James Anderson

1 week ago | channelfutures.com | Craig Galbraith |James Anderson

Our 2025 Channel Influencer of the Year talks about the future of distribution and provides an update on the distributor's new tech advisor business. ScanSource CEO Mike Baur, who recently made headlines as Channel Futures' Channel Influencer of the Year, first became a huge player in the channel when his company bought technology services distributor Intelisys nearly nine years ago. Since then, we've seen an evolution of M&A and private-equity money in the tech advisor channel.

1 week ago | channelfutures.com | James Anderson

One of the largest unions for AT&T employees is demanding that the company uses a "well-trained, directly hired union workforce" for the residential fiber business that AT&T is acquiring from Lumen. AT&T announced last week that it was buying Lumen's Mass Markets fiber unit. This represents about 1 million residential customers in 11 states.

2 weeks ago | channelfutures.com | James Anderson

The biggest questions surrounding Charter Communications' proposed $34.5 billion acquisition of Cox Communications might have less to do with cable and more to do with cloud. The yet-to-be-approved MSO M&A would widen Charter's broadband to almost 70 million U.S. homes and businesses, and give the company a wider footprint and leverage in the broadband arena. But in the business-to-business (B2B) world, Charter's acquisition of Cox subsidiary RapidScale is the subject of great intrigue.

2 weeks ago | channelfutures.com | James Anderson

Bridgepointe Technologies has entered the second round of investments with its equity partners. The national technology advisor firm says that five members of its Equity partner program have received what Bridgepointe calls "second-phase investments," three years after getting their first investment in 2022. Guy Lupi, David Barsocchini, Kyle Taylor, Aviva Noorani, and Jason Pucciarelli are all recipients.

2 weeks ago | channelfutures.com | James Anderson

Opex Technologies executives and their new investment partner, Bregal Sagement, said they intend to maintain the company's culture and model while adding new resources to the technology advisor firm. Opex on Wednesday announced its growth investment from Sagemount, a middle-market private equity firm that works predominantly with founder-led companies.