The Australian Labor Party's support for the Government's encryption Bill will be an indicator of whether it supports big technology companies in the US or the Australian people, Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton claims bizarrely.

Cyber security consulting company Hivint has been acquired by Optus Cyber Security, a subsidiary of Singapore telco Singtel.

Telecommunications services provider MNF Group will boost its customer base by 500 wholesale service providers with the proposed acquisition of Inabox, in a deal it says is synergistic to both companies.

IT solutions and managed services vendor Thomas Duryea Logicalis has acquired Melbourne-based Microsoft Azure partner, CNI.

Data centre service provider NextDC is partnering with Chinese cloud computing giant Alibaba Cloud in a move aimed at facilitating Australian businesses access to China’s booming e-commerce market.

Students from the University of Queensland can now access the SAS Academy for Data Science, gaining a tertiary credit for SAS professional certifications.

Samsung is launching a mystery Galaxy smartphone at 5pm in Malaysia, which is 8pm in Sydney, 10am in London, 2am in San Francisco and 5am in New York.

At the third annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, the theme was AI, dubbed "Activate Intelligence", focusing on AI, its challenges, opportunities, innovations, and practices.

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