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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
CISA Adds Langflow, Trend Micro Apex One Flaws to KEV List
CISA added two actively exploited vulnerabilities, an account-takeover chain in the Langflow AI platform and a directory traversal flaw in Trend Micro Apex One, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 21, 2026, with a June 4 remediation deadline for federal agencies.
Bhavika J
Verint's Private Equity Bet Turns the CX Buyer Into the Integration Risk
Nine months after Thoma Bravo took Verint private and merged it with Calabrio, the "no forced migrations" promise is colliding with a product line that analysts say cannot stay duplicated forever, and CX buyers are the ones absorbing the uncertainty.
Bhavika J
Google Ships Gemini 3.5 as OpenAI and Anthropic Bet on Deployment
A look at Google's Gemini 3.5 launch at I/O 2026 alongside the enterprise deployment joint ventures OpenAI and Anthropic each struck weeks earlier.
Bhavika J
One Retail Earnings Week, Two Different Supply Chain Bets
Walmart and Target's May earnings, reported two days apart, show retail tech spending splitting into two different postures depending on how far each chain already sits along the automation curve.
Bhavika J
Twin Health Launches GLP-1 Stewardship Model to Cut Long-Term Drug Use
Twin Health introduced a GLP-1 Stewardship Model on May 21, 2026 that ties its pricing to weight-loss and medication-reduction outcomes rather than prescription volume, aiming to give employers a way to manage rising GLP-1 costs.
Bhavika J
What Total Cost of Ownership Actually Means in Procurement
A look at why the sticker price on a supplier quote is rarely the number that decides a good purchase, and how total cost of ownership analysis fills the gap.
Bhavika J
What Contact Centre Deflection Rate Actually Measures
A look at how deflection rate is calculated, why a high number can coexist with an unsolved problem, and which follow-on metric exposes the difference.
Bhavika J
Karnataka's Gig Worker Law Now Requires Due Process Before Deactivation
Karnataka has ordered ride-hailing and delivery platforms to set up internal dispute committees and give gig workers 14 days' notice before deactivating their accounts, the latest rule to take effect under India's first state-level gig worker welfare law.
Bhavika J
Row-Level Security, Explained: How Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery Differ
A look at how the three major warehouse platforms let one physical table serve users with different access rights, and where the mechanics diverge.
Bhavika J
Trump Order Opens Fed Payment Rails to Fintechs as RBI Curbs Recovery Agents
A White House executive order pushing the Federal Reserve to open payment access to fintechs, and a new RBI draft restricting how lenders chase overdue borrowers, show two major regulators moving in opposite directions in the same week.
Bhavika J
Digital Sales Rooms, Explained: The Workspace Buyers Actually See
A look at digital sales rooms, the shared online workspaces now sitting between CRM and the buyer, and what to check before adopting one.
Bhavika J
Google Cloud Suspended a Major Customer, Then Raised Egress Prices
In the same month Google Cloud doubled peering egress rates without an opt-out, it also suspended a paying customer's production account with zero advance notice, and the two events are pushing platform teams to treat hyperscaler dependency as an operational risk rather than a procurement decision.
Bhavika J