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COMPANY NEWS: Smiles, & UAE’s SuperApp, has partnered with Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Tencent– the global technology powerhouse behind Weixin/WeChat, the world’s largest SuperApp –to enhance digital commerce in the UAE.
Announced during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, this partnership reinforces Smiles’ commitment to driving customer-centric innovation.

UAE telco e& has partnered with IBM to launch an end-to-end GenAI governance solution, announced this week at the World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos.

Stevedore DP World Australia has been hit by a network attack and has shut down its operations since 10am on Friday.

Digital infrastructure company Colt has completed the acquisition of American telecommunications company Lumen EMEA for US$1.8 billion.

Australian-built and owned cloud-based mapping software specialists, GapMaps, has expanded datasets in GapMaps Live in markets including India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Australia will host a virtual meeting of an international counter-ransomware task force early next year, a statement says.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has asked Oracle to pay more than US$23 million (A$35.7 million) to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

The world's biggest hotel booking site Booking.com was breached by an American acting on behalf of US intelligence in 2016, who stole details of thousands of reservations in the Middle East, but the site kept it quiet, a new book authored by three Dutch journalists claims.

London's Daily Mail does not normally receive praise for the journalism it produces, but it has recently been lauded by an unlikely source: the Conti ransomware gang.

A story about US mercenaries going to work for the UAE Government, without obtaining the necessary American clearances, was claimed as an exclusive in 2019 by two Reuters reporters – even though the yarn had already been told three years earlier by a reporter for The Intercept.

Three former American intelligence operatives have agreed to pay a fine of US$1.685 million (A$2.3 million) as part of a deferred prosecution agreement that places conditions on their future employment, after they were found to be working for a hacking company that carried out operations for the UAE Government.

Almost two-thirds (64%) of chief information security officers in 14 countries believe they will be hit by a material cyber-attack in the next 12 months, the security firm Proofpoint says.

Telecommunications operator Etisalat partnered with Nokia to deploy 5G in UAE to bring unprecedented speeds and network capacity “for consumer business services to empower a digitalised society.”

Melbourne beat Sydney to be Australia’s fastest city for 5G delivery across all frequency bands, according to a new ‘real-world’ measurement which sees that leading cities globally have a significantly better 5G experience than national scores.

Cyber warfare is a growth industry across the Middle East. While the USA’s plans for the sale of 50 advanced fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates has sparked fears of a conventional arms race, the contest for cyber superiority has already begun.

Dubai's Emirates airline has tied up with Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies to promote the airline's mobile on the firm's smartphones.

So now we know why the Digital Transformation Agency has not been able to meet many of its work targets: it has been busy developing a new style manual for the Australian Government.

After what seems like an eternity, a security company has dared to mention the unmentionable: the US does have advanced persistent threats or nation-state attack groups which are active.

The United Arab Emirates has launched a mission to Mars, with the Hope Probe taking off on Sunday evening.

The use of equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies in British 5G networks will be phased out from this year onwards, a report claims.