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GUEST OPINION:  Prepaid cards are convenient and safe alternatives to carrying cash or writing checks. They are easy to use, and provide users with a more secure way of making payments. Prepaid cards also help users better manage their money, as they can set spending limits and keep track of their spending.

Nearly half of small and medium businesses in Australia (46 per cent) anticipate a decrease in turnover by the end of the year due to economic pressures, according to research from RFI Global, commissioned by Australia’s online small business lender Prospa.

Business trends change all the time since the environment is so competitive, and all entrepreneurs know that new strategies are constantly needed to guarantee that competitors can be kept in check.

COMPANY NEWS:  New data shows customers are worried about their personal information being stolen when they shop online in the lead up to Christmas.

Almost 3 in 5 Aussies are worried about falling victim to a cybercrime this holiday season

GUEST RESEARCH: Norton, a global leader in Cyber Safety and part of Gen™ (NASDAQ: GEN), revealed that 7 out of 10 Australians are concerned about their personal details being compromised.

New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has filed civil proceedings under the Fair Trading Act against Bachcare Limited, alleging that a number of its contract terms are unfair and liable to cause financial detriment to Kiwis and other tourists booking holiday accommodation through the website.

The Australian Digital Health Agency is strengthening My Health Record protections through a new mandatory conformance profile for clinical information systems, including those used in GP clinics, pharmacies and allied health services, connected to the My Health Record system.

CitrusAd COO, Adam Skinner, tells us how everyone uses “pandemic-proof” CitrusAd without even knowing it. We learn how its MarTech sits between brands and retailers (both in-store and online), what changed during Covid and how did online-shopping-based behavioural shifts affected the business. Also, how did CitrusAd cope with 20x online retail growth?

We also learn which technologies CitrusAd used to scale and how a company that was born in the cloud picked its hyperscale partner. What attracted CitrusAd to Google Cloud instead of AWS and Azure? Plus, what advice would CitrusAd give to other start-ups when it comes to choosing technology partners?

Telecommunications industry regulator the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) will focus on combating SMS and identity theft phone scams as part of its compliance priorities for 2022–23.

Freelancing, crowdsourcing ad online job marketplace Freelancer.com has released its quarterly Fast 50 index for Q1 2022 which reveals that based on data from 351,000 jobs posted on its website during quarter one, jobs for NFTs were the leading growth category, seeing a 37% increase from 2,045 to 2,814 jobs in total. 

Australian champagne lovers will soon have a great new online store and subscription-based Champagne Club to enjoy, with Emperor Champagne engaging Smith Brothers Media to infuse the bubbles with its digital magic.

New retail data from Eftpos has revealed the Black Friday sales surge moved beyond online to music shops, fashion outlets, department stores and appliance retailers

Furniture and homewares retailer, Freedom Furniture has chosen a solution from cloud-based integration platform as a service (iPaaS) provider Boomi to create a singular view of all data to drive operational transformation, support a product evolution, and enable personalised customer experiences across brick-and-mortar and ecommerce operations.

COMPANY NEWS: Claroty, the industrial cybersecurity company, today announced a new integration between its Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) solution and Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk AssetCentre, empowering joint customers to automatically discover, protect, and manage the operational technology (OT), Internet of Things (IoT), and industrial IoT (IIoT) in their industrial networks. Claroty will exhibit the CTD Connector for AssetCentre at Automation Fair taking place November 10-11 in Houston, Texas and online, at booth #1409.

Startup digital car dealership Cars24 has launched ia claimed world-first tech enabled car couch which it says will transform digital car buying in Australia.

New Zealand cyber security education company SafeStack Academy has raised NZ$2.3 million through a seed round with the funds to be used to further develop and grow its software security product.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Head of APAC and Japan at Ping Identity: In an increasingly digital and online world, consumers have come to expect relatively frictionless experiences when undertaking transactions.

For the second year running, PAX Aus has had to be cancelled, but like a great game player with several lives up their sleeve, PAX is dusting itself off and restoring to an online spawn point.

GUEST OPINION by Daniel Harding, MaxContact’s Director – Australia Operations: Webchat, SMS and email can enable you to deliver better customer service but only if you invest time and resources to implement them smartly.

Australian-listed digital services company Webcentral Group has rebranded and amalgamated its current brands Netregistry and WME into a single brand - Webcentral - in a move it says is designed to both improve and simplify its customer experience.