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Australian technology services vendor, AWA, has appointed former NEC executive, Philip Belcher, as its new Managing Director.
Global business consulting and IT services company, Mahindra Satyam, has flagged its intention to pursue rapid growth in the Australian, New Zealand and Middle East markets with the appointment of a new head of its ANZ business.
Canberra is gearing up for a boom in the ICT sector, according CollabIT ACT, the organisation managed by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) which assists small to medium sized companies in the ACT to grow their businesses.
Declining ICT job vacancies and less positivity in labour force data in the final quarter of last year have been tempered by a “general buzz of business confidence” from which the ICT sector can only benefit, according to the latest Longhaus–ITCRA Tech Index on the level of ICT business activity in Australia.
Profitability in the ICT recruitment sector is still suffering, although conditions for some firms are slightly more positive now after a subdued December, according to the latest RIB report from the Information Technology Contract & Recruitment Association (ITCRA).
(ISC)2, a global organisation for information security professionals, says there is a global shortage of information security professionals that is having a profound impact on nations' economies.
Multi skilling is in demand from employers in the IT industry, as the latest jobs skills index finds that in the December quarter last year there remained an overall shortage of more than 4,600 IT professionals in the Australian market.
Yahoo! CEO attempts to instil togetherness by ending teleworking
By Stan Beer
The sad story of the once great Internet company Yahoo! just got sadder for some after a leaked internal memo revealed that current CEO Marissa Mayer has ordered all teleworkers back to the office. Ms Mayer, a former Google executive who took over as Yahoo! CEO in July 2012, took just two weeks off when she had a baby in October.
The peak body for Australia's Digital Content, Services and Applications Industry, the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), has elected a new National President, to replace former President, Peter Bray of Sputnik, who relocated to New York last month.
Online security SaaS provider Manage Protect has appointed Steve West as its ANZ partner manager.
