IT, AI & Telecommunications

Austin, Texas – November 03, 2026 -- Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) priced concurrent public offerings of common stock and senior notes that are expected to generate net proceeds of about $9.9 billion and $10.0 billion respectively, or roughly $19.9 billion combined.

Oracle sells 86.2 million shares at $116.00 each

The common stock offering covers 86,206,897 shares with a par value of $0.01, priced at $116.00 per share. Net proceeds come to approximately $9.9 billion after underwriting discounts and Oracle's estimated offering expenses.

Five-tranche notes offering carries coupons from 7.000% to 8.650%

The notes offering totals $10.0 billion in principal across five maturities:

BARCELONA – November 03, 2026 -- Linker Vision has unveiled Linker AI Nexa, a platform that links real-time city data to government standard operating procedures (SOPs), and a Taipei pilot shows tree survey throughput rising from roughly 100 to over 1,000 trees per person per day. The company presented the system at Smart City Expo World Congress 2026. It combines physical AI and agentic AI with NVIDIA technologies to coordinate public safety, resilience and sustainability actions.

Nexa runs a four-step loop from sensing to action

The platform interprets camera and IoT sensor data (Sense) and assesses outcomes using simulation and environmental models (Predict). It then identifies responsible teams and recommended actions based on city SOPs (Decide) and triggers responses through connected systems (Act). Security policies and operational controls govern AI-driven actions.

Stockholm – November 03, 2026 -- Truecaller reported third-quarter net sales of SEK 464.0 million, up 18% sequentially from Q2 and up about 3% year on year in constant currencies. Reported sales slipped 1% from SEK 467.9 million, and a SEK 92 million transfer pricing provision in India pushed the company to a quarterly loss.

Recurring revenue climbs to 47% of net sales

Subscription revenues grew 32% in constant currencies, and revenues from Truecaller for Business rose 14%. Advertising revenue fell 12%. Recurring revenues grew 26% year on year in constant currencies and now make up 47% of net sales, against 38% a year earlier.

The CEO said ad revenues grew 23% versus Q2 and turned modestly positive year on year in September, helped by the rollout of proprietary ad tech infrastructure. Truecaller for Business sales rose 15% versus Q2. Business Messaging volumes are structurally higher after the shift to a multi-partner model.

Dusseldorf – November 03, 2026 -- Swisscom has reduced software upgrade time by 60% and network service deployment time by 97% after adopting Ericsson's new GitOps-based lifecycle and configuration management for cloud-native core networks.

Ericsson extends declarative management to all dual-mode 5G core functions

Ericsson now offers GitOps-compliant software packages and configuration management for all of its cloud-native dual-mode 5G core network functions (CNFs). A communications service provider (CSP) defines the target state of its mobile core, and the system implements the required changes automatically. Ericsson says this reduces manual, time-intensive processes and frees engineering teams for other work.

The new deployment model is to become available for applications and products across Ericsson's core network portfolio.

Munich – November 03, 2026 -- Atos is pitching its Sovereign Agentic Studios as a route for German companies to move agentic AI out of pilot mode, as the share of firms using AI jumped from 17% to 41% in one year.

The figures come from a March 2026 representative survey by the digital association Bitkom, covering companies with at least 20 employees. A further 48% are planning AI deployments or discussing them. More than half of current users report a measurable contribution to business success.

Atos Sovereign Agentic Studios cover design, build and operation of AI agents

The approach spans the full value chain of agentic AI: conception, development and operation, plus the governance structures and underlying infrastructure. Each project starts from a prioritized business process with defined goals and measurable results, not from the technology.

Amsterdam – November 03, 2026 -- Fourthline and Veridas closed their merger on 3 November 2026, creating an identity verification group with forecast 2026 combined revenue above EUR 50 million and financing of up to EUR 65 million. The deal was first announced on 16 July 2026 and completed after all closing conditions were met.

Finch Capital, Seaya Andromeda and Ashgrove Capital supply up to EUR 65 million

Existing shareholder Finch Capital, new equity investor Seaya Andromeda and debt provider Ashgrove Capital are funding the transaction. The money will go toward product innovation, strategic M&A, debt refinancing and a reorganized shareholding structure. That structure includes partial liquidity for Veridas shareholders.

St. Cloud, Minn. – November 03, 2026 -- Two bipartisan bills before Congress would require panic alarms in US schools and set standards for federally funded emergency response maps. GeoComm, a public safety mapping provider, says an alert is only useful if 9-1-1 staff and first responders can immediately see where help is needed.

H.R. 1524 and H.R. 6809 target different gaps in school emergency response

The ALYSSA Act (H.R. 1524) would require local educational agencies receiving federal elementary and secondary education funding to ensure each school has at least one silent panic alarm. Alyssa's Act of 2025 (H.R. 6809) would support the development, testing, and evaluation of panic alarm technology. It would also set proposed requirements for emergency response maps bought with federal funds.

Both bills have been introduced and referred to committees. Neither has been enacted.

DUBLIN – November 03, 2026 -- BOC Group has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools for the sixth consecutive time, with its ADOIT EA suite as the recognized product.

Gartner report dated October 13, 2026 again lists ADOIT among Leaders

The Magic Quadrant was authored by Austin Steinmetz, Rowan Wakeford and Rhyan Light. Gartner states that it does not endorse any vendor and does not advise technology users to select only the vendors with the highest ratings.

ADOIT embeds AI into everyday architecture work

The software lets teams query architecture knowledge in natural language, identify dependencies and technology risks, and move from enterprise data to actionable insight. Guided workspaces and simple forms are meant to make architecture data easier to contribute, review and use across the organization, so specialists spend less time on data entry.

Berlin – November 03, 2026 -- IT service providers, software companies and SaaS vendors without an ISO 27001 certification can be dropped during supplier qualification at large clients, before price, offer or references are weighed, according to Joachim Reinke, information security expert and founder of einfachISO.

Large buyers screen vendors on formal proof before negotiations begin

Corporations and larger mid-sized companies often check suppliers against formal requirements ahead of contract talks. These include insurance, data protection rules and financial indicators, and in some cases certifications. Reinke says the costliest lost contract can be one management never learns about, because the company was filtered out before selection started.

SAN FRANCISCO – November 03, 2026 -- Akash, the decentralized compute platform, will migrate its underlying blockchain infrastructure to Solana over the next 24 months, after Governance Proposal 346 passed with 97% of token holders voting in favor.

Three Akash products will run natively on Solana

Akash Marketplace, which aggregates distributed compute supply, AkashML, its AI inference platform, and Akash Homenode, which lets users contribute compute power to the network, will be available natively on Solana. The move allows Akash to integrate existing tools from Solana's ecosystem, which spans internet capital markets, payments, AI agents and crypto applications.