Consolidation is taking place in the small business accounting software space. Cloud accounting provider Reckon today announced the sale of its Accountants Practice Management division to MYOB for $180 million in cash.

A deluge of Android malware has hit the Google Play store. Four separate reports of Android malware on the Google Play store have been published by ESET, McAfee, Dr Web and Malwarebytes.

The ICT sector offered one of the highest number of job opportunities of any business and industry sector in October on the back of what has been described as a boom in Australia’s economy, according to the latest jobs advertising report from recruitment firm SEEK.

The current reds-under-the-beds scare in the US is increasingly being sold by the media, with unproven claims often being paraded as fact. A prime case of this was seen recently when the Associated Press claimed that the group that had allegedly targeted Hillary Clinton last year had also been hacking many other foes of the Russian state.

Meanwhile, a senior cyber security official at the US Department of Homeland Security has told a Congressional panel that she has yet to see any proof that software made by Kaspersky Lab has been exploited to infiltrate US government systems.

Software giant Microsoft is today releasing a series of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and solutions to help infuse enterprises with intelligence and insight, with Australian examples already in place.

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