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iTWire Monday, 12 April 2021 13:45 Tecala named as first Asia Pacific Rubrik authorised support partner Shares Pieter DeGunst, Managing Director, Tecala Sydney-headquartered cloud and managed services provider Tecala has been named as the first Rubrik Authorised Support Partner (RASP) in Asia Pacific. Rubrik’s RASP specialisation recognises partners which demonstrate a proven track record in delivering level 1 and level 2 technical support, with partners receiving the same "...

Australian challenger bank, MyLife MyFinance, has completed a full digital overhaul of its banking infrastructure, going live with Temenos’ cloud and...

iTWire Monday, 12 April 2021 11:49 Aussies spend almost 17 years in a ‘lifetime’ on their mobiles Shares The average Australian will spend 16.6 years of their life on their mobile phone - equating to 5.5 hours every day or a total of 145,800 hours - based on the average age of around 10 years old that we get our first phone - and average Australian life expectancy. At least, that’s the estimate of Aussie mobile phone use over a lifetime of scrolling, tweeting, watching, lik...

iTWire Friday, 09 April 2021 11:30 NZ Commerce Commission revises cartel leniency, immunity policy Featured Anna Rawlings, Commerce Commission Chair New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has issued a revised cartel leniency and immunity policy and revised template leniency agreement. The cartel leniency and immunity policy has been updated to reflect changes to the Commission’s cartel leniency policy resulting from the introduction ...

iTWire Thursday, 08 April 2021 12:02 NZ enforcement agency gets tougher, with cartels now facing jail time Featured New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency has got tougher on the country’s cartels, with cartel conduct - including price fixing, market allocation and bid rigging - now punishable with a term of imprisonment of up to 7 years. The criminalisation of cartel conduct by The Commerce Commission comes after the Commerce (Criminalisation of Cartels) Amendmen...

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 14:20 Rapid Circle acquires Brisbane headquartered Insync Technology Featured Melbourne-based and Dutch-founded Microsoft cloud specialist Rapid Circle has acquired Brisbane heaquartered workplace security specialist Insync Technology. Rapid Circle says that combining Insync’s in-depth expertise on teamwork, security, calling and meeting room solutions with its expertise in business applications and cloud services, will strengthen the compan...

WEEE Forum expands in three continents to tackle global e-waste ‘challenge’ Tuesday, 06 April 2021 12:34 WEEE Forum expands in three continents to tackle global e-waste ‘challenge’ Featured The WEEE Forum, which represents e-waste producer responsibility organisations throughout the world, is continuing to grow its global membership with the recent addition of new members from Colombia, South Africa, Spain and Lithuania. With worldwide e-waste levels continuing to rise by ar...

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 11:36 Enboarder raises $6.6 million in funding round Shares Global HR technology company Enboarder has closed a $6.6 million (US$5m) series A2 funding round. The Austin, Texas-based Enboarder says it plans to use the investment to expand its offering to become an “all-encompassing employee experience platform” as well as “strengthen its existing employee onboarding offerings to accommodate remote and blended ways of working”. The funding roun...

iTWire Tuesday, 06 April 2021 02:37 Launch of Sky Connect will allow Sky to become a force in UK SME market: analyst Shares Gary Barton, analyst GlobalData Pay TV provider Sky’s launch of Sky Connect B2B gives the company the potential to become a force in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, according to one analyst firm. Gary Barton, a Principal Analyst at GlobalData says, however, that Sky should not be too cautious, noting that Sky Connect has played to Sk...

iTWire Thursday, 01 April 2021 11:55 NZ Commerce Commission completes consumer mobile phone bills review Featured New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has completed its review of consumer mobile phone bills following feedback from the telecommunications industry on their plans for providing customers with more “meaningful product and service comparisons” and to guard against overspending. Completion of the review comes after the Comm...