IT, AI & Telecommunications

SINGAPORE – October 29, 2026 -- OneQode has signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai, with talks continuing on an expansion of up to 114 MW that the company says could generate more than US$6 billion in GPU-as-a-service total contract value.

The deal is OneQode's first major AI infrastructure deployment in India. The Chennai site will host large-scale AI training and inference, enterprise AI and sovereign AI workloads, and forms part of OneQode's Asia-Pacific buildout alongside its deployment in Thailand.

BELLEVUE – October 29, 2026 -- Archera has closed a $15 million Series C round led by Pivot Investment Partners, lifting its total funding to $38.3 million as it expands insurance-backed guarantees on cloud and AI spending. The cloud economics company now manages roughly $5.6 billion in annual cloud and AI spend.

Existing investors including HighSage Ventures also participated. The capital will fund Archera's Guaranteed Commitments and its free cloud cost tools, including a FinOps Agent and MCP.

Archera has delivered more than $700 million in savings to over 2,200 organizations

Customers include PubNub, Art.com and Astronomer. Archera says it has operated profitably at scale.

Plano, Texas – October 29, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications (Nasdaq: RBBN) reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $219 million, up 14% sequentially, and guided to $233 million to $247 million for the fourth quarter. Net income improved by $18 million.

Adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to $27 million from $12 million in the second quarter. Non-GAAP operating expenses held flat at $88 million.

Ribbon's year-over-year profitability and margins diverge

Revenue was $219 million against $215 million in the third quarter of 2025. GAAP operating income rose to $6 million from $3 million.

Non-GAAP Adjusted EBITDA slipped to $27 million from $29 million a year earlier. GAAP gross margin fell to 48.2% from 50.1%, and non-GAAP gross margin fell to 50.3% from 52.6%.

STAMFORD – October 29, 2026 -- Charter Communications' Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.43750001 per share on its Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, which trades on NASDAQ under the ticker CHTRP.

Charter sets January 15, 2027 payment date for preferred holders

The dividend is payable in cash on January 15, 2027. Holders of record at the close of business on December 31, 2026 qualify for the payment.

Charter's common stock and preferred stock are both listed on NASDAQ, under the tickers CHTR and CHTRP respectively. The announcement covers only the preferred shares.

Charter serves more than 70 million homes and businesses in 45 states

Charter provides Spectrum-branded internet, mobile, TV and voice services across 45 states. The company describes itself as the fastest growing mobile provider in its footprint.

FREMONT – October 29, 2026 -- Socket Mobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCKT) will voluntarily delist from The Nasdaq Capital Market on or about November 19, 2026, and move quotation of its common stock to the OTCID Market under the same ticker, SCKT.

Nasdaq equity shortfall preceded the board's decision

The company is below the $2.5 million minimum stockholders' equity requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1). It had earlier submitted a compliance plan to Nasdaq Listing Qualifications. After weighing market conditions and compliance costs, the board concluded that the move to OTCID serves the interests of the company and its stockholders.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Lektra, Inc. began taking orders for EdgeStart, a self-contained 8-GPU NVIDIA server cabinet priced from $310,197, under a model in which the company pays building owners 80 percent of the revenue from AI computing sold on their premises.

Lektra installs the cabinet, operates it remotely and sells its capacity to AI customers for inference and other GPU workloads through Lektra Cloud. Targets include commercial and industrial building owners, solar and storage sites, and energy developers that have underused space and existing solar arrays or batteries.

Two EdgeStart models carry installed prices of $310,197 and $840,951

The EdgeStart RTX uses eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and draws about 7 kW at peak. Lektra estimates owner earnings of about $9,700 a month in the first year.

Las Vegas – October 29, 2026 -- Oracle said new NVMe block-storage attachment options across Oracle Acceleron bare metal and VM shapes improve performance by up to 3x, as it expanded its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) networking suite for AI workloads at Oracle AI World.

Oracle extends NVMe block storage and RDMA connectivity to more AI workloads

The NVMe options target AI, database and other data-intensive workloads. Separately, Oracle Acceleron High-Performance Fabric adds RDMA connectivity on OCI front-end compute, aimed at inference, storage and HPC deployments.

Oracle Collective Communications Library reroutes traffic across the backend Multiplanar Network when links fail

The library spreads collective traffic across OCI's backend Multiplanar Network and steers it toward healthier paths. Oracle says workloads recover instantaneously when links, ports or NICs fail.

Las Vegas – October 29, 2026 -- Oracle says 25 of its 75 packaged agentic applications for Fusion are now Claw-enabled. Claw is a governed runtime that executes analyst-grade work in finance, supply chain and workforce planning and commits results to Fusion within business-set limits. Oracle announced the expansion at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas on October 26, 2026, and says all of it is available in the current Fusion release.

Oracle extends Claw across ERP, HCM, SCM and CX applications

Oracle first introduced Claw on September 29, 2026. The runtime takes over when an agentic application needs deep analysis across millions of records. Its scope covers reconciliation, analysis, planning, simulation and optimization, and runs can last hours.

Atlanta – October 29, 2026 -- The White House has set deadlines of end-2030 for post-quantum key establishment and end-2031 for digital signatures on federal high-value assets and high-impact systems, and Keyfactor is using a new Cybercrime Magazine film to press enterprises to start their own migrations.

The film, sponsored by Keyfactor, features Fortune 500 and Global 2000 chief information security officers, cybersecurity leaders and cryptography experts. It argues that readiness should be driven by business risk, not by predictions of when Q-Day arrives. Q-Day is the point at which quantum computers can break widely used public-key cryptography.

MONTREAL – October 29, 2026 -- BCE Inc. said its subsidiary Bell Canada will sell a 49.9% stake in a newly formed wireless tower company to investment group La Caisse for CAD 2.45 billion, subject to customary adjustments. The price values the business at about CAD 4.91 billion.

TowerCo takes over 5,000-plus Bell sites

The new entity, TowerCo, will own and operate Bell's portfolio of passive wireless infrastructure. BCE describes it as Canada's largest dedicated tower company, with more than 5,000 sites nationwide. It will be headquartered in Montreal and led by CEO J. Bruce Furlong.

TowerCo plans to grow through new site builds, site densification and third-party colocation, which lets other service providers use its towers.