Telstra has sacked four senior officials in a management shake-up, with chief financial officer Warwick Bray, technology lead Stephen Elop, wholesale chief Will Irving and media unit chief Joe Pollard all given pink slips.

We may not know if blockchain is enough to restore the reputation of embattled banks, but it has helped CommBank and its partners to successfully ship and track 17 tonnes of almonds from Victoria to Germany.

NBN Co's ICT channel program, launched to provide training to specialist technology consultants so that they understand how to connect to its network, has grown to include more than 300 organisations, 75 of whom are business accredited advisers.

A British Government panel has recommended that technology companies should be made responsible and liable for the spread of disinformation and "fake news".

The Australian Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) services market continues to grow, with 9.1 million Aussies now taking out subscriptions and revenues reaching over US$700 million by the end of the 2018 financial year.

The number of rejections of H-1B visas, particularly for Indians, has gone up markedly in the last quarter of the 2017 fiscal year in the US, according to data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services collated by the National Foundation for American Policy, a policy-based research group based in Arlington, Virginia.

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