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Melbourne based digital marketing agency Smith Brothers Media (SBM) has completed a merger with Brisbane creative digital agency Follow.

Australian cybersecurity consultancies Privasec, Solista, CXO Security and Naviro have merged to form Sekuro.

The Australian competition watchdog has given the go-ahead for the proposed merger of BPAY Group and its subsidiaries eftpos and New Payments Platform Australia.

The competition regulator and enforcement agency the ACCC is seeking views on a court enforceable undertaking which has been offered by Industry Committee Administration (ICA), the company representing three Australian payment services providers seeking to merge.

Digital technology company Webcentral has flagged $2 million in cost synergies annually as it announced it had entered into a merger with 5G Networks, which would see it acquire 100% of 5GN by way of a scheme of arrangement.

End-to-end managed IT services provider Nexon announced today its acquisition of multi-award-winning technology services provider Computer Systems Australia (CSA).

Ok, so the creative renaming of the ACCC is my idea, and not Adderton’s, but Peter has done the sums, and clearly, the communications competition conundrum isn’t adding up - why were there no consumer protections put in when the TPG and Vodafone merger was approved?

TPG Telecom says it is the second largest telco in Australia, with MD and CEO Iñaki Berroeta also sharing an update on the company's operations after its merger 10 months ago.

Australia's self-described first "smartbank", built for smartphones, is 86 400, and it has announced it "will join the NAB family, accelerating innovation in the industry and creating a smart digital bank committed to helping all Australians take control of their money."

Vodafone Hutchison Australia was renamed TPG Telecom on Monday ahead of the proposed merger with TPG Corporation (which was formerly known as TPG Telecom).

The name Vodafone Hutchison Australia will disappear from the Australian business register next Monday, with the telco to be known as TPG Telecom.

The Australian Foreign Investment Review Board has give Vodafone Hutchison Australia the final regulatory approval needed for its merger with TPG Telecom.

The coronavirus pandemic will not prevent the merger between Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom from going ahead by mid-year, the two companies involved have indicated.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia says it will activate its first 5G site within a few weeks even as it released its full-year results for 2019 showing that it lost 275,000 mobile customers in 2019. The first lot of 5G sites are likely to be in and around Parramatta in NSW.

A merger between two of Australia's largest telcos, Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom, has been given the green light after a successful court challenge to an initial ACCC ruling in regard to 'lessened competition.'

The GiGAWire Alliance and the Home Grid Forum are merging, in a move designed to create what they say is a new force in broadband access technology development.

Professional services firm Deloitte has announced that the founders and staff of Melbourne-headquartered information and data management consulting business, NeoData Australia, are to join the firm’s Consulting Enterprise Technology practice.

The backing of the US Federal Communications Commission's chair for a merger of wireless companies does not seem to be enough to push it over the line, with 10 state attorneys-general filing a case opposing the merger between the American companies T-Mobile and Sprint.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia and TPG Telecom have taken action in the Federal Court, seeking orders that the proposed merger between the two companies will not have the effect, or likely effect, of substantially lessening competition.

The merger between T-Mobile and Sprint, the third and fourth biggest wireless carriers in the US, has moved a step closer with the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, officially giving his support to the deal.