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​A number of Australian businesses have been forced to close down due to losses sustained in a social engineered email scam, the Australian Cyber Security Centre has revealed.

​NBN Co has today passed the milestone of 10 million homes and businesses being able to connect to the network.

​Each year, Victoria’s Magistrates' Court and Children's Court manages between more than 300,000 cases – resulting in the vast majority of criminal convictions in the state.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is using Google search activity to help it forecast household spending trends.

​Microsoft Australia has signed a ten year lease on office space in what will be the tallest building in North Sydney.

Atlassian moves beyond performance reviews that “over-emphasise delivery of results and ignore behaviours that can take a toll on team health and company culture”.

​Fujitsu has launched a Security Operations Centre (SOC) in Canberra, targeting federal and state government customers.

Former Tourism Australia CIO Jason Flynn - now settled into the partner CTO tech strategy role at Microsoft - said he left the government agency to get closer to the “next wave of transformational technology” coming to market.

​Melbourne Business School (MBS) programs are regularly ranked among the best in the world, with alumni including the CEOs and chairpersons of Qantas, Telstra, Australia Post and the AFL.

​A Telstra backed platform which claims to hold “the largest data-set of people’s behaviour in the real-world” has raised $143M in a Series D funding round.

Organisations working with artificial intelligence and machine learning have an average of four projects underway, and plan to add 15 more within the next three years, according to a Gartner survey.

​The government has signed a three-year agreement with Microsoft to “streamline cloud access” for 98 federal agencies.

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Former Wipro exec Abhishek Singh has joined children’s charity Unicef Australia as head of data and IT.

​Digital risk protection managed service provider Digital Shadows has today announced it has secured $10M in a funding round led by National Australia Bank (NAB).

Around 24,000 Bunnings employees – about 60 per cent of the total workforce – are currently using the platform after it was launched internally about a year ago.

Coles chief information and digital officer Roger Sniezek told CIO Australia the long-standing relationship with Microsoft just got even more intense.

Coles has inked a partnership with Microsoft that sees the shopping giant adopt Azure as its cloud platform of choice. The move is aimed at accelerating digital transformation to enhance customer experience and improve business productivity.

Despite the availability of real-time payments between banks and a proliferation of bill splitting apps, when it comes to divvying up the money for a group meal or round of drinks, Aussies still prefer to use cash, a Bankwest survey suggests.

​One of Australia’s largest life insurers OnePath is continuing to invest in its inhouse AI underwriting engine, making more than 70 enhancements since its official launch in November.