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COMPANY NEWS:  Atturra, a leading advisory and technology services business specialising in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions, is ending 2024 on a high after being recognised by the IT industry with an array of prestigious vendor awards in the past few months.

The work of the future will see widespread use of self-organised dynamic teams. This is not a new shift, but on that has been steadily emerging over time, and since change is now occurring at a more rapid pace, organisations are starting to replace older, more hierarchical structures with models that are more fluid and rooted in collaboration and teamwork. In this reality, it is challenging to provide proper conditions needed for effective focus and communication. Acoustic pods are an innovative solution, which can help meet these demands. They ensure essential privacy as well as acoustic comfort to enable project teams to accomplish their objectives effectively.

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• Autodesk announces new, Autodesk AI-powered time-saving automations coming to Autodesk Fusion 

• Autodesk AI will also power a new automotive exterior design generation tool, Form Explorer, coming to Autodesk Alias 

Creative tools and materials company Cricut has announced its new large-format cutting machine, Cricut Venture. The device is available at Harvey Norman and helps you make bigger and larger creations than before, and in bulk too.

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• Atturra Limited, through its subsidiary Atturra Advisory Pty Ltd ACN 117 643 240 (“Atturra Advisory”), to acquire Exent Holdings Pty Ltd ACN 667 230 328 (“Exent”).

• Upfront consideration for Exent is $6m in cash, with earn-out/post-completion consideration of up to $2m in cash, subject to Exent achieving first half FY25 performance hurdles.

• Strategically aligned acquisition of Exent helps Atturra extend its advisory and consulting capabilities outside of Canberra and Defence and expand the practice nationally.

• The purchase price, including upfront and deferred consideration, is calculated on a multiple of 6.5x forecast EBITDA contribution to Atturra in FY25. 

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Adding a decal to your car, your laptop, windows, walls, and all kinds of things can really help personalise your spaces. The Cricut cutting machine ecosystem makes it a cinch to create your own. Here's how we added a splash of personality to our horse float.

iTWireTV speaks with Wippli founder, CEO, and CPO Jay Marcano about his services industry end-to-end workflow management tool. It's a wonderful discussion where Jay explains how Wippli was born out of a real need for such a tool as he sought to manage his creative delivery to global brands. Wippli is free for teams of up to three people with no credit card needed so it's vastly easy to check out, too!

Sivers Semiconductors has been granted €1.2 million euro for the design of 6G chip technology from HORIZON Europe as part of a larger consortium.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Stacy Wolff, Global Head of Design and Sustainability, Personal Systems at HP. We discuss industry trends, A.I. and where the industry is going.

Did you know Cricut, the creative ecosystem that lets anyone bring their ideas to reality, includes mugs? Yes, it’s true; you can imbue drinking vessels with your most brilliant designs and clever puns.

The Cricut (pronounced "cricket”) ecosystem offers great versatility to help you bring your creative ideas to life - but what if you want to work with a curved surface like a cap? Here’s where the Cricut Hat Press comes in.

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• Atturra Limited (Atturra) through its subsidiary Galaxy 42 Pty Ltd (ACN 167 654 382) (Galaxy 42) to acquire the business and certain assets of Silverdrop Education Pty Ltd (ACN 139 433 775) as trustee for the G & S Barwell Family Trust (Silverdrop) (Silverdrop Acquisition), a specialist HR and payroll consulting firm.
• Upfront consideration is $2.207m in cash and $0.5m of Atturra shares, with earn-out/post-completion consideration of up to $0.6m in cash subject to Silverdrop achieving performance hurdles for the remainder of FY24 financial year. 
• The purchase price including upfront and deferred consideration is based on a multiple of 5.5 times forecast earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) contribution to Atturra in FY24, excluding integration costs which are forecast to be less than $175,000.

Creative tech company Cricut (pronounced "cricket") has released a new line of clever vinyls that magically change colour in the hot or cold, iron-ons that transform under the sun, and labels that easily dissolve in water without sticky residue. It's the latest in the company's remarkable range that helps everyone realise their most creative dreams, with the only limitation being your imagination.

If you're looking for Christmas gift ideas - whether the hard to buy for or even the easy to buy for, let alone yourself as a treat - you need to check out the Cricut product range which allows anybody to express their creativity. Here's how to use the Cricut Maker 3 and Cricut EasyPress 2 to make your own personalised T-shirts.

The James Dyson Award program is an annual student design competition run by Dyson’s charity, is now open and accepting submissions from young inventors, and this year, the Award is increasing its prize money to support the crucial first steps of entrepreneurship.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Aurecon has embarked on a journey with Workday solutions in finance, HR and beyond, with its CIO, Carl Duckinson, CPO, Liam Hayes, and CFO, Andrew Muller unified in working together as the architects and enablers of digital transformation for, and within, the entire organisation, helping to continue Aurecon's leadership globally.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Aurecon has embarked on a journey with Workday solutions in finance, HR and beyond, with its CIO, Carl Duckinson, CPO, Liam Hayes, and CFO, Andrew Muller unified in working together as the architects and enablers of digital transformation for, and within, the entire organisation, helping to continue Aurecon's leadership globally.

Australian-founded visual communications and collaboration SaaS vendor Canva's latest US$200 million funding round values the company at US$40 billion.

Engine Australia has been appointed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to develop and operate Australia’s first national self-exclusion register for online and phone gambling.