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Chord joins forces with New York AI analytics startup Zenlytic

AlleyWatch reports the deal doubles Chord's revenue and takes it beyond commerce brands into the wider enterprise. Chord's own post says only that the two are joining forces. Terms were not disclosed.

5 Nov 2026

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Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike agrees to buy Fiddler to watch what AI agents do

4 Nov 2026

Software Development

Conductor joins Meta and deletes its Cloud workspaces on 20 November

5 Nov 2026

Software Development

ELCA buys Lucerne social insurance software firm Löwenfels Partner

4 Nov 2026

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Artificial Intelligence - AI

Agility Robotics wins SPAC vote, set to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT

More than 84% of votes cast at Churchill Capital Corp XI backed the merger. Closing is expected on 4 November and trading on 5 November, with about $465 million of gross capital before expenses.

3 Nov 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Salesforce agrees to buy Cresta, maker of contact-centre AI agents

Cresta's voice agents and real-time coaching will join Service Cloud and Agentforce, and Salesforce says it will keep supporting the contact-centre platforms Cresta customers use. No price was given.

3 Nov 2026

IT Consulting

Ricksoft takes 39% of Atlassian partner Information Officer

The Tokyo-listed Atlassian specialist has completed the deal first announced in June, and the Singapore firm now trades as Ricksoft Singapore. No price was disclosed.

3 Nov 2026

Cybersecurity

Telefónica and Minsait win ECB contract for digital euro networks

The ten-year contract starts on 3 May 2027 and covers the MPLS and SD-WAN network, API integration, digital identity and a security operations centre linking the ECB with banks, fintechs and payment providers. No value…

2 Nov 2026

Cybersecurity

OPTiM buys MediTech to add medical image sharing to its hospital AI

It is the first medical acquisition for the Tokyo-listed AI and IoT company, which will sell Drs'HotLine alongside the OPTiM AI Hospital Suite it launched on 30 September. No price was given.

2 Nov 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Affle agrees to buy Perion for about $420m in an all-cash deal

The Indian mobile ad-tech group pays $11.70 a share for the Tel Aviv company behind Perion One and its Outmax agent. Perion holds about $228m in cash, has no debt, and will leave Nasdaq and the TASE.

2 Nov 2026

eCommerce

DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for about $17bn

At least three quarters of the price is cash. DoorDash says it will keep Instacart's enterprise technology for grocers and promises no grocery exclusivity, but closing is not expected before the end of 2027.

31 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Coveo buys Anglera to fill gaps in ecommerce product data

The Montreal search vendor adds a Y Combinator-backed San Francisco start-up whose agents pull product attributes from spec sheets and PDFs. Anglera customers stay on their platform; terms were not disclosed.

31 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

ELCA buys majority of Lucerne data-sharing specialist Beyond Civic

Switzerland's largest independent IT services group, with more than 2,150 staff, gains TrustSphere, software for governing data that public bodies and companies share, and keeps Beyond Civic's founders in charge.

31 Oct 2026

Payment Processing

FTC and states sue Toast over restaurant fees and cancellation terms

The complaint says restaurants on Toast paid about $900 a month in auto-renewing subscriptions, $150 for every month left on a cancelled contract and $85 a month while closed. The allegations are untested in court.

30 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Deepgram buys Daily and moves Pipecat to an independent foundation

Daily, a 2016 Y Combinator alumnus like Deepgram, built the open-source Pipecat voice agent framework; Deepgram will sell and support Daily's WebRTC and telephony products and build on Pipecat.

29 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence Software

Freshworks buys Robusta, maker of the HolmesGPT incident agent

Robusta, founded in 2021, rebuilt its Kubernetes troubleshooting tool around an AI agent; it is the second company Freshworks has agreed to buy in October, after Torii, and no price has been given.

29 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Guidewire agrees to buy London underwriting software firm hyperexponential

Guidewire pays $1.7 billion in cash, plus up to $400 million tied to recurring revenue targets, for the pricing platform used by Aviva, Allianz, Beazley and Markel. Closing is expected in its fiscal Q2 2027.

28 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Meta prices $25bn share sale and 6.5% convertible preferred offering

The common stock offering was raised from $22.5bn and is sold through forward sale agreements, so Meta gets no proceeds until settlement. Nvidia says it will invest $3bn.

27 Oct 2026

IT Services

Exeo Group agrees to buy IFS consultancy Alphast

Alphast, founded in 2016, implements and runs IFS ERP for manufacturers from Tokyo, Thailand and the US. Exeo has signed a share transfer agreement and expects only a minor effect on this year's results.

27 Oct 2026

Tax Compliance

Australia bill adds start-up CGT concession and reworks R&D incentive

The Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 4) Bill 2026 was introduced in Parliament. The R&D changes start on 1 July 2028 and higher venture capital thresholds on 1 July 2027, if the bill passes.

27 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Intel agrees to buy Classiq to build a full-stack quantum business

No price was disclosed. Intel says it will keep Classiq's software working across rival qubit hardware after the deal closes, which it expects in the first half of 2027.

27 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Anthropic files to list on Nasdaq under the symbol ANT

The registration statement sets no price or share count yet. It shows revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026 and a governance structure that keeps a trust in charge of some board seats.

27 Oct 2026

Tax Compliance

Namirial agrees to buy Madrid e-invoicing software firm ZeroComa

ZeroComa's EdasNEO, InvoiZE and EdasSII serve more than 650 customers, a fifth of the IBEX 35 among them. The Allende brothers keep running it and join Namirial's shareholders; no price is given.

26 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

FPT opens its first African office in Cairo as an EMEA nearshore hub

The Vietnamese IT services group starts with more than 60 Egyptian engineers already serving Gulf clients, plans about 200 staff within two years, and names France as its first European market from Cairo.

24 Oct 2026

FinTech

Fintel buys Mortgage Brain outright for £38.4m

The adviser services group took a 5.8% stake in March 2024 and now owns the mortgage sourcing and submissions provider. Its chief executive, Zahid Bilgrami, will run Fintel's whole Software & Data division.

24 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Zoom buys Onyx, keeping its enterprise search open source

Onyx, founded in 2023, connects to more than 50 business applications and feeds context to people and AI agents. Zoom says it stays standalone, model-agnostic and self-hostable inside Zoom AI Services.

23 Oct 2026

Artificial Intelligence - AI

Maggioli Group takes 20% of Turin clinical AI start-up DatAIMed

The Italian public-sector software group joins through a capital increase reported at €1.2 million. DatAIMed answers clinicians' questions with cited sources and says it has more than 13,000 registered users.

23 Oct 2026

IT Consulting

Cognizant agrees to buy DyFlex, an Australian SAP partner of 300 staff

The deal adds an SAP Platinum Partner with offices across Australia and New Zealand and delivery in the Philippines. It is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027; terms were not disclosed.

23 Oct 2026

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