Cloud Communications stories

8x8 expands Secure Pay globally, unifying compliant digital payments and AI-led outreach across its customer experience platform.

Infobip urges UK retailers to use RCS and WhatsApp to cut returns disruption as annual costs are forecast to top GBP £27 billion.

Infobip promotes four long-serving executives to refreshed leadership roles, adding a Chief Innovation Officer and elevating alliances to the Board.

iwGROUP appoints telecoms veteran John Horsman as Account Director to spearhead iwCONNECT, its integrated telecoms and technology division.

Infobip named a growth and innovation leader in Frost & Sullivan’s latest CPaaS report, praised for cross-channel AI-driven communications.

Gamma and Red Cactus have agreed a Europe-wide tie-up to bring Bubble-powered CRM and ERP integrations to Gamma’s UCaaS partner network.

Journey Beyond deploys RingCentral-powered cloud stack and in-house AI chat to run South Australia’s new Monarto Safari Resort in four months.

RingQ and Snom have sealed a global cloud telephony partnership to streamline IP phone provisioning and unified communications for businesses.

Enreach and Cataleya team up to launch a white-label UCaaS platform for APAC service providers, targeting booming cloud comms demand.

8x8 buys Singapore-based Maven Lab to scale APAC CPaaS, folding Moobidesk into its CX platform for richer, multi-channel messaging.

AI is transforming loyalty from points to real-time, personalised journeys as super apps and agentic engagement engines rapidly take hold.

Alcatel-Lucent unveils Rainbow Hub, an integration-led cloud platform linking UCC with workflows, IoT and vertical services for partners.

Tollring wins Microsoft nod for Analytics 365, joining a select group of Teams compliance recording providers with certified AI tools.

Infobip logs 12.2 billion Cyber Week interactions as retailers drive a 277% Black Friday surge in rich messaging such as RCS and WhatsApp.

Gamma has launched GammaUCX, a single voice layer to unify mixed cloud and legacy telephony estates across more than 20 countries.

Northamber has acquired Nuvias UC’s hardware unit for GBP £7.1 million, boosting its audio-visual and unified communications capabilities amid sector growth.

RingCentral has launched its AI Receptionist in Australia from AUD $62 monthly, automating call handling with generative AI for businesses of all sizes.

Gamma and Crexendo have teamed up to offer global UCaaS solutions via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, easing international expansion for service providers.

Zen Internet appoints Paul North as Managing Director of its Partner division to drive channel growth and strengthen business partner collaborations.

Access4 celebrated its top channel partners at the largest Annual Conference in Gold Coast, recognising leaders in cloud communications across ANZ and the UK.