens of markets, but most rely on blended dashboards that mask individual store performance. Without location-level attribution, marketers cannot tell which markets turn spend into revenue, leading to wasted budgets and missed growth opportunities....
Former National Bank and CWB Executive to Lead ATB’s Wealth Arm
ATB Financial announced Matt Evans as the new head of wealth and investment management, effective March 30. He will oversee the bank’s wealth advisory, investment management, private banking and BCV Asset Management. Evans arrives with more than 18 years of...
NumberEight and SoundCast Partner to Power Smarter, Privacy-First Podcast Advertising Across Europe
NumberEight, an ID‑less audience intelligence firm, has teamed up with audio monetization platform SoundCast to embed its predictive Affinity Audiences across SoundCast’s European podcast inventory. Early tests show a 132 % lift in addressability and a 78 % improvement in targeting accuracy...
Quince Raises $500M Series E, Resulting in $10.1B Valuation to Accelerate the Manufacturer-to-Consumer Platform
Quince announced a $500 million Series E round led by ICONIQ, pushing its post‑money valuation to $10.1 billion. The capital will accelerate the rollout of its proprietary Manufacturer‑to‑Consumer (M2C) operating system that links specialist factories directly to shoppers. By leveraging AI‑driven weekly demand...
As Channel Complexity Grows, Saltbox Mgmt Expands Capabilities for Salesforce Partner Cloud
Saltbox Management announced the addition of Salesforce Partner Cloud to its service suite, extending its expertise across the Salesforce ecosystem. The new offering targets manufacturers and complex B2B firms that need tighter visibility into partner activity and streamlined indirect revenue...
ActiveState Appoints Open Source and Technology Leader, Abby Kearns, to CEO to Drive Next Phase of Growth
ActiveState announced Abby Kearns as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Stephen Baker who moves to the board. Kearns brings over 25 years of experience, including leadership roles at Cloud Foundry Foundation, Puppet and AIembic. The company emphasizes its mission...
KIMS Hospitals to Raise ₹1,500 Cr Through QIP
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) Hospitals received board approval to raise up to ₹1,500 crore through a Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP). The capital may be issued in one or more tranches, with the Finance and Investment Committee setting the final...
The Liquidity Paradox: Hedging in Open-Ended Fund Structures
Open‑ended private‑equity funds must hedge currency risk while promising investor liquidity. Hedging tools such as forwards, swaps, and options protect returns but require collateral that can strain cash reserves. As macro volatility rises, the need for hedging intensifies, creating a...
Sectigo Taps Clint Maddox to Lead Global Field Operations
Sectigo announced Clint Maddox as president of global field operations, tasking him with overseeing sales, marketing and channel functions worldwide. The move follows a record year in which the certificate‑lifecycle manager posted over 20% organic ARR growth and completed the Entrust...
The Big Biscuit Partners With TipHaus to Offer Same-Day Digital Tip Payouts
The Big Biscuit, a fast‑growing breakfast and lunch chain, has teamed up with TipHaus to provide same‑day digital tip payouts across its 30 locations. The partnership leverages TipHaus’s Earned Tip Access, allowing managers to verify shift data and release tips...
CVC Sees Record Year of Exits with €21.9bn Realised in 2025
CVC announced a record €21.9 billion in realised exits for 2025, marking a dramatic surge in its portfolio activity. The firm’s FY 2025 earnings report shows exit value jumping 77 % from the previous year, while the broader private‑equity market generated €19.5 billion in...
Portuguese Startup Sybilion Secures €3.6 Million to Build AI-Powered Decision Layer for Industrial Companies
Portuguese AI startup Sybilion announced a €3.6 million seed round led by Venturefriends and Semapa Next to develop an AI‑powered decision layer for industrial manufacturers. The platform ingests over a trillion external risk signals—commodity prices, weather, logistics, macro data—and maps them...
How to Solve One of the Most Expensive Problems in Employer Healthcare
Employers are turning to diagnostic‑first centers of excellence, such as the Mayo Clinic Complex Care Program, to address costly, undiagnosed conditions among high‑spending employees. By consolidating multidisciplinary evaluations into days rather than months, the model has generated average Year‑1 savings...
Irish Unicorn Tines Creating 100 Jobs in the US
Irish automation unicorn Tines announced a 100‑person hiring surge in Boston, boosting its U.S. workforce by 42% to 337 employees. The expansion follows a $125 million Series C round that lifted the company to unicorn status in February 2025, bringing total capital...
Inside ThreatLocker’s Rise From Startup to Global Cybersecurity Company
ThreatLocker has scaled from a two‑person startup to a global cybersecurity firm with over 700 employees, anchored by a deny‑by‑default, Zero Trust platform that blocks unauthorized software before it runs. The company’s growth has been propelled by its appeal to...
How Realtor.com Is Using AI Creative To Expand Its Ad Footprint
Realtor.com has partnered with AI‑powered startup BrandComms.AI to automate ad creative generation, enabling faster campaign rollout across multiple channels. The platform draws on 30 years of proprietary data to predict which imagery and messaging will perform best. This capability lets...
How Molson Coors Keeps Creative Effectiveness On Tap
Molson Coors has shifted its creative strategy from chasing awards to driving sales and brand health, led by North America CMO Sofia Colucci. The company introduced an internal framework called MUSCLE—magnetic, unexpected, crafted brilliantly, long‑term platform, essence of brand—to align...
How Molson Coors Keeps Creative Effectiveness On Tap
Molson Coors’ North America CMO Sofia Colucci emphasized that creative must directly boost sales and brand health, not just generate buzz. To align creative output with revenue goals, the company introduced the MUSCLE framework—Magnetic, Unexpected, Crafted brilliantly, Long‑term platform, Essence of...
The 4:30 Am Grind: How a Cotton-Field Startup Turned Into an Artisan Pizza Empire
Joe Carlucci transformed a COVID-era pizza food truck into Valentina’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar, now a 196‑seat, full‑service restaurant in Alabama. Starting with a 1,500‑sq‑ft space and 12 employees, the operation has grown to over 50 staff and a curated...
Open CTV Buying? Context Is Key, Not Just High 'Completion' Rates
Peer39’s latest research reveals that roughly 60% of open‑market CTV programmatic bid requests contain no program‑level metadata, while about one‑quarter are classified as fake content, primarily originating from concealed mobile‑app inventory. The remaining bids often feature shallow or inaccurate genre...
Everpure Stretches ActiveCluster to Metro-Distance DR for File Workloads
Everpure announced that its ActiveCluster technology now extends to metro‑distance disaster recovery for file‑based workloads. The feature adds synchronous replication and policy‑driven automation, allowing files to stay online during outages and move across the entire fleet without manual intervention. ActiveCluster...
Before You Automate Order Management, Fix These 3 Things First
Automation is becoming a top priority for order‑to‑cash teams, yet APQC research shows that 35% of firms still struggle without core process foundations. Standardized workflows, cross‑functional collaboration, and a customer‑experience focus are identified as the three prerequisites before scaling automation....
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet: Why AI Skills Are Now Required for Promotion
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet announced that AI competence is now a non‑negotiable prerequisite for promotion within the firm. She highlighted a leader‑led learning model that puts senior executives at the forefront of upskilling teams. Sweet also warned CEOs that geopolitical...
Raymond Wittmann Succeeds Nedeljković as BMW Production Head
BMW’s Supervisory Board has appointed strategy chief Raymond Wittmann as the new Production Board member, effective at the May Annual General Meeting when current Production Director Milan Nedeljković ascends to CEO. Wittmann, 47, has been with the group since 2015, most...
Get Unlimited Enterprise-Level Email Signatures for $39
EmailSignatures launched a lifetime subscription priced at $39, offering unlimited enterprise‑level email signatures. The plan includes all premium templates, custom branding, analytics, and one‑click deployment for major email clients such as Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. By centralizing signature creation,...
Sega Responds to Concerns After Recording $200 Million Impairment Write-Down for Rovio
Google Cloud unveiled the next phase of its “Living Games” platform, embedding autonomous AI agents into its cloud infrastructure. The suite combines Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini Enterprise, Flash and Vertex AI to automate testing, code writing and asset generation for developers. Demonstrations...
EXCLUSIVE: Horizon Media Cuts 50 Roles in AI-Focused Agency ‘Realignment’
Horizon Media, one of the world’s largest independent ad agencies, announced a restructuring that eliminates 50 positions from its more than 2,000‑person global workforce. The cuts span several departments and affect some long‑tenured staff, while the firm simultaneously launches a...
Korail Appoints New CEO
Korean national railway operator Korail named Kim Taeseung as its 12th president and CEO on March 3. Kim, a transport and logistics veteran who has taught at Inha University since 2007, brings more than 30 years of industry experience. He outlined three...
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Appoints Parthanil Ghosh as MD and CEO
HDFC ERGO General Insurance's board has approved Parthanil Ghosh as managing director and chief executive officer, effective April 16, 2026, succeeding Anuj Tyagi. Ghosh brings over three decades of financial services experience and 16 years in general insurance, having joined...
Cintas Agrees to Buy Uniform Maker UniFirst in $5.5 Billion Deal
Cintas announced a $5.5 billion agreement to acquire uniform provider UniFirst. UniFirst shareholders will receive $155 in cash and 0.772 Cintas shares per UniFirst share, valuing each at roughly $310. The deal, pending shareholder approval, is slated to close in the...
YES Selects Synamedia Iris for Advanced Advertising Rollout
Israeli pay‑TV operator YES, part of the Bezeq Group, has chosen Synamedia Iris to power advanced advertising across its linear TV and streaming services. The Iris platform will enable addressable, server‑side ad insertion that unifies delivery on set‑top boxes and...
BKT Tyres Launches ‘Elevate Your Drive’ Campaign with Ranveer Singh
BKT Tyres has launched the "Elevate Your Drive" campaign, fronted by Bollywood star Ranveer Singh, to announce its entry into India’s on‑highway tyre market. The TV‑led multimedia push highlights a purpose‑driven proposition built around confidence, progress and performance, and introduces...
100 Sessions, 1 Mission: NXT Fellowship Debuts Alongside NXT Summit to Shape Next Generation of Global Leaders
The NXT Foundation launched the inaugural NXT Fellowship, a one‑week immersion for 70 emerging leaders from 39 top universities worldwide. Held alongside the second NXT Summit at Bharat Mandapam, the program delivered 100 sessions covering economics, diplomacy, and cultural heritage...
TAM Sports Expands Ad Monitoring Across Broadcast and Streaming Platforms
TAM Sports, the sports intelligence arm of TAM Media Research, has expanded its monitoring suite to track advertising on linear live broadcast as well as live streaming via Connected TV and mobile devices. The move broadens its cross‑platform analytics, which...
Evergreens Have ‘Let Loose’ Changes that Will Upend Private Markets – Hamilton Lane
Hamilton Lane’s 2026 Market Overview finds evergreen private‑equity funds outperformed traditional closed‑end funds over both one‑ and three‑year horizons. The edge stems from continuous capital inflows, flexible redemption terms, and longer investment horizons. Evergreen structures are gaining traction as investors...
Calif. Pension Reform for Firefighters Could Swing Back Toward Richer Benefits
Assembly Bill 1383 would let California public‑safety unions negotiate more generous retirement benefits for newly hired police officers and firefighters, lowering the retirement age from 57 to 55 and raising the compensation cap to $280,000. The bill, the most significant...
Enter the Shark Tank: How Kenvue Innovates Its Operations
Kenvue COO Meri Stevens introduced monthly "shark tank" meetings to accelerate operational innovation, rapidly testing ideas and discarding weak concepts. A digital council allocates funds, delivering ten‑fold in‑year savings while scaling winning projects globally. Innovations focus on touchless agents, predictive...
Exit Visibility Key in Evaluating Deals: A&M Capital’s Weisberg
At NEXUS 2026, Jeremy Weisberg of A&M Capital highlighted that its second‑aries strategy targets mid‑market and smaller transactions. The firm argues these deals deliver a more attractive risk‑adjusted return profile than larger, more complex secondary purchases. Weisberg stressed that exit...
A Trump-Xi Summit Nears, but China Doesn’t Know What Trump Wants
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet from March 31 to April 2 in a summit that could extend their year‑long trade truce. Chinese officials say the White House has provided no clear agenda, leaving Beijing unsure...
Seabridge Management Issued 2026 Assignments
Seabridge Gold’s board set 16 performance objectives for 2026, with a heavy focus on securing a partner for the KSM copper‑gold project. The 2025 report card was a D+, though the company met 88% of its targets, the missing KSM...
Does Your FM Organization Need Superstars?
Facility management leaders are re‑evaluating the practice of staffing teams exclusively with high‑performing "superstars." While McKinsey research shows star performers can outpace peers by 400% and bring traits like self‑motivation and time‑management, an all‑superstar model can stall long‑term growth as...
How To Build A ‘Feed-Only’ Performance Max Campaign
Google’s Performance Max continues to blend Search, YouTube, Display and Shopping, but its AI‑driven asset engine can dilute bottom‑funnel ROI. In 2026 marketers discovered a “feed‑only” configuration that strips away all manually added assets, forcing the algorithm to rely solely...
RA Capital, Forbion and Canaan Appear to Back Harbour's CTLA-4 Partner Solstice
RA Capital, Forbion, and Canaan have collectively invested in Solstice Therapeutics, the CTLA-4 antibody partner of Harbour Therapeutics. The funding round, reportedly a multi‑million dollar Series B, will support Solstice's pre‑clinical and early clinical programs. By backing Solstice, the investors...
Why Businesses Should Value Caregivers Now
Businesses are losing talent as more than 212,000 women left the U.S. workforce in early 2025, driven by return‑to‑office mandates and caregiving pressures. Research from Rutgers shows caregiving cultivates 18 skills that map onto 76.5% of the BLS’s core workplace...
The Ample Hills Couple Is Back, Again
Jackie Cuscuna and Brian Smith, the former Ample Hills founders, are opening a new chicken‑burger concept called Ramblin’ Chick in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. After two bankruptcies and a brief reacquisition of Ample Hills, they are pivoting to a smaller, profitability‑focused...
Stanford Grads’ Tampon Startup Takes on Growing Market
Stanford‑engineered startup Sequel has launched a spiral‑shaped tampon that redirects fluid to the absorbent core, aiming to eliminate leaks for women athletes. The company secured over $8 million in venture funding and received FDA Class II clearance in 2023. Sequel’s product is...
A Financial Benefit that Matches Trump's $1K Investment in Kids
Acorns introduced an employer‑funded benefit that matches the U.S. Treasury’s $1,000 Trump Accounts newborn investment, giving participating employees a total of $2,000 per child. The program, slated for a July 2026 rollout, expands Acorns Early’s existing 1 % match up to $7,000...
Havas London Names Seamus Higgins as Chief Creative Officer
Havas London announced the appointment of Seamus Higgins as its new Chief Creative Officer, with the transition slated for later this month. Higgins joins the agency after more than two decades leading creative teams at major global firms. The move...