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Sprinklr Named Innovative Products Winner in the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards

Sprinklr , the definitive, AI-native platform for Unified Customer Experience Management (Unified-CXM), has been named a winner in the Innovation Products Category of the 2026 BIG Innovation Awards, a global recognition program honoring companies, products, and leaders who are transforming industries...

Spotify Raises Its Subscription Prices in the U.S. Again

Spotify's new price for its individual plan is $12.99 per month

Top 10 Payroll Software In Qatar [2026 Updated]

Payroll software helps businesses manage salary processing in a fast, accurate, and compliant way. It automates key payroll tasks like salary calculations, deductions, payslip generation, and salary transfer files. For companies in Qatar, payroll is closely linked with time tracking,...

Box Unlocks Agentic Data Extraction to Help Companies Dig up Insights Faster

Enterprise content management provider Box Inc. is expanding its armory of artificial intelligence tools with the launch of Box Extract in general availability. The new tool uses third-party AI models from companies including OpenAI Group PBC, Google LLC and Anthropic...

Parloa Raises $350M to Make Enterprise Customer Experience Fully Conversational

Parloa GmBH, a Berlin-based artificial intelligence customer experience automation platform startup, announced today it has raised $350 million in late-stage funding at a $3 billion valuation led by General Catalyst. The company’s existing investors showed strong continued support including EQT...

DianaHR Deploys Onboarding Agent to Cut HR’s Paperwork Gravity

Diana Intelligence Corp., which offers HR-as-a-service for businesses using artificial intelligence, today announced what it says is a breakthrough in human resources assistance with an agentic AI onboarding system. Like any operations at a business, HR spans everything from recruiting...

Manufacturing Automation Software Startup Tulip Hits Unicorn Status with $120M Raise

Frontline operations software startup Tulip Interfaces Inc. said today it has raised $120 million in a late-stage funding round that brings its valuation to more than $1.3 billion, joining the ranks of technology unicorns. The Series D round was led...

AINA Introduces AI-Driven Hiring Platform Backed by $1M Raise

Cyprus-based AINA has raised $1 million in seedfunding from a private angel investor to expand its AI-driven hiringplatform, which aims to improve hiring efficiency and reduce recruitment costs.As com...

How People Use ChatGPT – Analysis of OpenAI’s First User Study

Uncovering important nuances in frequency, motivation, and impact that you might not expect.

HTGF: Where Public Mandate Meets Venture Discipline

While many venture capital funds are optimised for speed, scale, and short fund lifecycles, High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) was built to address a structural gap in Germany’s innovation ecosystem. HTGF ...

Delinea Acquries StrongDM to Secure Access to IT Infrastructure

Delinea announces the acquisition of StrongDM to enhance its privileged access management platform, offering just-in-time access for IT infrastructure and improving cybersecurity for human and non-human identities. The post Delinea Acquries StrongDM to Secure Access to IT Infrastructure appeared first on...

Tines Launches AI Interaction Layer to Unify Agents, Copilots and Workflows

Workflow automation company Tines Security Services Ltd. today announced the launch of AI in Tines, an “AI Interaction Layer” comprised of capabilities designed to solve artificial intelligence fragmentation. The new capabilities provide a single, secure and intuitive layer for interacting with AI...

MongoDB Combines Database and Embedding Models for Simplified AI Development

MongoDB Inc. is making its play for the hearts and minds of artificial intelligence developers and entrepreneurs with today’s announcement of a series of new capabilities designed to help developers move applications from prototype to production more quickly. They include...

Property Owners Get New Way to Verify Insurer Estimates

Two independent claims adjusters in the US Southeast have unveiled a new platform, InsuranceClaim123, which aims to give property owners a fast and affordable way to check insurance carriers’ damage estimates for potential gaps. The tool is designed as a...

How You.com 10x’d MQLs with Multithreaded Marketing

Towards the end of last year, I spoke to Kady Srinivasan, now CMO […]

Edtech Platform Headway Inc Secures Series A Extension with Backing From Endeavor Catalyst

Ukrainian-born edtech startup Headway Inc has raised Series A extension funding from Endeavor Catalyst. Headway Inc has closed the second tranche of its first external funding round, with Endeavor Cat...

Limelight Inc. Launches New Programmatic Optimisation Tool

End-to-end optimisation toolkit enables platform users to curate inventory supply dynamically to better serve demand-side clients Advanced programmatic platform Limelight Inc. has launched the Adaptive Rules Centre (ARC) – a rules-based toolkit that enables users of Limelight’s white-label platform to...

UiPath’s Platform Transition - a Case of Execution over Re-Invention. COO Ashim Gupta Explains

UiPath CFO and COO Ashim Gupta outlines why the company’s recent progress rests less on agentic AI re-positioning and more on execution discipline – from renewals and deployment rigor to how deterministic automation, agents, and human oversight coexist inside real...

6 Maxims for Today’s Digital Leader Playbook

Modern CIOs and tech leaders carry responsibility not only for an organization’s technology but, as key partners, for its entire business success. So having access to readily transferable lessons is critical in order to solve real business challenges, and lead...

Why Financial Control Is Becoming a Technology Problem [Sponsored]

For decades, financial control was a function of accounting discipline. Budgets were set annually, spend was reviewed retrospectively, and finance teams relied on reports generated long after money ha...

AWS Flips Switch on Euro Cloud as Customers Fret About Digital Sovereignty

ModelOp Launches Simplified Enterprise AI Lifecycle Management and Governance Procurement Availability in AWS Marketplace

ModelOp, the leading AI lifecycle management and governance platform for enterprises, announced that its ModelOp Center platform is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to...

Bitwarden Advances Passkeys and Credential Risk Controls

Bitwarden revealed continued product innovation and ecosystem maturity to advance identity security capabilities for users and enterprises. Bitwarden introduced enterprise credential risk insights and guided remediation through Bitwarden Access Intelligence, expanded passkey interoperability across browsers, devices, and operating systems, and...

Salesforce vs Veeva - the Game's Afoot and the Life Sciences Battleground Is Hotting Up!

Former partners, now fighting over the spoils of a multi-billion dollar vertical market...

Feedelity Raises €510K to Turn Customer Feedback Into Action

Ghent-basedstartup Feedelity has raised €510,000 to support its next phase of growth, inan investment round backed by private investors including Gilles Mattelin andJorn Vanysacker (Henchman), Wouter ...

Nao Labs (Open-Source Analytics Agent, YC X25) Is Hiring

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Atomic Insights Raises $10M in Seed Funding

Atomic Insights, a San Diego, CA-based provider of money-movement and workflow automation tools for RIAs and family offices, raised $10M in Seed funding. The round was led by Aquiline with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and existing investors. The company...

LinkedIn Automation Update Helps Sales Teams Scale Outreach Without Losing Message Quality

As buyer expectations continue to rise, many sales teams are rethinking how automation fits into modern LinkedIn prospecting. The challenge is no longer whether teams can send messages at scale, but whether those messages are timely, relevant, and grounded in...

Lytra Completes Pre-Seed Financing for AI-Driven Manufacturing Solution

Munich-basedstartup lytra has completed its pre-seed financing round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) with participation from additional investors, to expand itsAI-driven platform for manufacturi...

Cyb3r Operations Raises £4M to Address Third-Party Risk Blind Spots

London-based Cyb3r Operations hasraised £4 million to provide organisations with continuous visibility intothird-party cyber risk. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with follow-oninvestment from ...

Show HN: MailPilot – Freedom to Go Anywhere While Your Agents Work

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Skene Raises €800k to Accelerate Software Growth via AI Agents

Helsinki-based product growthautomation platform Skene has closed a €800,000 pre-seed round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from NVIDIA executives.As AI accelerates the pace of softwarede...

IBM Tackles Cloud, AI Sovereignty with New Platform

Built on Red Hat's open source foundation, Sovereign Core aims to inherently provide control over the environment.

US Legaltech Unicorn Harvey Is Pushing Hard Into Europe. Can It Win?

Depthfirst Secures $40M to Expand Agentic Approach to Software Security

Artificial intelligence-native security platform startup depthfirst Inc. revealed today that it had raised $40 million in new funding to support its research and development, go-to-market efforts and hiring across applied research, engineering, product and sales. Founded in 2024, depthfirst was...

Aikido Security Raises $60M Series B at $1B Valuation to Unify Application Security

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it had raised $60 million in new funding at a $1 billion valuation to further enhance its unified platform for code, cloud and runtime security and introduce autonomous self-securing software. Founded in 2022,...

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CrowdStrike Shareholders Lose Battle to Recoup Losses From 2024 Outage

Four Takeaways On The State Of Social Suites

Social suites are now a critical part of the martech ecosystem, ranking as one of the top three marketing technologies used by organizations. Once simple social media management tools with light social listening features, these platforms have evolved into unified...

Kroger Taps Google Gemini, Announces More Key AI Moves

The expanded partnership with Google Cloud includes the launch of an AI-powered personal shopping assistant for customers and builds on the grocer’s growing fleet of AI capabilities.

How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent

The ability to connect AI agents to external systems defines their practical utility. Without tools, an agent is limited to The post How To Choose the Right Tool for Your Google ADK Agent appeared first on The New Stack.

Companies Confess Their Agentic AI Goals Aren't Really Working Out - and a Lack of Trust Could Be Why

Many companies are still operating AI agents in silos – a lack of trust could be preventing them from setting it free.

App Downloads Declined Again in 2025, but Consumer Spending Soared to Nearly $156B

Global app downloads were down, but consumer spending was up to nearly $156B in 2025.

Beijing Tells Chinese Firms To Stop Using US and Israeli Cybersecurity Software

An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S. and Israel due to national security concerns, two people briefed on the matter said....

Native ZFS VDEV for Object Storage (OpenZFS Summit)

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Harvest Acquires Firstance to Expand European WealthTech Reach

Harvest, a European WealthTech software provider focused on advisory workflows for the wealth management sector, has acquired Firstance, an Italian WealthTech player specialising in life insurance distribution. The acquisition follows Harvest’s purchase of Fincite in March 2025 and is designed...

Bezos's Vision of Rented Cloud PCs Looks Less Far-Fetched

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum -- as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be...

From Backup to Business Resilience: Inside Cognizant and Rubrik’s New BRaaS Model

Ransomware, infrastructure outages, supply chain disruptions, and the rapid operationalization of AI have fundamentally changed what business resilience means. For CIOs, keeping the lights on is no longer enough. Today’s mandate is to ensure the business can withstand disruption and recover...

Meet the $500M AI Startup Quietly Interviewing Customers for Microsoft

Listen Labs uses AI “interviewers” to run customer research at scale for brands like Microsoft, promising insights in hours instead of weeks. The post Meet the $500M AI Startup Quietly Interviewing Customers for Microsoft appeared first on eWEEK.