Apple and Google have come under scrutiny in Japan, with the country's Fair Trade Commission set to investigate whether the two companies are using their dominance of mobile operating systems to cut out competition.

Visa expands its Visa Instalments, a solution that lets shoppers access the Buy Now, Pay Later financing via their existing ANZ credit cards at check out without any extra steps.

A Microsoft announcement that the company would be disabling macros as a default feature in Excel 4.0 has been greeted as a step that "would really help defenders".

Developer security specialist Snyk has appointed Marc Tan to the newly created role of channels and alliances director for Australia and New Zealand.

Amazon-owned video streaming service Twitch TV says it has reset all keys for streamers following the news of a leak of 125GB of data from the platform.

ANALYSIS: A detailed security report from Microsoft somewhat predictably claims that 58% of state-sponsored network attacks in 2020-21 came from Russia.

GUEST OPINION: Today’s chief executives and their boardrooms are the custodians of change. Prior to the pandemic, massive changes were already underway, but in many ways, this was accelerated by the changing world brought on by COVID-19.

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Stephen Withers, newsletter editor, iTWire

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