Philip Pich, Founder of Passive Digital Asset, on Why Cash-Flowing Digital Businesses Are Emerging as a Serious Alternative Asset Class
Investor Philip Pich argues cash‑flowing digital businesses are emerging as a serious alternative asset class. These eCommerce brands generate recurring revenue, offer transparent data, and require less capital than traditional private‑equity deals. Pich emphasizes applying M&A rigor—structured deals, earn‑outs, and governance—to treat them like operating companies rather than speculative assets. The approach promises durable income amid market volatility.
How to Choose the Best OCR Software
The 2026 OCR Software Guide outlines how AI‑driven OCR platforms now extract text from over 13,000 document types across more than 250 countries in under a second. OCR Studio leads the market with specialized modules—ID‑scan, MRZ‑scan, BANK‑scan, ID‑verify and CODE‑scan—each...
Conditional Access Enforcement Change Coming to Microsoft Entra
Microsoft announced that starting March 27 2026, Conditional Access policies in Microsoft Entra will be enforced during sign‑ins even when resource exclusions are configured, with a phased rollout through June 2026. The change specifically targets sign‑ins from client applications that request only OIDC...
Battery Electrolyte Stays Solid at Room Temperature yet Conducts Ions Like a Liquid
Researchers at UNIST and KAIST have created a solid‑state electrolyte from ethylene carbonate that remains crystalline at room temperature yet conducts lithium ions at 0.64 mS cm⁻¹. By using a very low concentration of LiTFSI, the mixture (EC₀.₂ₜ) freezes around 29 °C, forming...
How Topological Surfaces Boost Clean Energy Catalysts
Researchers at Tohoku University demonstrated that monolayer PtBi₂ retains its topological surface states even when covered by a hydroxyl layer during the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). The hydroxyl‑induced electrochemical surface state reshapes the electronic structure, creating spin‑orbit‑coupled states with high...
One-Step 3D Microfluidic Chip Brings Cells Closer to Real Tissues
Researchers at the University of Macau introduced a digital microfluidic chip fabricated in a single 3D‑printing step that incorporates micro‑structured wells directly onto the electrodes. The device precisely moves droplets, captures cells, and rapidly forms viable 3D spheroids that persist...
Self-Powered Nanocomposite Material Detects Its Own Cracks
Researchers at Tohoku University have created a carbon‑fiber‑reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite that incorporates a lead‑free piezoelectric nanomaterial, potassium sodium niobate (KNN), to harvest vibration energy and detect internal cracks. The material generates up to 13.6 V under vibration, and the output...
Atomic Spins Set Quantum Fluid in Motion
Researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo have experimentally demonstrated the Einstein–de Haas effect in a quantum fluid by using a Bose–Einstein condensate of highly magnetic europium atoms. By lowering a weak magnetic field from 1 µT to a few nT, spin...
Sanofi Says Its €15B Dealmaking Budget, R&D Spend Should Help Ease Looming Dupixent Patent Cliff
Sanofi announced a €14‑15 billion budget for mergers and acquisitions in 2026, alongside a bolstered R&D spend of roughly €7 billion. The pharmaceutical giant aims to counter the looming revenue gap from Dupixent’s patent expiration expected around 2027. Management expects the combined...
All Strategies Work—Pick One and Stop Paralyzing
Today a journalist emailed me one of those questions that looks innocent and absolutely isn’t. What unexpected opportunity came from starting your own business and what advice would you give others about recognising opportunities. Which is really asking, what did...
N-Able Brings AI to Endpoint, Security, and Recovery
N‑able unveiled AI‑enhanced capabilities across its endpoint management, security operations, and data‑protection suite. Leveraging telemetry from over 11 million managed devices and a network of 25,000+ service providers, the company now offers agentic AI that automates scripting, threat detection, and recovery...
Radiation Hardened Circuit Platform Expands Space Electronics Development
BAE Systems introduced its RH12 Storefront, a radiation‑hardened 12‑nanometer circuit platform aimed at space‑grade integrated circuits. The offering bundles a full library of IP blocks, design tools, and licensing options, enabling customers to create custom system‑on‑chip solutions for harsh off‑Earth...
EUDI Wallet Use Cases: From KYC to Payments and Lending
The European Union Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, enabled by eIDAS 2.0, promises to replace fragmented, document‑heavy KYC flows with a unified, government‑backed credential system. Financial firms currently see 40‑60% onboarding abandonment and verification costs of €5 per check, translating to...
Why a Gradual Move Away From US Tech Is a Good Idea
Brian Honan’s article in the Irish Examiner warns Irish small businesses and families that dependence on US‑based technology platforms can jeopardise digital sovereignty. He cites scenarios where tariffs, sanctions or policy shifts could abruptly block access to email, documents or...
Nvidia, Amazon, and Microsoft Could Invest up to $60 Billion in OpenAI
OpenAI is negotiating a multi‑billion‑dollar funding round with Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon that could total up to $60 billion. Nvidia may contribute as much as $30 billion, Amazon between $10 billion and $20 billion, and Microsoft less than $10 billion. Existing backer SoftBank could add...
Forget Predictions: True 2026 Cybersecurity Priorities From Leaders
BH Consulting’s CEO Brian Honan was featured in Security Week, outlining the firm’s view of the top cybersecurity priorities for 2026. The piece highlights BH Consulting’s 20‑year track record, ISO‑27001 certification, and its portfolio of services including CISO/DPO as‑a‑service, audits...
Lilly Establishes up to $2.7B Repertoire Deal in Second Immune Play of 2026
Eli Lilly has signed a strategic alliance with Repertoire Immune Medicines, providing $85 million upfront and up to $1.84 billion in milestone payments to develop T‑cell‑targeted therapies for autoimmune diseases. The collaboration will use Repertoire’s DECODE platform to pinpoint T‑cell antigen interactions, aiming...
Particular Audience Introduces Modular Retail Media Solutions to Cut Costs and Accelerate Innovation for RMNs
Particular Audience unveiled a Modular Retail Media (MRM) suite comprising 13 interoperable modules that can be added to existing retail media networks without replacing legacy adtech. The AI‑driven components, ranging from semantic search to automated product bundles, promise higher‑margin ad...
Saxo Bank Fined Around $50m by Danish FSA
Saxo Bank has been hit with a fine of roughly $50 million by Denmark’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) after a May 2023 inspection uncovered alleged breaches of the country’s Money Laundering Act. The penalty follows a detailed audit by the Danish FSA,...
FCA Launches Pop-Up ATM to Warn Customers of Investment Scams
The FCA installed a pop‑up ATM at London Waterloo featuring its mascot, Emil the Seal, to highlight investment‑scam risks. The stunt promotes the new Firm Checker tool that lets consumers verify a firm’s FCA authorisation instantly. In the year to...
Exercise Reduces Inflammatory TMAO Produced by the Gut Microbiome
Researchers demonstrated that regular exercise markedly reduces the gut‑derived inflammatory metabolite trimethylamine N‑oxide (TMAO) in an aging rat model, lowering plasma TMAO by roughly 40%. The reduction coincided with significant improvements in cognitive performance, with the discrimination index rising 22.6%...
Biopharma Sentiment Surges, Fueling M&A and IPO Boom
Biopharma sentiment just snapped higher $XBI BPSI index jumped 78 to 90 in Q1. That is not a grind. That is a turn. Under the hood: >Current Conditions surged 58 to 75. Pain is easing now, not someday. >12-month Expectations hit 100 for the first...
Jotform Brings AI-Powered Chatbots to Canva Designs
Jotform has launched Jotform AI Chatbot for Canva, the first native AI chatbot integration within Canva’s design platform. The tool lets viewers interact with designs to ask questions, book appointments, track orders, or submit inquiries without leaving the editor. Users...
Bone Targeted Delivery of Mitochondria Wrapped in Artificial Cell Membranes
Researchers have engineered artificial cell microspheres (Fmito@ACs) that encapsulate healthy mitochondria from fetal mouse mesenchymal stem cells, shielding them from degradation in circulation. By applying an external magnetic field, these microspheres can be directed to bone fracture sites, where they...
TetraxAI Raises Pre-Seed Funding for AI Risk Tools in Clean Energy
AI‑focused SaaS startup TetraxAI announced a €1.2 million pre‑seed round led by The Footprint Firm, bringing total funding to €1.5 million including a NEOTEC grant. The company’s platform automates due‑diligence and risk analysis for utility‑scale clean‑energy projects, cutting review times from weeks...
Space Grove Ventures Announces Public Launch at SpaceCom | Space Congress, Signaling a New Commercial Model for Space and Defense...
Space Grove Ventures debuted at SpaceCom | Space Congress, unveiling a for‑profit platform that turns underutilized real‑estate into high‑performance innovation districts for space, defense, and advanced‑technology firms. The company will redevelop facilities, manage tenant operations, and coordinate public‑private programs to accelerate commercialization...
Shenzhen Shares Product Details, Technology Vision
At NRF 2026, Shenzhen’s sales director Tiffany Tian unveiled a suite of technology solutions aimed at modernizing retail and restaurant experiences. The portfolio includes AI‑powered kiosks, modular hardware, and immersive AR/VR tools designed for the North American market. Tian highlighted...
Webflow and Google Ads Narrow the Gap Between Ads and Site Results
Webflow has launched a native Google Ads integration that lets marketers create, run, and monitor campaigns directly from the Webflow design environment. The new app, available in the Webflow Marketplace, supports Google’s Performance Max campaigns and pulls site assets such...
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals New Origin Story for the Universe's 1st Supermassive Black Holes
JWST observations have confirmed supermassive black holes existing less than 500 million years after the Big Bang, supporting the direct‑collapse seed model. The model, proposed by Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, suggests pristine gas clouds collapsed directly into massive black holes, bypassing...
Quantum Phase Transitions in 4-Spin Systems Achieved Via Variational and Hardware Approaches
Researchers led by Rudraksh Sharma present a comparative study of quantum phase transitions in a four‑spin transverse‑field Ising model, using exact diagonalisation, a shallow variational quantum eigensolver (VQE), and execution on real noisy‑intermediate‑scale quantum (NISQ) hardware. The VQE reproduces ground‑state...
Levellr Raises $2.5M to Turn Discord and Gaming User Voice Data Into Brand Intelligence
Levellr, an AI‑driven insights platform for Discord and next‑gen community data, secured $2.5 million in a round led by Fuel Ventures. Founded in 2021, the company reports back‑to‑back revenue doublings as brands seek real‑time user sentiment to guide product and marketing...
Fake “Mac Cleaner” Campaign Uses Google Ads to Redirect Users to Malware
Cybercriminals are leveraging Google Search Ads to distribute macOS malware by directing users searching for “mac cleaner” to counterfeit Apple‑styled landing pages. The ads, hosted on compromised Google Ads accounts, redirect to Google Apps Script pages that decode Base64 payloads...
Unlimit Appoints Pedro Azevedo as Head Off EU Sales
Unlimit has appointed Pedro Azevedo as Head of Sales for the European Union, operating from Lisbon. Azevedo will steer the company’s commercial strategy, scaling its enterprise sales organization and deepening partnerships with merchants, banks and digital platforms across Europe. His...
Tosi Platform Delivers Unified Connectivity, Visibility, and Security for OT at Scale
Tosi has launched a purpose‑built OT platform that consolidates connectivity, visibility, and security into a single console. The offering includes Tosi Control for fleet management and real‑time status, with Tosi Insight adding traffic analytics and anomaly detection, and a full...
HSBC Teams with Sage to Help Businesses Get Ahead of Incoming Digital Tax Rules
HSBC UK has launched My Business Finances, a new tool that embeds Sage’s accounting technology directly into its business banking platform. The service enables eligible sole traders and landlords to manage bookkeeping, invoicing, and submit Making Tax Digital (MTD) Income...
ENA Respiratory Begins Dosing in Phase 2 Study of INNA‑051 Nasal Spray
ENA Respiratory has initiated dosing in a Phase 2 clinical trial of its intranasal antiviral, INNA‑051. The study evaluates the spray’s ability to curb viral replication in the upper respiratory tract of adults presenting mild respiratory symptoms. Approximately 200 participants will...
Standard Chartered Applies AI to Transaction Banking Services
Standard Chartered has launched an AI‑powered platform for its transaction banking division. The solution enables bankers to quickly retrieve, customize, and deliver transaction banking services to corporate and institutional clients. By leveraging real‑time analytics and automation, the platform aims to...
Dot Ai to Unveil Next-Generation Asset Intelligence Platform at Manifest 2026
Dot Ai joins Wiliot and Würth Industry North America to showcase the intelligence layer powering modern industrial operations Dot Ai (“Dot Ai” or the “Company”), an IoT and AI-based SaaS company redefining asset intelligence for industrial technology, announced it will...
Sumsub’s AI Agent Verification Binds Automation to Verified Human Identity
Sumsub has introduced AI Agent Verification, a new layer that ties AI‑driven automation to a verified human identity through its Know Your Agent framework. The solution detects automated activity, evaluates its risk, and triggers targeted liveness checks when needed, ensuring...
impact.com Launches Geodesix, a New Data Marketplace Connecting Premium Publishers With AI Systems
impact.com has unveiled Geodesix, a data marketplace that connects premium publishers with AI systems by licensing commerce content and instituting a revenue‑share model. The platform tackles the growing imbalance where AI models profit from journalistic and creator content without compensating...
CognyX AI Launches Chatbix.AI: A No-Code AI Agent Platform for Customer Support
CognyX AI unveiled Chatbix.AI, a no‑code platform that lets businesses build, train, and deploy AI agents for customer support across web, messaging and inbox channels. The solution centralizes disparate knowledge—FAQs, policy pages, product docs—so agents can generate grounded answers while...
Robotics Teams Lose Time Rebuilding Infrastructure, Not Algorithms
🎙️ Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore , and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London: In this episode, Stephen shares his path from growing up in Wales to spending a decade at Imperial, a...
Cside VPN Detection Enables Control of VPN Traffic to Prevent Fraud and Legal Exposure
cside has launched VPN Detection, a solution that identifies and manages traffic routed through virtual private networks. Unlike traditional IP‑list methods, it analyzes network behavior, browser fingerprints, and packet timing across OSI layers three to seven. The tool aims to...
3 Decisions CISOs Need to Make to Prevent Downtime Risk in 2026
Enterprises face escalating operational downtime risk, prompting CISOs to prioritize three strategic decisions. First, adopt STIX/TAXII‑compatible threat intelligence feeds that deliver fresh, high‑quality indicators, boosting detection rates by up to 58 %. Second, eliminate noisy false positives to protect analysts from...
How to Cultivate Content Creativity: A Framework for Marketers
In this episode, host interviews content strategist Melanie Deziel about reviving stale marketing through a two‑phase creativity framework. She explains how separating ideation into divergent thinking (generating many wild ideas) and convergent thinking (refining and selecting the strongest concepts) can...
Citibot Unveils AI Voice and Refresh, Expanding Access and Accuracy for Government Services
Citibot introduced two new platform upgrades for 2026—Citibot Refresh and AI Voice—aimed at modernizing government digital services. Refresh automatically scans websites and PDFs to identify outdated, inaccurate, or inaccessible content, helping agencies maintain compliance with ADA WCAG 2.1 standards. AI...
Chargeback Management Tools: Analytics and Reporting Features That Actually Matter
Chargeback management tools are evolving from simple tracking to analytics that drive revenue protection. Centralized dashboards consolidate dispute data, while segmentation by reason code, product, and geography uncovers actionable insights. Advanced platforms provide granular win‑rate tracking, net recovery calculations, and...
Lloyds to Go Deeper Into AI After Totting up Financial Value of Current Deployments
Lloyds Banking Group reported that by 2025 it had deployed more than 50 generative AI solutions across its operations, ranging from an AI‑powered internal search assistant to a GitHub Copilot‑style tool for engineers. The bank highlighted productivity gains such as...
Best Attentive Alternatives And Competitors To Consider In 2026
The episode breaks down Attentive’s niche in SMS and RCS automation and why its demo‑only, custom‑priced model suits mid‑size to large brands. It then surveys 11 alternatives, highlighting Omnisend as the top all‑round ecommerce choice with global SMS, email, and...
Palm Payments: Promise and Reality
Palm‑based biometric payment systems have moved from prototype labs to a handful of pilot sites, offering users the ability to authorize transactions by placing their hand on a dedicated scanner. While the technology promises faster checkout and enhanced fraud protection,...
