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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will launch an official dating app aimed at boosting Japan's dwindling birth rate.

The United States is attempting to further tighten the screws on China by asking some of its allies to reduce exports of chip-related technology and tools to the country.

Global imaging, print, and hardware manufacturer Epson has announced that it is planning the construction of the company's first biomass power plant in Japan, with the plant using renewable electricity.

In the same way that a hungry traveller who has been wandering in the wilderness without food or water for months would grab at any sustenance, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has leapt upon a throwaway remark from US President Joe Biden about freedom for WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange.

Omnichannel supply-side platform OpenX Technologies has promoted Mitchell Greenway to Managing Director, APAC.

A total of 1,843 deals involving mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals were announced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during January-February 2024 according to the latest report on deals by data and analytics company GlobalData.

Dicker Data Australia has been named Distributor of the Year for the Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) region by cybersecurity provider SonicWall.

GUEST RESEARCH: Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management leader, released the findings of its annual survey of global data leaders – CDO Insights 2024: Charting a Course to AI Readiness.

Industrial property and digital infrastructure specialist Goodman Group has entered agreements to deliver up to 1,000MW power in Japan, commenced construction of a new 50MW data centre in Tsuen Wan in Hong Kong SAR, and has opened a new regional office in Singapore to support its data infrastructure initiatives in Asia.

Australian startup Quasar has launched its world first Space Domain Awareness (SDA) capabilities, a fully digital multibeam satellite ground stations.

Cloud cybersecurity company Cloudflare has appointed 25-year industry veteran Steve Bray as Head of Australia & New Zealand.

A day without the internet in the world would cost US$43 billion with the US and China almost making up half of the sum together, accumulating US$21 billion, according to data presented by Atlas VPN.

Japan’s Narita International Airport has extended the reach and capacity of its mission-critical TETRA communications network with Motorola Solutions “innovative broadband push-to-talk communication service”, WAVE PTX.

APJ hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has unveiled its inaugural data centre in Osaka, Japan, the OSK1, which boasts scalability of 20MW.

Despite the depreciation of third-party identifiers and global economic turbulence, sustainability is a key focus for professionals within the Japan and Asia-Pacific (JAPAC) region, according to a new research report by ExchangeWire in association with OpenX.

Nearly three-fourths of enterprises in India have experienced ransomware attacks in 2022, the technology analyst firm IDC claims, adding that the figure for the Asia/Pacific region, including Japan, was 59%.

Technology analyst firm Gartner has forecast that shipments of electric vehicles for 2023 will be about 15 million, with this figure including both battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids.

Japanese technology vendor Epson and its subsidiary Epson X will invest an unspecified amount in space robotics through a start-up known as GITAI.

Global electronics firm Panasonic Holdings has begun a lawsuit against Chinese smartphone companies Oppo and Xiaomi over some 4G patents which it refers to as "standard-essential patents for cellular communications".

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced that its recently launched Transform partner program is now available for all of its partners across the Asia-Pacific region.