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Database giant Oracle is buying TikTok to increase its relevance in the cloud market by demonstrating the scalability of its cloud platform, and also increase its "hip factor" with brands like Zoom, analysts from the American market research company Forrester claim.

The Australian Computer Society has appointed ICT industry veteran Todd McGregor as General Manager for Startup Catalyst.

Growth in the Asia Pacific technology market will slow to 4% in 2020 as conditions become stormy, the American market research company Forrester has predicted.

Online retail sales in the Asia Pacific region are set to almost double in the five years from 2019, growing from US$1.3 trillion in 2018 to US$2.5 trillion in 2023, the American market research company Forrester says, adding that would represent a compound annual growth rate of 14% and account for 28% of global sales.

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.

Global research firm Forrester has said, “Machine learning is an elemental core competency that every enterprise must have” and released its findings around the 13 top companies in this space.

Australia’s big four banks have been heavily criticised in a new report by a global analyst firm, which says digital money management provided by their mobile apps is minimal at best – and their apps don’t reflect the banks’ vision of helping customers improve their financial well-being.

Investments in cloud technology and resources are on the rise as enterprises increasingly focus on migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud, according to a new global report.

A survey of retailers released on the day online giant Amazon made its Australian debut claims that 95% of Australian online retailers plan to sell using the company's Australian platform in the next 12 months.

Companies face a year of more uncertainty in 2018 and the window of opportunity is closing for many looking to digitally transform, and revitalise customer experiences, according to a new report.

Market research and investment advisory firm Forrester Research has suffered a data breach, with material available to its clients through Forrester.com being exposed by an attacker.

The Commonwealth narrowly pipped Westpac as Australia’s top bank due to the usability of its mobile and digital services, but Westpac was deemed to be the bank with the highest score in mobile banking functionality, according to a newly published study.

Australian online consumers show little interest in their finances and don’t engage much with financial institutions, or seek out financial advice, despite the wider availability of digital money management tools, according to a newly published study from Forrester Research.

United States headquartered global research firm Forrester has described billionaire businessman and President-elect Donald Trump’s election as a victory in the “Age of the Customer”, suggesting that Trump understood and responded to the needs of the “customers” better than his opponent, Hilary Clinton.

Retail e-businesses will face numerous challenges in 2017 from wooing cautious consumers and creating rich personalised customer experiences to offering free and fast delivery, in the battle for customer loyalty, according to a new survey of the global retail ecommerce market.

Customer-led, digital-centric global markets are posing new challenges for businesses with analyst firm Forrester warning that some companies may be doing “too little or going too slowly” to deal with the changes sweeping markets all over the world.

From protecting 10,000 Chemist Warehouse employees in Australia through to being recognised as a leader in Forrester’s "Endpoint Security Suites" evaluation for business users, Kaspersky Lab is fab.

A new crop of emerging technology is poised to unleash another cycle of “raised consumer expectations, changing behaviours, and disruption”, according to a new report by research firm Forrester.

Business leaders at a Melbourne conference have been told there’s a need for a ‘digital first’ policy to stay relevant in the digital era, as newly released data by Forrester shows that just 27% of businesses globally have a coherent digital addressing how the company will create customer value as a digital business.

The latest conventional tablet wisdom says while sales may well have plateaued in 2014 and 2015, business tablets are growing business critical with sales to come.