News•Jan 29, 2026
Skipton Building Society Partners with Eligible to Improve Mortgage Renewal Experience
Skipton Building Society has teamed up with Eligible to launch a data‑driven platform that engages borrowers well before mortgage renewal. The partnership aims to provide proactive, personalized guidance, reducing uncertainty and manual workload. By automating outreach, Skipton expects higher retention rates and a smoother experience for members and brokers. The initiative responds to rising fixed‑rate expiries and the need for earlier, clearer communication in a volatile rate environment.
By Finextra
News•Jan 29, 2026
Digi International Announced the Acquisition of Particle
Digi International announced a $50 million cash acquisition of Particle, a subscription‑based edge‑to‑cloud platform that currently generates about $20 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). The deal lifts Digi’s IoT Products and Services segment ARR by roughly 60%, expanding it from $32 million...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Alpha Omega Launches Continuum Automation Framework
Alpha Omega announced the Continuum Automation Framework, a unified ecosystem of AI‑driven accelerators designed to help federal agencies modernize, migrate, and secure mission‑critical systems. The platform comprises four modular components—Design, Code, Connect, and Secure—that replace manual processes with an end‑to‑end...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Laserfiche Expands AI Data Capture with Auto-Classification
Laserfiche announced a major upgrade to its AI‑driven Smart Fields engine, adding automatic document classification and intelligent auto‑tagging. The new features let users describe desired data with natural‑language prompts, enabling the system to identify invoice, transcript, or contract types and...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
SAP Cloud Revenues Rise on AI Boost - with More to Come, Says CEO Christian Klein
SAP reported a robust Q4, with total revenue reaching €9.68 billion and cloud revenue climbing 26% to €5.61 billion, driving full‑year cloud sales to €21.0 billion, up 23% YoY. CEO Christian Klein highlighted that over two‑thirds of Q4 cloud orders now embed business...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 29, 2026
Bright Pattern Brings AI-Powered Customer Engagement and Workforce Management to GITEX 2026 Cairo
Bright Pattern, a global AI‑powered omnichannel contact‑center vendor, announced its participation at GITEX 2026 in Cairo, Egypt, scheduled for 11‑12 February. At the expo, the company will demonstrate its end‑to‑end customer‑engagement platform featuring virtual agents, real‑time transcription, summarization, interaction analytics,...
By AiThority
News•Jan 29, 2026
20i Launches the Web Industry’s First Unlimited Managed Hosting Assistant
20i has introduced Twentie, the web industry’s first unlimited managed hosting assistant, embedded directly into its platform. The AI‑driven tool accesses live account data to generate custom PDF and CSV reports, analyze performance metrics, and help with tasks like marketing...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Deezer Makes It Easier for Rival Platforms to Take a Stance Against AI-Generated Music
Deezer has opened its AI‑generated music detection system to rival streaming services, extending a tool that tags and removes AI tracks from recommendations and royalty pools. The platform processes about 60,000 AI‑created songs each day, with 85% of those streams...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 29, 2026
Contio Launches to Transform Every Meeting Into a Decisive Moment That Accomplishes Great Things
Contio has launched MeetingOS, the world’s first Decision Acceleration Platform, to turn inefficient meetings into decisive, outcome‑driven sessions. Powered by the Contio Intelligence Engine, the platform automatically drafts agendas, surfaces real‑time insights, and generates detailed notes and action items. Three...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 29, 2026
AI Adoption Advances in Manufacturing Amid Economic Headwinds
Rootstock’s 2026 State of Manufacturing Technology Survey shows AI has become mainstream, with 94% of manufacturers deploying some form of artificial intelligence. Predictive AI usage rose to 48%, and investments are shifting toward supply‑chain planning and process optimization. Despite economic...
By AI-TechPark
News•Jan 29, 2026
Acumatica Summit 2026 - Taking the Pulse of Cloud ERP, AI, and Customer Realities
Acumatica Summit 2026 highlighted the company’s AI‑first roadmap, unveiling a trial of an AI assistant that will reach general availability in the fall. The event emphasized that SMB customers want AI capabilities embedded in the platform without the burden of...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 29, 2026
High Performance, Open Source RAFT Clustered Database: RooDB
RooDB is an open‑source, Raft‑based SQL database that aims to deliver high performance with minimal configuration. It combines an LSM storage engine, a Volcano‑style query executor, and a MySQL‑compatible wire protocol, allowing standard clients to connect securely. The system supports...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Questom (YC F25) Is Hiring an Engineer
Questom, a YC‑backed startup building AI‑driven sales agents, is hiring a founding engineer with a $125K‑$150K salary and 0.75%‑1.5% equity. The role focuses on building high‑performance systems that integrate CRMs, communication channels, and agentic workflows, rather than mastering a specific...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 29, 2026
Strong Revenue Performance Sends IBM Stock Soaring After-Hours
IBM reported a 9% fourth‑quarter revenue jump, the strongest in three years, driven by rapid software and infrastructure growth. Software now represents 45% of the company’s revenue, up from 25% in 2018, and free cash flow rose to $7.6 billion, a...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 29, 2026
Software Company Bonds Drop As Investors' AI Worries Mount
Investors are pulling back from software company bonds as rapid AI advances raise doubts about business model stability. High‑profile moves like Google’s AI assistant launch and funding for Decagon AI have intensified fears, driving bond prices lower worldwide. While some...
By Slashdot
News•Jan 28, 2026
Decagon AI Raises $250M at $4.5B Valuation to Scale AI Concierge Platform
Decagon AI announced a $250 million Series D round that lifts its valuation to $4.5 billion. The funding, led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures, will accelerate the rollout of its AI concierge platform, which leverages large‑language models across chat, email and voice...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
QuickBooks Payroll: A Complete Guide for Small Business Owners
QuickBooks Payroll is a cloud‑based service that automates wage calculations, tax withholdings, and filing for small and medium‑sized businesses. The platform integrates directly with QuickBooks accounting, offering real‑time expense recording, direct deposit, and built‑in time‑tracking features. Automatic tax filing and...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
Dynatrace Intelligence Aims to Advance Autonomous Software Operations
Dynatrace announced Dynatrace Intelligence, an agentic operations system that blends deterministic, real‑time intelligence with AI agents to push enterprises toward autonomous software operations. Built on the Grail data lakehouse and Smartscape, the platform delivers explainable insights that act within predefined...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
SaasRise Mastermind Recap - Jan 28, 2026
SaasRise’s Jan 28 mastermind delivered a rapid‑fire playbook for SaaS CEOs covering analytics, SEO, churn, reviews, hiring, paid search, AI, and growth tactics. Participants were urged to use Plausible and SEMrush for early‑stage web metrics, aim for a 6‑minute visit duration...
By SaasRise
News•Jan 28, 2026
ServiceNow Inks Another AI Partnership, This Time with Anthropic
ServiceNow has signed a multi‑year agreement with Anthropic, making the Claude family of models the default AI engine across its workflow platform and internal tools. Claude now powers the ServiceNow Build Agent and Claude Code is being rolled out to the...
By TechCrunch AI
News•Jan 28, 2026
Customer Service Is Emerging as the Proving Ground for Enterprise AI, Says Zendesk CEO
Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier says enterprise AI is shifting from pilot projects to full‑scale production, with customer service emerging as the primary proving ground. Companies that achieve over 50% automated resolutions are reporting higher satisfaction scores, faster response times, and...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts
Browser Code is a new browser extension that equips Claude, an AI coding agent, with a virtual‑filesystem view of any web page. It lets the agent generate, edit, and persist userscripts through Chrome’s userScripts API (and Firefox’s equivalent), automatically running them...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 28, 2026
SSO Vs. Federated Identity Management: A Guide
Modern enterprises face escalating identity challenges as employees and automated workloads proliferate across SaaS, micro‑services, and multi‑cloud environments. Single Sign‑On (SSO) centralizes human authentication, reducing password fatigue and providing a unified audit trail, while federated identity extends access across organizational...
By Security Boulevard
News•Jan 28, 2026
Chrome Takes on AI Browsers with Tighter Gemini Integration, Agentic Features for Autonomous Tasks
Google is upgrading Chrome with a persistent Gemini sidebar, shifting from the previous floating window. The new sidebar can understand groups of related tabs, making price‑comparison and product research smoother. Integrated personal‑intelligence will let Gemini draw on Gmail, Search, YouTube...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 28, 2026
Apple Tells Patreon to Move Creators to In-App Purchase for Subscriptions by November
Apple has imposed a new deadline, requiring Patreon to shift all creators to in‑app purchase subscription billing by November 1, 2026. The mandate affects roughly 4 % of Patreon’s creators still using legacy billing, forcing them to adopt Apple’s commission structure or risk...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 28, 2026
Pecan AI Unveils a Predictive Agent that Automates Business Forecasting
Pecan AI Ltd. introduced its Predictive AI Agent, an autonomous system that turns raw proprietary data into actionable forecasts for revenue, demand, and customer sentiment. The agent interprets each company’s unique data fingerprint, breaks the predictive workflow into subtasks, builds...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Assembled Rolls Out Automated Schedule Generation for Customer Support
Assembled Inc. launched general availability of its agentic AI schedule generation feature for customer support teams. The new Schedule Generation board automates workforce scheduling, replacing spreadsheets with AI‑driven optimization, compliance and scaling. Early adopters like ServiceTitan, Backcountry.com and Preply report...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Critical and High Severity N8n Sandbox Flaws Allow RCE
Two critical sandbox bypasses were discovered in the n8n workflow automation platform, affecting its JavaScript expression engine (CVE‑2026‑1470, CVSS 9.9) and Python Code node (CVE‑2026‑0863, CVSS 8.5). Both flaws let authenticated users escape the sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the host...
By Infosecurity Magazine
News•Jan 28, 2026
DeepSeek Boosts OCR Performance With Alibaba Open-Source AI
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-OCR 2, replacing its CLIP‑based architecture with Alibaba's lightweight Qwen2‑0.5b model. The new system improves OCR performance by 3.7% and achieves a 91.09% score on OmniDocBench v1.5. It compresses document pages into 256‑1,120 visual tokens, dramatically lowering...
By eWeek
News•Jan 28, 2026
Gulf States Enhances Policyholder Experience with insured.io
Gulf States Insurance Group has partnered with insured.io to deploy a cloud‑based, omnichannel customer engagement platform. The solution includes an Insured Portal, IVR services, outbound notifications, and a First Notice of Loss claims tool, all integrated with Gulf States' policy...
By Fintech Global
News•Jan 28, 2026
Curate Raises $10M in New Funding
Curate, a Los Angeles‑based hospitality platform, announced a $10 million funding round led by ZoomInfo co‑founder Kirk Brown, with participation from K5 Global, NFL star Amon‑Ra St. Brown, and Pieology founder Carl Cheng. The capital will fuel operational expansion and accelerate product development....
By FinSMEs
News•Jan 28, 2026
LinkedIn Will Let You Show Off Your Vibe Coding Chops with a Certificate
LinkedIn announced a verified‑skills program that issues AI‑focused certificates based on real‑time usage of partner tools such as Descript, Lovable, Replit and Relay.app. The AI engine evaluates usage patterns, outcomes and proficiency to generate a badge that appears on a...
By TechCrunch Apps
News•Jan 28, 2026
Bedrock Data Extends DSPM to Atlassian Confluence, Mapping SaaS Data to AI Inference Risk
Bedrock Data announced native Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) support for Atlassian Confluence, enabling automatic discovery of spaces, pages and blogs. The platform classifies unstructured content for PII, secrets and intellectual property, resolves inherited permissions, and maps that data to...
By AiThority
News•Jan 28, 2026
Domo Launches App Catalyst to Turn AI Ideas Into Production-Ready Business Applications
Domo unveiled App Catalyst, a new feature of its AI and Data Products Platform that lets users describe an app in natural language and instantly receive a production‑ready, pro‑code framework. The tool pulls data from major cloud warehouses such as...
By AiThority
News•Jan 28, 2026
Show HN: Sandbox Agent SDK – Unified API for Automating Coding Agents
The Sandbox Agent SDK introduces a Rust‑based server and TypeScript client that let developers run AI coding agents—Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Amp—inside isolated sandboxes while controlling them over a unified HTTP/SSE API. By normalizing disparate agent interfaces into a single...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Why One-Size-Fits-All ERP Fails Mid-Market Retailers
Mid‑market retailers facing tighter margins are abandoning legacy, monolithic ERP systems in favor of cloud‑native platforms that promise speed, simplicity, and real‑time control. Traditional on‑premise solutions require extensive customization, long rollouts, and costly maintenance, limiting visibility into inventory and sales....
By E-Commerce Times
News•Jan 28, 2026
Abstract Security Partners with Netskope to Bring Real-Time Detection Into Security Data Streams
Abstract Security announced a partnership with cloud‑security leader Netskope to embed real‑time detection directly into Netskope One telemetry streams. The integration streams high‑fidelity Secure Service Edge data into Abstract’s adaptive pipeline, allowing on‑the‑fly enrichment, filtering and routing to SIEMs, data...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Datatruck Raises $12M to Scale AI-Native Operating System for Long-Haul Trucking
Datatruck Inc. announced a $12 million Series A round led by Avenue Growth Partners to accelerate its AI‑native operating system for long‑haul trucking. The platform unifies dispatch, load management, compliance, accounting and driver communication into a single system of record. Embedded AI...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Apiiro Introduces Guardian Agent to Secure AI-Driven Software Development
Apiiro Ltd. launched Guardian Agent, an AI‑driven application security agent that prevents vulnerable and non‑compliant code generation. The solution continuously monitors software architecture, attack surface, runtime exposure, and policy compliance, rewriting prompts to secure AI coding assistants in real time....
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Platform Engineering Brings Multicloud Support to Its Formae Infrastructure-as-Code Platform
Platform Engineering Labs announced a major update to its open‑source formae infrastructure‑as‑code platform, adding beta support for four additional public clouds – Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Microsoft Azure and OVHcloud. The new multicloud capability expands formae beyond its...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
AI that Generates Gives Way to AI that Executes? Genpact Prepares for Autonomous Agents in the Enterprise
Genpact’s "Autonomy by Design" research finds enterprises are eager to move from "AI that generates" to "AI that executes," but only 12% feel prepared. Executives anticipate autonomous AI decision‑making in strategic functions within three years, yet integration complexity and workforce...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 28, 2026
Purple Launches ‘Engage’: The All-in-One CRM and Email Platform to Help Venues Turn Visitors Into Regulars
Purple has unveiled Engage, an all‑in‑one CRM and email marketing platform that turns venue Wi‑Fi connections into a compliant customer database. The solution bundles data collection, segmentation and automated email campaigns in a hardware‑agnostic interface designed for small cafés to...
By MarTech Series
News•Jan 28, 2026
New Ecommerce Tools: January 28, 2026
A wave of AI‑enhanced ecommerce solutions launched this week, ranging from Yolando’s competitive‑intelligence platform and Voxelo’s video‑to‑3D content studio to DiversiFi’s AI billing suite for 3PLs. PayPal’s acquisition of Cymbio adds agentic commerce capabilities, while Yottaa, Lightspeed, and Commercetools introduce...
By Practical Ecommerce
News•Jan 28, 2026
Cal.com Broken Access Controls Lead to Account Takeover and Data Exposure
Cal.com, an open‑source scheduling platform, patched critical broken‑access‑control vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to hijack accounts and expose booking data. The flaws included an authentication bypass in the organization signup flow that let attackers take over any user by using an...
By GBHackers On Security
News•Jan 28, 2026
The Gen Z/Boomer Sales Conflict - Can AI Be a Generational Equalizer?
A new Clari‑Salesloft study of 2,000 U.S. sales leaders reveals a $56 billion productivity loss driven by generational conflict between Baby Boomers and Gen Z reps. Boomers cling to relationship‑first, in‑person selling, while Gen Z adopts digital‑first, AI‑heavy tactics, creating friction in communication,...
By Diginomica
News•Jan 28, 2026
No More Unexpected Tax Bills, Business Owners Are Using Gelt Tax Software
In 2023 the IRS levied over 14.2 million estimated‑tax penalties, amounting to $7 billion, catching many founders off guard with surprise bills. The problem stems from a reactive, annual‑only tax approach that ignores the IRS’s pay‑as‑you‑go requirement. Gelt, an AI‑native tax firm,...
By TechBullion
News•Jan 28, 2026
Rein Security Launches with a Focus on Real-Time Production Application Security
Rein Security launched a platform that delivers real‑time production visibility for applications, targeting blind spots in API, AI‑generated code, and Model Context Protocol security. The solution uses an agentless architecture to capture runtime behavior, validate vulnerabilities, and enforce protections without...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Engineer
Kyber, a Y Combinator‑backed AI‑native document platform, is hiring a Staff Engineer/Tech Lead in New York. The company’s solution automates regulatory notices, consolidating 80% of templates, cutting drafting time by 65% and accelerating communication cycles five‑fold. Over the past 18 months Kyber...
By Hacker News
News•Jan 28, 2026
Factify Gets $73M in Seed Funding to Replace Antiquated PDF Files with Intelligent Documents
Factify Technologies announced a $73 million seed round, led by Valley Capital Partners and backed by AI veterans and finance leaders. The startup aims to replace static PDFs with "Factified" documents that carry unique identities, version histories, access controls, and programmable...
By SiliconANGLE
News•Jan 28, 2026
NAYEE Launches CountriesDB, a Developer-First Global Country Data Platform with Widgets and API
NAYEE LLC unveiled CountriesDB, a developer‑first platform delivering ISO 3166‑1 and ISO 3166‑2 compliant country and subdivision data via a modern API and embeddable widgets. The service includes framework‑agnostic widgets translated into more than 50 languages, allowing instant localization of geographic inputs....
By MarTech Series