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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.

Facebook. The company has been on an apology tour for most of its existence, mostly for invading people's privacy in different ways, and hot on the heels of a whistleblower exposing Facebook's allegedly dodgy algorithms comes the now resolved outage that affected Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Oculus Web.

GUEST RESEARCH: Businesses in Australia and New Zealand are having difficulties on how to leverage their data due to lack of literacy, according to a study. The study describes this as Data Paradox, that instead of using data to improve business operations, it has become a burden.

According to a Forrester report, 5G plays an important role in delivering government priorities that encourage citizen welfare and strong economic growth. The report also has identified a gap: only 34% of decision makers recognise its return on investment and 32% are unconvinced of its potential.

More companies are becoming prey and victims of ransomware attacks. Research firm and security company Forrester gives advice to companies on how to thwart threats.

SOC and IT security teams feel burned out after working hours, a Trend Micro study has discovered, and managers are overwhelmed with high volume of alerts.

A new global study has revealed IT leaders have increasing impact on employee experience and business resilience, because by empowering, inspiring, and enabling employees to work flexibly and remotely, they will improve resilience, competitive sdvantage, and scale in times of disruption. 

Database giant Oracle is buying TikTok to increase its relevance in the cloud market by demonstrating the scalability of its cloud platform, and also increase its "hip factor" with brands like Zoom, analysts from the American market research company Forrester claim.

The Australian Computer Society has appointed ICT industry veteran Todd McGregor as General Manager for Startup Catalyst.

Growth in the Asia Pacific technology market will slow to 4% in 2020 as conditions become stormy, the American market research company Forrester has predicted.

Online retail sales in the Asia Pacific region are set to almost double in the five years from 2019, growing from US$1.3 trillion in 2018 to US$2.5 trillion in 2023, the American market research company Forrester says, adding that would represent a compound annual growth rate of 14% and account for 28% of global sales.

Australian firms’ “need for speed” will drive tech spending in 2019, according to one global analyst firm which projects Australia’s tech market growth to accelerate from 1% in 2018 to 2% in 2019 and 3% in 2020.

Global research firm Forrester has said, “Machine learning is an elemental core competency that every enterprise must have” and released its findings around the 13 top companies in this space.

Australia’s big four banks have been heavily criticised in a new report by a global analyst firm, which says digital money management provided by their mobile apps is minimal at best – and their apps don’t reflect the banks’ vision of helping customers improve their financial well-being.

Investments in cloud technology and resources are on the rise as enterprises increasingly focus on migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud, according to a new global report.

A survey of retailers released on the day online giant Amazon made its Australian debut claims that 95% of Australian online retailers plan to sell using the company's Australian platform in the next 12 months.

Companies face a year of more uncertainty in 2018 and the window of opportunity is closing for many looking to digitally transform, and revitalise customer experiences, according to a new report.

Market research and investment advisory firm Forrester Research has suffered a data breach, with material available to its clients through Forrester.com being exposed by an attacker.

The Commonwealth narrowly pipped Westpac as Australia’s top bank due to the usability of its mobile and digital services, but Westpac was deemed to be the bank with the highest score in mobile banking functionality, according to a newly published study.

Australian online consumers show little interest in their finances and don’t engage much with financial institutions, or seek out financial advice, despite the wider availability of digital money management tools, according to a newly published study from Forrester Research.