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The United States blacklisting of Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies, barring the company from doing business with US tech companies, will not significantly impact the company’s revenues as it generates less than 1% of revenue from the US, says analytics firm GlobalData.

Total technology industry merger & acquisition deals in December 2019 worth US$17.03 billion were announced globally, marking a decrease in value of 44.7% over the number of deals in the previous month - and a drop of 35.8% when compared with the last 12-month average of US$26.51billion.

Australia will be awash with IoT devices in the next few years according to Palo Alto Networks which cites a new report forecasting that the global value of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices being used in homes globally reached more than US$1 billion in 2019 - and will reach US$5.3 billion by 2023.

Data management vendor Cohesity has appointed 25 year IT industry veteran Steve Coad as country manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Singapore-headquartered undersea cable owner RTI Connectivity has selected data centre operator Equinix to extend its connectivity solutions in Sydney and Tokyo.

Customer relationship management software provider Genesys has promoted Gwilym Funnell to senior vice president of Asia-Pacific after five years as vice president of its Australia and New Zealand business.

China will account for one-third of the Asia Pacific cloud computing market by 2023, according to a new report which forecasts that with the increasing presence of ‘hyper-scale’ cloud providers in big data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT), cloud has emerged as a compelling proposition for the enterprises and governments alike.

Data centre operator Equinix has appointed nine-year company veteran Guy Danskine as managing director for Australia.

Global enterprise software vendor Commvault has appointed former VMware senior executive Callum Eade as vice president of APJ as part of a move it says is aimed at reinvigorating its strategic vision for innovation and global growth.

US communications provider CenturyLink says it has strengthened its content delivery network (CDN) service capabilities in 11 cities across Asia Pacific (APAC) to cater to growing demands from global broadcasters, over the top (OTT) video streaming platforms and gaming companies.

The increasing number of contact centres in the Asia Pacific is set to turn the region into the second largest Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) market globally, behind North America, according to a new report.

The newly re-elected president of Australia’s Telecommunications Association (TelSoc), Reg Coutts, says Australia has fallen “somewhat behind” its APAC neighbours in recent years in developing the technologies that will be required to flourish in the 21st century.

Former Dell EMC executive David Webster has been appointed as president of Asia Pacific and Japan for enterprise cloud vendor Workday.

Optus pulled in revenue of $2,207 million for the three months to the end of September to deliver an increase in profits for the quarter due to increased NBN migration.

Payment security compliance has declined for the second year in a row, with organisations based in the Americas lagging behind worldwide counterparts, including the Asia Pacific region, according to a new report from US telco Verizon which reveals that only 1 in 3 companies globally make the grade on compliance and just 1 in 5 in the Americas.

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region is poised to witness the highest growth in the global telecom and pay-TV market between 2019 and 2024 due to conducive telecom policies and rapid mobile and fibre network roll-outs, according to new research.

Government officials from ASEAN and Pacific countries are to receive practical expert advice and skills training in dealing with cybersecurity challenges at a series of bootcamps to be conducted in Auatralia over the next four years.

Public cloud services are expected to be the major revenue generator of cloud computing in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during 2018-2023, according to a new report by one analytics company.

Macquarie Telecom has signed an agreement with Microsoft to deliver VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud services through the Microsoft Azure marketplace.

Cloud data management vendor Rubrik has appointed Kamal Brar as Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan.