Writer, a San Francisco-based company with an enterprise level AI agent platform, has released a new report examining the obstacles faced by companies as they implement generative and agentic AI. According to the study, 79% of executives acknowledge struggling with issues like lagging ROI, strategy gaps, and internal power struggles. [...]
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, up 13.5% from 2025, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. Data center systems spending is set to see the largest growth in 2026 at 55.8%. IT services, including application implementation and managed services, infrastructure implementation and managed services [...]
Google Cloud has announced a $750 million fund to deliver new resources and incentives to partners in its 120,000-member partner ecosystem to help accelerate joint customers' transformations with agentic AI. The fund, available for global consulting firms, systems integrators, software partners, and channel partners, will support AI value identification, agentic [...]
Google Cloud Commits $750 Million to Accelerate Partners' Agentic AI Development Google Cloud has announced a $750 million fund to deliver new resources and incentives to partners in its 120,000-member partner ecosystem to help accelerate joint customers' transformations with agentic AI. The fund, available for global consulting firms, systems integrators, [...]
Lumen Technologies has announced that Jim Ortbals will join the company as Senior Vice President of Global Partner Solutions (GPS). Ortbals will lead Lumen’s channel partner strategy and execution, with responsibility for strengthening how the company engages, enables, and scales outcomes through this critical part of its commercial approach. “As [...]
AppDirect, a Chicago-based company that offers a B2B subscription commerce platform, has acquired PartnerStack, a partner relationship management (PRM) provider. This acquisition is intended to solidify AppDirect's position in B2B distribution, building on its recent acquisition of Tackle.io, a cloud go-to-market platform supporting over $20 billion in cloud hyperscaler marketplace [...]
Omdia’s latest market update reveals that the global connectivity market spanning mobile, fixed broadband and fixed voice, reached $333bn in Q4 2025, representing a 5% year-on-year (YoY) growth. Full year revenues totaled $1.3 trillion in 2025, up 4% YoY growth. The results highlight ongoing challenges for the telecom industry which [...]
Omdia: Global Telecom Connectivity Revenues Grew in 2025 Omdia’s latest market update reveals that the global connectivity market spanning mobile, fixed broadband and fixed voice, reached $333bn in Q4 2025, representing a 5% year-on-year (YoY) growth. Full year revenues totaled $1.3 trillion in 2025, up 4% YoY growth. The results [...]
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 62.8 million units in the first quarter of 2026, a 4% increase from the first quarter of 2025, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. “The 4% year-over-year PC shipment growth in the first quarter of 2026 was artificially inflated,” said Rishi Padhi, Research Principal at [...]
Global PC shipments grew 2.5% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching 65.6 million units, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. Despite deteriorating macroeconomic conditions and memory shortage issues, the PC market recorded another quarter of positive growth, mostly [...]
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