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ZoomInfo announced a native integration with ClickUp through GTM.AI, sending its shares up 2.5% in the afternoon session. According to the BusinessWire announcement, the integration lets mutual clients bring verified company and contact data directly into ClickUp through a connector based on the Model Context Protocol, which enables software applications to exchange data and context seamlessly. The move came as technology equities broadly rebounded from a sharp sell-off sparked by concerns over artificial intelligence revenue expansion, with CNBC reporting that major equity averages moved higher at the open on Friday as market sentiment stabilized across the SaaS sector. Reuters reported that a day earlier, shares across the artificial intelligence and broader technology space had faced heightened selling pressure following an OpenAI revenue report that rattled investor confidence regarding near-term monetization, but CNBC noted the pullback proved short-lived as dip-buyers re-entered the market. After the initial pop, ZoomInfo shares cooled to $3.91, up 0.9% from the previous close.

Southlight Services announced a strategic collaboration with Google that makes it one of the first North American SMB-focused providers for Google Voice Carrier Link, a role that lets organizations integrate their existing telecommunications infrastructure directly with Google Voice across the United States and Canada. Alongside that Carrier Link position, Southlight Services is now an authorized reseller of Google Voice and Google Workspace, giving businesses a single partner for deployment, migration, implementation, support and ongoing lifecycle management. The expanded partnership covers North American Google Voice Carrier Link services, Google Voice licensing, implementation and migration, Google Workspace licensing and deployment, unified communications consulting and architecture, SIP connectivity and carrier integration, number porting and migration, managed communications services, ongoing technical support and advanced routing for complex call completion. Chief executive Tina Telson said the collaboration lets Southlight bring world-class communications and collaboration tools to organizations with the expertise, support and personalized service they expect, and makes it easier for businesses and channel partners to modernize with confidence. The announcement also strengthens Southlight's cloud communications portfolio, including its DIGI-Suite family of products and the recently introduced DIGI-Command platform, and creates new opportunities for channel partners to offer Google's communications and productivity solutions through a specialized partner with deep telecommunications expertise.

Ampersand announced a $15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Matrix and Flex Capital, to build integration infrastructure that lets agentic applications read and write inside legacy systems of record such as CRM and ERP platforms. New investors in the round include Yelp, Tenacity Capital, CTO Fund, Mana Ventures, and prominent angel investors, and Bessemer Partner Lauri Moore will join Ampersand's board. The company also announced the beta release of Andi, its AI integration agent that helps developers with the implementation work required to run their products in each customer's environment. Ampersand was founded by Ayan Barua, formerly CTO and co-founder of Siftery and VP of Engineering at G2, and Lauren Long, who built Firebase Extensions at Google; the two spoke with more than 100 companies building integrations before writing Ampersand's first line of code. Moore said connecting an agent to a system of record is a demo, but keeping that connection alive across hundreds of customers, with writes you cannot afford to get wrong, is much harder, and that is what Ampersand is building.

LeapXpert and Webex by Cisco announced a collaboration that extends Webex beyond internal collaboration into governed client messaging, starting with WhatsApp. The integration, available now on the Webex App Hub, lets Webex users message clients on WhatsApp without leaving the platform, signing in with their existing Webex credentials on desktop or mobile. It is the first of several channels LeapXpert plans to bring into Webex, and additional messaging channels will be rolled out. Every message is checked by data loss prevention in both directions, and the full conversation is captured by LeapXpert for archiving. With Webex used by 95% of the Fortune 500 and roughly 300,000 organizations worldwide, the partnership brings governed consumer messaging within reach of tens of millions of business users. A Leap Work account and a Webex license are required, and LeapXpert will showcase at WebexOne 2026, October 5 to 8, 2026, at booth B24.