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COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the data cloud company, today announced the Financial Services Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake’s industry-tailored platform governance capabilities, Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-critical datasets, to help financial services organisations revolutionise how they use data to drive business growth and deliver better customer experiences.

MEGA UPDATED: More than FIFTY top IT companies in Australia have provided IT industry commentary on Australia’s 2021 Federal Budget, focusing on the digital economy, cyber security, business and more.

Networking specialist Wavelink has made three new appointments in various parts of its business.

Google Cloud and Databricks are working together to make the Databricks data platform available in containers on Google Cloud.

Professional services company Cognizant has appointed Jane Livesey as CEO of Cognizant ANZ, effective 31 August 2020.

The global artificial intelligence market, including software, hardware and services, will generate revenues of of US$156.5 billion (A$217 billion) in 2020, a rise of 12.3% year-on-year, the technology analyst firm IDC has forecast based on its Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker.

Indian outsourcing firms may be on a good wicket at the moment but could soon end up literally being caught in the slips due to the fact that their staff are unable to keep up with the changing technologies that companies that could become their clients have begun using.

Close on the heels of an unsuccessful attack on global technology supplier Pitney Bowes, the people behind the Maze ransomware, which infects Windows systems, have hit the Belgian firm HLB, which has a global network of independent advisory and accounting businesses in 130 countries.

Technology consulting company Cognizant has suffered an attack by the Maze ransomware that hits Windows systems, the company said in a note on Saturday, but provided little detail as to when the attack had been detected.

Indian outsourcing giant Infosys plans to cut about 12,000 staff at the middle and top of its organisation and flatten the employee structure, a report says.

Four men of Indian origin, three of whom ran two IT staffing companies in the US, have been charged with committing H-1B visa fraud by bringing job-seekers in on false claims that they had secured positions with companies in the country.

Nimble, innovative and highly successful organisations will share their secrets with transformation leaders and mid to senior level managers at an interactive two-day conference in Sydney this September.

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The whole point of making changes to the H-1B visa system is so that Indian outsourcing companies are deprived of the visas and American companies can use them instead, according to a veteran US tech journalist.

Companies in the US that hire foreign workers on H-1B visas may be blocked from renewing the same, a common occurrence which is undertaken to help the worker stay in the country long enough to obtain a green card.

US technology companies that employ foreigners on H-1B visas will find it more difficult to obtain renewals of these visas after the US Citizenship and Immigration Services tightened the procedure for renewal.

Australian-listed IT services group Hills has initiated a digital transformation of its business in partnership with professional services firm Cognizant in a move designed to revitalise the company’s e-commerce capabilities and improve core business processes, customer engagement and operational efficiencies.

Major IT outsourcers in the United States obtain the lion's share of H-1B visas but pay wages that are below average, according to figures released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.

About 60,000 workers in India's IT sector have lost their jobs in the last few months, according to the Forum for IT Employees, a professional grouping of workers from about 50 IT companies in the country.

Global IT and business process services provider Cognizant has partnered with the University of Newcastle (UON) to develop a virtual reality (VR) solution to transform the way students learn key anatomy and birthing techniques.