APAC stories
UK airports saw their busiest ground support use in years, with monitored vehicles logging 75.5% more daily hours as passenger numbers held up.
The deal gives New Caledonia's flag carrier pooled parts and repair support for long-haul A350 operations, easing pressure on a small fleet.
Rising AI demand and data-readiness concerns are pushing Everpure to rely more heavily on channel partners across Australia and New Zealand.
Skills shortages and stricter oversight are pushing banks to seek safer AI tools for mainframes, with new controls aimed at keeping actions auditable.
Agencies could cut manual work as the new platform links planning, buying and reporting across multiple channels in one workflow.
The deal broadens Airspan's reach in fixed wireless and brings more than 135 employees, with no financial terms disclosed.
Attackers are exploiting AI faster than many defences can respond, prompting a shift to continuous testing for hidden exposures.
Customers across 50 brands in 12 markets will get a single checkout layer, as Al-Futtaim seeks fewer failed payments and easier reporting.
It lets regulated firms run AI on sensitive data without exposing customer records or model weights to infrastructure operators.
Outages are detected quickly in Australia and New Zealand, but fragmented monitoring leaves teams slower to restore services across APAC.
Attackers are increasingly using tailored malware and credential abuse as network alerts drop, WatchGuard says, raising hidden-risk concerns.
The recognition comes as nearly 92% of Asia Pacific enterprises say data governance and compliance have delayed or cancelled AI projects.
Incomplete asset inventories are leaving industrial operators exposed, with only 21% able to track every OT system despite 88% calling programmes mature.
Despite strong interest in AI shopping tools, most Singapore consumers want to approve each purchase themselves, a Global Payments survey found.
Marketers weighing customer-engagement platforms may see Braze's latest Gartner ranking as a signal of stronger execution and vision in a crowded market.
Australian restaurants using Square can now cut tablet clutter and manage Uber Eats, dine-in orders and stock from one system.
Businesses in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia will be able to settle supplier bills inside existing finance systems, cutting manual processing.
Utilities will gain earlier warning of voltage issues and outages as Australia prepares for smart-meter rules from late 2028.
The platform targets investors seeking deeper liquidity and comes as ASIC moves to pull more digital asset firms into licensing rules.
More than 75 per cent of Singapore lawyers use LawNet, so the AI upgrade is set to shape legal research, sentencing queries and drafting.
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