Global Stories

Aussie's Seisma Group acquires New Zealand's Fronde

Seisma and Fronde will continue servicing clients across New Zealand and Australia, with a forward focus on growing the Seisma Group's presence in New Zealand.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Tue, 18th Oct 2022

Risk & Compliance

EY Oceania acquisition strengthens ServiceNow capabilities

Ernst & Young has acquired Red Moki, boosting its transformation and ServiceNow capabilities in Australia and New Zealand.

By Zach Thompson • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Oct 2022

Digital Transformation

Duncan Cotterill appoints Peter Fernando as Partner

Duncan Cotterill's Christchurch Corporate and Commercial team has promoted Peter Fernando to its partnership in a bid to expand its technology sector presence.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 7th Oct 2022

Supply Chain

Qualys to acquire Blue Hexagon's AI/ML platform

AI/ML technology to transform Qualys' massive data lake into a powerful predictive analytics platform that performs real-time zero-day threat detection.

By Shannon Williams • 3 min read • Thu, 6th Oct 2022

Hyperscale

DC Blox appoints Melih Ileri as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets & Strategy

DC Blox, the multi-tenant data center operator, has hired Melih Ileri as SVP of Capital Markets and Strategy to accelerate its growth plans.

By Nadine Rogers • 2 min read • Fri, 30th Sep 2022

Unified Communications

CoDigital appoints Regine Deleu as 'digital twin' expert

CoDigital welcomes Regine Deleu, a digital twin expert who led the creation of a virtual mirror image of Auckland Transport for efficient operations.

By Nadine Rogers • 3 min read • Fri, 30th Sep 2022

Unified Communications

BitTitan appoints Tosin Vaithilingam as Senior Solution Architect

BitTitan hires Tosin Vaithilingam as Senior Solution Architect in Hong Kong, bringing significant engineering and migration expertise to APAC customers.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 23rd Sep 2022

Crypto

Animoca Brands appoints Jared Shaw as Chief Financial Officer

Animoca Brands appoints Jared Shaw as CFO to oversee financial strategy for 380 portfolio companies. Several other senior management appointments also made.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 23rd Sep 2022

Mergers and Acquisitions

BT Ng appointed Chairman at RealVantage

Ng Beng Tiong ('BT Ng') has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Advisor and Member of the Investment Committee.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 9th Sep 2022

Fintech

ConnectWise launches into fintech space with new Wise-Sync acquisition

ConnectWise acquires Wise-Sync to enter the automated payment service market and transform payment processing.

By Mitchell Hageman • 3 min read • Thu, 1st Sep 2022

Cybersecurity

Tesserent announces turnover is up 94%, while organic growth is up 26%

Tesserent, Australia's largest listed cybersecurity company, reported a FY22 turnover of $166m, up 94% boosted by organic growth of 26%.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 30th Aug 2022

Jobs

Lessons from selling my side hustle to MessageMedia

A technology startup founder shares his experience of selling his side-hustle Smooth Messenger to Australia's largest SMS platform, MessageMedia.

By Jeremy Nagel • 5 min read • Fri, 26th Aug 2022

Health Technologies

Kofax acquires Ephesoft to build out IDP solutions

Kofax, backed by TA Associates and Clearlake Capital Group, has officially acquired Ephesoft, adding to Kofax's IDP solutions.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Wed, 24th Aug 2022

Risk & Compliance

Flashpoint acquires Echosec Systems, elevates OSINT capabilities

Flashpoint has acquired Echosec Systems, a provider of open-source intelligence and publicly available information.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Mon, 8th Aug 2022

Malware

Netskope acquires Infiot, delivers integrated SASE platform

Converged SASE platform provides AI-driven zero trust security and simplified, optimised connectivity to any network location or device, including IoT.

By Shannon Williams • 4 min read • Fri, 5th Aug 2022

Stories from Other Regions

Microsoft

DDLS Group buys digital skills training provider for $19.1M

DDLS Group has completed the A$19.1m acquisition of Nexacu, expanding its portfolio of business units and digital skills training capabilities.

By Catherine Knowles • 3 min read • Tue, 11th Oct 2022

Mergers and Acquisitions

SkyMesh appoints Paul Torrisi as Non-Executive Director of its Australasian operations

Bigblu Broadband appoints telco entrepreneur Paul Torrisi as Non-Executive Director for its Australasian operations, aiming for expansion and new technologies.

By Zach Thompson • 2 min read • Fri, 7th Oct 2022