IT, AI & Telecommunications

SAN FRANCISCO – November 10, 2026 -- The A-Comm Evidence Protocol Consortium has grown to 22 companies after A-Comm Technologies, Inc. confirmed eight additional founding members: AiPrise, AstraSync, Beltic, CartAI, Cartograph, Forter, SablePay and Trulioo.

The eight join 14 founding members announced on Oct. 28. The consortium stewards the A-Comm Evidence Protocol (AEP), an open standard for a tamper-evident record of agent-initiated transactions.

Each member gets one vote, and A-Comm Technologies holds no veto

Every company in the consortium holds a single vote, including A-Comm Technologies, which authored AEP and serves as interim secretariat. A-Comm Technologies has committed to transfer AEP to a neutral standards host, chosen by the members, within 12 months.

Armonk, N.Y. – November 10, 2026 -- Apptio, an IBM company, is rolling out native connections for leading frontier AI systems, aiming to close a visibility gap in which 85% of surveyed technology executives say they cannot see real-time AI spending in full.

The figure comes from an IBM Institute for Business Value study published in June 2026. It surveyed 2,000 senior technology executives across 33 geographies and 19 industries, in work conducted with Oxford Economics from January to April 2026. AI costs are spread across model providers, cloud infrastructure, applications and teams, which makes it hard to tell which initiatives deliver business value.

Yehuda, Israel – November 10, 2026 -- AudioCodes (NASDAQ: AUDC) won the Best Connectivity/Infrastructure Solution category at UC Awards 2026, organized by UC Today, for its Operator Connect for Resellers offering, which lets channel partners activate Microsoft Teams PSTN calling for customers in minutes.

Subscription service removes the need for reseller-owned voice infrastructure

Operator Connect for Resellers runs on the AudioCodes Live Platform on a monthly subscription basis. Resellers and service providers of any size can deliver PSTN calling to Teams customers without deploying or maintaining their own voice infrastructure. The offering builds on AudioCodes' status as a Microsoft-certified Operator Connect partner.

Automated onboarding handles customer activation, while a portal covers ongoing user and phone number management.

Austin – November 10, 2026 -- Civitech, a public benefit corporation that builds voter data and outreach tools for progressive candidates and causes, has won four Top Workplaces Culture Excellence awards alongside a 2026 Top Workplace designation from the Austin American-Statesman.

Civitech wins in four culture categories

The company was recognized for Purpose & Values, Work-Life Flexibility, Employee Appreciation and Innovation. Energage, which determines the awards, bases the honors on a research-backed employee engagement survey.

Culture Excellence awards draw directly on confidential employee feedback. The Top Workplaces program has run for 19 years and surveys organizations nationally and across 60 regional markets.

Bonita Springs – November 10, 2026 -- Philadelphia-based Otter Property Management has moved its portfolio of about 750 rentals to Rentvine's property management software, citing the platform's open API and AI tools as the deciding factors, Rentvine announced.

Otter leaves Appfolio to keep its tech-first profile

Otter launched in 2020 as a paperless, technology-driven company and manages single-family homes, duplexes and triplexes. Owner and operations manager Kevin Moyer said the firm had outgrown its previous software. He saw a growing number of peers in the National Association of Residential Property Managers (NARPM), where he is an active member, expanding their AI capabilities with Rentvine.

"We got too comfortable on Appfolio, and that's not who we are as a tech-forward company," Moyer said.

Foster City – November 10, 2026 -- Qualys (NASDAQ: QLYS) has expanded its global mROC program to five strategic technology alliance partners (Claroty, Lookout, NowSecure, Nozomi Networks and Okta), feeding risk data from mobile, OT/IoT and identity systems into its Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) platform.

Partner telemetry flows into a single TruRisk score

Qualys says these attack surfaces are among the least measured in the enterprise. Phones, connected devices, industrial and medical systems, and identities often cannot run a traditional agent or tolerate active scanning. Their risk therefore goes unmeasured or sits in a separate tool with its own scoring.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 10, 2026 -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) will put its two top executives in front of investors on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at the 7th Annual Needham Virtual Tech Week Conference.

President and CEO Nimrod Ben-Natan and CFO Walter Jankovic will host the investor meetings.

Harmonic ties its investor pitch to a cOS platform running at network scale

Harmonic's cOS virtualized broadband platform anchors its offering to broadband service providers. The company also sells solutions for fiber and DOCSIS networks, plus a growing portfolio of AI-powered network intelligence tools.

Harmonic reports thousands of vCMTS servers and hundreds of thousands of RPDs deployed globally. It says the installed base delivers five-nines reliability.

Needham representatives handle meeting requests for the November 18 sessions

Investors seeking time with Ben-Natan and Jankovic are directed to their Needham representative.

Stamford – November 10, 2026 -- Kolmena's agentic AI platform has cut time spent on regulatory research by 85% at Celnova Pharma, the company said as it launched the multi-agent system with access by invitation only.

Platform routes tasks across multiple AI models to manage cost and performance

Kolmena groups specialized AI agents into coordinated workforces that share context and work toward a common objective. Its Kolmena Smart Prompt Routing (KSPR) assigns different AI models to different tasks within a workflow. Users can tune performance and cost without depending on a single AI provider.

The platform offers more than 1,600 integrations, persistent memory, governance and observability. It launches with an Agent Builder, a Swarm Builder and an implementation partner program for agencies, consultancies and AI specialists.

Las Vegas – November 10, 2026 -- Hyperscale Data (NYSE American: GPUS) plans an exchange offer for up to 192,307,692 Class A common shares at an implied $0.26 per share, an 82% premium to the November 6 close of $0.1429.

Each 100 common shares convert into $2.00 in cash and one 12% preferred share

Holders can tender blocks of 100 shares for one unit. Each unit consists of $2.00 in cash and one preferred share with a $24.00 stated value. The preferred stock carries an annual dividend of 12.00%.

The offer requires holders to tender at least 100 million common shares.

Hyperscale Data targets a November 17 launch and a NYSE American listing for the preferred

The AI data center operator expects to launch the offer around November 17, 2026. Launch remains subject to board approval, regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. Terms will be set out in an Offer to Exchange filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Beijing – November 10, 2026 -- VNET Group (Nasdaq: VNET) will report unaudited third-quarter 2026 financial results on Monday, November 23, 2026, before the open of U.S. markets.

VNET schedules earnings call for 7:00 AM Eastern on November 23

Management will host the call at 7:00 AM U.S. Eastern Time, which is 8:00 PM Beijing Time the same day. Participants must pre-register online and can choose between an English line and a Chinese line. The Chinese line is listen-only.

After registration, each participant receives an email with dial-in numbers, a conference call passcode and a unique access PIN.

Investors can follow a live webcast and replay through December 1

A live and archived webcast will be available on the company's investor relations website. A telephone replay of the call will be accessible through December 1, 2026.