Shopify Dominant Software in New Stores
ShopRank research shows Shopify powered 54% of new online stores in the Netherlands, 49% in France and 41% in Spain last year. Across seven major European markets, Shopify launched 148,044 new stores, outpacing WooCommerce’s 99,140 and PrestaShop’s 9,747. WooCommerce saw mixed shifts, losing share in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain but gaining in Germany, Poland and the UK. Domain analysis reveals new DTC brands favor .com on Shopify, while local businesses prefer country‑code domains on PrestaShop.
Hapi Launches Folio Finder
Hapi has launched Folio Finder, a standard API that lets hotel brands and hospitality tech providers instantly search and retrieve guest folios and invoice details across multiple property‑management systems. The tool tackles fragmented billing data by delivering real‑time access without...
Top Cloud Providers to Outspend Ireland's GDP on AI in 2026
Eight of the world’s largest cloud providers will collectively invest about $710 billion in AI servers and data‑center infrastructure in 2026, a spend that eclipses Ireland’s entire GDP. The capex represents a 61 percent year‑over‑year increase, underscoring the rapid scaling of AI...
Wyndham Enhances Group Travel Platform
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts has upgraded its group direct‑booking platform, powered by Groups360, adding real‑time visibility, customizable booking pages, and seamless integration with hotel systems. The enhancements let planners manage reservations, rates, rewards and early/late stays from a single dashboard,...
Freestar Introduces pubOS, a Unified Publisher Operating System Built to Replace Fragmented Solutions and Navigate the AI Age
Freestar launched pubOS, a unified Publisher Operating System that replaces fragmented ad‑tech stacks with a single, integrated platform. The solution combines Freestar’s proprietary monetization tools—including a custom Prebid wrapper and AI‑driven yield engine—with a marketplace of identity, compliance, and analytics...
Trace Raises $3M to Solve the AI Agent Adoption Problem in Enterprise
Trace, a Boston-based workflow orchestration startup, announced a $3 million seed round led by Y Combinator and several venture firms. The company builds a knowledge graph from enterprise tools such as email, Slack and Airtable to give AI agents the contextual...
Figma Partners with OpenAI to Bake in Support for Codex
Figma announced a deep integration with OpenAI’s Codex, allowing designers and engineers to move fluidly between visual design and code within a single workflow. The partnership follows a similar deal with Anthropic’s Claude Code and leverages Figma’s Model Context Protocol...
Versa Launches Sovereign SASE-As-A-Service As ‘Something New’ In Partners’ Toolkits
Versa has introduced the world’s first sovereign SASE‑as‑a‑Service, extending its earlier sovereign SASE model to a fully managed, in‑country offering. The service provides local control, management, and storage to satisfy data‑residency regulations such as the U.S. CLOUD Act. Versa reports...
ServiceNow Resolves 90% of Its Own IT Requests Autonomously. Now It Wants to Do the Same for Any Enterprise
ServiceNow reports that it resolves 90% of its own employee IT requests autonomously, delivering solutions up to 99% faster than human agents. The company unveiled an Autonomous Workforce framework, the EmployeeWorks product, and a "role automation" architecture to extend this...
Latino-Founded Applevel Reports $40M Valuation, Integrating WhatsApp Into GoHighLevel CRM and OpenAI
Latino‑founded startup Applevel announced a $40 million valuation after scaling its platform that syncs WhatsApp conversations into the GoHighLevel CRM and adds OpenAI‑driven response automation. The solution now serves over 4,500 active users in more than 36 countries and has recruited...
How Embedded BNPL Optimizes Cash Flow for SMBs: Inside the Intuit-Affirm Partnership
Intuit has teamed with Affirm to embed a Buy‑Now‑Pay‑Later (BNPL) option directly into QuickBooks invoices, letting small‑business owners split customer payments while receiving the full amount upfront. The move turns QuickBooks from a bookkeeping tool into an actionable financial operating...
Autocalls Expands Platform With Full Omnichannel White-Label AI Voice Capabilities
Autocalls announced a platform upgrade that adds full omnichannel, white‑label AI voice capabilities across phone, WhatsApp and web chat, priced at a flat $0.09 per minute. The all‑inclusive rate bundles premium speech synthesis, language models, recognition and telephony, undercutting typical...
OutSystems Launches Elevate Partner Program
OutSystems unveiled Elevate, a redesigned global partner program that replaces its previous one‑size‑fits‑all model with a performance‑driven “Earned Level” framework. The new system awards points across financial contribution, knowledge, customer satisfaction, and program track, with heightened weighting for agentic AI...
Ribbon and AWS Transform Cloud Deployment for Service Providers and Enterprises
Ribbon Communications announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services to deliver a cloud‑native, secure voice communications suite on AWS Marketplace. The offering bundles Ribbon’s Session Border Controller, policy routing engine, and centralized management platform as containerized services optimized for...
Perplexity Launches 'Computer' AI Agent that Coordinates 19 Models, Priced at $200 a Month
Perplexity, valued at $20 billion, launched Computer, a cloud‑based AI agent that coordinates 19 specialized models to execute complex workflows. The service is currently available only to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month and promises autonomous task decomposition and model...
How We Engineered a Scalable and Performant Enterprise AI Platform
To meet the stringent data‑privacy demands of enterprise insurance, the company abandoned the traditional multi‑tenant SaaS model and built a single‑tenant AI platform where each client receives an isolated database and compute environment. By eliminating middleware and moving business logic...
Aras Adds New InnovatorEdge Services for PLM Access
Aras unveiled three new InnovatorEdge services—API Manager, App Builder, and Edge AI—plus configurable AI agents to extend its PLM platform. The cloud‑delivered, low‑code tools enable secure, governed exposure of product data and digital‑thread services to external applications and AI resources....
The Best Make Alternatives in 2026
Make (formerly Integromat) remains a powerful visual automation platform, but its steep learning curve and limited app library push many teams toward alternatives. Zapier leads the pack with over 8,000 integrations and robust AI orchestration, while Workato targets enterprise governance...
Gushwork Bets on AI Search for Customer Leads — and Early Results Are Emerging
Gushwork, an India‑founded startup, closed a $9 million seed round that values it at $33 million post‑money. The company’s AI‑driven platform creates search‑optimized content, builds backlinks, and tracks leads to help businesses appear in AI‑powered search results such as ChatGPT and Gemini....
AvePoint Inc (AVPT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
AvePoint reported Q4 2025 revenue of $114.7 million, up 29% year‑over‑year, driven by SaaS revenue of $88.9 million representing 78% of total sales. Annual recurring revenue climbed to $416.8 million, with net new ARR of $26.8 million—a 48% increase and a record quarter. The...
How We Built a Distributed Work Scheduling System for Pulumi Cloud
Pulumi Cloud needed a unified scheduler to orchestrate deployments, Insights scans, and policy evaluations across both its own infrastructure and customer‑managed runners. The team built a database‑backed background activity system that treats each workflow as a typed, persistent activity with...
Autodesk Inc (ADSK) Q4 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Autodesk reported fiscal 2025 fourth‑quarter revenue up 12% year‑over‑year and billings rising 24%, surpassing the top end of its guidance despite foreign‑exchange headwinds. Margins improved, with GAAP operating margin reaching 22% and non‑GAAP margin 37%, while free cash flow hit...
Rackspace Technology Inc (RXT) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Rackspace reported Q3 GAAP revenue of $671 million, a 1% sequential increase but a 1% year‑over‑year decline, beating the midpoint of its guidance. Non‑GAAP operating profit rose 17% sequentially to $32 million, while private‑cloud bookings grew 5% YoY, driven by major enterprise...
Asure Software Inc (ASUR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Asure Software reported Q3 2025 revenue of $36.3 million, a 24% year‑over‑year increase, driven by strong growth across payroll, benefits, recruiting and time‑and‑attendance solutions. Recurring revenue rose 11% to $31.8 million, while professional services and hardware revenue jumped to $4.4...
Seer Inc (SEER) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Thryv Holdings reported a 34% year‑over‑year increase in SaaS revenue, reaching $461 million for the full year, while SaaS adjusted EBITDA hit $73.8 million. The company highlighted the strategic impact of its Keap acquisition and the rapid growth of its Marketing Center,...
Telecom News: Ribbon Communications, AWS, Sterlite Technologies, Mynet, Telecom Italia
Ribbon Communications and Amazon Web Services announced a joint, cloud‑native voice communications platform that combines Ribbon’s session border controllers and SIP routing with AWS’s containerized infrastructure. The solution, sold via AWS Marketplace, leverages Kubernetes for rapid migration, scalability and built‑in...
Kneat Achieves Record Revenue for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025
Kneat reported record Q4 2025 revenue of $17.0 million, a 24% increase year‑over‑year, and total 2025 revenue of $63.3 million, up 29%. SaaS sales surged 29% in the quarter and 33% for the full year, pushing annual recurring revenue to $74.1 million. Adjusted...
App Sprawl Bogs Down Operations, Fuels Shadow IT Growth
Torii’s 2026 SaaS Benchmark Report reveals that large enterprises now run an average of 2,191 applications, with more than 61% of those tools operating without formal IT approval. AI experimentation is intensifying the problem, as employees juggle roughly 40 apps...
6,000 AWS Accounts, Three People, One Platform: Lessons Learned
ProGlove runs a SaaS platform on AWS using an account-per-tenant architecture, currently operating about 6,000 tenant accounts—half active—with over 120,000 service instances and a million Lambda functions. The approach gives each customer isolated compute, storage, and IAM boundaries, simplifying security,...
What to Expect From the Solutions Spotlight with Nexthink on March 10th, 2026
Solutions Review is hosting a free Solutions Spotlight webinar with Nexthink on March 10, 2026. The session will demonstrate how Nexthink’s AI‑driven Infinity platform—specifically its AI Drive and Adopt features—can monitor real‑time application usage, steer employee behavior toward approved tools, and turn...
Is Perplexity's New Computer a Safer Version of OpenClaw? How It Works
Perplexity unveiled Computer, a multi‑agent orchestration platform that combines more than a dozen cutting‑edge AI models into a single digital worker. The system, currently limited to Perplexity Max users, uses Claude Opus 4.6 for core reasoning and delegates specialized tasks...
BCNEXXT Adds HLG-Based HDR To Vipe Platform
BCNEXXT has integrated live HLG‑based HDR playout into its cloud‑native Vipe platform, supporting UHD 2160p BT.2100 HLG ingest and output. The solution lets broadcasters run HDR and SDR streams side‑by‑side, especially for live sports, while minimizing cross‑conversion steps. Vipe’s architecture...
Patientdesk AI Raises $1M Pre-Seed Backed by Y Combinator to Modernize Dental Front Desks
Patientdesk AI, a Y Combinator W26 startup, secured a $1 million pre‑seed round led by Y Combinator and E2VC to build an AI‑powered front‑desk system for dental practices. The platform automates the entire patient intake flow—answering calls, qualifying prospects, scheduling appointments,...
April Launches New Platform for Wealth Management
April has introduced an AI‑driven tax platform aimed at wealth managers and financial advisors, usable as a standalone solution or embedded within existing systems. The platform delivers a real‑time dashboard that surfaces client tax workflows, documents, and financial insights, while...
DUPAY: The Income Protection Platform Turning Unpaid Creator Invoices Into Recoverable Revenue
DUPAY, launched in May 2023, offers a subscription‑based income‑protection platform for creators, agencies, and small businesses. Leveraging AI‑generated demand letters and a three‑letter escalation protocol, the service reports an 81% success rate in recovering unpaid invoices across 16 countries. Beyond...
Guidde Raises $50M in Series B Funding
Guidde, an Israeli AI‑driven digital adoption platform, announced a $50 million Series B round. The financing was led by PSG Equity and included strategic investors monday.com, Norwest, Entrée Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, and Inkberry Ventures. The capital will accelerate the company’s global rollout...
XAML.io Adds Support for Sharing Code via a Link
Userware released XAML.io 0.6, a browser‑based IDE for .NET built on OpenSilver. The update introduces URL‑based code sharing, allowing anyone to view, run, or fork a project without affecting the original. It also adds native NuGet package support for .NET Standard...
Cloud Challengers
Cloud Challengers, hosted by Notion Capital and Google Cloud, convenes Europe’s top 100 B2B software founders after analysing 200,000 companies. The fifth‑annual report identifies firms with outsized growth potential, and inclusion historically triples the likelihood of securing the next funding...
Elly Debuts AI-Native Hiring Platform and Raises $8M
Elly launched an AI-native hiring platform and closed an $8 million funding round led by Sorenson Capital, with Atomic and Next Wave Capital participating. The platform consolidates sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking into a single AI-driven system, automatically capturing interview insights...
CloudCasa Expands Red Hat OpenShift Data Protection Across Edge and Hybrid Cloud
CloudCasa has upgraded its backup and recovery platform to better serve Red Hat OpenShift deployments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud environments. The update adds native SMB protocol support as a backup target, letting customers use existing SMB storage or operator‑deployed...
Jira’s Latest Update Allows AI Agents and Humans to Work Side by Side
Atlassian introduced “Agents in Jira,” allowing AI agents to be assigned, tracked, and managed alongside human users within the Jira dashboard. The feature, now in open beta, lets teams assign tickets to AI, set deadlines, and monitor progress with the...
Lightrun Debuts Real-Time AI Site Reliability Engineer for Autonomous Software Remediation
Lightrun Inc. unveiled an AI‑powered Site Reliability Engineer that can generate missing runtime evidence on‑the‑fly, eliminating the need for redeployments. The tool leverages the company’s patented Sandbox and Runtime Context engine to capture live, line‑level execution data, prove root causes,...
TCN Secures Arum Approved Status for Operator Platform
TCN’s cloud‑based contact‑center solution Operator has earned Arum Approved System status after an independent assessment, confirming it meets rigorous operational, compliance and scalability standards for regulated credit and collections environments. The certification highlights Operator’s omnichannel capabilities, rules‑based automation and configurable...
Kinfolk Closes $7M Seed Round for AI-Driven HR Platform
London‑based Kinfolk announced a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, bringing its total capital to $8.5 million. The startup offers an AI‑native HR workforce‑operations platform that combines agentic AI, Slack/Teams integration, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics. Kinfolk positions the solution...
SolveAI Raises $50M to Help Employees Build Their Own Enterprise Software
London‑based SolveAI announced a $50 million funding round – $45 million Series A led by GV and a $5 million pre‑seed from Accel – to scale its AI‑driven no‑code platform. The solution lets employees across functions generate fully compliant enterprise applications using natural‑language prompts,...
Sauce Labs Launches Industry’s First Programmable Mobile Device Cloud for the AI Era
Sauce Labs announced the Real Device Access API, the first programmable mobile device cloud designed for the AI era. The API lets developers control real Android and iOS devices through HTTP, issuing ADB or xcrun commands, streaming video, and accessing...
Agentive Appoints Former Google Cloud Leader David Keene as Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer
Agentive announced that former Google Cloud executive David Keene will serve as co‑founder and chief revenue officer. Keene brings more than three decades of leadership at Google Cloud, Salesforce, Oracle, SAP and recent CMO roles at Wipro Europe and Speechmatics....
Born in Ukraine, Ready for the World, 7 Ukrainian-Founded Startups You Should Know About
Ukraine’s startup ecosystem is punching above its weight, producing seven diverse companies that span AI‑driven compliance, plant‑based nutrition, eco‑housing, grant consulting, industrial monitoring, metal‑free batteries, and wireless power transfer. These founders leverage local talent and diaspora networks to address global...
What AX Can Do to Deliver Cohesion and Uniformity to AI Agents
The article introduces the concept of Agent Experience (AX), a discipline for preparing enterprise systems so AI agents can discover, invoke, and manage tools reliably. It stresses that agents require precise, structured documentation, robust API specifications, and context‑engineering such as...
CEO Sets Out the Case for Beehiiv versus Substack
Beehiiv CEO Tyler Denk argues the platform diverges from Substack by giving publishers full ownership of their audience and charging flat monthly fees instead of a revenue share. Beehiiv bundles newsletters, website hosting, ad networks, growth tools and soon podcasts...
