The ACMA names 5G mmWave license applicants of Australia
Telecommunication players Field Solutions Group, Telstra, Starlink, Optus and Opticomm are amongst the list of 15 applicants that’ve been offered a mmWave license by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The other 15 telecom companies that have been offered a license in the 26...
Aussie telco Vonex acquires fellow telecom company Nextel for $1.15 million
Australian telecommunications company Vonex has announced that it will be acquiring Nextel for $1.5 million. The acquisition will give Vonex access to Nextel’s telephony and infrastructure cabling business. The ASX-listed company will be paying an initial amount of $315,000 in cash. The acquisition of NBN...
Uniti Group Acquires Telstra Velocity Assets for $140 Million
Australian telecommunications provider Unity Group has announced the acquisition of Telstra Velocity, a Fibre-to-the-Premise (FTTP) network owned by Aussie telecom giant Telstra. The sum paid by Uniti Group for the same is $140 million. The $140 million deal includes an upfront payment of $85 million...
Comodo Cybersecurity hires new boss for the ANZ region
Digital certifications and antivirus vendor Comodo Cybersecurity appoints channel veteran Greg Wyman as its Vice President for the ANZ region. The move comes after the company decides to take up a ‘channel approach’ and won’t be selling directly in the region. The company will be...
McKinsey Appoints 8 New Partners in Australia & New Zealand
Introduction Global leading consultancy giant McKinsey & Company has appointed 8 new partners in the ANZ Region. McKinsey & Company is an American (and a global) consulting firm which was founded in the year 1926 by Professor James O. McKinsey of University of Chicago. The...
Immediation gets a $3.75 million cash injection in Series A funding
Online dispute resolution platform Immediation has successfully raised a whopping capital of $3.75 million via a Series A funding round after the pandemic led to a technology overhaul of the legal system along with 1000% growth. The Series A funding round contributors were Alex Waislitz...
BCG appoints Melbourne-based partner as its Global Cybersecurity Head
Global leading consulting group, Boston Consulting Group has named Mr Paul Oā€™Rourke as its global cybersecurity leader. Oā€™Rourke is based in Melbourne and is a Partner and Managing Director of BCG’s Australian operations. He has been hired externally and brings about 20 years of technology,...
MSP Brennan IT wins $20 million contract with Queensland-based Aurizon
Australian managed services provider (MSP) Brennan IT has won an impressive $20 million contract with Queensland-based rail freight operator Aurizon. The contract won by Brennan IT is a multi-year managed services deal that’ll provide the freight operator support for a staff of more than 4000....
Decoding Recommendation Algorithms: How Giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Facebook Leverage Them
Introduction We, as humans, make purchasing decisions every day. Most of the products we buy are either something we like or something that our friends like. A study by Harvard Business School assessed a unique set of data from Cyword (a South Korean social networking...
APM tool vendor New Relic ANZ arm makes new Senior appointments
Application performance management tools vendor New Relic has hired Mr Brad Perriott as its Australia & New Zealand Senior Manager for Sales. Before being appointed by the APM tool vendor in September, Perriott worked at Dell Technologies where he worked for 7 years and was...
