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Microsoft adds several new Xbox One video games to its Game Pass service
Gaming

Microsoft adds several new Xbox One video games to its Game Pass service

Game Pass is Microsoft's own gaming service that serves like Netflix but for video games. The company has now announced several new games joining...

By Damian Seeto • 1 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018
Auckland's Paymark sold to French company for $190 million
Westpac

Auckland's Paymark sold to French company for $190 million

Auckland's Paymark, which processes a significant share of NZ's debit and credit card transactions, sold to France's Ingenico Group for NZD $190 million.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018

Global Stories

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HPE selects Commvault platform for backup solution
Disaster Recovery

HPE selects Commvault platform for backup solution

Commvault aims to simplify backup for customers and assist them in keeping up with compliance challenges, and data growth.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Tue, 23rd Jan 2018
VMware announces availability of Pulse IoT Center
Virtualisation

VMware announces availability of Pulse IoT Center

VMware says they put the Pulse IoT Center through the paces of an extensive beta test with customers and partners going back to June 2017.

By Julia Gabel • 2 min read • Tue, 23rd Jan 2018
Aussie retailers using WeChat as a channel to Chinese consumers
Marketing Technologies

Aussie retailers using WeChat as a channel to Chinese consumers

DaigouSales.com allows Australian brands to sell directly into China via locally based Chinese WeChat users who buy on behalf of their friends.

By Kai Ping Lew • 5 min read • Tue, 23rd Jan 2018
APAC to be the fastest-growing region for security assessment services
DevOps

APAC to be the fastest-growing region for security assessment services

Asia Pacific will be a hotspot for security assessment vendors as it becomes the fastest growing region in the world between 2017-2022.

By Sara Barker • 3 min read • Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
Auckland among top nine cities for digital payments leadership
Marketing Technologies

Auckland among top nine cities for digital payments leadership

Auckland is named a top digital payments leader, with potential to gain nearly USD $2 billion annually by further reducing cash reliance, a Visa study reveals.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
Marketing and messaging trends shaping Facebook Messenger this year
Marketing Technologies

Marketing and messaging trends shaping Facebook Messenger this year

Improved group chats, realtime features, and visual messaging are just a few of the features in store for messaging app.

By Kai Ping Lew • 4 min read • Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
Air New Zealand launching as a skill on Amazon Alexa
Unified Communications

Air New Zealand launching as a skill on Amazon Alexa

Air New Zealand is pioneering in Australasia with an Alexa skill, letting customers check flight statuses hands-free. It launches in early February.

By Kai Ping Lew • 2 min read • Mon, 22nd Jan 2018
HPE helps Eni deploy world's most powerful industrial supercomputer
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE helps Eni deploy world's most powerful industrial supercomputer

Installed at the oil and gas company's green data centre, the new HPC4 supercomputer has a peak performance of 18.6 petaflops.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Fri, 19th Jan 2018
Scale Computing and Schneider Electric form an alliance
DataCentre infrastructure

Scale Computing and Schneider Electric form an alliance

Scale Computing has been chosen as an Alliance Partner by APC by Schneider Electric to support its Micro Data Center Xpress solution.

By Jacques-Pierre (JP) Dumas • 2 min read • Fri, 19th Jan 2018
Frost & Sullivan: IoT security & surveillance sensor market set to flourish
Surveillance

Frost & Sullivan: IoT security & surveillance sensor market set to flourish

In 2016 the total sensors market in security and surveillance applications reached more than $6.2 million – a number that's set to double by 2023.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Fri, 19th Jan 2018
Big change for Michael Hill as digital transformation journey kicks off
Customer Relationship Management

Big change for Michael Hill as digital transformation journey kicks off

Michael Hill operates more than 350 physical stores in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US, as well as four online outlets.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018
Apple to pump up data center spending by $10 billion
Manufacturing

Apple to pump up data center spending by $10 billion

Apple expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US over the next five years and create over 20,000 new jobs.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018
Blockpass joins Trusted IOT Alliance & Digital Identity Foundation
Blockchain

Blockpass joins Trusted IOT Alliance & Digital Identity Foundation

Blockpass aligns with the Decentralized Identity Foundation and the Trusted IOT Alliance, paving the way for the launch of its self-sovereign identity solution.

By Sara Barker • 2 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018
Business guru shares retail tips ahead of Amazon's arrival
Amazon

Business guru shares retail tips ahead of Amazon's arrival

Understanding the fundamentals of business in today's disrupted world will protect New Zealand retailers from Amazon, says author Ed Ludbrook.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018

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Swinburne taps Aptira for SUSE Enterprise Storage solution
Storage

Swinburne taps Aptira for SUSE Enterprise Storage solution

Swinburne University partners with Aptira to implement SUSE Enterprise Storage, addressing rising storage demands at half the cost of traditional systems.

By Patrick Martlew • 2 min read • Thu, 18th Jan 2018