A senior official from Mastercard Australasia says it is misleading to compare costs of schemes that process card present, card not present and international debit transactions with a domestic-only debit scheme, namely eftpos, that, at this stage, processes very few card not present transactions.



Huawei Australia has used comments made by Ericsson chief executive Börje Ekholm during the presentation of results to push the Chinese company's claim that the ban imposed on it has sharply reduced competition in the 5G supplier market and hence driven up costs.

The chief executive of an Australian company that provides managed cyber detection and incident response services, says large multinationals are offering businesses a false sense of security, because the latter lack an understanding of cyber security requirements.

Cyberattacks on Internet-connected devices continue to rise at an alarming rate due to poor security protections and cybercriminals use of automated tools to exploit the vulnerabilities, according to a new report from Nokia.

Global content services provider Hyland has completed its acquisition of Alfresco, a content services platform and solutions provider.

The smartphone market in India, the second biggest after China, rebounded in the third quarter of 2020, growing by 8% to 50 million units, the tech analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this was a record for shipments to India during a single quarter.

Australian-based short-term workspaces marketplace, Spacenow, has launched Isolated Hotel Workspaces, a new category to its platform that allows individual workers and organisations across Australia to rent out COVID-Safe flexible and modular commercial spaces for a wide range of commercial space needs.

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