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Adobe's new Acrobat extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge provide what the company claims is the most comprehensive set of PDF tools.

GUEST RESEARCH: Marketplacer, a global technology platform that enables brands, retailers, suppliers, communities and innovators to easily build and grow successful online marketplaces at scale, announced today that it has been named a Leader in the Forrester Research October 2021 report The Forrester New Wave: Marketplace Development Platforms, Q4 2021. This independent international review by leading Forrester analysts evaluated 14 vendors based on a range of criteria including current product offering, strategy and market presence.

Australian employees are working longer hours, feeling more pressure to be ‘always on’ and are more likely to switch jobs than most global regions, according to new research from Adobe.

Australian technology industry digital micro-skills marketplace Skills Finder has launched 20 new dedicated Career Pathways it says will help meet the growing demand for skilled workers in high-demand jobs such as data analytics, digital marketing and UX design. 

RMIT has announced a new bachelor of business degree which it says is aligned with industry needs and the future of work, specifically designed to give students and working professionals transferable skills and a sound business technology understanding.

Digital business transformation company Publicis Sapient has appointed Claire Rawlins to the role of country managing director for Australia.

Skill Finder, the government-funded national skills marketplace led by Adobe, is offering more than 2,000 free digital courses in partnership with Commonwealth Bank (CBA), which can help Australians get back into the job market or upskill and reskill into new roles.

Adobe has announced two more APIs within Adobe Document Services.

Adobe updates its Experience Cloud to help brands succeed with customer engagement. Adobe says that in the digital economy, retailers must prioritise first-party data in their strategies to deliver personalised experiences among consumers.

Application performance management specialist New Relic has promoted Ben Goodman to the role of senior vice president, sales and general manager for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Performance management and acceleration specialist Riverbed has appointed Nick Boyle to the role of APJ vice president of sales.

Adobe has appointed former Salesforce executive Jeremy Smith as director of Digital Experience for Australia and New Zealand, the company says.

Microsoft has issued fixes for 55 vulnerabilities in its products as part of its monthly patch Tuesday. Four of the issues are rated critical, the most severe rating available.

Diversity and representation is a hot topic – not before time, some would say – so it's not surprising that a fresh spotlight has been turned on human emojis. A survey conducted for Adobe suggests Australians want a more diverse and inclusive range of emojis.

As usual, Nvidia had a raft of product announcements ready for its annual GTC conference which started today. Among the standouts were the Grace data centre CPU, a next-generation BlueField DPU, Omniverse Enterprise for 3D collaboration, and updates to the company's Drive platform.

GUEST OPINION by George Tsoukas, Gigamon ANZ: Today’s powerful digital applications often span multiple tiers running on multiple on-premises and cloud platforms. This can lead to a fragmented, inconsistent view of data in motion and visibility gaps and blind spots that make it hard to deliver a secure, optimal user experience.

The Federal Government has given a grant of $2.7 million to Skill Finder, the digital micro-skills marketplace developed by the Australian technology industry.

The industry’s "only complete migration solution from Flash or Flex-based applications, including real-time media, to modern platforms that modernises your brand’s UI, look and feel to current standards" has launched, promising to give "businesses a boost with an array of advantages including speed, security, accessibility, and next-gen UI standards, preserving valuable IP while upgrading it for the Net of tomorrow."

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC now incorporates e-signing capabilities, allowing small businesses to take greater advantage of digital documents.

The majority of Australians now have a preference for digital engagement with government, and for that engagement to be tailored to them, according to a new report which also found that almost nine in every 10 Australians looked for government services online in 2020 and that Australians aged 15-and-over transacted with government on average more than once a week.