HIVE Digital Technologies (NASDAQ:HIVE) shares traded higher on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, following the release of its December 2025 production report and full-year results.
The company reported a banner year, producing 2,311 BTC in 2025—a 31% increase over the previous year—despite the significant headwinds of the 2024 halving and a 46% year-over-year surge in average network difficulty.
8x8 (NASDAQ:EGHT), a global leader in integrated cloud communications, announced on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, that it has acquired Maven Lab, a Singapore-based specialist in mobile marketing and enterprise messaging.
The acquisition is a strategic "step-change" for 8x8, designed to cement its leadership in the high-growth Asia-Pacific (APAC) customer engagement market.
By integrating Maven Lab’s team and its acclaimed Moobidesk platform into the 8x8 Platform for CX, the company is pivoting from traditional messaging toward "orchestrated, omnichannel customer journeys."
Moobidesk offers a unified interface for SMS, WhatsApp, Viber, LINE, and voice, featuring smart AI routing and automated response suggestions that have been shown to increase sales leads by an average of 10% for its enterprise clients.
The move comes as the CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service) market is projected to grow from $32 billion today to nearly $100 billion by 2030.
With Maven Lab’s deep local carrier relationships and regional expertise, 8x8 is now uniquely positioned to support mission-critical, high-volume communications for the finance, healthcare, and logistics sectors across Southeast Asia.
Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) announced on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, that its autonomous ride-hailing platform, Apollo Go, has received Dubai’s first-ever permit for fully driverless vehicle trials on public roads.
Ryder System (NYSE:R) announced the successful acquisition of Truck Service Depot, an Atlanta-based mobile maintenance firm, on January 5, 2026.
The move is a strategic bolt-on for Torque by Ryder™, the company’s rapidly expanding retail mobile maintenance division, as it seeks to capture a larger share of the on-demand fleet service market in the Southeast.
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR) announced Tuesday, January 6, 2026, that it has doubled its global cloud security mitigation capacity, jumping from 15 Tbps to 30 Tbps.
The massive upgrade comes in response to a "seismic shift" in the threat landscape, headlined by an 85% surge in network DDoS attacks during the first half of 2025.
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has agreed to acquire Faculty, a prominent U.K.-based AI services and products firm, in a move that signals a major escalation in the global consulting giant's push toward "applied AI."
Himax Technologies (NASDAQ:HIMX) and Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI) have jointly introduced a new optical reference design for augmented reality (AR) glasses, marking a major step toward making smart eyewear as wearable as traditional frames.
Hyundai plans to roll out human-like robots across its factories as global manufacturers race to adopt automation.
Nvidia’s chief executive says AI growth is fuelling a sharp surge in global demand for computing resources.
xAI is under fire after users exploited Grok to create non-consensual deepfakes while the company defended its free speech stance.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) introduced a sweeping new portfolio of x86 processors at CES 2026, targeting the burgeoning "physical AI" market.
The new Ryzen AI Embedded P100 and X100 series are designed to bring high-performance, low-latency intelligence to automotive cockpits, industrial robotics, and autonomous systems, moving complex decision-making from the cloud to the device itself.
Mobileye Global (NASDAQ:MBLY) shares jumped more than 7% in premarket trading Monday after the company announced a massive production win with a "top-ten" U.S. automaker.
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