Humans And AI In Sales: Most Organizations Are Optimizing The Wrong Thing

But right now, most organizations are choosing efficiency. They are using AI to write emails faster, summarize calls, prepare ...

AI Agents Are Failing To Read B2B Pricing, Study Warns

Siteline tested a Claude agent on top B2B products. When it couldn't find the prices, it often turned to third-party sources ...

Progress Software 2Q Profit Up as AI Drives Sales

Progress Software reported higher second-quarter profit as revenue increased, helped by artificial intelligence-powered product offerings. The technology company posted net income of $21.1 million, or ...

Why AI Has Transformed Coding But Not Selling—And Technical Advances To Close The Gap

Sales, a function that obviously runs on language, has been among the least changed by the technology built on language.
Wall Street Journal

Startup Beacon Software Raises $225 Million to Expand Venture Roll-Up Strategy

In private equity, a roll-up has historically meant buying companies, consolidating them to achieve an economy of scale and then flipping the larger entity for profit. The venture-backed startup ...
IGN

Shaken things up.

Developer IO Interactive is celebrating after 007 First Light sold 3 million copies in less than two weeks. IOI had announced 2.7 million sales in a week, but in an interview with IGN's Simon Cardy in ...
GamesIndustry

Switch 2 sales drop 87% in Japan following surge ahead of cost revisions

Nintendo Switch 2 sales in Japan fell by 87% after a surge prior to the May 25 price increase. According to Famitsu (via VGC), last week's data showed that Switch 2 hardware sales dropped to 31,751 ...
IGN

007 First Light Estimated to Have Sold 2.2 Million Copies, Generating $150 Million in Revenue

007 First Light is estimated to have sold 2.2 million copies, generating $150 million in revenue. Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics, tweeted to say that the company’s data ...