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Dark fibre connectivity services provider Superloop has entered into an agreement to acquire Internet service provider NuSkope for $7 million in cash and $3 million in Superloop shares.

Optus is set to complete the shutdown of its 2G network and turn off 2G services across Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, South Australia and Tasmania.

South Australia is participating in a Singapore conference aimed at exploring new opportunities from emerging technologies, and their impact on skills and international trade.

A South Australian fintech firm given a $900,000 govt grant says its "world-first" online home loan brings the approval process down from 22 days to 22 minutes.

The chief of Australian battery and energy storage company Redflow, Simon Hackett, has welcomed the announcement that the South Australian Government has awarded a contract to deploy a 129 megawatt hour (MWh) battery farm to help solve the state’s power problems.

South Australia will get the world’s largest lithium ion battery to store renewable energy, with the state government awarding contracts to US sustainable energy group Tesla and French energy company Neoen to deliver the project.

Optus has committed $7.6 million to mobile coverage on its 4G Plus network along the Fleurieu Peninsula and on Kangaroo Island South Australia.

The first Australian designed, engineered and manufactured electric bus to be used on a public transport system in Australia has been launched in South Australia.

Australia and New Zealand software provider PrimeQ has plans to build what it calls a "cloud campus" in South Australia that will lead to the creation of 72 jobs.

IT services giant NEC has opened its new $4.38 million Global Security Intelligence Centre in South Australia.

South Australia’s connected vehicle tech company Cohda Wireless is supplying its dedicated short-range communications solutions for Cadillac cars sold in the US and Canada.

South Australian company Myriota has been recognised at the Internet of Things World 2017 conference in Silicon Valley, receiving an award for being the Best Industrial IoT Start-Up Company.

Defence industry technbology company Northrop Grumman has opened its new repair facility at South Australia’s Royal Australian Air Force Edinburgh base.

The South Australian Government has allocated $555,015 to Optus to build and operate four new mobile phone base stations in the State after $2 million it committed towards the federal government’s mobile black spots programme was not fully utilised.

Three million people across Australia and New Zealand were affected by more than 240 power outages in 2016 with New South Wales topping the list of Australian states for the third year in a row with 33 power outages.

The Lyon Group will build the world's biggest solar and battery storage project in South Australia, with operations to commence by the end of the year.

The University of Adelaide has appointed one of its own former graduates and academics and global engineering leader, Professor Anton Middelberg, as its new executive dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.

In the wake of energy supply problems, the South Australian Government has opened a two-week Expression of Interest period to attract national and international companies interested in building what they say will be Australia’s  largest grid-scale battery.  

Job advertising on employment website Seek rose by 8% in February compared to the corresponding period last year. Two states — South Australia and Victoria — were the standouts, recording the highest increases in job opportunities being advertised.

One hundred and eighty South Australian Government IT workers will lose their jobs after the state government announced today that all its IT functions would be outsourced to the American multinational firm Computer Sciences Corporation.