2026-08-25 02:33 UTC · QUOTES VIA STOOQ
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The rollout starts August 24 across Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the Nordics, with agency-led buying first and self-serve Ads Manager promised later this summer.
A beat-and-raise wave on Aug 6–7 buried the 'SaaSocalypse' thesis, with each vendor crediting AI adoption for accelerating cloud revenue and record ARR.
TEAM's biggest day since its 2015 IPO and Twilio's record cash-flow quarter reset the AI-eats-SaaS thesis that had gutted HubSpot and Datadog 48 hours earlier.
A one-week burst of federal contracting — a $1.6B Veterans Affairs Agentforce award and a $7B Oracle Pentagon IDIQ — landed alongside ServiceNow's Q2 beat, with AI ACV clearing $1B.
Microsoft CEO's July 12 X essay argues enterprises pay twice for frontier AI — in dollars and in leaked institutional know-how — and lays out a five-C framework now moving three stocks.
Armonk added multi-agent orchestration, 'Bobalytics' cost analytics, and IBM Z, IBM i and Java modernization packs to its agentic dev platform two weeks before Q2 earnings.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled multi-agent orchestration and pre-built Z, i, and Java modernization workflows on July 9, 12 days before Q2 earnings; BofA lifted its target to $330.
Judson Althoff's new operating unit, led by former Asia chief Rodrigo Kede Lima, lands two days after AWS's $1B FDE pledge and follows May launches from OpenAI and Anthropic.
John DiFucci's July 1 note argues AI-driven software fears are 'misaligned with reality,' setting Salesforce PT at $228, ServiceNow at $125, and Check Point at $188.
CFOs are capping AI budgets and routing to cheaper open-weight models as both labs race to list at near-trillion-dollar valuations.
ACN reported +6% revenue and +9% EPS for the quarter ended May 31, and lifted full-year M&A spend to $9B from $5B as AI-transformation bookings accelerate.
EPS jumped 9% to $3.80 and the firm logged 104 year-to-date bookings above $100M, but Q3 new bookings fell 2% and shares dropped to $681.32 on demand-visibility concerns.
Combined deployment covers approximately half a million professional-services employees globally. Procurement clock starts for Deloitte and EY.