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Freelancing, crowdsourcing ad online job marketplace Freelancer.com has released its quarterly Fast 50 index for Q1 2022 which reveals that based on data from 351,000 jobs posted on its website during quarter one, jobs for NFTs were the leading growth category, seeing a 37% increase from 2,045 to 2,814 jobs in total. 

Australian champagne lovers will soon have a great new online store and subscription-based Champagne Club to enjoy, with Emperor Champagne engaging Smith Brothers Media to infuse the bubbles with its digital magic.

New retail data from Eftpos has revealed the Black Friday sales surge moved beyond online to music shops, fashion outlets, department stores and appliance retailers

Furniture and homewares retailer, Freedom Furniture has chosen a solution from cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) provider Boomi to create a singular view of all data to drive operational transformation, support a product evolution, and enable personalised customer experiences across brick-and-mortar and ecommerce operations.

COMPANY NEWS: Claroty, the industrial cybersecurity company, today announced a new integration between its Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) solution and Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk AssetCentre, empowering joint customers to automatically discover, protect, and manage the operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and industrial IoT (IIoT) in their industrial networks. Claroty will exhibit the CTD Connector for AssetCentre at Automation Fair taking place November 10-11 in Houston, Texas and online, at booth #1409.

Startup digital car dealership Cars24 has launched ia claimed world-first tech enabled car couch which it says will transform digital car buying in Australia.

New Zealand cyber security education company SafeStack Academy has raised NZ$2.3 million through a seed round with the funds to be used to further develop and grow its software security product.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Head of APAC and Japan at Ping Identity: In an increasingly digital and online world, consumers have come to expect relatively frictionless experiences when undertaking transactions.

For the second year running, PAX Aus has had to be cancelled, but like a great game player with several lives up their sleeve, PAX is dusting itself off and restoring to an online spawn point.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, MaxContact’s Director – Australia Operations: Webchat, SMS and email can enable you to deliver better customer service but only if you invest time and resources to implement them smartly.

Australian-listed digital services company Webcentral Group has rebranded and amalgamated its current brands Netregistry and WME into a single brand - Webcentral - in a move it says is designed to both improve and simplify its customer experience.

Canva is celebrating its customers' ability to design, schedule, and post content to Instagram Business accounts, plus seven other social platforms in one subscription.

Twelve months on from the first lockdown restrictions across Australia, local SMBs are feeling resilient and optimistic, according to new research from Amazon Launchpad - Amazon’s program aimed at helping Aussie startups and entrepreneurs bring innovative products to shoppers.

INTERVIEW: Bitrix24 is an impressive all-in-one business workspace that delivers 35+ intergrated tools, challenging just about every major online player with an offering that does just about everything, and keeps on growing.

INTERVIEW: Bitrix24 is an impressive all-in-one business workspace that delivers 35+ intergrated tools, challenging just about every major online player with an offering that does just about everything, and keeps on growing.

Global fast food and restaurant chain Nando’s has selected payment platform provider Adyen’s unified commerce offering for deployment across its Australia and New Zealand market network.

GUEST OPINION by Sam Deckert, Founder and Principal Consultant, Peak Insight: During this current period of disruption and uncertainty, the ways in which customers interact with businesses is changing. Face-to-face dealings are being replaced with phone and online encounters while deliveries are now favoured over in-store transactions.

Working from home has come at a cost to their productivity for some home workers, with a new survey finding that 48% of respondents reporting their work productivity decreasing.

With Zscaler’s new research showing attackers turning to encrypted attacks during the pandemic, and encryption-based threats growing by 260% this year, not even healthcare was able to avoid the onslaught of SSL-based attacks - but thankfully, there are defences in active use by businesses to protect IT infrastructure, customers and users.

Payment solutions provider Mastercard and telco Singtel Optus have entered into a partnership to provide digital identity verification both online and in-store.