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MediaHub has won the major regional business award at the NSW Business Chamber Awards for an unprecedented second consecutive year.

Ericsson and BT have showcased their "first 4K sports broadcast delivered through a live HEVC contribution link" for smarter, more efficient UHDTV content delivery.

Australian catch-up news platform Hash has a new look and new functionality, using part of the $1 million filling its coffers after a successful capital raising to launch version 2.0 of its platform.

Designed to provide a devilishly good NAS home media storage experience in a powerful yet affordable way, Synology’s DiskStation DS216j seeks an audience - with you!

Global media agency Reuters has deployed SAP HANA enterprise cloud service as part of its US presidential election coverage.

New Zealand’s biggest telco, Spark, has achieved strong mobile and IT services revenue growth for the first half of the 2016 financial year to offset a continuing decline in landline services and legacy data products.

The long-time boss of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Chris Chapman, wants changes to the regulatory framework under which the authority operates in today’s “digitally disrupted” communications environment.

Continual growth in the tech job market and an increasing demand for those with strong IT security and networking skills is seen for 2016.

The latest quarterly cybercrime report from ThreatMetrix has arrived, with the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network analysing and protecting more than a billion transactions monthly.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims says improvements to the tax system, industrial relations and competition policies will make the biggest contribution to promoting innovation in Australia.

The chairman of the Australian Communications and Media Authority, Chris Chapman, has delivered his last annual report, taking the opportunity to reconfirm that the current arrangements for media and communications legislation and regulation in Australia are under strain and “increasingly unsuited to optimising the public interest”.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to the merger of Foxtel and the Ten Network, ruling that the deal is unlikely to substantially lessen competition in the media market.

A new policy amendment by Youtube has cut advertising on videos that contain controversial news content,  including videos that promote alternative political views. As a result, at least one popular alternative news media site with hundreds of thousands of subscribers has lost a major source of income. (Note this story has been updated with an official YouTube statement in the final paragraph)

The competition watchdog has flagged concerns that Foxtel’s proposed acquisition of 15% of Network 10 and the TV network’s proposal to buy a 24.99% stake in advertising company MCN could reduce competition in the free-to-air television industry.

Bingeing on multiple TV episodes one after the other is prevalent amongst Video-on-Demand subscribers, as consumers flock to VOD services in droves, according to a new global market report.

Twitter says it is boosting investment in its media partnerships function across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, including in major digital markets like Australia, with today’s appointment of a new head of media for the regions.

Network connectivity data centre facilities services provider Nextgen has established a partnership with Sydney Teleport Services (STS) which allows STS to offer more advanced capabilities and interconnectivity with major cloud platforms to support growing OTT services for its new and existing client base.

Telstra-owned subsidiary Ooyala has made its second acquisition within the last nine months with the purchase of cloud-based media logistics and workflow software and services company Nativ.

Not-for-profit start-up entrepreneurial group StartupAUS, has appointed foundation board member and former founding director of technology co-working space Fishburners, Peter Bradd, as its first chief executive.

Getting a job and pursing a career path in different business or industry sectors may depend on the strength or weakness of a particular industry, and a newly released national report shows that 13 out of 18 industries have recorded growth in employment numbers over the last two years.