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As of February 11th, the Trump administration has announced worldwide tariffs of 25 percent on aluminium and steel imports, which form a major part of Australia’s economy.

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Micro and nanoplastics are pervasive in our food supply and may be affecting food safety and security on a global scale, according to a new study.

Deel has announced its new all-in-one HR platform built for global teams to simplify every aspect of managing the workforce. It’s also free for companies with under 200 employees making it an ideal HRIS for any company of any size.

Combines a scalable hardware device and data visualisation software to deliver analytics insights about land productivity and farm efficiency, this solution sounds like a true farming game-changer.

Remote hiring company, Deel, announced it has raised $US 425 million in Series D funding taking its total amount raised to over $US 630 million and now valuing the company at $US 5.5 billion. It has become the highest-valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space.

The formation of a global partnership to ensure legal protections for good faith (bona fide) zero day researchers has been enacted by the Paris-based not-for-profit Cybersecurity Advisor Network (CyAN), with such research illegal in some jurisdictions, putting modern life at serious risk. We speak to Peter Coroneos, CyAN VP, to find out more.

The formation of a global partnership to ensure legal protections for good faith (bona fide) zero day researchers has been enacted by the Paris-based not-for-profit Cybersecurity Advisor Network (CyAN), with such research illegal in some jurisdictions, putting modern life at serious risk. We speak to Peter Coroneos, CyAN VP, to find out more.

Despite supply pressures, analyst firm Canalys suggests the global smartphone market will grow 12% in 2021, representing a strong recovery from 2020 when shipments fell 7% due to constraints caused by the pandemic.

A new report from Juniper Research has found that sales of iPhones will bring in over $200 billion in 2022; nearly 40% of the total smartphone hardware market, despite representing less than 20% of devices sold that year.

Recharging your device with EFM can now help recharge the planet through an extension of EFM’s longstanding partnership with Carbon Neutral. The initiative sees a native Australian tree planted in the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Australia’s largest biodiverse reforestation carbon sink, for every EFM power product purchased.

Workday is positioned as a leader for the fifth year in a row based on "Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute" in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for cloud core financial management suites for midsize, large, and global enterprises.

Global smartphone shipments are on the up in Q1 2021, 27% YoY, as "key regions subdue the pandemic", although with COVID-19 still out there and causing havoc in India, the rest of the year's results from Canalys and others will no doubt be watched closely by the world's smartphone makers.

“International Women’s Day is a wonderful opportunity for me to think about the women who’ve helped me and those who I’ve helped along the way”, explains Kate Toon, founder of the Stay Tooned Group and the My Business Awards Businesswoman of the Year 2020.

Founded in 2012, Globalization Partners offers a global expansion platform that makes expanding business and hiring talent from across the planet a fast and easy process, which in the post COVID world of 2021 is more important than ever.

Norton, which these days styles itself as "NortonLifeLock" following its purchase of the LifeLock business in the US, has released its Norton 360 for Gamers globally, featuring "dark web monitoring for gamer tags, a secure VPN, and fewer product notifications to combat game disruption".

BIGO Live - it's a live video streaming app with over 400 million users in 150 countries, and at its gala awards event overnight, over 100,000 Aussies and New Zealanders were there to cheer on six regional representatives.

With 2020 a year we'll never forget, what were the top searches by Aussies during the year on Google, as reported by Google? There's also a great three minute film that wraps up the year and shows that we all searched "why" more than ever.

Alibaba Cloud is the digital technology and intelligence backbone of the Alibaba Group, and has revealed the cutting-edge tech rolled out in support of the 2020 11.11 Global Shopping Festival, which included a massive amount of greener cloud-native computing power run on hyper-scale data centres, livestreaming, live translations, 3D virtual tools, virtual sales assistants and plenty more!

Research and analyst powerhouse OMDIA, formerly Ovum, has again ranked Australia 13th of the 22 countries it has analysed for the deployment of 5G, although it a tiny catch meant we did slip one place during the quarter.