The Australian Communications and Media Authority is examining changes that have come about in commercial news broadcasts due to digital disruption, following studies in 2019 that showed about 80% of adults were concerned about large advertisers influencing the type and content of news.

Germany's biggest cloud and hosting provider IONOS has teamed up with open source collaboration platform provider Nextcloud to offer users sovereignty over their data.

Branchless digital bank Volt Bank has closed a $70 million Series C equity funding round, which was oversubscribed by $10 million beyond the original target of $60 million.

Australia's largest dedicated cancer care provider Icon Group is adopting InterSystems HealthShare Health Connect.

Global venture capital (VC) funding in digital health, including private equity and corporate venture capital, declined in 2019 with US$8.9 billion raised in 615 deals, a 6% drop compared to US$9.5 billion in 698 deals in 2018, according to a new report.

Customer relationship management software provider Genesys has promoted Gwilym Funnell to senior vice president of Asia-Pacific after five years as vice president of its Australia and New Zealand business.

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