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2 days ago
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Meta Unifies Ads, Debuts Business AI on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) rolls out unified Ads Manager and teases Business AI for WhatsApp Business as it seeks to deepen its hold on small-and-mid-size marketers. Meta said businesses will soon manage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram campaigns in one portal, using the same creative setups and budgets, a move it says will streamline cross-app marketing and reduce friction for advertisers. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Sign with META. It also introduced Business AI, a 24/7 support engine that can deliver personalized product recommendations and drive sales directly on merchant websitesan implicit challenge to chat-based commerce rivals. Finally, Meta is adding audio and video calling plus voice-note messaging to WhatsApp Business, enhancing how companies engage customers and laying groundwork for future AI-driven voice assistants. The announcements come as Meta battles slowing ad growth and investor skepticismshares slipped 2.87% todaywhile it seeks fresh growth engines beyond its core feeds. At its Conversations conference in Miami, Meta touted that more than 200 million businesses use its messaging apps today, underscoring the vast addressable market for automation and analytics tools. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly pushed for AI-powered products as the next battleground, and Business AI signals that WhatsApp is central to his strategy. Why It Matters: By folding WhatsApp into its broader ads ecosystem and layering in AI-powered commerce tools, Meta aims to boost ad budgets and lock in business customers resistant to rising marketing costs elsewhere. Investors will watch for adoption metrics and any early revenue impact when Meta reports Q2 results later this month. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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2 days ago
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Meta Unifies Ads, Debuts Business AI on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) rolls out unified Ads Manager and teases Business AI for WhatsApp Business as it seeks to deepen its hold on small-and-mid-size marketers. Meta said businesses will soon manage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram campaigns in one portal, using the same creative setups and budgets, a move it says will streamline cross-app marketing and reduce friction for advertisers. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Sign with META. It also introduced Business AI, a 24/7 support engine that can deliver personalized product recommendations and drive sales directly on merchant websitesan implicit challenge to chat-based commerce rivals. Finally, Meta is adding audio and video calling plus voice-note messaging to WhatsApp Business, enhancing how companies engage customers and laying groundwork for future AI-driven voice assistants. The announcements come as Meta battles slowing ad growth and investor skepticismshares slipped 2.87% todaywhile it seeks fresh growth engines beyond its core feeds. At its Conversations conference in Miami, Meta touted that more than 200 million businesses use its messaging apps today, underscoring the vast addressable market for automation and analytics tools. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly pushed for AI-powered products as the next battleground, and Business AI signals that WhatsApp is central to his strategy. Why It Matters: By folding WhatsApp into its broader ads ecosystem and layering in AI-powered commerce tools, Meta aims to boost ad budgets and lock in business customers resistant to rising marketing costs elsewhere. Investors will watch for adoption metrics and any early revenue impact when Meta reports Q2 results later this month. This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
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2 days ago
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Meta Unifies Ads, Debuts Business AI on WhatsApp
Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) rolls out unified Ads Manager and teases Business AI for WhatsApp Business as it seeks to deepen its hold on small-and-mid-size marketers. Meta said businesses will soon manage WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram campaigns in one portal, using the same creative setups and budgets, a move it says will streamline cross-app marketing and reduce friction for advertisers. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 6 Warning Sign with META. It also introduced Business AI, a 24/7 support engine that can deliver personalized product recommendations and drive sales directly on merchant websitesan implicit challenge to chat-based commerce rivals. Finally, Meta is adding audio and video calling plus voice-note messaging to WhatsApp Business, enhancing how companies engage customers and laying groundwork for future AI-driven voice assistants. The announcements come as Meta battles slowing ad growth and investor skepticismshares slipped 2.87% todaywhile it seeks fresh growth engines beyond its core feeds. At its Conversations conference in Miami, Meta touted that more than 200 million businesses use its messaging apps today, underscoring the vast addressable market for automation and analytics tools. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly pushed for AI-powered products as the next battleground, and Business AI signals that WhatsApp is central to his strategy. Why It Matters: By folding WhatsApp into its broader ads ecosystem and layering in AI-powered commerce tools, Meta aims to boost ad budgets and lock in business customers resistant to rising marketing costs elsewhere. Investors will watch for adoption metrics and any early revenue impact when Meta reports Q2 results later this month. This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
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2 days ago
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BofA adds SAP stock to Top 10 EMEA ideas for Q3
-- Bank of America (BofA) has added SAP (NYSE:SAP) (ETR:SAPG) to its top 10 Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Ideas list for the third quarter of 2025, reaffirming its Buy rating and €320 price objective. SAP is BofA's top large-cap software pick and features on both its '25 Stocks for 2025' and Europe 1 list of top ideas. Analysts highlight multiple drivers behind the bullish stance. These include strong revenue visibility, underpinned by 95% recurring revenues and a 29% cloud backlog growth in Q1, as well as structural operating leverage and potential for increased cash returns. Moreover, BofA notes that SAP's internal use of AI is driving 30% efficiency gains and that 'Gen AI traction is rising, with 34k customers using Business AI.' 'Feedback from the new Business Data Cloud offer from channels is very promising, while SAP flagged a record initial pipeline since launch,' analysts led by Frederic Boulan wrote. They also pointed to a favorable medium-term outlook. BofA expects support revenue in 2026–2027 to translate into more than five times Cloud revenue, compared to two to three times previously. Free cash flow is forecast to trend toward taxed EBIT plus €1 billion, while margins are projected to expand by roughly 100 basis points annually. SAP's valuation is described as reflecting a premium to the stock's historical levels but justified by strong revenue and earnings per share (EPS) growth, including an expected 20% EPS compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2024 to 2027. 'SAP trades at a limited premium to U.S. Software peers Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) despite significantly faster growth,' analysts said, adding that the stock is priced at over a 50% discount to Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) despite similar growth. Ahead of Q2 earnings on July 22, BofA expects group revenue growth to accelerate to 11%, with a strong operating margin of 27.4% and EBIT growth of 32% year-on-year. The bank also expects SAP to reiterate 2025 guidance, supported by cloud orders and progress on its Gen AI delivery pipeline. Related articles BofA adds SAP stock to Top 10 EMEA ideas for Q3 BofA introduces the Top 10 U.S. Ideas for Q3 2025 Macau casino stocks soar as June gaming revenue beats expectations Sign in to access your portfolio
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10-06-2025
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Uniphore Accelerates Expansion Across Europe
Business AI Suite Launch, Hearst UK, and Konecta Momentum Signal Strategic Growth PALO ALTO, Calif. & LONDON, June 10, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Uniphore, the Business AI Company, today announced a significant expansion across Europe, accelerating its commitment to the region through new customer adoption, partner momentum, product launches, and organizational investment. The announcement coincides with the release of the Uniphore Business AI Cloud, announced during the AI Leadership Summit held yesterday in London—an exclusive gathering of media, industry leaders, and Uniphore customers exploring the future of agentic AI in Europe. Attendees included executives from ResultsCX, Konecta, KPMG, and Rowan Curran, Principal Analyst at Forrester, who shared perspectives on how enterprises are scaling AI from isolated pilots to business-critical systems that drive measurable outcomes across customer experience, marketing, operations and more. A Platform Built for Europe's AI Mandate As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates across Europe, CIOs and Line of Business Leaders face growing pressure to deliver solutions that align with the EU's AI Act. Uniphore's Business AI Cloud delivers on these requirements through a sovereign, composable, and secure platform that allows enterprises to activate AI across voice, video, text, structured and unstructured data — without compromising privacy or control. With generative AI projected to grow at 55 percent annually in Europe and AI spending expected to exceed $133 billion in the region by 2028, European CIOs are under pressure to move beyond experimentation and deliver business-ready AI that is secure, compliant and operational at scale. Uniphore's Business AI Cloud is built to meet this demand, supporting the CIO mandate to operationalize AI across workflows while meeting strict data governance, privacy and ethical standards defined in the EU AI Act and other regulatory frameworks. Fall 2025: Uniphore Marketing AI CDP Launches in EMEA Uniphore will formally launch its Marketing AI CDP and Marketing Agents, part of the Business AI Suite, in the European market this fall. Built for enterprise marketers navigating complex privacy landscapes and fragmented customer data, the solution helps teams activate insights and deploy agentic marketing workflows — without requiring data movement or custom engineering. Among Uniphore's newest customers in the region is Hearst UK, a leading media organization embracing AI to drive marketing automation and personalized engagement. "We've been really pleased with the flexibility and composability of the Uniphore CDP," said Krishan Gandhi, Senior Director of Data Engineering & Analytics at Hearst UK. "As we continue to evolve our customer data strategy, we're excited to see how Uniphore's Marketing Agents and complete AI platform will help us better engage audiences, streamline workflows, and drive more impactful marketing outcomes." The Uniphore Business AI Suite includes Marketing AI, a CDP with pre-built agents purpose-built for enterprise marketers, including the Product Knowledge Agent (now generally available), which answers user questions in real time using indexed product documentation; the Platform Search Agent, launching in Summer 2025, which enables semantic search across audiences, attributes, and platform components; and the Audience Segmentation Agent, also arriving this summer, which allows marketers to build audience cohorts from plain-English prompts using both rule- and outcome-based logic. Together, these agents help enterprises accelerate first-party data activation while meeting GDPR compliance requirements out of the box. Momentum with Konecta Drives Scaled Transformation Uniphore also continues to deepen its relationship with global BPO leader Konecta, following the strategic partnership announced in late 2023. The companies are jointly scaling AI-led contact center transformation across Europe — automating quality monitoring, enabling real-time agent guidance and delivering measurable outcomes for telecom and financial services leaders. "With Uniphore, we're building an agentic AI factory, designed to rapidly create, deploy and orchestrate AI agents across our customer environments," said Oscar Vergé, chief AI deployment officer at Konecta. "The platform's agent builder, orchestration engine and support for both prebuilt and custom agents allow us to agentify critical workflows for each client, from customer service to back-office automation. This isn't just AI adoption — it's real transformation at enterprise scale." Konecta leaders joined Uniphore onstage at the AI Leadership Summit in London to discuss deployment momentum and share learnings on production-grade enterprise AI. Growing the Team and Leadership Across EMEA Uniphore has significantly grown its presence in the region, expanding its team across sales, engineering, and customer success. The company now operates from a dedicated London office as well as an office in Valencia, Spain and is actively engaged in deployments across key markets throughout EMEA. To support this growth, Jeremy Keefe has joined as Vice President of Sales, EMEA, bringing decades of enterprise software leadership to Uniphore's regional go-to-market strategy. About Uniphore Uniphore is the Business AI company. Our sovereign, composable, and secure AI platform connects enterprise data, fine-tunes AI models and deploys agentic AI across the enterprise. We empower every worker to boost productivity and help businesses grow faster, operate smarter and reduce costs. Trusted by more than 1,500 businesses globally, and recognized on the Deloitte Fast 500, Uniphore delivers on the promise of AI as a transformative force for business. Learn more about Uniphore's Business AI Cloud and enterprise AI solutions at For insights, updates and thought leadership, explore our blog or follow us on LinkedIn. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: Tim HarrisDirector, Public
