Hi John, The Federal Government has announced a joint venture with industry known as Connecting Women in Digital Initiative to coach, mentor and offer networking opportunities for women working in the ICT sector.
The global organisation for women, Women on Boards, has called for Australian governments and businesses to urgently prioritise closing both the gender-pay and gender-investment gaps to achieve a better balance. Germany has tightened security criteria for all vendors who supply telecommunications equipment to the country's telcos, avoiding any friction with Chinese vendor Huawei Technologies. Meanwhile, Huawei Technologies is unlikely to win the case it has filed against the US Government, given that the latter generally wraps any action it takes against foreign companies in the mantle of national security. Wittingly or unwittingly, Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Facebook, appears to have poked fun at his former employer, Mark Zuckerberg, after the Facebook chief announced that his vision for the social media site was for it to become a privacy-focused platform. Shoppers in the UK purchase from Amazon at least once a month, according to one global analyst firm which says that Amazon continued to steal share from competitors across the board in 2018 and remains a major threat in all retail sectors. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com. Have a great day! Stan Beer, Editor, iTWire ADVERTISE IN THIS NEWSLETTER & iTWire.com Contact: andrew.matler@itwire.com 0412 390 000
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