Atlanta – October 14, 2026 -- Clarion Communications LLC, which says it and its predecessor companies have completed more than 30 acquisitions in over 20 years, is pursuing further tuck-in deals in the UCaaS and managed service provider (MSP) market while its IPitomy Communications LLC subsidiary adds AI-powered Advanced Call Management (ACM) to its proprietary UCaaS platform.

Dublin – October 14, 2026 -- BrowserStack has made BrowserStack Load Testing generally available, letting teams run up to 1 million API virtual users and 1,000 browser virtual users per test to check web app performance before holiday and festive sales.

Ann Arbor – October 14, 2026 -- Internet-facing AI infrastructure grew 63% in nine months to nearly 268,000 systems, according to the fifth annual State of the Internet Report from Censys. The report also counts roughly 134,000 Internet-exposed hosts running industrial control systems (ICS). About 70% of those sit on consumer and mobile networks, which complicates efforts to identify their owners and close the exposure.

Mountain View – – October 14, 2026 -- Level AI has appointed Shane Abeyratne, Senior Vice President of Global Business & Finance Services at Cardinal Health, as the second member of its CX Advisory Board, which launched in August.

Board convenes Fortune 500 leaders to set AI frameworks for contact centers

The CX Advisory Board brings together senior technology and customer experience executives from Fortune 500 companies. Its remit is to develop shared frameworks for how AI is deployed, measured and governed in enterprise customer operations.

Dallas – October 14, 2026 -- HighLevel, the AI-powered operating system for businesses, agencies and founders, has appointed Grubhub founder and former CEO Matt Maloney to its Board of Directors, adding a leader who spent 17 years scaling a technology marketplace.

Maloney led Grubhub from startup through its merger with Seamless and its multibillion-dollar acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com in 2021. He brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses.

Boston – October 14, 2026 -- Aura Business, the business division of Aura (ASX: AXQ), has signed a distribution partnership with Climb that gives Climb's network of resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) access to Aura Business's new identity-centric BYOD security solution.

Climb is a global specialty technology distributor focused on security, data management, connectivity, cloud and software. Its customers can access Aura Business immediately through the Climb marketplace.

New York – October 14, 2026 -- Blackbird.AI has launched RAV3N Radar, an agent-driven service that delivers continuous narrative-threat alerts directly into Slack, as Gartner forecasts that enterprise spending on fighting misinformation and disinformation will surpass $30 billion by 2028.

Austin – October 14, 2026 -- Oracle NetSuite launched NetSuite QuickStart, a free AI-first financial platform for early-stage technology startups in the United States, with setup that takes less than 10 minutes.

Founders can connect a bank account, create a first invoice and begin viewing financials within that window, according to the company. The platform skips the traditional implementation process in favor of AI-powered self-service setup.

Denver – October 14, 2026 -- Spinnaker Support, the third-party software support provider with more than 1,300 global clients, has promoted Mark Fetches to Global Chief Technology Officer and consolidated its regional CTOs, solution consulting and technical account management under him in a single global organization.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Atomicwork has tripled its customer base in the past year and appointed Oksana Patel as Head of Marketing to lead its global strategy as it pushes deeper into the enterprise market.

Patel will build the category around what the ITSM and ESM platform vendor calls AI coworkers, software agents designed to take on IT roles and workflows end to end.