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A total of 7,966 deals (mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) were announced in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region during January-July 2024, according to the latest report from data and analytics firm GlobalData.

Indonesian telco Telin and BW Digital have partnered to develop and construct the Nongsa-Changi submarine cable system linking Batam and Singapore.

Malaysian integrated telco and digital technology group TM is partnering Nxera, the regional data centre arm of Singtel’s Digital InfraCo unit, in a joint venture to develop data centres in Malaysia.

Digital infrastructure operator Vocus has signed a deal with Google to provide the highest-capacity submarine cable systems in the south Pacific between Australia and the US.

GUEST CASE STUDY:Manhattan Associates announced today that it had worked with leading Indonesian retailer Matahari to modernise its distribution centre network with Manhattan Associates' market-leading WMS technology.

COMPANY NEWS: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced that its recently launched Transform partner program is now available for all of its partners across the Asia-Pacific region.

Australian-built and owned cloud-based mapping software specialists, GapMaps, has expanded datasets in GapMaps Live in markets including India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

Geopolitics, rising inflation, Russia-Ukraine war, energy crisis and uncertain economic conditions continue to make a dent in deal-making sentiment across Asia-Pacific (APAC),according to one data and analytics company.

• 84% of the Australian organisations agree that automation will be a critical requirement for business excellence, customer experience, and competitive success within the next 3 years
• 74% of the organisations in Australia have increased their automation spending in 2021 (vs 2020), including 30% of the organisations that have increased automation spending by 20%.
• Over 98% of the organisations in Australia underscore their shifting focus toward Intelligent Process Automation

GUEST RESEARCH by UiPath (NYSE:PATH) a leading  enterprise automation software company, announced today the results of the Automation Survey 2022 commissioned by UiPath, revealing that 60% of the organisations in Australia will scale up their robotic process automation (RPA) initiatives or achieve an enterprise-wide RPA by 2025. The survey also shows that 84% of the Australian organisations today do not have an enterprise-wide RPA program in place despite recognising the importance and benefits.

Cloud communications provider Vonage helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has been chosen by Doctor Anywhere, a regional omnichannel healthcare company headquartered in Singapore, to deliver timely and effective digital healthcare solutions across Southeast Asia using Vonage’s Video API.

New Zealand cable operator Hawaiki Submarine Cable has announced a new trans-Pacific cable system Hawaiki Nui, the first spatial division multiplexing cable linking south-east Asia, Australasia and North America.

Researchers have published details of what they claim is a Chinese-speaking nation-state actor which has been targeting a number of south-east Asian countries for more than a year, using vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange as an entry point. The campaign has been given the name GhostEmperor.

Deploys 8x8 SMS API to Ensure Mobile App Security with One-Time Password (OTP) Multi-Factor Authentication

COMPANY NEWS: Cloud communications platform provider 8x8 (NYSE: EGHT) has announced that Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) Indonesia is using the 8x8 CPaaS SMS API to provide distributors and retailers with a secure mobile experience for managing orders and deliveries.

COMPANY NEWS:  BTPN wants to lead Indonesia’s digital banking transformation. As the country relaxes regulation around digital banking, paving the way for entirely virtual banks, BTPN aims to be first to market with new digital services.

Monash University and the Provincial Government of West Java, Indonesia have signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on developing new solutions to restore the Citarum River – one of the most polluted rivers in the world.

The United States is going ahead with a plan to impose tariffs of about US$880 million (A$1.2 billion) annually on goods from six countries that have levied taxes on digital companies.

The Asia-Pacific market, including Japan, saw very little movement of the traditional PC market in 2020, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that there was only a 0.3% increase year-on-year to take the total units shipped to 103.8 million.

Global smartphone sales to end-users fell by 5.7% year-on-year to 366 million units in the third quarter, the technology analyst firm Gartner says, adding that the Chinese vendor Xiaomi moved ahead of Apple during the quarter to become the third-ranked smartphone vendor globally.

Russian security firm Kaspersky has completed moving its ANZ data storage and processing infrastructure to Switzerland, a process it announced in 2018 following a campaign by the US to blackball the firm.

The Chinese realme smartphone brand has recorded 132% growth quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, to become the fastest to reach 50 million shipments, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, quoting figures from its Market Monitor service.