Australian-listed New Zealand company 9 Spokes has entered into a formal contract with Bank of America to provide the US bank’s customers with access to a white-labelled platform for an initial period of three years.

Trials of ‘world first’ satellite positioning technology have proven more than $6 billion could be delivered to the Australian economy over the next 30 years, according to one Australian Government minister.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has given a boost to the adoption of electric vehicles by providing $15 million in funding to Evie Networks to roll out the largest ultra fast battery electric vehicle (EV) charging network on highways around Australia.

The Federal Government is providing $4.9 million to jointly fund with the Victorian Government the production of the Netflix mini-series Clickbait.

Big data analytics company Splunk’s agreement to acquire SaaS real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure vendor SignalFx puts the company in a position as a leader in monitoring and observability at massive scale, according to Splunk president and CEO Doug Merritt.

Security firm Proofpoint says that retailer Kmart’s recent warning of a new attack by a sophisticated SMS scam means that it is important for Australians to remain vigilant and aware of these types of attacks.

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