Landing Pads specialists will be available to meet with the Australian start-up community when they visit Australia in coming weeks. [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank, Wells Fargo and Brighann Cotton have jointly conducted a pioneering interbank trade transaction based on blockchain, smart contract and IoT technologies. [ + ]

The government's recently launched Digital Marketplace, which launched in beta in August, already has 244 approved sellers and 180 registered buyers. [ + ]

MYOB has migrated its SaaS-based cloud accounting service to Microsoft's Australian Azure infrastructure in Sydney and Melbourne without any impact on clients. [ + ]

The Victorian government is working to implement real-time travel information across the state's public transport network, with information for almost all metro train stations accessible via the PTV mobile app. [ + ]

More than half of Australian respondents to a Gemalto survey use personal devices to access work emails, and almost as many have installed apps on work devices without the knowledge of IT. [ + ]

With only 68% of disadvantaged children having access to the internet at home, The Smith Family and SAP Australia are working together on a program to help these students. [ + ]

The Obama administration has announced plans to establish a new privacy office dedicated to making privacy a comprehensive, strategic and continuous function of government in the US. [ + ]

Conservation SA has completed the first installation of the Australia-developed ZCell home or office battery system at a commercial building. [ + ]

Outsourced omnichannel CEM company Teleperformance has officially opened its first Australian office in Melbourne, which is home to more than 300 help desk support staff. [ + ]

Optus customers will have access to faster download speeds, improved data coverage and better voice quality after the company launched expanded 4G services. [ + ]

The Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation 2016 has been awarded to Professor Michael Aitken AM, for his work in developing stock market analysing technology. [ + ]

The MapR platform enables HelloFresh to leverage weekly subscriber touchpoints, consistently manage supply chains and demand, and optimise customer experience as well as business operations. [ + ]

Suboptimally configured failsafe mechanisms at nine wind farms were the cause of last month's South Australian blackout, not the intermittent nature of wind energy, an AEMO investigation states. [ + ]

Tata Communications has been recognised by Frost & Sullivan for its managed unified communications (UC) portfolio of services in the APAC market. [ + ]