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Magnum Ice Cream (which owns brands such as Ben & Jerry's and Magnum) is preparing for a two-year comprehensive IT system overhaul following its spin-off from Unilever in 2025. Michael Friedlander, the company's CIO for the Americas, calls this a 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,' emphasizing a foundation of clean data, selecting partners deeply invested in AI, and adopting configuration over customization to accelerate AI adoption.
New Era Technology announced its promotion to Genetec Unified Elite Partner status in the US, a distinction held by a select group of partners. The new status reinforces the company's position in integrated security, video surveillance, and access control, and will extend its Genetec partnership into new international markets.
On August 25, 2026, Informa TechTarget announced the launch of the B2B AI Authority Index, a diagnostic tool that assesses brand authority in AI-mediated buying journeys based on 24 questions and categorizes brands into four archetypes. The index is built on the S.I.G.N.A.L. framework, covering six capabilities. Company executives emphasized that AI authority requires strategic brand building, not just optimizing visibility.
Expion Health announced that its ExpionIQ platform has received the 2026 CIO 100 Award in the category of "Digital Transformation and Modernization." The award was presented at the CIO 100 ceremony held on August 19, 2026, in Frisco, Texas, and was accepted on behalf of the company by Suresh Kumar, Chief Information and Transformation Officer. This marks the second time Expion Health has received this honor, following its previous win in 2024.
e4n has partnered with Katalyst to launch its first U.S. platform company, marking a strategic entry into the American managed services and cybersecurity sector. Katalyst will retain its brand, leadership, and client-first approach under CEO Luke Johnson, who will continue to lead the company. The partnership aims to enhance Katalyst's capabilities in cybersecurity, automation, and AI-enabled workflows while preserving its local strengths.
Teqtivity's Q2 2026 report shows that in remote and hybrid work models, device handoffs have become a high-risk point for losing asset records. 55% of IT security personnel find remote offboarding processes more difficult, 71% of HR report at least one departing employee not returning a device, with an average value of $1,963 per device. When CIOs manage 10,000 devices, an unrecovered rate of 5%-15% translates to approximately $1 million to $2.9 million in annual hardware losses.
Inforcer announced the launch of Copilot Manager, designed to help MSPs productize and deliver secure, scalable AI services. The feature provides Copilot adoption trends, Shadow AI usage monitoring, and risk identification, supporting MSPs in compliance upselling through a multi-tenant view. Over 200 MSPs are currently participating in the beta test.
GroundTruth and ZeroToOne.AI jointly launched Dynamic Intent Prediction, based on a large behavior model covering over 15,000 behavioral signals and 2B+ MAIDs, predicting purchase intent within 24 hours to 30 days, with effectiveness validated across multiple industries.
IT operations platform SuperOps and intelligent security operations platform Guardz announced a strategic partnership on June 24, 2026, launching a bundled product aimed at helping MSPs break free from fragmented technology stacks and build a unified data foundation for the AI era.
Informa TechTarget (NASDAQ: TTGT) and UK-based partner marketing agency The Sherpa Group have jointly launched the Partner Demand Assurance (PDA) solution, combining their data, audience, and enablement capabilities to address pain points such as lack of transparency in follow-up processing of partner leads, helping B2B technology companies maximize and prove the return on investment of their partner programs.