ChargePoint and Powers Parts, a national distributor of electric vehicle components and fleet replacement parts, have announced a partnership to sell ChargePoint charging hardware, software, and fleet management services directly to transit agencies across North America. The deal targets operators running E2 and ZX5 electric buses built by PhoenixEV, the company that acquired Proterra’s transit bus […]

CoStar Group has agreed to acquire Zonda, the leading provider of new-home construction data, homebuilder software, and residential real estate marketplaces, for $800 million in cash. The deal, announced on Thursday, is expected to close in the second half of 2026 and will be accretive to adjusted earnings per share in its first full year. Zonda […]

The year-old Dutch startup is folding in a seven-year-old performance-marketing platform, betting that customers want AI, automation and human specialists in one place. Most startups spend their first year trying to survive. Aizy has spent its first year buying a company older than itself. The Breda-based AI-marketing firm announced that it has acquired Uptmz, a […]

Samsung Electronics and LG Uplus signed a memorandum of understanding on 27 May to jointly develop Integrated Sensing and Communication, or ISAC, a technology that would allow mobile network base stations to double as environmental sensors. The agreement was signed at LG Science Park in Magok, Seoul, with Samsung Research, the advanced R&D division within […]

The fight over who makes the world’s chips is increasingly a fight over the parts of a chip nobody photographs. India has just landed one of them. Intel and 3D Glass Solutions have signed an agreement to build a roughly $3.3 billion substrate-manufacturing plant in the eastern state of Odisha, the government announced on Friday. […]

Australia’s Fair Work Commission has announced a review of its processes to cope with what it described as an estimated 70% workload increase over three years, driven in part by the proliferation of generative AI assistance tools. The commission, which handles unfair dismissal claims, wage disputes, discrimination, bullying, and workplace sexual harassment, said the surge […]

The Delhi High Court held that letting competitors bid on the trademark ‘Hindware’ as an ad keyword is infringement, and that Google’s safe-harbour shield does not cover it. The business of search advertising rests on a quiet assumption: that a platform can auction off any word, including someone else’s brand name, and treat the legal […]

Denmark’s AkademikerPension, which manages roughly $25 billion for academic professionals, has said it will not participate in SpaceX’s initial public offering or buy shares in any secondary-market transaction, according to Bloomberg. Chief investment officer Anders Schelde called the company “grossly overvalued” and cited what he described as a “catastrophic governance structure” as the primary reason for the […]

Autodesk has spent four decades selling the software that engineers and architects use to design buildings, factories and machines. With its latest acquisition, it is buying its way into what happens after those things are built. The company has agreed to acquire MaintainX, a maintenance and operations platform, for about $3.6 billion in cash. The […]

The Pentagon is buying defence hardware faster than it can make any of it talk to each other. Sensors, autonomous platforms, edge compute, electronic-warfare payloads, space and undersea systems, all arriving at once, each speaking its own dialect. Picogrid, a six-year-old company in El Segundo, California, has raised $45 million to translate. The Series A, […]