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Retail spending in the 2017/2018 holiday period dropped by 7% compared to the previous year, according to Vend data.

Kiwi report reveals deep concern for UN goals, with stark gender divide on priorities for a sustainable future.

Square Enix has announced a special quiz fans can take that tests their overall knowledge of the 30 year history of the popular Final Fantasy series.

Amazon's Australian launch threatens local retailers like JB Hi-Fi and Woolworths, urging them to invest in tech and unique customer experiences for survival.

Promapp will support the provision of GoShift’s centrally held QMS by providing the capability to standardise policy and procedures.

The Ursnif Banking Trojan seems to love Australia and New Zealand, based on findings that show its ‘disproportionate prevalence' in the two countries.

Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass service is getting a major upgrade later this year because it will now add all first party new releases.

According to PwC, APAC's data center market size is worth US$12 billion in 2016 and is expected to grow by 27% per annum (p.a.).

Freshworks has launched its first Asia-Pacific data center in Sydney, enhancing security and meeting local data sovereignty and privacy requirements.

Asia Pacific organisations admit that employee behaviour and IT policy don’t match up, particularly when it comes to passwords.

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

Australian organisations are likely to embrace mandatory data breach reporting requirements and most businesses believe it should be mandatory.

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.

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

Auckland-based identity verification firm Verifi will now provide services for the New Zealand Lotteries Commission for online age verification.

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.

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

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

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

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