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Dell’Oro Group revised its data centre capex forecast upward to a 24% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2028 as a result of surging demand in AI-related data centre infrastructure.

Amazon Prime Day - well, days - is here, and you can score some great discounts.

GUEST RESEARCH:  In a world first, Prime Day Australia will run for six days this year (Tuesday, July 16 at 12.01am AEST to Sunday, July 21), with significant growth predicted for 2024, according to new research from global marketplace leader, Pattern.

Vrio, parent company of Directv Latin America and Sky Brasil, has signed a distribution agreement with Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network, to offer internet connectivity in seven countries in South America.

GUEST RESEARCH:  An industry-first study by global ecommerce accelerator, Pattern, has shown that despite their surging popularity, Australian consumers hold negative views on the quality of the products sold on emerging marketplaces Temu and Shein.

GUEST OPINION: The world of online gaming is a high-stakes arena. Platforms like Steam and Epic Games need to distribute content with the efficiency of tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft.

Google has fired 28 employees who were involved in a protest at two of its offices this week against Project Nimbus, a US$1.2 billion (A$1.87 billion) cloud contract with Israel, which also involves Amazon.

Leading global ecommerce and marketplace accelerator Pattern, today announced the release of ‘Shelf’ – a powerful new inventory and supply chain technology that provides Australian brands with unparalleled visibility and control of their products across all ecommerce and wholesale channels.

COMPANY NEWS: 

- Stripe Terminal will enable in-person payments for retailers using Just Walk Out technology.

- Amazon will use Stripe Connect to route payments from shoppers to businesses. 

COMPANY NEWS: UiPath, a leading enterprise automation software company, today announced at the UiPath DevCon 2024 event a host of new features in its platform designed to enable developers to build, test, and accelerate implementation of automations.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Latest research from Pattern reveals current Australian consumer trends, with 94% of shoppers to buy from a marketplace over the coming year

Worldwide data centre capex is forecast at a CAGR growth rate of 18% as investments shift towards AI and it is expected to exceed US$200 billion by 2028, according to market research firm Dell’Oro Group.

COMPANY NEWS:  Check Point CloudGuard recognised as a leading cloud native security platform by Frost & Sullivan, with new reports ranking it at the forefront

Sydney-based video startup Vloggi has today launched a $750,000 equity crowdsourced fund raise as it looks to capitalise on the surging demand for user-generated video (UGV), especially in the corporate space as video continues to gain traction as the preferred means of communications among millennial professionals.

Australia’s competition watchdog the ACCC has welcomed the Australian Government’s in-principle agreement to new competition and consumer laws recommended by the ACCC to address harms caused by digital platforms, and the potential benefits to consumers and small businesses from the regulatory changes.

COMPANY NEWS: Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced an expansion of its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Premier Tier Services Partner to help customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe modernisation initiatives.

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  The VAST Data Platform Version 5.0 Adds New AI-Based Event Detection, Real-Time Monitoring and Simple Provisioning Tools for AWS Hybrid Cloud Deployments

COMPANY NEWS:  Recognises the company’s unified observability and security platform as a trusted solution for helping organisations identify, resolve, and defend against threats to their AWS environments

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik now provides additional data protection for Amazon S3, providing companies the ability to secure mission-critical data

The continued expansion of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft into emerging technologies and other markets demonstrates the critical need for regulatory reform, according to Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC.