Swedish telecommunications equipment giant Ericsson has acquired US wireless network vendor Cradlepoint in a deal valued at US$1.1 billion (A$1.52 billion).



The personal information of nearly 20,000 students at the University of Tasmania has been exposed due to misconfiguration of a Microsoft SharePoint site, the university says.

Fibre and network solutions provider Vocus has signed a three-year deal to provide secure national data and Internet services to the Australian Taxation Office.

iTWire asked a number of IT security executives for their best thoughts on secure data access in this unusual distributed world we're in. We present what they had to say.

Another local IT company is falling into foreign hands. India-based HCL Technologies has agreed to acquire ASX-listed technology services firm DWS which last year had a turnover of more than $170 million.

Victorian startup agency LaunchVic has unveiled a free, open-source database for Victorian start-ups aimed at driving investment and to showcase the State’s talent.

The Australian Government’s reissuing of 188C Business Innovation and Investment visas and allocation of interim places to high net worth migrants prior to the Budget will assist Australian businesses and entrepreneurs to counter the lack of availability of domestic capital investment, according to one advisory firm.

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