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Signing an exclusive $34m deal to deploy Optus mobile services to its 100,000 business customers, including 5G, MacTel says it is combining its "NPS proven customer service with Optus' world-class mobile network".
With the iOS App Store well known to outsell the Google Play store, and with iOS regularly getting apps first, with a big recent example being Clubhouse that is still iOS only, Apple has noted that "despite the economic impact of COVID-19, the Australian app economy is driving consistent growth with 156,000 jobs as of January 2021, an increase of 15% since 2019 and up from 113,000 in 2017."
Independent identity provider, Okta, today announced it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Auth0 for $US 6.5 billion in stock. The acquisition will accelerate the companies’ shared vision of enabling everyone to safely use any technology, shaping the future of identity on the Internet.
The Dutch company ASML, the biggest manufacturer of lithography equipment for making semiconductors, has extended a deal with Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China's biggest chip maker, according to a short statement issued on Wednesday.
Global digital experience management software provider Sitecore has entered into definitive agreements to acquire SaaS-based Customer Data Platform (CDP) Boxever and Four51, a company delivering B2B and B2C experiences for enterprise brands.
Taiwanese multinational networking equipment, D-Link, has today announced the release of a brand new full HD Wi-Fi camera, with built-in AI-based person detection. This intelligent camera can identify human motion, minimising false alarms, ensuring users see the alerts that matter.
Security firm Qualys has become the latest to be affected by a breach of a file transfer system manufactured by the firm Accellion, the company says.The Indian Government has said a power outage in Mumbai last year was caused by human error, adding that no evidence exists to connect the incident to a "hacking attempt".
The community Linux distribution openSUSE has released a beta of its stable version 15, known as Leap, bringing it on par with the commercial SUSE Linux Enterprise version 15 Service Pack 3 as far as packages are concerned.
Movie Frenzy returns with another chance to watch digitally-delivered movies at cut prices.
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