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COMPANY NEWS: Leading managed services provider blueAPACHE today announced it has signed a new strategic, three-year IT managed services agreement with the Brotherhood of St. Laurence (BSL).

Unified customer experience platform Emplifi has launched Emplifi Social Care, part of the its Unified CX Platform. Emplifi Social Care is aimed at powering teams outside of the service centre to help support the volume of customer requests that come in across social media channels.

Cybersecurity company Virsec has appointed technology industry veteran Brian Marlier as its Chief Revenue Officer to drive its next stage of growth.

Intel has appointed Steven A. Long as general manager of Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.

Startup digital car dealership Cars24 has launched ia claimed world-first tech enabled car couch which it says will transform digital car buying in Australia.

Australian listed digital advertising business specialising in property REA Group has reported revenue growth of 13% to $928 million across its global markets and a net profit increased to $313million for the 12-months to the end of June 2021.

ASX listed telecommunications, cloud and IT solutions provider Over the Wire is expanding its network internationally into Singapore and the United States..

The top ten most secured countries are in Europe, a Surfshark in-depth analysis finds, and identified that countries based in Southern Asia, Western Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America are “least prepared to secure their citizens’ lives.” It also highlighted the countries which do not have data protection laws and explained its consequences.

Security provider Palo Alto Networks is establishing a new cybersecurity consulting group it says will help enterprises respond to emerging threats as they navigate an increase in costly, crippling cyberattacks. 

Red Education already operated training hubs across ANZ, Asia and the Americas, and has now expanded into Europe.

Talent RISE has appointed former Ipsos executive Karen Graham as CEO for the ANZ region

Cybersecurity training provider DDLS has launched a new advisory service and business unit - DDLS People.

Slovakian security firm ESET says it has detected at least three additional threat groups using a zero-day in Microsoft Exchange Server in attacks, even as the US Government issued an emergency directive telling all US federal bodies to patch Exchange and report on exploitation by noon on Friday.

Mobile subscriptions will recover by 3.4% in 2021 from a drop of a little more than 2% in 2020, the Economist Intelligence Unit has predicted in a new report, adding that the strongest growth would be seen in Asia and the Middle East.

Communications workflow platform provider Whispir has recorded its strongest quarterly customer growth ever for the first quarter ending 30 September 2020, onboarding 35 net new customers during the quarter to bring its total customer count to 665.

Investment in Australia’s fintech sector has accelerated in the first half of 2020, reaching US$376.5 million, a more than 150% increase from US$149.05 million in the corresponding period in 2019, with the growth coming despite a decline in merger activity, according to a new fintech report.

Business software vendor SAP says the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region had a strong recovery in software licenses revenue over the course of the second quarter 2020, following the global emergence of the COVID-19 crisis, primarily in the last month of the first quarter.

Global IT services company DXC Technology has announced the rollout of a cloud technologies guild training and enablement program to certify its workforce in the Australia New Zealand region across multi-cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, Microsoft and VMware.

Retail sales in the Asia Pacific region are predicted to decline by 10% this year compared to 2019, to reach US$767 billion, with China the most negatively affected country in the region.

Global fintech as a service Rapyd has undertaken a major expansion of its Disburse mass-payment platform.