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Denmark tops 2026 FM Resilience Index as Europe leads

Denmark tops FM's 2026 Resilience Index for a third year as Europe dominates the top 10 and all three United States zones miss out.

By Mark Tarre • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026

Disaster Recovery

Denmark tops 2026 FM resilience ranking, India climbs

Denmark tops FM's 2026 Resilience Index for a third year as Europe dominates the rankings and India makes broad-based gains across all zones.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 27th Feb 2026

Firewalls

FIRST marks record growth in global cyber defence

Global cyber defence group FIRST reports record 2025 growth, topping 820 member teams and expanding technical, training and capacity work.

By Joseph Gabriel Lagonsin • 5 min read • Fri, 9th Jan 2026

Marketing Technologies

GitHub reveals Australian developer trends, impact of ChatGPT

GitHub's updated Innovation Graph for Q1 2024 reveals over 1.57 million Australian developers on the platform, highlighting ChatGPT's role in boosting efficiency.

By Sean Mitchell • 4 min read • Fri, 19th Jul 2024

Physical Security

Bitdefender warns of rising scams targeting 2024 Paris Olympics

Bitdefender uncovers scams targeting the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, threatening spectators globally with fake giveaways to steal personal data and money.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Wed, 19th Jun 2024

Unified Communications

IWD 2024: Let's create a secure digital world for women, together

On International Women's Day 2024, it's a crucial necessity to jointly combat gender-based cyber crimes and establish a secure digital space for women worldwide.

By Saba Hasan • 5 min read • Fri, 8th Mar 2024

World Bank

ACS appoints Chris Vein as Chief Executive Officer

The professional association for Australia's technology sector announced Chris Vein has been appointed the organisation's Chief Executive Officer.

By Zach Thompson • 1 min read • Fri, 25th Mar 2022

Alibaba

NetLinkz helps Beijing government to get people back to work

NetLinkz's Virtual Invisible Network aids Beijing in COVID-19 recovery, supporting remote work and new contracts, poised for nationwide rollout.

By Jonathan Jackson • 4 min read • Fri, 28th Feb 2020

Data Analytics

New data center to improve statistics on forced refugee displacement

Almost 90% of refugees live in the developing world and more than half of those are displaced for more than four years.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Mon, 30th Oct 2017

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Digital Transformation

AND Global raises USD $21.4m to boost fintech for Asia-Pacific

AND Global has raised USD $21.4m in Series B funding to enhance fintech access for the unbanked across Asia-Pacific, backed by IFC and AEON Financial Service.

By Kaleah Salmon • 3 min read • Wed, 20th Aug 2025

Data Analytics

Salesforce partners to uplift Filipino women with digital skills

Salesforce partners with Ayala Foundation to empower 185 Filipino women in the digital economy, promoting gender inclusivity and closing the digital divide.

By Sean Mitchell • 3 min read • Mon, 16th Oct 2023

Clean technologies

Lessons from Japan in waste to energy

Japan’s strict landfill rules and dense cities have made gasification viable, while similar waste-to-energy schemes remain rare elsewhere.

By Staff Writer • 6 min read • Tue, 19th Sep 2023

Digital Transformation

Digital strategy for New Zealand long overdue

Missed skills and implementation gaps could leave New Zealand's first digital strategy in nearly 20 years unable to lift growth or productivity.

By Staff Writer • 5 min read • Mon, 11th Oct 2021

Power / Energy

Infrastructure maintenance among G20 top priorities

Poor maintenance is costing firms billions through outages, water failures and transport disruptions, the G20 says in a new policy agenda.

By Staff Writer • 6 min read • Mon, 4th Oct 2021

Facebook

Attracting customers a major challenge for SMEs – survey

Over 5,000 exporting SMEs globally were asked to consider the online tools that help them sell internationally.

By Kai Ping Lew • 3 min read • Tue, 26th Sep 2017

Fintech

Sydney charges ahead as a global FinTech leader, Melbourne not far behind

FinTech Australia welcomes strong performance by Sydney and Melbourne in latest Global Financial Centres Index.

By Julia Gabel • 3 min read • Wed, 13th Sep 2017

Hyperscale

World Bank lends Bangladesh $10m for new data center

Bangladesh will be gaining a new, modern, data center after the World Bank provided the country with an additional $10m in financing for the facility.

By Heather Wright • 2 min read • Wed, 27th Jul 2016

Supply Chain

World Bank says sharp slowdown in China would hurt NZ, Australia

A sharp slowdown in China would hurt commodity exporting countries like New Zealand and Australia and spill over into Pacific Island countries, the Wo.

By Pattrick Smellie • 2 min read • Tue, 14th Apr 2015

New Zealand Dollar

NZ dollar, Aussie fall after Chinese trade data disappoints

The New Zealand and Australian dollars touched their lowest levels in almost two weeks after weaker-than-expected trade data from China, the largest t.

By Pattrick Smellie • 3 min read • Tue, 14th Apr 2015

Partner Programmes

Local Government NZ suggests new taxes, central govt support could bridge spending gap

New Zealand's 78 local government organisations could close the gap between spending and revenue with new taxes or a share of existing central gove.

By Pattrick Smellie • 3 min read • Mon, 2nd Feb 2015