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Australian computer vision and automation startup Black.ai has closed a $5.4 million seed-plus round led by Jelix Ventures, taking its total funding to $8.55 million.

iTWire TV speaks with Zebra Technologies sales engineering manager ANZ Daniel Park about the company’s Workforce Connect software.

Australian fashion tech business Azura Fashion Group has announced a crowdfunding campaign with Birchal to raise capital for further global expansion.

While Australians have become more tech savvy, consumers still prefer shopping in a physical store over online, with 73% choosing to shop in a physical store – 14% more than any other country, according to new research.

In Australia and New Zealand, 52% of organisations have experienced one to four security breaches in the last 12 months and 18% have experienced five or more breaches in that time, according to the 2022 cyber skills gap report from security firm Fortinet.

Aussies feel trapped by the digital economy with a new online survey finding that the majority of consumers feel they have to share personal data if they want to use digital services - but they don’t trust these organisations to protect that data.

Retailer Coles Liquor has partnered with retail optimisation software provider RELEX Solutions to implement its Living Retail platform across its 931 Australian stores.

Australian champagne lovers will soon have a great new online store and subscription-based Champagne Club to enjoy, with Emperor Champagne engaging Smith Brothers Media to infuse the bubbles with its digital magic.

Intelligent pricing solutions vendor Flintfox has appointed Microsoft industry veteran Chris Dieringer as its chief customer officer (CCO).

Data cloud specialist Snowflake's extended relationship with Amazon Web Services is aimed at improving demand forecasting and delivery for the retail and consumer packaged goods industries.

The insistence by American online retail giant Amazon.com that it be refunded US$200 million (A$278 million) invested in Indian firm Future Retail led to the collapse of talks to settle issues between the two companies, the news agency Reuters reports.

Data lakehouse pioneer Databricks has launched Databricks Lakehouse for Retail, its first industry-specific data lakehouse for retailers and consumer goods organisations.

New retail data from Eftpos has revealed the Black Friday sales surge moved beyond online to music shops, fashion outlets, department stores and appliance retailers

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been, with 8.9 million Australian shoppers spending $5.4 billion. Retailers need to be sure their websites can handle the flood of traffic, now, next time, and at all times of high demand. commercetools powers some of the world’s largest online stores and it’s here to help, both in Australia and globally.

Indian retail outlet Future Retail has released details of dealings with global retail giant Amazon in a bid to break off a deal between the two companies.

India's second biggest retail outlet, Future Retail, has been asked to submit details of a deal with Amazon to the Enforcement Directorate, an Indian law enforcement agency.

GUEST RESEARCH: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its annual State of Encrypted Attacks Report, which tracked and analysed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over networks. This year's study found an increase of more than 314% year-over-year across geographical areas that include APAC, Europe, and North America, underscoring the need for a zero trust security model and greater traffic inspection than most companies can achieve with legacy firewall-based security models.

GUEST RESEARCH: Hazelcast, the provider of the real-time intelligent applications platform, today released a global study revealing that 8 in 10 (79%) of retail and financial services companies globally struggle to harness real-time data and combine it with historical data to glean better insights for engaging customers, increasing revenue and boosting conversion rates, especially amid increasingly unpredictable consumer behaviour trends and a rising tide of incoming data. This compares to 65% of retail and financial services companies in Australia and just 55% in New Zealand.

GUEST RESEARCH: Bitglass, the total cloud security company, today announced new research that shows how the Dark Web, the value of stolen data and cybercriminal behaviours have dramatically evolved in recent years.

Loyalty program Flybuys has built a new Snowflake-based platform for sharing data between participating retailers.