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Revenue generation platform for accounting and professional services, Ignition, has appointed Silicon Valley veteran Greg Strickland as its Global President.

Google wants to be taken seriously as a provider of security services for the enterprise. With that in mind, the company has unveiled what it calls Intel-driven AI-powered SecOps and actionable threat intelligence, the latter under the name Google Threat Intelligence, at the RSA conference in San Francisco.

American telecommunications giant AT&T has announced the launch of LevelBlue, a joint venture funded by WillJam Ventures and its renamed cyber security unit. The announcement was made at the RSA security conference which is taking place in San Francisco this week.

Global technology company Cognizant has launched an Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab based in San Francisco, which will focus on “advancing the science and practice of AI ” through innovation and development of intellectual property and AI-enablement technologies.

Australian-built unified data preparation studio is turbocharging its expansion in North America, opening a new office in San Francisco, complementing the Palo Alto office, to further boost its growth and client adoption.

The US Federal Trade Commission is still seeking to stop the deal between Microsoft and games producer Activision Blizzard, requesting an appeals court on Thursday to put a temporary stop to the agreement soon after a federal judge refused a similar plea.

The UK regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, has again changed its stance on Microsoft's bid to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard following a decision by an American court against the US Federal Trade Commission's bid to block the deal.

Cloud security is the greatest concern for cybersecurity professionals according to an online survey by Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions provider Delinea.

Global semiconductor developer BluGlass has secured initial purchase orders of its 405nm and 420nm 250mW single-mode gallium nitride (GaN) lasers from two customers.

A third of global businesses predict the current inflationary environment to continue for more than two years, according to new research from fintech provider Taulia.

Premier aircraft leasing asset manager SKY Leasing has been hit by a gang of cyber criminals using the Windows Avaddon ransomware and the attackers have leaked 20 files of the company's data on the dark web.

Cloud security firm Ping Identity has acquired San Francisco-based mobile digital identity management solutions company ShoCard.

San Francisco-based Kraken, a secure bitcoin exchange, has launched operations in Sydney, with the Australian dollar to become its seventh fiat currency.

Global IT firm Unisys Corporation has put up US$10,000 as a prize for anyone who can capture data and credentials protected by its Unisys Stealth cyber security solution at the RSA 2020 Conference in San Francisco this week.

Data centre operator Equinix has appointed nine-year company veteran Guy Danskine as managing director for Australia.

GitHub's deal with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has come back to embarrass it at the wrong time, with a number of employees resigning at the time the company is holding its annual user conference.

Sydney and Melbourne rank in the top 15 cities globally in a gender-specific study conducted by Dell Technologies that looks at a city’s ability to foster the growth of women-owned businesses.

Global cloud CRM provider Salesforce announced it will buy data analytics vendor Tableau Software for US$15.7 billion in an all-stock deal.

Cloud-based business software vendor Freshworks has acquired Natero, a customer success management software company.

A former chief technology officer of the Mozilla project — which produces the open source Firefox browser and the Thunderbird email client — says he was harassed by US Customs and Border Protection agencts at San Francisco International airport on his return from a trip to Europe in December 2018.