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Gartner outlines four tactics behind efficient growth
Customer Experience

Gartner outlines four tactics behind efficient growth

Gartner identifies four finance tactics it says helped 105 US-listed firms beat peers with a 51% total shareholder return premium.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Thu, 29th Jan 2026
SYOS invited to design NYX drones for Apache fleet
Supply Chain

SYOS invited to design NYX drones for Apache fleet

SYOS wins UK defence invite to design NYX drones to fly alongside Apache helicopters, boosting its British-New Zealand aerospace profile.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 3 min read • Wed, 28th Jan 2026
Nike probes suspected cyberattack & huge data leak
Firewalls

Nike probes suspected cyberattack & huge data leak

Nike is probing a suspected cyberattack after a hacker group claimed to leak 1.4TB of internal data, raising supply chain security fears.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Wed, 28th Jan 2026
Komodor bolsters leadership for AI driven SRE growth
DevOps

Komodor bolsters leadership for AI driven SRE growth

Komodor hires a new CFO and elevates its people chief to steer global expansion of its AI-driven site reliability engineering platform.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Sat, 24th Jan 2026
WitFoo shifts global cyber defence base to New Zealand
Security Information and Event Management

WitFoo shifts global cyber defence base to New Zealand

US cyber security firm WitFoo shifts its global base to New Zealand, making the country the launch pad for its “Cyber Grid” defence model.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
Spanish Point expands UK footprint with Microsoft AI role
Digital Transformation

Spanish Point expands UK footprint with Microsoft AI role

Spanish Point expands UK presence after 31% revenue growth and wins rare role delivering Microsoft's 20-day AI Transformation Programmeme.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
India and Canada deepen AI ties at Toronto dialogue
EduTech

India and Canada deepen AI ties at Toronto dialogue

India and Canada have deepened AI collaboration in Toronto, mapping joint work on responsible tech ahead of the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

By Kaleah Salmon • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
e& enterprise, Emergence AI in MENAT agentic AI deal
Hybrid Cloud

e& enterprise, Emergence AI in MENAT agentic AI deal

e& enterprise and Emergence AI team up to roll out autonomous agentic AI for regulated organisations across MENAT and Türkiye.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
Qubitra plots quantum push for finance & marketplace
Digital Transformation

Qubitra plots quantum push for finance & marketplace

Qubitra, backed by SC Ventures and Fujitsu, maps out quantum apps and a marketplace to push finance use cases into production by 2026.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Wed, 21st Jan 2026
Syntiant opens major AI manufacturing campus in Penang
Semiconductors

Syntiant opens major AI manufacturing campus in Penang

Syntiant opens its largest AI campus in Penang, doubling local footprint and lifting annual production capacity to 1.6 billion units.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Mon, 19th Jan 2026

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Research and Development (R&D) stories

NMITE & British Army launch autonomous robotics MEng
EduTech

NMITE & British Army launch autonomous robotics MEng

NMITE and the British Army have unveiled a three-year autonomous robotics MEng, blending drone technology with hands-on defence-linked projects.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 4 min read • Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
Propel-AIR 2.0 robotics sprint launches in Brisbane
Robotics

Propel-AIR 2.0 robotics sprint launches in Brisbane

Australia's Propel-AIR 2.0 robotics sprint launches in Brisbane, uniting ARM Hub, MassRobotics and innovators for a week of AI showcases.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
Report finds bio-based innovators boost Canada's GDP & jobs
Agricultural Technology

Report finds bio-based innovators boost Canada's GDP & jobs

Canada's early-stage bio-based firms added $896.4m to GDP and nearly 2,000 jobs, as Ottawa eyes a slice of a $4T global market.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Thu, 22nd Jan 2026
Stratoship alliance offers staged lab‑to‑orbit pathway
Unified Communications

Stratoship alliance offers staged lab‑to‑orbit pathway

Stratoship, Orbit2Orbit and Sunburnt Space team up on a staged lab-to-orbit pathway to cut risk, cost and time for small satellite payloads.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Wed, 21st Jan 2026
Here are the four firms feds back with $92M quantum investment
Quantum Computing

Here are the four firms feds back with $92M quantum investment

Canada is investing CAD $92M in four quantum start-ups to speed up fault-tolerant computing for industrial and defence uses.

By Jake MacAndrew • 4 min read • Tue, 20th Jan 2026
ADLINK wins Gartner Asia-Pacific awards for AI factory
Data Analytics

ADLINK wins Gartner Asia-Pacific awards for AI factory

ADLINK's AI Agent Factory nets top Gartner Asia-Pacific honours, boosting advanced manufacturing performance with real-time edge AI.

By Mark Tarre • 3 min read • Mon, 19th Jan 2026
NZ launches AI advisory pilot for small businesses
Digital Transformation

NZ launches AI advisory pilot for small businesses

New Zealand launches an AI advisory pilot, offering up to NZD $15,000 co-funding to help small firms plan and safely adopt AI tools.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Mon, 19th Jan 2026
CANARIE: The network behind Canada's scientific breakthroughs
Unified Communications

CANARIE: The network behind Canada's scientific breakthroughs

A little-known research network, built before the cloud, now underpins Canada's AI, biotech and climate science - but its future is uncertain.

By Jake MacAndrew • 3 min read • Sat, 17th Jan 2026