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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Retail Tech's Real Story This Month Wasn't AI. It Was Consolidation.
In late May and early June, Walmart folded its supplier freight into a single national front door and Shopify merged its point-of-sale permissions into one admin panel, and both moves say more about where power in retail is settling than any AI headline this quarter.
Bhavika J
Dynamic Discounting: A Straightforward Cash Deal Wearing Procurement's Clothes
Dynamic discounting lets a buyer trade its own cash for a supplier's invoice discount, and it works differently from the third-party supply chain finance programs it's often confused with.
Bhavika J
01Health Raises $15M Series A to License Its Specialist-Care Platform
London-based 01Health raised a $15 million Series A to open up the software platform behind its dental businesses to independent clinics and practice groups, with trials of a US version already underway.
Bhavika J
Why Voice AI Latency Claims Rarely Survive a Real Phone Call
An explainer on what voice AI latency actually measures, why the industry treats 500 milliseconds as the bar, and what an independent test of five voice AI platforms found when it measured real recorded phone calls instead of vendor-reported numbers.
Bhavika J
India's Labour Code Rules Land Weeks Before a Separate Tax Deadline
India's payroll teams spent June 2026 running two unrelated compliance deadlines at once: the newly notified Labour Code rules reshaping how salaries must be structured, and the June 15 deadline to issue Form 16 under the outgoing income tax regime.
Bhavika J
RBI Moves to Ban Device Locking as a Fintech Sponsor Bank Is Fined in the US
The Reserve Bank of India has proposed hard limits on loan recovery tactics while, in the US, a small sponsor bank was fined for letting fintech partners outgrow its compliance controls.
Bhavika J
Zero-Copy Data Sharing, Explained: What It Removes and What It Doesn't
A look at how warehouses and lakehouses now share data without copying it, what that actually eliminates, and what still has to be negotiated the old way.
Bhavika J
Signal-to-Sequence Automation, Explained
A new layer of go-to-market tooling, led by platforms like Clay, connects buying signals directly to CRM records and sequencing tools, cutting out the manual research step between a trigger event and an outreach send.
Bhavika J
GitHub Logged Six Outages in June as AI Traffic Strained Its Platform
GitHub's own availability report shows six service incidents in June 2026 tied to AI-driven load, the same month Google Cloud's doubled peering egress prices took full effect on enterprise bills.
Bhavika J
FTC's Child-Privacy Deadline Meets Trade Desk's Push Into Curated Deals
A federal deadline requiring separate consent before children's data reaches ad-tech partners collided this spring with The Trade Desk's push toward pre-negotiated, API-managed ad buys, and both changes push marketing teams toward the same fix: fewer black-box data flows, more documented ones.
Bhavika J
Ivanti Sentry Hit by Two Max-Severity Flaws, One Exploited Within a Day
Ivanti disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in its Sentry gateway on June 9, 2026, and CISA added one to its known-exploited list within 48 hours after evidence of active attacks.
Bhavika J
OpenAI Files Confidential IPO Paperwork, Following Anthropic by a Week
OpenAI confidentially filed IPO paperwork with the SEC on June 8, one week after Anthropic did the same, moving both companies from record-setting private funding rounds toward public markets.
Bhavika J