Will AI Destroy the Software Industry?
The Motley Fool Money podcast examined how generative AI is reshaping the SaaS sector, highlighting sharp valuation drops and the vulnerability of per‑seat licensing models. Chegg’s collapse—over 99% loss since its 2021 peak—illustrates the threat of free AI tools, while broader indices like the iShares IGV ETF have slumped more than 30% in six months. Analysts noted that firms such as HubSpot and Constellation Software now trade at historic lows (around 4× and 3× sales respectively), creating potential contrarian opportunities. Conversely, cybersecurity players like Zscaler and CrowdStrike could emerge as AI beneficiaries.
‘The Gatekeepers Have Changed’: Glu Says AI Now Decides Which Brands Get Seen
Glu.ai, a Shopify‑native platform, has introduced its Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) service in Australia to help brands appear in AI‑generated answer engines such as ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity. The offering targets mid‑market merchants, promising that clear, structured...
Y Combinator-Backed AI Call Receptionist Raises $22 Million Series A
Y Combinator‑backed Phonely announced a $22 million Series A round, valuing the AI call‑receptionist startup at roughly $100 million. The funding, led by Base10 Partners and backed by YC and three enterprise customers, builds on a prior $750,000 seed raise. Phonely’s platform can...
N-Able Exec On Disaster Recovery As A Service: We Are On The Front Line
N-able announced an expanded Disaster Recovery‑as‑a‑Service (DRaaS) aimed at managed service providers (MSPs), featuring a co‑managed, cloud‑native model that eliminates the need for MSPs to maintain their own recovery infrastructure. The solution leverages AI to accelerate incident discovery, turning months...
Forge Software Platform Uses iPad LiDAR Scanning for Quick Solar Design Proposals
Dominus Foundry has launched Forge, a vertical SaaS platform that uses iPad and iPhone LiDAR to capture roof geometry and instantly generate design proposals. The system replaces fragmented workflows— aerial imagery, separate estimating tools, and office‑side software—with a single end‑to‑end...
Hightouch Reaches $100M ARR Fueled by Marketing Tools Powered by AI
Hightouch, a seven‑year‑old startup, announced it has reached $100 million in annualized recurring revenue after launching an AI‑powered marketing content service in late 2024. The platform integrates directly with brand assets in tools like Figma and CMSs to generate on‑brand images and...
MuleSoft Agent Fabric Adds New Ways to Keep AI Agents in Line
Salesforce is expanding MuleSoft Agent Fabric with deterministic scripting for Agent Broker, new LLM governance in AI Gateway, and Model Control Protocol enhancements. The deterministic controls let enterprises steer AI agents with rule‑based routing, reducing reliance on costly large language...
Leapwork Announces Continuous Validation Platform for Software Quality
Leapwork unveiled its Continuous Validation Platform, an agentic, application‑agnostic solution that unifies functional test automation, performance testing, and AI‑native orchestration across the software development lifecycle. The platform promises up to 75% faster test automation implementation, a 50‑70% cut in maintenance...
Zuora Collections Launches in Europe with Germany Data Center for In-Region Data and AI-Driven Workflows
Zuora has launched its AI‑powered Collections product for European customers, supported by a new data center in Germany that stores all data within the EU. The platform automates outreach, risk scoring, and cash‑flow forecasting by linking billing, revenue and collections...
Shirofune Launches AI Summary
Shirofune, a digital advertising automation platform, unveiled AI Summary on April 15, 2026. The new tool leverages generative AI to scan performance‑metric shifts and produce a concise, actionable narrative within seconds. It sits on top of Shirofune’s existing Change Analysis...
Parasail Closes $32M Series A to Build the Supercloud that Puts Developers in Control of Their AI
Parasail announced a $32 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to $42 million, led by Touring Capital and Kindred Ventures. The funding will expand its AI Supercloud—a global GPU‑aggregated platform that automates inference optimization and lets developers launch custom AI models...
Bluon Launches PartsConnect Tool for HVAC Contractors
Bluon unveiled PartsConnect, a new feature in its mobile app that lets HVAC‑R technicians scan a unit’s model number, instantly see compatible replacement parts, check real‑time inventory at nearby distributors, and purchase the items within the platform. The tool builds...
9 Best Work Management Software: My Picks for 2026
G2’s SEO specialist Krithika Sathyamoorthy released a roundup of the nine best work‑management software solutions for 2026, ranking them by G2 ratings, pricing, and functional fit. The guide highlights the productivity cost of fragmented tools—employees spend 58 % of their time...
Microsoft to Cut Windows 365 Price for SMBs
Microsoft announced a permanent 20% price reduction for its Windows 365 Business subscription, effective May 1, 2026 for new customers and at renewal for existing users. The cut follows a promotional discount introduced last October and coincides with a new on‑demand start...
Quantiiv’s Virtual Executive for Restaurants; Popmenu and SpotOn Create a Unified Commerce Platform
Quantiiv has introduced ROGER, an AI‑powered virtual executive that lets restaurant managers ask business questions via email and receive actionable insights. The tool pulls data from POS, inventory, marketing, weather and macro‑economic sources, mimicking a team of analysts. Over 650...
Talon.One Releases Integration With Adobe Experience Platform to Power Real-Time Loyalty and Promotions for Enterprise Brands
Talon.One, the incentives platform behind more than 300 enterprise brands, has launched a native integration with Adobe Experience Platform (AEP). The connector links Talon.One to Adobe Real‑Time CDP and Journey Optimizer, allowing loyalty and promotion logic to run instantly across...
Acumatica Acquires CoreChain Technologies to Offer Embedded Supply Chain Financing
Acumatica announced the acquisition of CoreChain Technologies, though financial terms remain undisclosed. The deal embeds CoreChain’s blockchain‑based B2B payment and supply‑chain financing capabilities directly into Acumatica Cloud ERP. CoreChain, which has processed more than $1 billion in B2B transactions, offers a...
Pinecone Claims up to 97% Lower Costs with Dedicated Read Nodes
Pinecone has launched its dedicated read nodes (DRN) as a generally available offering, promising up to 97% lower query costs compared with its on‑demand pricing. The service is aimed at workloads with steady high query‑per‑second rates, large vector collections and...
Ex-OnlyFans CEO Launches Vylit, an 18+ Creator Platform Positioned Between Social Media, Adult Content
Former OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan has launched Vylit, an 18+ creator platform that blends social‑media style discovery with adult‑content monetization. The New York‑based startup secured $2.7 million in seed funding from Windmill Chain Fund and angel investors. Vylit differentiates itself by...
Shoplazza Launches AI Store Builder, Delivering Ready-to-Sell Storefronts Through a Single Agent
Shoplazza, the global DTC commerce platform, unveiled its AI Store Builder, an AI‑driven agent that lets merchants generate a complete online storefront from a simple natural‑language prompt in minutes. The tool automatically creates homepage layouts, product pages, collections, policy content,...
Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud Expands Regions and Introduces Restore Options
Oracle announced that its AI Database service on Google Cloud is expanding into seven new regions—Osaka, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Sydney, São Paulo, Toronto and Milan—bringing the total footprint to 15 regions and 20 zones worldwide. The expansion reduces latency, improves data‑residency...
Prepay for the Gemini API to Get More Control over Your Spend
Google AI Studio introduced Prepay Billing for the Gemini API, letting developers buy credits upfront and avoid surprise monthly charges. The model launches today for new US Google Cloud Billing Accounts, with a global rollout planned in the coming weeks....
Outreach to Lead the Future of Interconnected AI Agents for Revenue Teams
Outreach announced its AI‑driven revenue orchestration platform is now available on Salesforce AgentExchange, the unified marketplace that blends AppExchange, Slack and Agentforce. The integration lets sales and revenue teams access Outreach’s AI agents directly within existing Salesforce and Slack workflows,...
Fathom Unveils Major Platform Update, Adding Bot-Free Capture, Account-Wide Meeting Insights, and Widely Expanded LLM Integrations
Fathom rolled out a major platform refresh that adds bot‑free capture options, a redesigned desktop UI with live summaries, and a soon‑to‑launch iOS app for on‑the‑go note‑taking. Users can now pick transcription, audio‑only, or full video capture per meeting while...
Stonebridge Partners with Otelier
Stonebridge has chosen Otelier to serve as its unified back‑office, planning and analytics platform across its hotel portfolio. The rollout will implement Otelier’s suite—TruePlan, IntelliSight, Rec and DigiAudit—to replace legacy spreadsheets and fragmented systems with a centralized, driver‑based approach. The...
Pluralsight Launches New AI Sandbox, Guided Learning, and Enterprise Integrations to Help Teams Build Job-Ready Tech Skills
Pluralsight unveiled a suite of platform upgrades aimed at accelerating AI and technology skill development for enterprise teams. The enhancements include an expanded AI Prompt Sandbox with new large‑language models, Iris‑powered guided learning prompts, and accelerated instructor‑led training such as...
Broadcom Announces VMware Tanzu Platform Agent Foundations for Security, PaaS Simplicity
Broadcom unveiled the VMware Tanzu Platform agent foundations, a secure, pre‑built PaaS layer for AI agents that runs on VMware Cloud Foundation. The offering leverages cloud‑native Buildpacks, structural secrets isolation, and zero‑trust networking to harden containers against malware and data...
Browser Run: Give Your Agents a Browser
Cloudflare has rebranded Browser Rendering as Browser Run, a globally distributed headless Chrome service designed for AI agents. The update adds Live View, Human‑in‑the‑Loop handoff, direct Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) access, MCP client support, WebMCP integration, session recordings, and a...
InvoiceCloud Taps AI for Billing and Other Digital Transactions News Briefs From 4/15/26
InvoiceCloud unveiled its AI‑driven Billing Experience, promising end‑to‑end automation for invoicing and payments. Meanwhile, Zelle granted scholarships to ten MBA candidates at historically Black colleges, and Venmo broadened its Stash rewards with a 5% cash‑back perk at select merchants. The...
Adobe’s New Firefly AI Assistant Wants to Run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and More From One Prompt
Adobe unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, an agentic tool that lets creators run Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and other Creative Cloud apps from a single natural‑language prompt. The assistant can call on roughly 100 built‑in tools, outputting native PSD, AI and...
This Startup Is Betting Tokenmaxxing Will Create the Next Compute Giant
Parasail, a cloud‑compute broker focused exclusively on AI inference, closed a $32 million Series A round. The startup claims to process 500 billion tokens a day by dynamically allocating GPU capacity across 40 data centers in 15 countries, buying excess compute on liquidity...
Register Domains Wherever You Build: Cloudflare Registrar API Now in Beta
Cloudflare announced the beta launch of its Registrar API, letting developers programmatically search, check availability, and register domain names. The API is built for integration with editors, CI pipelines, and AI agents, enabling a seamless, three‑call workflow that completes in...
Traza Raises $2.1 Million Led by Base10 to Automate Procurement Workflows with AI
Traza, a New York‑based startup, closed a $2.1 million pre‑seed round led by Base10 to launch AI agents that autonomously handle procurement tasks such as vendor outreach, RFQ generation, order tracking, and invoice processing. Targeting the $8 billion procurement‑software market, the company...
The First Direct Booking App for Hotels Launches in ChatGPT, Powered by Lighthouse
Lighthouse has launched The Hotels Network app, the first direct‑booking solution for hotels embedded inside ChatGPT. Powered by Lighthouse’s Connect AI engine, the app lets hotels of any size appear in AI‑driven conversations with live rates, verified photos and brand‑controlled...
Xref Launches Australian-First Platform to Combat AI-Driven Job Market Despair
Xref has launched Australia’s first candidate‑owned verified career profile platform, Xref.me, to counter the surge of AI‑generated job applications and dwindling trust in traditional resumes. The service moves reference verification from a final‑stage task to the point of application, giving...
Certinia Unveils Veda, Its AI Engine for Professional Services Automation
Certinia introduced Veda, an enterprise‑grade AI engine for professional services automation, in its Spring 2026 release. The platform ships with 10 role‑based agents and 64 reusable actions, priced at $30 per user per month plus consumption‑based credits. Early lighthouse customers...
Fathom Adds a Bot-Less Meeting Mode in a Bid to Take on Granola
Fathom announced a bot‑less meeting mode that transcribes every call you attend without an AI assistant joining the room. The update adds speaker diarization, video recording options, and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for exporting transcript data to other...
Salesforce Launches Headless 360 to Support Agent‑first Enterprise Workflows
Salesforce unveiled Headless 360, a platform that consolidates its Agentforce Vibes coding environment, data, and governance tools into an API‑first layer for building agent‑first enterprise workflows. The offering exposes Salesforce’s core datasets, business logic, and MCP utilities through APIs, CLI...
Gupshup Launches Superagent
Gupshup unveiled Superagent, an autonomous AI agent that designs, launches, and optimizes customer conversations across major messaging and voice channels. The platform handles everything from campaign setup and journey orchestration to transaction processing and performance monitoring, all via simple prompts....
Press Release: OceanScore Integrates Compliance Manager Directly with Major Shipping Groups’ Financial Systems
OceanScore, a Hamburg‑based maritime compliance tech firm, has launched live ERP integrations that connect its Compliance Manager platform directly with the financial systems of several leading ship managers. The APIs automatically exchange vessel, charter and emissions data, synchronising EU ETS...
Credas and Finity Partner to Automate Right to Work Checks for over 150,000 UK Workers Monthly
Credas Technologies has partnered with UK payroll platform Finity to embed its UK Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework into Finity’s system, automating right‑to‑work checks for more than 150,000 workers each month. The integration replaces manual document reviews with a...
Recruitment in the AI Era: Welcome to the Jungle Launches New People-First Hiring Suite
Welcome to the Jungle has unveiled the Welcome Hiring Suite, an AI‑native, end‑to‑end recruitment platform that consolidates employer branding, sourcing, an applicant tracking system and job‑matching tools. The suite claims to cut up to six hours of recruiter time per...
PartnerStack Joins AppDirect in a Move That Could Reshape B2B Affiliate Distribution
PartnerStack announced it is joining AppDirect, merging its B2B affiliate infrastructure with AppDirect’s subscription‑commerce and marketplace platform. The combined offering will unite PartnerStack’s 152,000 active B2B partners and recurring‑commission tools with AppDirect’s network of 14,000 technology advisors and hyperscaler marketplace...
Yaroslav Lazor: The $120,000 Glitch That Sparked a Global SaaS Platform
Yaroslav Lazor discovered a $120,000 spreadsheet billing error that exposed how fragile spreadsheet‑driven processes can be. He founded Coupler.io to automate data movement and eliminate manual spreadsheet dependencies. Lazor’s company, Railsware, operates as a bootstrapped product studio, turning internal failures—like...
Phyron Brings AI-Powered VIN-Level Video Ads to TikTok
Phyron is launching an AI-driven solution that generates video ads for every vehicle in a dealer’s inventory, targeting TikTok’s automotive audience at the VIN level. The product, integrated with TikTok’s new Automotive Ads for Inventory, is currently in a closed...
ERP Market Acceleration Puts Pressure On Modernization Plans
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is entering a rapid growth phase, with forecasts projecting the global market to exceed $280 billion by 2034 at a 13% compound annual growth rate. Organizations are accelerating ERP modernization to streamline finance, HR, and supply‑chain...
Pinecone Adds Dedicated Vector Database Node Option to Managed Service
Pinecone announced that its Dedicated Read Nodes (DRN) option is now generally available in its managed vector database service. DRN lets IT teams assign workloads to a single, dedicated node, eliminating multi‑tenant sharing and delivering more predictable performance. The isolation...
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Which Is the Best Value: Zapier Vs. Make? [2026]
Zapier and Make are the leading no‑code automation platforms, but their pricing structures differ sharply. Zapier bills only for completed tasks, while Make uses a credit system that charges for every step, including polls, filters, and errors. Although Make’s entry‑level...
Top 5 Popular HRMS Software for Manufacturers in Singapore
Manufacturers in Singapore are grappling with a severe technical‑labor shortage, tighter foreign‑worker quotas and rising levies under the COMPASS framework, while digital‑integration gaps hinder Industry 4.0 adoption. These pressures demand HRMS platforms that can handle 24/7 shift rotations, biometric attendance, and...
Autura and YASSI Partner to Modernize Towing Lien Processing Nationwide
Autura, a towing‑management software provider, announced a partnership with YASSI to embed YASSI’s DMV registration and NMVTIS lookup APIs into its TowLien lien‑processing platform. The integration delivers real‑time, normalized vehicle‑owner data, reducing lookup times, manual data entry, and per‑transaction costs...
