Talent

Dublin-based accountancy SaaS firm Bright Software Group has promoted Ben Bishop to CEO, with Stephen Murdoch moving to Executive Chair effective immediately.

Munich startup Skalar, founded by Stocard's Björn Goß, has closed €12m in pre-seed and seed funding to build an AI-first tax and

Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University formalised a partnership with the Bavarian University of Business and Technology during a Munich visit focused on AI and innovation.

ASUS has listed its new ExpertBook P5 G2 and B5 G2 business laptops in the US, priced from $2,630 with Copilot+-ready NPU silicon.

The quarterly People Pulse survey of 1,500 GCC employees finds high advocacy masking burnout rates 17 points above the global average.

The eighth edition of the GWPR Annual Index adds a dedicated section on AI's impact on PR careers, skills and entry-level opportunities.

New research finds 59% of UK workers plan to look for a new job within six months, far above the 49% global average.

Lenovo has agreed a framework with National Housing Company Innovation to explore AI, data centres and talent programmes in Saudi Arabia.

Sharjah's SPARK tech park convened regional and global firms to share AI use cases spanning healthcare, logistics, telecoms and robotics.

Aston University has secured £3.9m from an £80m Office for Students scheme to expand aerospace engineering and cybersecurity provision in Birmingham.

Singh, previously Mimecast's Chief Product and Technology Officer, takes over immediately as the London-based cybersecurity vendor pursues a unified human, data and AI

ASUS Republic of Gamers took the HigherEd EdTech Deployment of the Year award after equipping more than 900 US college campuses with tournament-grade gaming

TTEC Digital has earned the highest tier in NiCE's partner programme, citing more than 100 certified consultants and a growing CXone deployment pipeline.

XCharge has promoted its Head of Europe to Co-Chief Executive Officer, giving her oversight of European operations and the company's cybersecurity programme.

Plassnig, founder of Codeship and former CPO at Immuta, takes the helm as CloudBees repositions around agentic code governance.

The OTCQB-listed mobile and digital services firm has split its interim CFO role to create a dedicated AI leadership position.

Nasdaq-listed OHC has appointed Erich Buerger to lead AI strategy across its GunBroker firearms marketplace, a newly created role.

SUNY Broome Community College took first place with a quantum education project at the annual NSF-backed student STEM competition.

Melissa Podesto joins as VP of Hyperscale Leasing to drive customer growth at PowerBridge's gigawatt-scale West Texas campus portfolio.

Network digital twin vendor IP Fabric has named Jonathan Korntheuer CFO, drawing its new finance chief from the growth equity firm that backed it.