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Global data centre provider Digital Realty has acquired land in the South Korean capital of Seoul for the development of a new, carrier-neutral data centre facility.

Global data centre operator Equinix has appointed 10-year IT industry veteran and current Australian managing director, Jeremy Deutsch, as president of Asia-Pacific.

Job management platform provider Fergus has appointed David Holmes as chief executive to spearhead the company’s growth in Australia and beyond.

Media intelligence company Isentia Group has appointed James Merritt as chief executive Asia as part of its strategy to strengthen its executive team.

Sydney and Melbourne rank in the top 15 cities globally in a gender-specific study conducted by Dell Technologies that looks at a city’s ability to foster the growth of women-owned businesses.

Global enterprise storage company Pure Storage has launched a dedicated distributor program for the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

Digital risk protection vendor Digital Shadows has completed a $10 million capital raising round with the funds to be used scale up plans for the delivery of its SearchLight service.

Spending on augmented reality and virtual reality in the Asia Pacific region will reach US$7.5 billion this year, the analyst firm IDC says, adding that this means more than a doubling of expenditure from the previous year.

Digital design platform InVision has appointed former vice-president at US software firm Acquia, Tom Richardson, as its first Asia-Pacific managing director.

Cubic Transportation Systems has appointed former Transport for New South Wales executive John Karaboulis as vice-president of services.

Security control solutions provider Forescout has appointed The Next Level Learning as its training partner in Asia Pacific.

Australian IT solutions company Tquila ANZ chief executive Jo Masters has been recognised amongst the top 25 women leaders in tech services and consulting of 2019 by market research firm The Software Report.

Proudly celebrating 50 years of "innovating at the edge", two top Zebra executives talk to iTWire about the last five decades of success, the company's new hardware, how it all fits into Industry 4.0, customer success stories in Australia and plenty more.

Sydney is one of a number of artificial intelligence "experience zones" established across the Asia Pacific and Japan region by Dell EMC, in partnership with Intel, as part of a move to accelerate AI adoption across the region.

Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, are adopting several strategies and roadmaps to achieve the renewable energy target designated by their nations, according to a newly published report on the regional energy market.

Australia lags well behind Asia Pacific markets like Singapore, China and South Korea in the take-up and penetration of fibre to the home/building (FttH/B) services, according to a newly published report.

The Australian Government has ranked second among eight Asia Pacific economies on preparedness for Artificial Intelligence, trailing just behind Singapore, with a new report suggesting that Australia needs to take action on AI to gain competitive benefits in the Asia Pacific region.

Shipments of desktops, notebooks and two-in-ones will experience an overall decline in 2019 but there will be some relief as there will be a second-half increase of 0.4% against the second half of 2018, the analyst firm Canalys has forecast.

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.

Being paid to shop has been a thing for years via coupons, but with apps and modern technologies now the norm, cashback is booming, with ShopBack now claiming #1 cashback portal status in the Asia-Pacific.