Strategic investment from the United States is contributing significantly overall to the Australian economy and boosting job numbers in the tech sector. [ + ]

Arctic Wolf has opened a new local data centre in Australia, following the company's regional launch in October last year. [ + ]

Bitdefender's new macOS Threat Landscape report found that despite its reputation as a walled garden, cybercriminals are taking aim at the macOS platform. [ + ]

Digital Realty has improved water usage efficiency at one of its Singapore data centres by 15% using a new cooling tower sustainability technique. [ + ]

Seven in 10 Australian business leaders say their organisations have effective plans for managing major disruptions such as natural disasters and cyber attacks. [ + ]

Safe Work Australia has published new resources detailing the potential workplace health and safety risks associated with employees working from home. [ + ]

VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, bringing the total number of regions in Australia to two including Sydney. [ + ]

UNSW alumni have founded more startups that have gone on to raise more than US$10m in total funding than any other university in ANZ, a new study indicates. [ + ]

Komo Technologies has partnered with the Seven Network to deliver a mobile audience engagement platform for a range of the network's events. [ + ]

Cloudera has announced the appointment of Charles Sansbury as Chief Executive Officer, effective 7 August. [ + ]

Malicious or compromised URLs have taken over from email attachments as the top method for spreading ransomware, according to Palo Alto Networks. [ + ]

Businesses and consumers are optimistic about the globalised economy according to new data from financial infrastructure platform Stripe. [ + ]

With every Australian worker now requiring digital skills, there are risks of a severe shortfall of digital workers, the Future Skills Organisation warned. [ + ]

PayPal has announced Microsoft's integration of PayPal's Pay in 4 solution in the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. [ + ]

The drowning death of a student on a school excursion has led to a $420,000 fine for a private college in Adelaide. [ + ]