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One hates to be the bearer of bad news to News Corp's Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, but her bombastic report on 10 October, which claimed Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is pulling out of Australia, is wrong. Dead wrong.

COMPANY NEWS by NEC/Telefonica: Telecommunications service provider Telefonica and NEC Corporation have entered an agreement to conduct Open Radio Access Network (Open RAN) pre-commercial trials in Telefonica's four core global markets of Spain, Germany, the UK and Brazil.

ANALYSIS The British Government has given a clear indication that it will launch an advertising blitz to fight Facebook's move to roll out encrypted messaging to all its apps.

Software and technology provider servicing the Australia and New Zealand markets Lancom Technology has announced Philll Claxton has returned to the company as its new Chief Technology Officer.

Telstra Health has inked a binding agreement to acquire GP clinical and practice management software company MedicalDirector for $350 million, in a deal Telstra says reflects continued growth, and strengthening of its existing presence in the UK.

British telco BT and Microsoft have announced a new strategic partnership designed to accelerate innovation across enterprise voice, cyber security and industry-focused services in sectors from digital manufacturing to health, "setting businesses" in the UK and around the world back to growth.

Agrees to Acquire Mercatus, Inc. to Offer Fully Integrated Platform For Growing Private Market Segments Including Infrastructure, Private Equity, Real Estate, Private Debt and Fund of Funds

COMPANY NEWS: State Street Corporation has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Mercatus, Inc., a premier front-and-middle-office solutions and data management provider for private market managers.

Nokia announced the expansion of its relationship with Xantaro encompassing next generation fibre access to connect more than two million UK homes with broadband speeds up to 10 Gigabit per second.

AI-powered enterprise voice and chat platform Stackchat is officially partnering with Tourism Australia (TA) to launch the tourist organisation’s “revolutionary” platform on its UK website to provide every visitor with a personalised experience tailored to drive leads for Aussie businesses.

Customers in the UK and Australia can deploy the MOVEit Transfer in Microsoft Azure either as-a-Service or in an Azure instance. The software is for customers who need data security compliance, lower latency, or for those who want to maintain data physically within their countries.

The UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has setup Future RAN, an open competition that will allocate £30M of R&D funding to projects that support the UK Government's 5G supply chain diversification strategy.

Global satellite communications provider Inmarsat has appointed Fredrik Gustavsson as the company’s chief strategy officer (CSO).

Global cybersecurity solutions company Forcepoint has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based Deep Secure.

Fake online reviews will be responsible for $1.2 billion of Australian ecommerce purchases made in 2021, according to newly published economic study.

Curtin University researchers have helped uncover the four billion year old story of a lunar sample brought from the moon to earth, by the manned Apollo 17 mission more than 50 years ago.

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.

Digital health technology provider Alcidion Group has acquired British patient flow management software maker ExtraMed for $9.6 million and also said it plans a capital raise of $17.9 million.

Global software and IT services company Tribal Group has acquired Semestry, a supplier of cloud scheduling and timetabling software to the higher education market.

The United States is going ahead with a plan to impose tariffs of about US$880 million (A$1.2 billion) annually on goods from six countries that have levied taxes on digital companies.

Global virtual private network provider VPN Proxy Master has partnered with Student Beans to offer a special student discount for all users in Australia, the UK US, and CA.