By Kyle Porter, Managing Director, Virgo PR The PR industry has a size bias. The assumption, rarely examined, is that larger agencies deliver more value — more relationships, more resources, more credibility. I spent seven years running a boutique agency before joining Virgo, and I have spent the years since watching that assumption fail emerging…
By Brendan Straw, Country Manager, Shopfully Australia AI is rapidly changing how Australians shop. It is making product discovery faster, easier and more personalised, and giving consumers new ways to compare prices, assess options and narrow their choices. But discovery is not the same as conversion. Shopfully’s 2026 State of Shopping research shows that while…
1. The advertising ecosystem is evolving quickly as organizations adapt to new privacy expectations, identity frameworks, and AI-driven technologies. From your vantage point leading revenue at Optable, what are the biggest shifts shaping how brands and publishers approach audience data today? Three forces of change are converging, creating a real sense of urgency. The industry’s…
DriveCentric, the dealer‑industry‑focused Customer Engagement Platform, announced on April 16, 2026 a new suite of autonomous AI agents designed to handle after‑hours lead response, proactive database outreach, and long‑term customer retention for automotive retail locations. A Platform Built for the Showroom Floor The three agents—Nurture, Prospect, and Sales—are embedded directly into DriveCentric’s existing CRM architecture. Nurture keeps…
ConverseNow‑Deliverect Integration Brings Enterprise‑Grade Voice AI Ordering to Restaurant Order Management, a partnership that fuses ConverseNow’s generative Voice AI platform with Deliverect’s unified order‑management hub to automate phone and drive‑thru orders for restaurants of all sizes. The restaurant tech sector received a notable boost, when ConverseNow, a specialist in AI‑driven voice ordering, announced a deep…
BRISBANE, Australia – 10 April 2026 – Fishbowl, the preferred manufacturing and inventory management software for Xero and QuickBooks users, has launched its new cloud-based AI operations platform in APAC. Introducing AI operations assistant ‘Juno’, the platform debuts AI Manufacturing, which prepares jobs by checking materials, flagging shortages and generating work orders, as the first release…
Sydney, Australia, 15 April 2026 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced Cloudflare Mesh, the first private networking solution of its scale built for the rise of AI agents. By unifying AI agents, humans, and multicloud infrastructure into a single secure fabric, Cloudflare Mesh provides the networking backbone for organisations to build, deploy,…
DataSnipper, the agentic automation platform for audit and finance teams, announced a strategic alliance with Armanino, a top‑20 U.S. accounting and consulting firm, to speed the deployment of AI agents across internal audit and risk advisory engagements. The partnership blends DataSnipper’s generative AI‑driven workflow automation with Armanino’s deep audit expertise, promising faster, more traceable audit…
Cango’s EcoHash Launches Digital Portal to Power AI Compute with Plug‑and‑Play Modules, a new platform designed to deliver low‑latency AI inference from a distributed energy network. The announcement, made on April 13, 2026, introduces a web‑based gateway for EcoHash Technology LLC, the AI‑focused subsidiary of Bitcoin miner Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG). Hosted at www.ecohash.com, the portal showcases a hybrid…
