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Media-for-Equity fund invests in Naked Life and Settle Easy

Data scraping is not illegal on LinkedIn, but you must abide by certain terms and conditions before you can take action. LinkedIn is a social media platform that contains a lot of data about people around the world, and a lot of information is waiting to be unearthed. 

For example, data scraping on legal documents involving personal information is unacceptable. In other words, any action that violates LinkedIn's data scraping policy will attract a ban from their website. Read and learn how to scrape data from LinkedIn.

GUEST OPINION:  Australia’s world-leading moves toward restricting or banning social media among young users is setting an important precedent for the rest of the world. This is a topic that has gone beyond debate.

The technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sectors were the most targeted industries in Australia by cyber threats in 2023, with a newly published report assessing that this could be attributed to Australia’s significant digital growth over the last decade, reshaping its digital ecosystem and creating new opportunities.

The publishing and PR world are saddened by the recent passing of David Frost from PR Deadlines. He passed away after a brief illness.

COMPANY NEWS: Autodesk today announced Autodesk AI, technology that unlocks creativity, helps solve problems, and eliminates non-productive work across the industries that design and make the world around us.

PEOPLE MOVES: Perth-based ad fraud specialists, Trafficguard today announced the appointment of Mr Joshua Lowcock as its new Non-Executive Chairman.

In one week’s time, on Thursday 23 June, Victoria’s business and community leaders will sleep out together at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne on one of the coldest nights of the year to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria’s (Vinnies Victoria’s) homelessness services.

Aussies feel trapped by the digital economy with a new online survey finding that the majority of consumers feel they have to share personal data if they want to use digital services - but they don’t trust these organisations to protect that data.

GUEST OPINION by Geoff Schomburgk, Vice President for Asia Pacific and Japan at Yubico:  On social media, in business and in the media, we’re increasingly hearing how companies should be protecting themselves against cyberattacks. Whilst we’re all at risk of having our credentials stolen, there are certain groups of individuals that need protecting more than others. Overseas, these include numerous organisations and individuals that are defending the freedom of the press, human rights and election security throughout many vulnerable regions where cyberattacks pose an enormous risk. In Australia, the upcoming Federal election on May 21st poses a lot of opportunities for bad state actors to interfere and spread misinformation, as has been documented by activities reported about US and UK elections. It is critical that security solutions are freely available and exist to help protect Australian electoral staff and political parties from such attacks.

Not only is TeamViewer marking 10 years in Australia while launching its new ANZ regional office in Adelaide, it has also marked the second year of its Mercedes F1 sponsorship deal by showcasing two impressively advanced yet simple to implement AR use cases in warehousing, pick and packing, mechanical repairs, virtual assistance, F1 operations and more, with the event video and demos a definite must-watch.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Primary Comms Group has been launched, integrating three strategic specialist agencies into a single, exciting brand that will deliver creative design, strategic communication, marketing, government relations, and stakeholder engagement services.

Smith Brothers Media is a full-service digital agency that is passionate about helping great businesses grow and improve. CEO James Smith spoke with iTWireTV about how businesses of all sizes can make their communication channels work at peak efficiency.

Audio-visual digitisation services bureau DAMsmart launches its film and video tape digitisation services in Amazon Web Services Marketplace—the first of its kind.

COMPANY NEWS: Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced the launch of the Media Data Cloud, which unites Snowflake's powerful data sharing technology; cutting-edge standards of privacy and governance; Snowflake- and partner-delivered solutions, and industry-specific datasets. The Media Data Cloud enables marketers, publishers and data and ad technology businesses to unlock their data for identity, insights, activation and measurement across the advertising ecosystem.

The Conti ransomware gang has issued a somewhat hilarious warning to media outlets which reported quotes from ransom negotiations between the ransomware gang and one of its victims, JVCKenwood.

'The 20th edition of the Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook 2020-2024 report from PwC has arrived, showing that to the end of December 2020, total Australian advertising spend contracted by 8.0% to A$15.4 billion, and consumer spend dropped by 1.9% to A$42.5 billion - with plenty more detail to share, so read on!

Telstra Broadcast Services (TBS) says it will broadcast some of the world’s biggest events to more parts of the globe and play a key role in delivering 24/7 programming to millions of people with the acquisition of the business and assets of MediaCloud.

COMPANY NEWS by Matthew Fowler, Managing Director for Asia-Pacific, VIQ Solutions: According to internal research conducted by VIQ Solutions, approximately 15 percent of the audio recorded by organisations, courts, law enforcement and other agencies including government bodies, is currently being digitised.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released another research report in its ‘Communications and media in Australia’ series, with headline figures showing 8.2 million terabytes of data downloaded, 9.6 billion voice minutes and more.