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Sean Mitchell
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Having started his career at Renaissance. Sean joined Apple in Melbourne for a number of years before working in the media space. This started with Review Publishing and later the tech publisher IDG Communications. In 2006 he was involved in the launch of The Channel magazine. As they say – the rest is history.

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Anthropic donates MCP to new Agentic AI Foundation

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Anthropic donates its Model Context Protocol to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardise agentic AI tools.
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Tanium named Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT AI

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Tanium named a Leader in Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools as demand for AI-driven autonomous IT surges.
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RingQ & Snom forge global cloud telephony partnership

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RingQ and Snom have sealed a global cloud telephony partnership to streamline IP phone provisioning and unified communications for businesses.
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NMITE appoints Richard Lillington to lead teaching

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Emerging engineering institution NMITE names Richard Lillington as its first Head of Learning and Teaching to drive academic growth.
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Marqeta names Patti Kangwankij as new finance chief

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Marqeta has hired veteran payments executive Patti Kangwankij as CFO, completing a leadership reshuffle under chief executive Mike Milotich.
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Quintauris, SiFive team up on RISC-V car platforms

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Quintauris teams with SiFive to embed RISC-V cores at the heart of standardised automotive zonal and ADAS control platforms.
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Beroe links DataHub to MCP to power AI procurement data

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Beroe plugs its DataHub procurement data platform into the Model Context Protocol to feed decision-grade intelligence into enterprise AI.
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F5 boosts API security & networking in cloud update

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F5 rolls out Distributed Cloud Services 7.0, boosting API discovery, threat detection and networking for complex hybrid multicloud setups.
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AI notebook prices drop as retailers face tough trade-offs

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AI notebook prices across Europe have slumped by a third, pushing the tech into the mainstream as retailers juggle volume against margins.
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Kiteworks & Concentric AI partner on data security

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Kiteworks and Concentric AI join forces to tie AI-driven data discovery to automated controls on sensitive information shared externally.
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Elite appoints Kirk Rogers to lead APAC sales push

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Elite appoints former law firm executive Kirk Rogers as Head of APAC Sales to drive its next phase of legal tech growth across the region.
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Cloud.in names Vishal Dhanfule West India sales head

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Cloud.in appoints veteran Vishal Dhanfule as West India sales head to drive growth and deepen cloud adoption across key regional markets.
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Mphasis names Punit Sood Independent Director for AI push

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Mphasis appoints tech and banking veteran Punit Sood as independent director to bolster its AI-led push into global finance clients.
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Leaseweb names Ronald Richardson as Chief Revenue Officer

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Leaseweb appoints Ronald Richardson as Chief Revenue Officer to drive global growth and its sovereign-by-design hybrid cloud push.
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Generational split widens over cards, wallets & checkout

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Younger shoppers embrace digital wallets and self-checkouts as older customers stick with cards and staff, widening a payments generation gap.
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Ark builds UK’s first dedicated AI power data centre

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Ark has begun building a Surrey data centre billed as the UK’s first dedicated AI power hub, featuring a 25MVA medium-voltage UPS.
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Mastercard links with TerraPay to boost wallet tap-and-go

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Mastercard and TerraPay team up to let mobile wallet users tap and pay at over 150 million Mastercard contactless locations worldwide.
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Quiet quitting exposes the fragility of customer loyalty

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Customers profess loyalty but quietly walk away over price, experience or ethics, exposing how fragile many brand relationships have become.
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BCS Consultancy appoints Chris Coward as new COO

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BCS Consultancy names Chris Coward COO to steer global expansion and sharpen operations as AI-driven data centre demand accelerates.
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LFB boosts Lyon R&D sites to meet data centre cooling demand

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LFB’s data centre arm is investing millions in Lyon R&D and factories to ramp up advanced cooling for Europe’s AI-fuelled server boom.