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North America Cloud Services Trends

IPitomy's results renew Clarion's acquisition pitch

The subsidiary reports faster growth in adjusted earnings than revenue. That gives an established expansion strategy a fresh set of numbers, not a disclosed acquisition budget.

Sep 10, 2026
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North America Institutional Trends

IRT’s Centerspace Merger Makes Index Scale Part of the Asset

Independence Realty Trust is offering 3.800 of its shares for each Centerspace share. The apartments matter, but so does the security built around them: more free float, heavier benchmark weight and, management hopes, cheaper capital. That is the merger’s least physical—and most…

Sep 10, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

NORC gains a cloud credential for government research

FedRAMP certification strengthens the case for considering Data Enclave Gov. It does not turn confidential datasets into an open resource or remove the work of running a research service.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

SecureSky buys data context for its managed-response business

The Soveren acquisition adds a view of sensitive data and its movements. Turning that view into a useful security service still requires priorities, ownership and permission to act.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America National Telecom Trends

AT&T plans automated wavelength quotes through Connectbase

The expected early-fourth-quarter opening could put a carrier into more buying decisions sooner. A digital price response is still a different event from an activated circuit.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

CGI buys Callibrity's route from AI experiment to operations

The completed Cincinnati acquisition brings 120 consultants and a practical engineering proposition: making enterprise AI manageable after the demonstration ends.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Institutional Trends

MediaAlpha Paid US$43m to Retire US$91.4m of Estimated TRA Claims

MediaAlpha’s two tax-agreement buyouts created a US$48.4 million discount against dated liability estimates. That is potentially valuable, but it is not cash the company received: US$43 million actually left the business, one transaction required revolving debt, and about US$32…

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

Optical Cable turns higher volumes into a wider gross margin

The cable maker's gross profit is growing faster than sales. That is evidence of improving factory economics, not a separate measure of AI demand or a promise that every cost will scale the same way.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Analog Devices reaches into local AI design with Alif deal

A broader chip portfolio is only the start. The proposed Alif purchase reaches into the tools and engineering choices that decide whether components become a working system.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

MARA’s AI Pivot Is a Portfolio of Site-Level Options

The headline says MARA and Starwood can turn mining campuses into roughly a gigawatt of near-term AI infrastructure. The contract says something more revealing: each property must pass a tenant, engineering and financing test before a ten-business-day choice determines whether…

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Parallel Works puts allocation rules around CoreWeave capacity

A reserved GPU pool removes one source of competition. Deciding which research team can use it, and when, creates another market for managed services.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

HGP’s $800 Million Valuation Arrives Before the Qualification Ledger

HGP Intelligent Energy is asking the market to value three nuclear propositions as one company. The missing bridge is a public record showing which software, pump and campus milestones can turn illustrative economics into significant revenue.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Interop's t3 deal makes integration part of the messaging sale

SMS, business traffic and emergency alerts will reach an operator through the same commercial partnership. The value lies in the engineering around them, not in treating them as one interchangeable service.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Cycurion’s $800,000 Contract Spend Still Needs a Revenue Bridge

Cycurion has disclosed several new assignments in healthcare, life sciences and public health. The useful question is not whether the awards exist, but how customer spending becomes delivered work, reported revenue, receivables and cash.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

Delray Beach budgets for a site, not a recovery promise

A proposed five-year spending envelope would keep municipal systems at a university data centre. The contract buys a defined physical service, not a promise that every application will restart.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

AITX’s 14% Payment Drop Does Not Yet Clear the Cash-Flow Test

AITX spent less cash in a selected set of operating categories in August than in July. That is a useful observation, but the company’s own exclusions, timing notes and financing record show why one smaller month cannot yet carry the weight of a cash-flow result.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Regional ISP Trends

Roanoke changes the bill, not the fibre owner

An October billing change will fold a separate adjustment into electricity rates. Roanoke Cooperative's retained fibre assets and the economics of leasing them to a retail operator do not disappear with the line item.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

IREN, Galaxy receive conditional ERCOT classifications

IREN's Sweetwater hub and two Galaxy projects entered ERCOT's Base Load category, while three other Galaxy sites remain subject to capacity allocation.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America National Telecom

Verizon secures six-year Corning fibre supply

Verizon will receive more than 80 million fibre miles from Corning between 2027 and 2032 for broadband and long-haul network construction.

Sep 9, 2026
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North America Datacenter Trends

Massachusetts makes data-centre commitments count

The new executive order ties state permits to community benefits and environmental conditions. The commercial test is whether a developer can make those promises credible before construction money is committed.

Sep 9, 2026