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A New Zealand Commerce Commission investigation and subsequent High Court proceedings has resulted in more than 2,600 customers being refunded a total of nearly $480,000 after three companies, part of the Vocus Group, breached the Fair Trading Act.

New Zealand’s consumer competition regulator The Commerce Commission has received an application for clearance for a transaction that would see the merger of the Vocus Group with 2degrees.

Google has caused an anti-terrorist operation being run by a Western Government which is an ally of the US to be shut down by revealing details about the use of zero-day exploits in the campaign.

Singapore-based Russian security firm Group-IB has placed itself squarely in the crosshairs of the US Government by revealing exhaustive details about an alleged criminal and thus forcing American law enforcement to drop its objection to making details of a sealed indictment against the man public.

Russian security outfit Kaspersky says it will continue to provide details of advanced persistent threats (APTs or nation-state actors) no matter the country of their origin, but these details will only be available to customers who subscribe to their services.

New Zealand telecommunications providers are facing charges for billing customers after contracts finished, with the country’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, laying 13 charges against three of the telcos.

Australian renewable energy start-up Evergen says it is gearing up for growth after closing a capital raise led by majority shareholder and infrastructure investment manager AMP Capital.

New Zealand broadband provider Slingshot has been warned by the country’s competition regulator, the Commerce Commission, for likely breaches of the Fair Trading Act in an online advertising campaign offering consumers a 10% discount for bundling broadband and electricity services.

Corporate accelerator company Slingshot has launched its Icon business bootcamp and accelerator program for regional small business owners and startups for the second year running.

A tourism accelerator program run by Slingshot and backed by the Queensland Government’s $650 million Advance Queensland initiative has launched for the second consecutive year.

A statement by the head of security firm FireEye that US government spooks produce "nice" malware when compared to that of other states has been reported by the American tech news website Cyberscoop – and allowed to pass unchallenged.

Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab is claimed to have uncovered another operation by a US military outfit when it revealed at its annual security analyst summit the details of malware that had been used to gain access to Windows systems through routers.

Malware that infects Windows systems via routers has been uncovered by researchers at security firm Kaspersky Lab who claim it has been used for cyber espionage from at least 2012 until February 2018.

Australasian regional food and beverage company Lion has partnered with Australian accelerator specialist Slingshot to launch a new accelerator program for startups and entrepreneurs.

Slingshot, which develops and manages corporate accelerator programmes, claims major corporate businesses have signed up as founding members of its CoVentured platform aimed at connecting corporates with start-ups and boosting innovation in Australia.

Global recruitment and talent solutions company Hudson and Australian global online jobs and employment group SEEK are joining corporate start-up accelerator Slingshot to lead Australia’s first HR-tech start-up accelerator.

If you are a health entrepreneur, expert or specialist, the HCF Health-tech programme may help start-ups and others to accelerate their use of technology in the healthcare industry.

The former chief executive of CareerOne, Karen Lawson, has been named to the newly created role of chief executive at Slingshot – a company that runs start-up accelerators for large corporates.

For the past 12 weeks’ start-ups have been working with corporate accelerator Slingshot to polish their hopefully, investor attractive, innovative health care apps.

Australia’s first food tech accelerator has been launched by accelerator program developer Slingshot and major food manufacturer Simplot.