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Accounting for Nature appoints Andrea Della Mattea to board
Data Analytics

Accounting for Nature appoints Andrea Della Mattea to board

The move comes as the group develops software to make environmental accounts easier to manage, scale and use across organisations.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Yesterday
Akamai names Louis Tague to lead Australia, New Zealand
Hybrid Cloud

Akamai names Louis Tague to lead Australia, New Zealand

The appointment comes as Akamai seeks to deepen local ties in Australia and New Zealand, where customers are combining cloud, security and AI spending.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Yesterday
Detected flags US$10.4 billion SMB onboarding cost
Fintech

Detected flags US$10.4 billion SMB onboarding cost

Businesses dropping out of onboarding are driving most of the burden, with a new report putting North American SMB merchant checks at USD $10.4 billion a year.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Yesterday
Cross-border checkout has a data quality problem
Customer Experience

Cross-border checkout has a data quality problem

Poor data at checkout is fuelling cost surprises, missed deliveries and fraud fears that are turning many cross-border shoppers away.

By Edmund Ng • 5 min read • 2 days ago
AI agents outpace trust in enterprise data, survey finds
Data Analytics

AI agents outpace trust in enterprise data, survey finds

Most firms are still struggling to verify the data behind AI agents, even as more move them from pilots into production.

By Mark Tarre • 5 min read • Last week
Tenzo launches AI Connector for hospitality operators
Data Analytics

Tenzo launches AI Connector for hospitality operators

Hospitality managers can now query live sales, labour and stock data in plain English, cutting delays caused by fragmented reporting systems.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week
Google Cloud adds Hive Metastore migration to Lakehouse
Data governance

Google Cloud adds Hive Metastore migration to Lakehouse

The serverless catalog could ease a bottleneck for large Spark workloads by moving Hive table metadata without copying underlying data.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Last week
Datavault AI agrees USD $94.5m CyberCatch takeover
Data Protection

Datavault AI agrees USD $94.5m CyberCatch takeover

CyberCatch's continuous compliance tools will be folded into Datavault AI's data platforms if the all-cash deal wins approvals.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week
Modern data teams: key roles, structures and data quality
Digital Transformation

Modern data teams: key roles, structures and data quality

Poor data quality is still holding back AI and reporting, even as businesses add specialist roles and restructure their data teams.

By Shivani • 6 min read • Last week
Space raises USD $2.4 million for AI-native filesystem
Software-as-a-Service

Space raises USD $2.4 million for AI-native filesystem

The startup aims to spare creators and AI agents from downloading large files before work can begin, after a pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 4 min read • Last week
ClickHouse customer base soars on back of AI demand
Software-as-a-Service

ClickHouse customer base soars on back of AI demand

AI agents are driving a sharp rise in demand for the real-time data platform, which added 1000 customers early in 2026 to top 4000.

By David Shilovsky • 4 min read • This month
Databricks tops USD $7 billion run-rate after funding
Software-as-a-Service

Databricks tops USD $7 billion run-rate after funding

Investor demand for private AI software remains strong as Databricks hits a USD $7 billion revenue run-rate and a USD $190 billion valuation.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • This month
Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand
Data Protection

Hitachi Vantara posts 12% revenue growth on AI demand

Rising AI infrastructure spending lifted storage sales 45% at the Hitachi unit, helping offset complexity worries for corporate IT teams.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • This month

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Rillet raises USD $100 million at USD $1 billion valuation
Software-as-a-Service

Rillet raises USD $100 million at USD $1 billion valuation

The funding doubles the accounting software group's total raised to more than USD $200 million as customers adopt AI tools for finance teams.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week
Latos plans AI-ready data centre for east Manchester
Smart Cities

Latos plans AI-ready data centre for east Manchester

The canal-side brownfield scheme could reuse disused land while adding capacity for AI workloads closer to Manchester users.

By Sofiah Nichole Salivio • 3 min read • Last week
Impala launches MCP server for philanthropy data in AI
Customer Relationship Management

Impala launches MCP server for philanthropy data in AI

Foundation teams can now query verified grant data in Claude and ChatGPT, as Impala bets on AI-powered analysis over proposal drafting.

By Karen Joy Bacudo • 4 min read • Last week
DataVita secures GBP £300 million to build AI data centres
Data centers

DataVita secures GBP £300 million to build AI data centres

The funding backs Scotland's first AI Growth Zone, with two sites set to create hundreds of jobs and cut reliance on overseas compute capacity.

By Sean Mitchell • 5 min read • Last week
Airbyte launches migration service for Core to Cloud
Software-as-a-Service

Airbyte launches migration service for Core to Cloud

Customers can now shift production pipelines to the managed platform without rebuilding connectors or reloading months of data.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • This month