Global security giant Kasperksy has announced the opening of its first Transparency Centre in the Asia Pacific region, to be hosted by CyberSecurity Malaysia - Malaysia's national cybersecurity specialist agency.

Victoria University is partnering with cyber security vendor Cisco to open a cybersecurity training centre in Melbourne’s West to meet an increasing demand for workers in one of Australia’s fastest growing and under serviced industries.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has established a Button Battery Taskforce to investigate ways to reduce the risk to the community - particularly children - of button batteries.

Chinese tech behemoth Alibaba Group pulled in revenue of RMB114,924 million (US$16,741 million) - an increase of 42% year-over-year – for the June quarter and expanded its user base to 674 million annual active consumers.

New Zealand and Australian listed IT solutions company Serko has sealed an agreement to provide its next generation Zeno technology for travel and expense management to US-based Southwest Airlines.

Australian franchised parcel delivery service CouriersPlease (CP) has launched a new self-serve, low cost returns portal - named Boomerang - which it says will enable e-tailers of all sizes to focus their resources on selling their products instead of allocating costly resources to handle the challenge of reverse logistics.

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