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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Thoma Bravo's C$650 Million Kneat Deal Tests a Locked-In Buyer Base
Thoma Bravo's agreement to take life sciences validation software maker Kneat private for roughly C$650 million shows what happens when a mission-critical, hard-to-switch SaaS vendor changes ownership.
Bhavika J
Retailers Are Frontloading Imports While Refusing to Restock
Import volumes into US ports rose again in June 2026 as retailers raced ahead of new tariffs, even as the same retailers kept inventory levels lean rather than rebuilding stock, a split that says more about where retail tech spending is headed than either number alone.
Bhavika J
Dynamic Discounting: How Buyers Turn Early Payment Into Yield
A look at how dynamic discounting lets companies use their own cash to pay suppliers early for a return, how it differs from bank-funded supply chain finance, and what to check before adopting it.
Bhavika J
Uncovr Raises $7M Seed to Automate Surgical Documentation
Uncovr closed a $7 million seed round led by Index Ventures to build software that drafts operative reports and billing codes from surgical video before the surgeon leaves the room.
Bhavika J
H-1B's New Wage-Weighted Lottery Just Ran Its First Cycle
USCIS completed the first H-1B lottery under its wage-weighted selection rule in March 2026, and talent teams are now filing petitions through a June 30 deadline while a separate lawsuit over the program's $100,000 fee remains unresolved.
Bhavika J
Why Voice AI Latency Is the Metric That Predicts Hang-Ups
Contact centers keep buying voice AI on how human it sounds, but the number that actually determines whether a caller stays on the line is a latency measurement most vendors don't publish.
Bhavika J
Stablecoins Go Mainstream at Money20/20 as RBI Holds Rates on Oil Shock
Money20/20 Europe produced a wave of stablecoin and embedded finance launches in Amsterdam this week, while India's central bank held rates steady and turned more cautious on growth as a West Asia oil shock works through its lending market.
Bhavika J
MotherDuck Quietly Rewrote Its Pricing for the DuckDB Era
MotherDuck rebuilt its pricing page with no announcement, a small signal of a bigger shift as DuckDB moves from a developer tool into a genuine, cheaper alternative to parts of the cloud warehouse.
Bhavika J
Ten Weeks Into Ingress-NGINX's Retirement, Migration Is Lagging
Kubernetes retired its most widely used ingress controller in March, a fix landed on that same controller days before the project went dark, and ten weeks later the tooling meant to replace it is still catching up to the number of clusters still running the old one.
Bhavika J
Sales Engagement Platforms, Explained: What Happens Inside a Cadence
A look at what a sales engagement platform actually does step by step, from the moment a rep loads a list to the reply that lands in a CRM timeline.
Bhavika J
Meta, Google and the FTC Each Redrew Attribution Rules in May
A look at three May 2026 developments, Meta's wider purchase audiences, Google's shrinking Ads reporting window, and the FTC's Kochava settlement, and what each means for how marketing teams measure and target.
Bhavika J
DentaQuest Confirms Network Breach, ShinyHunters Claims 2.6 Million Records
Dental and vision benefits administrator DentaQuest confirmed unauthorized access to its network after an extortion group calling itself ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen and leaked records tied to 2.6 million accounts.
Bhavika J