IT, AI & Telecommunications

Chicago – November 06, 2026 -- The AI Leaders Council has opened free nominations for its new AI Innovation Awards, with entries closing December 31, 2026 and winners to be announced by January 29, 2027.

Awards span business functions from finance to cybersecurity

Categories cover operations, information technology, finance, cybersecurity, sales and marketing, human resources and other areas. The program also names an AI Agent of the Year and an Emerging AI Innovation of the Year. Judges will pick the AI Innovation of the Year, the highest honor, from among these winners.

Applicants must document business results and submit a video demo

Participation carries no fee. Each application requires a brief product description, key capabilities, demonstrated business results and a short video demonstration. Judging will be complete by January 15.

AUSTIN – November 06, 2026 -- DT (NASDAQ: APPS) has appointed Daniel Lentz as Chief Financial Officer, effective Nov. 30, 2026, adding a executive with 25 years of finance, capital markets and operations experience to lead its global finance organization.

Lentz takes charge of finance, legal and corporate operations at DT

Lentz will oversee all finance functions, legal and corporate operations. His background includes public-company work in external financial guidance and capital markets, as well as investor relations.

Josh Kinsell, who served as Interim CFO, will remain Chief Accounting Officer. CEO Bill Stone said Lentz's experience will accelerate the scalability of DT's platform, operations and capital markets activities.

TEL AVIV – November 06, 2026 -- Anecdotes has launched Security KPIs, an application that replaces reporting cycles of several people working for weeks with automatically generated, board-ready security metrics drawn directly from a company's source systems.

Anecdotes connects source systems in minutes and computes each KPI deterministically

The application sets up data pipelines to a company's systems in minutes. It pulls live data on asset inventory, vulnerabilities, security training completion, access and offboarding, and cloud posture. Each KPI is calculated from every relevant record, with no manual spreadsheet work. The same data always produces the same number, and every figure traces back to its originating system.

KPIs can be scoped three ways:

LONDON – November 06, 2026 -- XTM has appointed Roger Connolly, who launched Sitecore's agentic AI platform as that company's Chief Product Officer, as its own CPO to lead the product roadmap for XTM IQ, its unified AI engine for enterprise localization.

Connolly takes ownership of XTM's product vision and agentic AI strategy

Connolly will own the roadmap across XTM's AI globalization platform. His mandate is to make XTM IQ the engine for agentic localization end to end. That means combining AI orchestration, translation management, quality verification and integrations in one composable, governed platform. He is based in Columbus, Ohio, and will work with XTM's engineering, AI and customer teams across its global hubs.

San Francisco – November 06, 2026 -- Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) has named six keynote speakers for ONE Summit Japan 2026, from SoftBank, NTT, NGMN Alliance, AI-RAN Alliance, the U.S. Department of Defense and the Linux Foundation. The event runs Dec. 10-11 in Tokyo alongside Open Source Summit Japan.

Operators, alliances and the Pentagon fill the keynote stage

The lineup includes Ryuji Wakikawa, head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology at SoftBank, and Masahisa Kawashima, IOWN technology director at NTT. Marlan Macklin, deputy principal director for FutureG in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, will also speak. Anita Döhler, CEO of NGMN Alliance, and Alex Choi, executive director of AI-RAN Alliance, complete the external speakers. Arpit Joshipura, general manager of Networking, Edge & IoT at the Linux Foundation, will also present.

Englewood, Colorado – November 06, 2026 -- WOW! Internet has appointed Gregory M. Casey, a government affairs executive with more than 15 years of experience, as director of government affairs. The hire comes as the fiber-broadband provider expands its network following its take-private by DigitalBridge and Crestview.

Casey takes charge of federal, state and local policy relationships

Casey will lead WOW!'s relationships with federal, state and local officials, as well as civic and community stakeholders, across its markets. He will advocate for the company's public policy priorities, including legislation and regulations that affect broadband deployment.

Riverside, Calif. – November 06, 2026 -- KORE Group Holdings, Inc., a global Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity provider, has selected 3CLogic to replace disjointed legacy telephony systems with a voice AI and contact center platform built natively inside ServiceNow Customer Service Management (CSM).

KORE targets manual logging and fragmented agent desktops

KORE handles a high volume of complex technical inquiries. Its legacy telephony stack forced agents into manual call logging, limited data visibility and fragmented desktops, which hurt productivity. The company's stated goals are to end "swivel-chair" work between systems, cut Average Handle Time (AHT) and give agents and supervisors one workspace.

HERNDON, Va. – November 05, 2026 -- ePlus inc. (NASDAQ: PLUS) reported record quarterly gross billings of $1,066.8 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2027, up 4.3% from $1,022.7 million, and raised its full-year guidance after net sales climbed 9.7% to $667.9 million.

The company now expects fiscal 2027 net sales and gross profit to grow in the upper single digits year over year. It expects adjusted EBITDA to grow in the low double digits.

Product sales rise 12.8% on cloud and security demand

Product segment sales increased to $547.1 million from $485.0 million, driven by cloud, security and collaboration products. A decline in networking products partly offset the gains. Segment gross margin widened to 25.8% from 24.5% on a shift in product mix and higher sales of third-party maintenance, subscriptions and services recognized on a net basis.

Berlin – November 05, 2026 -- The Wirtschaftsrat der CDU is presenting Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger with its AI strategy paper "Deutschland 2030 - Auf dem Weg zur KI-Nation" at the Wirtschaftstag der Innovationen (WTI) in Berlin. The paper outlines how Germany can take a leading role in industrial AI application and how the Mittelstand can be supported in a targeted way.

The event runs under the theme "Empowering Europe: Digitale Souveränität als Standortfaktor und Wettbewerbsmotor". It is streamed free of charge from 9:00 to 20:30 on wti26.de.

Broomfield – November 05, 2026 -- Quantinuum Inc. (Nasdaq: QNT) raised its full-year 2026 revenue outlook to $31 million to $34 million, up from $28 million to $32 million, after third-quarter revenue rose 233% year-over-year to $9.1 million from $2.7 million.

Losses widen as margins improve

GAAP gross margin reached 33.3%, compared with negative 43.5% a year earlier. Adjusted gross margin was 74.6%, up 853 basis points year-over-year.

Losses grew alongside revenue. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $80 million, against $45 million in the prior-year period. GAAP net loss was $118 million, against $52 million, or $0.46 per Class A share. Adjusted net loss per share was $0.29. Cash and cash equivalents stood at $1.94 billion on September 30, 2026.

CEO Rajeeb Hazra said the momentum gives the company "more confidence than ever" in its opportunity.