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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Swift's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live as India's UPI Duopoly Cracks
A look at four developments reshaping payment and lending infrastructure this quarter, from Swift's new blockchain settlement ledger to a first-ever dip in PhonePe and Google Pay's combined grip on India's UPI market.
Bhavika J
AKS Makes Artifact Streaming Generally Available for Faster Image Pulls
Microsoft's July 17, 2026 Azure Kubernetes Service release moves Artifact Streaming out of preview, letting clusters pull only the container image layers they need at pod startup.
Bhavika J
Clarify Acquires Seam AI, Its First Deal in the CRM Fight
Seattle-based CRM challenger Clarify has acquired signal-monitoring startup Seam AI and plans to fold its technology into a new product called Clarify Signals.
Bhavika J
Amazon and Instacart Are Rebuilding How Retail Media Attribution Works
Amazon's Omnichannel Metrics now names the specific retailers where ad-exposed shoppers buy, and Instacart's new Data Hub clean room lets brands attach their own data to grocery purchases. Both are new inputs for a marketing team's channel mix, not a replacement for independent lift testing.
Bhavika J
Craneware Confirms Data Theft in Cyber Incident Hitting US Hospital Software
Edinburgh-based healthcare billing software provider Craneware disclosed a cyber security incident in a London Stock Exchange filing on July 20, confirming that attackers exfiltrated employee data and a subset of customer and partner records from a platform used across roughly 2,000 US hospitals and 10,000 clinics and pharmacies.
Bhavika J
Meta Ends Its Open-Only AI Era With a Paid Developer API
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and opened its first paid developer API on July 9, pricing it well below OpenAI and Anthropic and putting the company, long defined by free open-weight models, into the same commercial API business as its rivals.
Bhavika J
Enterprise Software Starts Repricing Around Agentic AI Risk
Gartner's warning about agentic AI displacing SaaS spend, Microsoft's new pricing structure, and a $100 million infrastructure funding round all landed within two weeks in July, and they point at the same shift.
Bhavika J
Blinkit Turned Profitable While Zepto's IPO Valuation Was Cut by a Third
Blinkit posted its first profitable quarter in Q4 FY26 while Zepto's pre-IPO valuation was cut by roughly a third, a split that shows India's overbuilt quick commerce market now rewarding operating discipline over raw store expansion.
Bhavika J
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M to Bring Body Scans to the US
Neko Health, the Stockholm-founded preventive health scanning company co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, closed a $700 million Series C round on July 15, pushing its valuation to roughly $7 billion less than two years after its previous raise, as it prepares to open its first US clinics.
Bhavika J
Amplix Acquires OneConnect in Its 15th Deal Since 2022
Private equity-backed Amplix bought technology procurement advisory firm OneConnect on July 15, 2026, its fifteenth acquisition since 2022, continuing a roll-up of independent brokers that help enterprises source and manage IT vendor contracts.
Bhavika J
Cresta Launches Training Simulator, Uses AI to Coach Human Agents
Cresta launched Training Simulator on July 9, 2026, a product that replaces scripted call-center role-play with live simulations run by AI personas built from a company's own customer conversations.
Bhavika J
Skello Raises €200M From Bridgepoint, Founders Keep Bigger Stake
French frontline workforce management platform Skello raised €200 million from Bridgepoint on July 6, 2026, with its founders ending up owning more of the company, not less.
Bhavika J