Senior exec layoffs surge as firms brace for major employment law change July 8, 2026 Senior exec exits from top businesses have surged since the start of the year as firms quietly clear out highly-paid staff before fresh costs associated with the Employment Rights Act changes come into force. Law firms have seen a “massive uptick in inquiries” from top staff exploring their legal options after being told they face [...]
ActiveCampaign Launches Google Ads Connector for Active Intelligence, Bringing AI-Guided Campaign Creation and Reporting to Marketers July 8, 2026 Marketers and business owners can now create and manage Google Ads Performance Max campaigns without leaving ActiveCampaign — part of a growing ecosystem of Active Intelligence connectors that brings the full power of a marketer’s tech stack into one AI-powered workspace
Why even gilts are outperforming the once unstoppable Magnificent 7 this year July 8, 2026 Plagued by sticky inflation and spendthrift politicians, the UK government’s bonds have spent years as an unloved asset class. But six months into 2026 and they have, so far, outperformed the Magnificent 7. Ali Lyon examines what has gone wrong for the so-called hyperscalers even as AI hype is greater than ever. Since the Bank [...]
Options Technology Named 2025 Equinix EMEA Partner Award Winner July 8, 2026 Options Technology, the leading provider of trading infrastructure and market data solutions, today announced it has been named 2025 Equinix EMEA Partner of the Year. This award, part of the Equinix Partner Awards program, celebrates Equinix’s partners for commitment, customer focus, and execution with shared go-to-market priorities. The EMEA Partner of the Year award recognizes [...]
Kore.ai Partners With Atos to Deliver Sovereign Agentic AI for UK Enterprise July 8, 2026 New partnership will accelerate secure, scalable and sovereign AI solutions to UK organisations
TetraMem and SK hynix Showcase Successful Technology Collaboration Advancing Memory-Centric AI Computing July 8, 2026 Joint achievement highlights how Analog In-Memory Computing can address the growing energy and thermal challenges of AI while laying the foundation for deeper collaboration on next-generation memory and computing architectures.
Vultr and SUSE Launch Validated Full-Stack NVIDIA Enterprise AI Platform to Accelerate Production Deployments July 8, 2026 SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA on Vultr Infrastructure delivers integrated enterprise AI software, GPU acceleration, and global cloud infrastructure to move organizations from AI experimentation to secure production
Quinbrook Closes Oversubscribed GBP 587 Million Renewables Impact Fund II July 8, 2026 Investments will advance decarbonisation, improve security of energy supplies, and provide critical grid support across the UK and Ireland
Making it in the UAE – Donna Benton July 8, 2026 Donna Benton is not, in her words, “The stay-home coffee Mum”. After building The ENTERTAINER into one of the UAE’s best-known brands, taking it across more than a dozen markets and selling it in a nine-figure US dollar deal, the Australian entrepreneur could have stepped away. Instead, she built a portfolio across hospitality, fashion, beauty, [...]
Britain can’t afford a self-harming tourist tax July 8, 2026 Tourism is exactly the kind of industry that the country needs more of, yet it’s about to be taxed like a burden instead, says Anne Strickland With millions of us packing for summer holidays this month, it is worth remembering that tourism in the United Kingdom is one of the industries that we are still [...]