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Perspectives from the field
Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Databricks' $190 Billion Valuation Puts a Number on Consumption Pricing
Databricks' new $190 billion valuation and $7 billion revenue run rate are the occasion to explain how consumption-based pricing actually works on Databricks and Snowflake, and what to check before signing.
Bhavika J
Banks Are Buying Into Digital Lenders, Not Just Partnering With Them
Bank of America's $1.9 billion stake in Jio Credit and fresh compliance actions in the US and UK show banks moving from loose fintech tie-ups toward direct ownership and tighter oversight.
Bhavika J
AWS and Cloudflare's 2026 Outages Trace to the Same Weak Point
A look at four separate 2026 outages at AWS and Cloudflare that all trace back to the same class of failure: internal cooling, fiber and routing faults, not attacks or traffic spikes.
Bhavika J
Intent Data, Explained: What It Tracks and Where It Breaks Down
A plain-language look at how B2B intent data is actually collected, how the major providers differ, and what SDR and AE teams should check before trusting a signal.
Bhavika J
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Windows Kernel Flaw to KEV Catalog
Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fix for a zero-day flaw in the Windows networking driver AFD.sys was added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day it shipped.
Bhavika J
TikTok's New Attribution Math, Trade Desk's Slump, and the EU's AI Ad Labeling Rule
Three developments this month, TikTok's new attribution suite, The Trade Desk's earnings miss, and the EU's AI content labeling law, all shift how much marketing teams can verify about their own numbers and creative.
Bhavika J
AI Inference Funding Surges as Anthropic Cuts Default Human Review
Three inference-infrastructure funding rounds in three weeks and Anthropic's move to run Claude Code without step-by-step human approval point at the same shift in how AI gets used in production.
Bhavika J
The AI Acquisition Wave Is Creating a Second SaaS Bill
A house argument that recent AI acquisitions by Asana and Salesforce, read alongside new pricing data, show vendors using M&A to add consumption charges on top of existing per-seat contracts rather than folding new capability into current plans.
Bhavika J
Retail's Self-Checkout Retreat Is Really About Who Absorbs the Risk
A look at why Walmart, Dollar General, Costco and Five Below are all pulling back unsupervised self-checkout after a decade of expansion, and what their differing explanations reveal about who was really paying for it.
Bhavika J
Wellinks Closes $10M Series B to Scale Predictive COPD Monitoring
Cardiopulmonary care company Wellinks has closed the first $10 million of a Series B round led by hospital partner UMass Memorial Health to expand its remote monitoring platform for chronic respiratory disease.
Bhavika J
How Government E-Invoicing Mandates Are Reshaping Procurement
An explainer on what government e-invoicing mandates actually require, the two compliance models governments use to enforce them, and what procurement and finance teams should check before their next accounts payable upgrade.
Bhavika J
What Salesforce's $3.6 Billion Fin Deal Reveals About Support AI
Salesforce agreed to pay $3.6 billion for the company behind the Fin AI agent, and the revenue numbers behind that price say more about the state of support automation than the resolution-rate claim in the press release does.
Bhavika J