A new blockchain prototype has the potential to boost sustainable development while enabling investment opportunities for landowners, environmental groups, developers and government, following a collaboration between the Commonwealth Bank and South Australia’s BioDiversity Solutions Australia (BDS).

Australian fintech and payment plan provider Payright has moved into e-commerce, enabling accredited merchants to add the payment option to the checkout in their online store – and customers to select Payright at the online checkout allowing them to opt for the “flexible” buy now, pay-later payment option for their purchases.

Smartphone manufacturer Vivo Mobile has joined the mobile telecommunications industry’s recycling program – MobileMuster – joining Australia’s major mobile handset manufacturers and network providers who work in collaboration to provide a free national recycling program to their customers.

Australian and the world’s healthcare systems face a range of security threats due to malicious activity as cybercriminals attempt to access sensitive information stored in the systems.

In an address to the National Press Club in Australia, Deaf Australia CEO Kyle Miers hailed the success of the Huawei-developed StorySign Artificial Intelligence technology and has called for additional funding to help increase the usage of similar new technologies to support greater numbers of deaf Australians.

Accounting software provider MYOB has announced a deal with hardware superstore chain Bunnings that will simplify bill processing for their mutual customers, plus a rewards program for the MYOB PayBy payments service.

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