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Executive employment in Australia fell a further 3 per cent in February to its lowest point in the past five years.

Australians on NBN Co’s Fixed Wireless Plus plan have experienced further improvements to their broadband speeds following the completion of the company’s fixed wireless upgrade program, the competition watchdog, the ACCC's latest Measuring Broadband Australia report has found.

Australia’s four largest airports, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, each reported their highest ever aeronautical revenues in 2023-24, the ACCC’s latest Airport Monitoring Report shows.

AI-driven ecommerce software platform AMP, based in Australia, has secured $20 million in new funding and acquired Back In Stock, a popular Shopify app for back-in-stock notifications.

• New definition of Australian business will help government accurately direct policies involving government procurement.
• Updated guidance on Broader Economic Benefits in Procurement considerations will help Government better understand the positive economic impacts generated from government expenditures with industry.

COMPANY NEWS: The Sovereign Australian Prime Alliance (SAPA) congratulates the Albanese Government on its announcement of much needed reforms to the Commonwealth Procurement Rules to define an Australian business, in the context of the Commonwealth procurement framework as:

a. “a business, including any parent business, that:
     i   has 50% or more Australian ownership or is principally traded on an Australian equities market; and
     i i is an Australian resident for tax purposes; and
b. is a business that has its principal place of business in Australia.”

Search AI company Elastic has announced the winners of the 2025 Elastic Partner Awards Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).

Survey reveals urgent need for prioritisation of network and security architecture transformation and adoption of a Zero Trust ‘Resilient by Design’ approach for cyber resilience strategies in the face of inevitable future attacks

• 75% of Australian organisations expect to experience a significant failure scenario in the next year.
• 97% of Australian IT leaders ‘believe’ their current cyber resilience measures are effective, yet ransomware attacks continue to rise and cost organisations billions of dollars per year.
• But only 32% say their cyber resilience strategy is up-to-date in preparation for modern attacks in response to the rise of AI
• Australian organisations must more closely examine their ability to respond to advanced cyber breaches, which allow threat actors to access systems, move laterally, and steal sensitive data.

Sydney-based startup EvenBetter.ai has today launched the "world’s first AI-driven platform to help businesses move beyond gender pay gap reporting and take real, data-driven action in the workplace".

Australian craft brewing software specialist helps Pelican Brewing Company take efficiency to the next level as both companies target US expansion

COMPANY NEWS: Australian manufacturing performance software company, OFS, has made its official debut in the United States through a breakthrough deal with Oregon-based craft brewery, Pelican Brewing Company.

GUEST OPINION by face recognition and biometric authentication solutions provider 3DiVi Inc:  Retail theft is becoming an escalating global concern, inflicting substantial financial losses on businesses worldwide. In the United States alone, retailers lost $112.1 billion in 2022, and experts predict that without effective countermeasures, this number could soar beyond $150 billion by 2026.

According to new research by the cybersecurity company NordVPN, over 351 million malware incidents have been recorded, emphasising the “growing cybersecurity threat” in Australia. 

Australia's largest telecoms provider Telstra has partnered with equipment vendor Ericsson on a four year project to build what they claim will be the first programmable network in the Asia Pacific region.

The Federal Court has found that Telstra made false or misleading representations relating to the upload speed of residential broadband internet services supplied to nearly 9,000 of its Belong customers, following court action by the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

Australian listed property giant Goodman Group has completed a fully underwritten ‘pro-rata’ institutional shares placement, raising approximately A$4.0 billion, which the company says will be used to drive its data centres business.

Critical digital infrastructure provider Vertiv has appointed Cynthia Lush as Associate Channel Director for Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS: MyPass Global, the leading technology platform for workforce onboarding, compliance and credentials management, today announced it has raised A$7.5 million in Series A funding led by Australian venture capital firm OneVentures.

A $750 million program from Australian Government-owned broadband network provider NBN Co to deliver faster and more reliable broadband to regional and remote Australia has been completed.

Document database provider MongoDB has expanded its investment in Australia with a new office in Sydney in a move it says it will enable growth across its engineering, support, and go-to-market functions.

COMPANY NEWS: Telstra and CommBank confirmed today they have extended their existing anti-scam and fraud collaboration and announced the use of new ‘fraud Indicator’ technology to help protect Australians from identity theft.

Customer platform for scaling businesses provider HubSpot has launched its first Australian data centre.