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Social media cafes and bubble tea - 'Instagrammable spaces' are coming

Starting from the end of July, New Zealand will have its own new prototype 'social media' café designed specifically for social media lovers.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Tue, 24th Jul 2018

Global Stories

United States (US) stories

Thales

Thales extends offer acceptance period for Gemalto acquisition

Thales extends the offer acceptance period for its acquisition of Gemalto, awaiting regulatory approvals from various antitrust authorities.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Mon, 13th Aug 2018

Malware

Deep dive: Research finds new links among North Korea's malware families

North Korean cyber attacks have left behind clues that allow researchers to connect the dots between them, according to researchers from McAfee and Intezer.

By Jay Rosenberg and Christiaan Beek • 6 min read • Fri, 10th Aug 2018

Hyperscale

Colt Data Centre Services & INAP commit to global alliance

Colt Data Centre Services and Internap (INAP) have announced a global, multi-year alliance to be based in North London.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 9th Aug 2018

Agricultural Technology

Silicon Valley connection to boost NZ's agritech sector

An upcoming agritech conference in Silicon Valley may have a huge impact on New Zealand's agritech sector, even from thousands of kilometres away.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Thu, 9th Aug 2018

Unified Communications

SORACOM & KDDI commit to advancing worldwide IoT business

The two companies have already started offering IoT business services across Southeast Asia and the United States, with other regions to follow.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Tue, 7th Aug 2018

Storage

Diligent and Brainloop fortify cloud governance offering

Diligent completes acquisition of Brainloop, making it the leading supplier of high-security collaboration software in Europe.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Mon, 6th Aug 2018

Health Technologies

IDC - spending on 3D printing to reach $23b in 2022

Global spending on 3D printing will hit USD $23 billion in 2022, driven by growing demand from new industries, predicts IDC's latest report.

By Ben Moore • 3 min read • Mon, 6th Aug 2018

Fintech

Xero pays NZ$103m to acquire Canada-based cloud bookkeeping firm

Xero to acquire Canadian cloud bookkeeping firm Hubdoc for NZD $103 million, enhancing its financial data integration for small businesses globally.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Thu, 2nd Aug 2018

DataCentre infrastructure

Google building new Singapore data center to join its other two

This will bring the tech giant's total Singapore data center investment to more than US$850m in a bid to meet surging demand.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 1st Aug 2018

Hyperscale

DDN finalises acquisition agreement for bankrupt Tintri

After stepping in at the final hour to salvage Tintri, Data Direct Networks (DDN) has finalised a new reseller agreement - here are the details.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Tue, 31st Jul 2018

Smart Cities

IDC forecasts smart city spending will reach $158 billion by 2022

On a geographic basis, the APAC region, including China and Japan, will account for nearly 42% of global spending in 2018.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 3 min read • Wed, 25th Jul 2018

Fintech

Xero backs down on plans to retire older expense claims functionality

Xero has made a U-turn on its decision to retire its older expense claims functionality and replace it with the new Zero Expenses.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Wed, 25th Jul 2018

Fintech

Xero recruits longtime partner into US expansion efforts

Xero teams up with US payroll firm Gusto to enhance its US presence, offering full-service payroll across all 50 states and deeper technical integration.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Mon, 23rd Jul 2018

Unified Communications

Super-fast IoT enabled 5G is right around the corner - or is it?

Steven Carlini says telcos are falling over themselves to be the first to offer 5G services, but it looks like Asian telcos have the inside line.

By Steven Carlini • 4 min read • Fri, 20th Jul 2018

Unified Communications

Subsea cable connecting the U.S. and ANZ opens for business

Competition is opening up in the Internet traffic market with this being the first high speed connection to NZ that Spark doesn't have a stake in.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 20th Jul 2018

Infrastructure-as-a-Service

US retail sector security spend focuses on the wrong areas, says report

US retailers are neglecting encryption despite storing more data in the cloud, leading to a 50% surge in data breaches, a Thales report reveals.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Fri, 20th Jul 2018

Microsoft

Microsoft Dynamics inner circle expands with the addition of Empired

Empired joins the elite 1% of Microsoft Dynamics partners, gaining exclusive executive support, as recognised at the annual Inspire conference in Las Vegas.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Fri, 20th Jul 2018