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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.

Global people platform for managing hourly workers, Deputy, has appointed Sejal Patel Daswani as its new Chief People Officer.

GUEST RESEARCH: Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its annual State of Encrypted Attacks Report, which tracked and analysed over 20 billion threats blocked over HTTPS, a protocol originally designed for secure communication over networks. This year's study found an increase of more than 314% year-over-year across geographical areas that include APAC, Europe, and North America, underscoring the need for a zero trust security model and greater traffic inspection than most companies can achieve with legacy firewall-based security models.

The European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, has proposed new laws under which technology companies can be fined up to 10% of their global turnover and also face orders to split up.

The top 20 Asia-Pacific technology companies may face a rough time this year due to the volatile global situation and the the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the data and analytics firm GlobalData says.

National Australia Bank has pledged to allocate $2 billion in funding over five years to help emerging technology companies build and grow their businesses.

A survey of 2000 Australian consumers has shown that Australian banks enjoy a level of trust above that granted by other organisations, with the result that open banking, when it arrives next year, is set to see data sharing between banks, rather than between banks and third parties.

Australian technology companies are at the forefront, with other tech companies in the Asia Pacific region, with “aggressive” hiring plans as part of their ongoing recruiting strategies, according to a newly published report.

CeBIT Australia received a record number of nominations for its CeBIT.AU Business Awards and today the organisation announced the 2014 finalists.