Paris stories

Qlik unveils AI sovereignty initiative and ISO certification as it expands regional AWS deployments to help customers meet tighter data rules.

Convelio wins Series C backing and a Phillips mandate as the fine art logistics group prepares a New York warehouse and AI-driven growth.

Seedcamp-backed Omniscient has drawn Renault as an early user of its boardroom AI, as it targets corporate reputation and risk monitoring.

Thunes has won the Best Cross-Border Payment Solution award at the MPE Awards 2026 after judges praised its global reach, FX pricing and compliance platform.

Equinix widens global training push as it seeks to build a pipeline of technicians, apprentices and early-career staff for data centre growth.

UK patent filings drop 3.3% after three years of growth as EPO applications pass 200,000 for the first time, led by US, Germany and China.

Equinix is rolling out its Pathways to Tech scheme in Australia as part of a global drive to tackle data centre skills shortages.

Thunes opens Swift banks to direct USDC and USDT payouts, linking 11,500 institutions with 500 million stablecoin wallets worldwide.

Sharp swings in online peak spending and 64% checkout abandonment risk derailing retailers' forecasts and promo plans for 2026.

XAML.io 0.6 brings in-browser NuGet packages and shareable project links, pushing its WebAssembly .NET IDE closer to a full project workspace.

IMP Software has been named The Assignment Report's UK education company of 2025 after rapid growth supplying finance tools to MATs.

AI is turbocharging Europe's data centre boom, but grid bottlenecks and power scarcity now threaten to slow the next wave of expansion.

Sennheiser's Spectera system discreetly blankets Notre-Dame with reliable wireless audio as worship, concerts and broadcasts intensify.

GoCanopy secures EUR €2.1m seed funding to build an AI-driven “system of record” for institutional real estate investors in Europe.

Integrity360 acquires Calgary-based Advantus360 to spearhead its North American push and launch a new cyber hub for Canada and the US.

Westcon-Comstor to privately list Weblib Smart Wifi tools on AWS Marketplace, widening channel access across the UK, Europe and Middle East.

SaleCycle snaps up French personalisation specialist BEYABLE to create a unified European eCommerce marketing and conversion platform.

Microsoft tops rivals for weaving nature restoration into European data centres, but report warns sector lags as AI power demand surges.

AI-driven demand is set to unleash up to USD $3 trillion in global data centre investment, doubling capacity to 200GW by 2030.

India, Vietnam and South Korea are set to be the fastest-growing markets for UK tech in 2026, a leading consultancy has forecast.