One of the founders of MYOB has boosted his stake in cloud accounting provider Xero.

Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company’s Sydney headquarters.

Australian-based BigCommerce, which claims to be the world’s fastest growing SaaS e-commerce platform, is dangling the carrot of a $2 million fund in front of developers around the world to come forward with their integration and application ideas, and have the chance of getting some of that money to fund the development of their pet project.

Oracle has revealed that several big-name customers are using its locally-hosted SaaS CRM product.

Smartphone security and mobile device management solutions provider, Airwatch, has been named and recognised as an “innovator” in the latest cloud-hosted mobile device management report from Forrester Research.

Big data analytics, security and cloud computing will be three of the most significant drivers of technological change in 2012, according to a new report, which also predicts that CIOs will become major enablers of innovation for the business, playing a central role in operational & commercial strategy.

Salesforce.com is set to acquire web-based social performance management software provider Rypple and plans to relaunch its product as Successforce.

An update of Zoho CRM delivers a new user interface and improved integration capabilities.

Zendesk for Facebook adds further social networking integration to the cloud-based helpdesk system.

Many of Australia’s CIOs are concerned that further consumerisation of IT will lead to greatly increased business risks and that the trend to consumerisation is already driving unrealistic expectations around the role of IT in enterprises.