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Mavengity Expands into B2B Research
Owner Marko Pargo Ivanov is now writing the B2B Research desk directly, turning Forrester and Gartner category reports into plain-English breakdowns for buyers.
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The Transportation Department Put Two Dates on Its Contracting Overhaul
The final rule that keeps the end of race- and sex-based DBE presumptions now sets December 24, 2026 for certifiers to finish reevaluations and March 24, 2027 to cut off firms that never answer.
Immigration
The Government's Case at the Supreme Court Is a Flight That Never Left
The administration asked the justices to let third-country deportations resume while it appeals, and its central example of harm is a canceled flight carrying 70 people to three countries.
Clinical trials
Acadia Missed Its Endpoint and Is Sending the Drug to Phase 3 Anyway
The Phase 2 RADIANT study of remlifanserin in Alzheimer's disease psychosis came in at p=0.0603, just past the threshold. Acadia is dropping the low dose, rewriting who qualifies for the late-stage trials, and continuing.
FDA leadership
The FDA Nominee Who Would Not Correct the President
Dr. Heidi Overton affirmed vaccine safety at her confirmation hearing, declined to contradict the president on the measles shot, and sidestepped questions about the abortion pill she once called dangerous.
Bank supervision
The Vote on TSB Lands Before the Review That Could Undo It
New Zealand's central bank ordered an independent report into how TSB calculated its capital and liquidity ratios, and the answer arrives after shareholders decide whether to approve the bank's sale.
Press access
The Passes Came Back, the Camera Slot Did Not
A federal judge ordered CNN, MS NOW and Politico credentials restored within hours of the White House taking them, and by evening the same outlets were still outside the room where the president received China's leader.
data-security
Five Mortgage Data Suits Were Filed While the Notification Clock Was Still Running
A ransomware gang says it took 2.5 terabytes from a Maryland mortgage lender. Five federal suits were filed while the notification deadlines that bind the lender were still open.
Drug pricing
Medicare Asks Whether a Reasonable Part D Pharmacy Contract Has a Price Attached
A September 24 request for information asks whether the standards for reasonable and relevant pharmacy contracts should include reimbursement methodologies, with comments due November 23 and the standards required by April 2028.
Drug pricing
The Pharma Tariff Exemptions Turn a Flat 100 Percent Into a Category-by-Category Test
A Commerce notice defines the nine drug categories that can enter the United States at a zero rate under the Section 232 pharmaceutical tariffs, names the 19 jurisdictions eligible for them, and opens a one-product-at-a-time application process.
B2B Research
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Intent Data
Intent Data Providers For B2B
Non-English intent signal is still under twenty percent of total volume industrywide, which means most platforms are seeing a fraction of the buying activity happening outside English language markets.
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management Solutions
One vendor is explicitly competing on restraint, arguing that a plausible AI generated article that is subtly wrong is worse for a knowledge base than no article at all.
MDR
Managed Detection And Response Services
Forrester's own buyer guidance undercuts the AI pitch: providers are getting measurably more efficient, and there is little evidence yet that any of that efficiency is reaching customer pricing.
MDR Europe
Managed Detection And Response Services In Europe
Forrester's guidance to buyers is blunt: having a data centre in the EU answers one sovereignty question out of four, and most vendor pitches stop at the first.
Manufacturing Tech
Manufacturing Technology Services
Forrester frames 2026's binding constraint as a workforce that cannot be trained fast enough, which makes this a services category built around people more than platforms.
Market Intelligence
Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms
Generative AI should have commoditized this category, and instead Forrester's criteria count kept climbing, because the moat was always licensed source access, not summarization.
Open Banking
Open Banking Intermediaries
Two of the category's most prominent independent players are now owned by the card networks they were supposed to route around.
Change Management
Organizational Change Management Services
Forrester's provider count nearly doubled in three years, and every other technology category in this series points at the same root cause: the software works and the organisation does not change.
PLM
Product Lifecycle Management Platforms For Discrete Manufacturers
Every reference customer for one vendor said they would buy again, which in PLM can mean genuine excellence or a customer base that has nowhere else to go once the evidence chain is built.
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James T. Joins Mavengity as a Medical Writer
With James now writing full time for our Healthcare & Medical desk, Mavengity has formally expanded into dedicated medical authorship.
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