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Agricultural industry cloud specialists Agworld, based in Perth, today announced it raised a $6 million Series C round of financing, to be used towards a North America expansion.

Western Australia-based listed, national IT Services company Empired (ASX:EPD) increased revenues by 44% to a record $67 million in the full year to the end of June, defying what the company says were difficult economic and market conditions.

The City of Perth has taken on a team of international and local IBM experts as part of a $50 million IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant program.

If you live in Darwin or Perth CBDs and have an Optus phone, you're in luck - those cities have gained early commercial access to Optus’ 700MHz-based 4G, to be switched on today.

Perth has jumped on the Clipp bandwagon, with the smartphone app launched last year in New South Wales and Victoria available from today for use in over 30 of Western Australia’s pubs and bars.

Since launching free blanket wifi coverage across the CBD last November, Perth has vaulted from last to become the nation’s wireless hotspot capital among smartphone users according to new research.

Telecommunications infrastructure company SubPartners has announced plans to build a new undersea cable to connect Perth and Sydney.

The newly merged global online jobs marketplace Elance-oDesk has officially launched in the Australian market, appointing a dedicated Country Manager and announcing plans for establishing a presence in five key cities.

Perth-based national ISP iiNet has renewed its sponsorship of Big Bash cricket team the Sydney Sixers with a three-year principal partner deal, lauding the branding and sales benefits of sports sponsorship.

Data-Centre-as-a-Service (DCaaS) provider, NEXTDC has officially opened its newest data centre – P1 - in Perth.

NEXTDC's P1 data centre in Perth will be officially opened on Monday. P1 doubles the number of Tier III certified data centres in Western Australia.

Fujitsu has delivered the first quarter, milestone design studies for a $400 million fibre link to South East Asia for Trident Subsea Cable System. The project will underpin Western Australia’s oil and gas sector with the first purpose-built, fibre optic subsea cable linking Perth, the Pilbara, Jakarta and Singapore.

NEXTDC has announced the "practical completion" of the base building for its P1 data centre in Perth.

Cheap or free data backup solutions and services are fraught with high risk for businesses wanting to ensure effective and secure backup and recovery of their data, according to a Perth-based national enterprise cloud backup provider.

Perth-based listed IT services company, Empired, has snared a contract estimated at around $46 million to provide services to operate and maintain the core IT infrastructure for Main Roads Western Australia, in a deal which the company says will help speed up its national expansion plans.

A new app designed by a young Perth entrepreneur is promising to take the burden out of making decisions, by sharing choices with friends and followers and receiving feedback in real time.

AARNet and Cisco have deployed one of the world’s longest unregenerated high-performance optical links.

Concerned about privacy intrusions by government and non-government agencies, Electronic Frontiers Australia has called a national day of action on Saturday 6 July.

Data centre operator NEXTDC has begun work on its first Perth data centre.

Apple is preparing to open another two Apple Stores in Australia this weekend.