Software & Cloud

Washington – November 10, 2026 -- NGP VAN, the technology provider for Democratic and progressive campaigns, has launched a two-day, in-person Organizing Academy. The first session runs December 1-2, 2026, at the Crowne Plaza in Plainsboro, New Jersey, and will train approximately 50 organizers for the 2027 and 2028 election cycles.

Campaigns using NGP VAN tools knocked 217.3 million doors in the 2026 midterms

The launch follows data NGP VAN released days earlier on 2026 midterm organizing. Campaigns on its tools held 42.8 million successful voter conversations. More than 376,000 unique canvassers worked through MiniVAN, and Mobilize recorded nearly 19.7 million event signups, including 3.6 million first-time users.

GEORGE TOWN – November 10, 2026 -- Eightpoint Technologies has committed to cover grocery costs for the Nadine Andreas Residential Foster Home in the Cayman Islands for 12 months, starting November 1, 2026, under a new sponsorship agreement with the National Children's Voluntary Organisation (NCVO).

Sponsorship funds food supplies at a 10-child residential home

The Nadine Andreas Residential Foster Home provides 24-hour care for up to 10 children and young people aged 5 to 18 who are in need of protection. The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) places the children in its care. The sponsorship targets one daily operating need: nutritious meals throughout the year.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 10, 2026 -- The A-Comm Evidence Protocol Consortium has grown to 22 companies after A-Comm Technologies, Inc. confirmed eight additional founding members: AiPrise, AstraSync, Beltic, CartAI, Cartograph, Forter, SablePay and Trulioo.

The eight join 14 founding members announced on Oct. 28. The consortium stewards the A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP), an open standard for a tamper-evident record of agent-initiated transactions.

Each member gets one vote, and A-Comm Technologies holds no veto

Every company in the consortium holds a single vote, including A-Comm Technologies, which authored AEP and serves as interim secretariat. A-Comm Technologies has committed to transfer AEP to a neutral standards host, chosen by the members, within 12 months.

Armonk, N.Y. – November 10, 2026 -- Apptio, an IBM company, is rolling out native connections for leading frontier AI systems, aiming to close a visibility gap in which 85% of surveyed technology executives say they cannot see real-time AI spending in full.

The figure comes from an IBM Institute for Business Value study published in June 2026. It surveyed 2,000 senior technology executives across 33 geographies and 19 industries, in work conducted with Oxford Economics from January to April 2026. AI costs are spread across model providers, cloud infrastructure, applications and teams, which makes it hard to tell which initiatives deliver business value.

Austin – November 10, 2026 -- Civitech, a public benefit corporation that builds voter data and outreach tools for progressive candidates and causes, has won four Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards alongside a 2026 Top Workplace designation from the Austin American-Statesman.

Civitech wins in four culture categories

The company was recognized for Purpose & Values, Work-Life Flexibility, Employee Appreciation and Innovation. Energage, which determines the awards, bases the honors on a research-backed employee engagement survey.

Culture Excellence awards draw directly on confidential employee feedback. The Top Workplaces program has run for 19 years and surveys organizations nationally and across 60 regional markets.

Bonita Springs – November 10, 2026 -- Philadelphia-based Otter Property Management has moved its portfolio of about 750 rentals to Rentvine's property management software, citing the platform's open API and AI tools as the deciding factors, Rentvine announced.

Otter leaves Appfolio to keep its tech-first profile

Otter launched in 2020 as a paperless, technology-driven company and manages single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes. Owner and operations manager Kevin Moyer said the firm had outgrown its previous software. He saw a growing number of peers in the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM), where he is an active member, expanding their AI capabilities with Rentvine.

"We got too comfortable on Appfolio, and that's not who we are as a tech-forward company," Moyer said.

Stamford – November 10, 2026 -- Kolmena's agentic AI platform has cut time spent on regulatory research by 85% at Celnova Pharma, the company said as it launched the multi-agent system with access by invitation only.

Platform routes tasks across multiple AI models to manage cost and performance

Kolmena groups specialized AI agents into coordinated workforces that share context and work toward a common objective. Its Kolmena Smart Prompt Routing (KSPR) assigns different AI models to different tasks within a workflow. Users can tune performance and cost without depending on a single AI provider.

The platform offers more than 1,600 integrations, persistent memory, governance and observability. It launches with an Agent Builder, a Swarm Builder and an implementation partner program for agencies, consultancies and AI specialists.

Dortmund – November 09, 2026 -- Task Force IT-Consulting GmbH has released CMOne Agentic, an extension of its CMOne change-management system that lets AI agents develop, compile and unit-test changes to legacy IBM i applications. The product has been available since the fourth quarter of 2026 and is already in production use at fashion company LERROS.

CMOne MCP server gives AI agents application context without system access

The technical core is the CMOne MCP server, built on the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for giving AI systems access to information and tools. Through it, agents see the links between programs, their dependencies, the commands needed to edit them, and ongoing tasks, projects and changes already in quality assurance. The agents never access the IBM i system directly. All sources, information and commands pass through the MCP server.

Shenzhen – November 08, 2026 -- Gartner has named Tencent Cloud a Leader for its EdgeOne edge security and acceleration platform in the inaugural Magic Quadrant for Edge Distribution Platforms. The report cites the company's Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.

EdgeOne runs on 3,200 edge nodes and a 400 Tbps backbone

The platform spans more than 3,200 edge nodes in over 70 countries. Its backbone network exceeds 400 Tbps and carries both inbound China traffic and international traffic. Tencent Cloud targets enterprises expanding overseas or entering the Chinese market.

Customers span finance, media, e-commerce, logistics, ticketing, aviation and hospitality. Gaming and video are the latency-critical anchor sectors.

REDMOND, Wash. – November 09, 2026 -- Halfpricesoft.com has released ezW2 2026, a desktop application that prepares and submits Forms W-2, W-3, 1099-NEC and 1096 directly to the SSA and IRS, built around the IRS 10-return electronic filing mandate.

Employers face February 1, 2027 deadlines for W-2, W-3 and 1099-NEC

Employers must furnish Copies B, C and 2 of Form W-2 to employees by February 1, 2027. The date moves from January 31 because that day falls on a Sunday. The statutory deadline for sending Forms W-2 and W-3 to the SSA, and Form 1099-NEC to the IRS, is also February 1, 2027, whether filed on paper or electronically.