Cybersecurity superstar Palo Alto Networks has completed its $500 million acquisition of IBM’s QRadar assets. CEO Nikesh Arora says the merger will significantly boost the adoption of the company’s Cortex by Palo Alto Networks XSIAM offering. bit.ly/3APxmN7

Microsoft bills its Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition and Surface Pro 11th Edition Copilot+ AI PCs as better than Apple’s MacBook Air M3s and iPad Pro M4. bit.ly/3B2y5KQ

Incoming TD SYNNEX President of North America Reyna Thompson said the $55 billion distribution behemoth is set to inspire partners to build AI practices. bit.ly/3XbIMlY

Marking a significant step in SuperOps’s ongoing mission to enhance the MSP space with cutting-edge solutions and strategic growth initiatives, the company has appointed Brandi Crown as its new U.S. head of sales. bit.ly/4e7kdNO

Did you know September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month? Here’s what you should know about the initiative launched in 2019 by the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and the National Insider Threat Task Force (NITTF) Office of the DNI: bit.ly/3TEH4Zx

Nvidia has reportedly received legally binding requests for information from the United States as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into whether the semiconductor vendor broke antitrust rules as part of its domination over the AI market. bit.ly/4dOCccd

ScalePad will focus on integrating AI thoughtfully and ensuring that its products enhance the overall user experience, ScalePad’s new CEO Chris Day told CJ Fairfield. Read CJ’s interview with Day to learn about the company’s next phase of growth: bit.ly/3TiX2Ip

Palo Alto Networks has completed its $500 million acquisition of IBM’s QRadar Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) assets. Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says the merger will significantly boost the adoption of the company’s Cortex by Palo Alto Networks XSIAM offering. bit.ly/3z2DTUh

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri told investors Wednesday that AI momentum is increasing, with AI system orders growing $1.6B sequentially in the most recent quarter to a cumulative $6.2B since the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2023. $HPE bit.ly/4e8YOUw

Verizon is acquiring Frontier Communications in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion with the ultimate goal of winning more telecommunications market share versus its largest competitors in America, such as AT&T. $VZ $FYBR bit.ly/3XdptIX

As New Charter Technologies continues to evolve, CEO Peter Melby said the company’s strategic foresight and customer-centric innovation will help to position it as a leading force in the IT services industry. bit.ly/4dPHc0d

. Amazon Web Services has launched a Global Passport Program aimed at growing a select number of software partners’ business internationally, promising to connect these vendors to regional resellers and distributors to build local market pipelines. bit.ly/3APpv29

We're excited to share that CRN Asia will launch on Oct. 1! You can learn more here: bit.ly/47hWiZG. CRN Asia will join CRN and our other sister publications CRN UK and CRN DE to deliver breaking news and expert analysis to Asia’s dynamic IT channel.

Data privacy and compliance tools vendor Kiteworks has purchased 123FormBuilder in a move that promises to boost the vendor’s secure data collection capabilities. bit.ly/3z8f5Kq

Mike Sanders, who has been with Kaseya Corp since 2021 and became its CMO in 2023, is now Kaseya’s CRO, a new position at the company. Sanders spoke with CJ Fairfield about the move in an exclusive interview: bit.ly/3ARVCyh

HPE CEO Antonio Neri said HPE GreenLake’s pay-per-use on-premise cloud service is helping fuel AI server sales growth. bit.ly/4ggXssA

Broadcom’s third quarter saw overall revenue leap 47 percent to $13.07 billion during its most recent quarter, as AI infrastructure sales surged and VMware bookings “continue to accelerate,” CEO and President Hock Tan said. $AVGO bit.ly/3TfKWQg

In the latest episode of CRN In Depth with Wade Tyler Millward, Steven Burke discusses how TD SYNNEX’s Reyna Thompson will work on AI adoption and monetization with the $55 billion IT behemoth. You can watch the full episode here to learn more: bit.ly/47eL5co.

Former Microsoft CTO Heads New AI Cybersecurity Training Program: bit.ly/4e4SxJG Protect AI, which offers AI and machine learning security, announced Thursday that it's launching a new cybersecurity certification program headed up by its CISO, Diana Kelley.

Car rental company Avis has disclosed that threat actors accessed one of its business applications and accessed customer personal information. bit.ly/3XgLLJZ