Australia’s competition regulator the ACCC has raised concerns over customer loyalty schemes including poor disclosure about how consumer data is used and shared, and the selling of insights from the data to other parties without consumer knowledge.

Sydney-based communication company Curiious has closed a $2 million capital raising as it looks to scale up the global expansion of its multi-user, immersive learning and collaboration platform.

Worldwide shipments of wearable devices will reach 225 million in 2019, an increase of 25.8% from 2018 – and spending on wearable devices is forecast to reach US$42 billion in 2019, with US$16.2 billion of that spending on smartwatches.