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Wokingham Borough Council cuts CRM costs by £218,000 as digital transformation programme enters next phase with AI

A ransomware incident now costs an average of $5.08 million from first alert to final invoice, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. But that headline figure hides the single biggest variable in the whole equation: whether the victim had a tested business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) plan running before the attackers…

Add preferred source The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) will expand its ultra-fast patent review system starting in November to cover youth-led startups across all industries, as well as AI data centers and physical AI technologies. Under the program, patent review times drop from the standard 20 months to an average of one month. Annual…

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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Alibaba.com today announced results from a 107-task benchmark evaluation showing that Accio, its AI agent platform for commerce, completed a range of e-commerce tasks at more than 50% lower estimated cost than OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, with comparable completion quality. This makes Accio the most cost-competitive e-commerce…

Mortgage Advice Bureau has cut its profit expectations for 2026, warning that an anticipated recovery in the housing market has failed to materialise.

For e-commerce platforms, the festive contest is consequently being shaped on both sides of the marketplace: consumer demand remains the prize, but seller economics, operational execution and the efficiency of discovery

Fashion brand Hightide Frankie lifted its return on advertising spend (ROAS) to 968 percent by February 2026 from 371 percent in the first month after using “sales-linked advertising.”

Yahoo has deployed flexible virtual machines in Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Apache Spark, cutting cluster provisioning failures caused by regional capacity shortages by 85%.