Asia Pacific stories
Corporate cloud migration and AI tools are set to drive the application modernisation services market to USD $81.24 billion by 2034.
External equity is being sought to fund a 700 MW Philippine renewable pipeline after Kaffee Energy completed its Wayu acquisition.
Enterprises can now shift more Oracle workloads into AWS as the joint database service expands to 22 regions with a lower-cost Exadata option.
Ransomware victims jumped 49% in July, while organisations worldwide also faced 16% more cyber attacks year on year.
Backlogs, false positives and rising fines are pushing APAC compliance teams towards AI, but most firms still lack the skills to govern it safely.
AI-driven attacks are shrinking response times to minutes, forcing APAC firms to adopt continuous identity controls and zero trust.
Rising losses and tighter underwriting are forcing insurers to treat data centres as mission-critical infrastructure rather than specialist property.
The new body seeks to help brands retain customers as Asia-Pacific loyalty spending is forecast to reach USD $141.8 billion by 2030.
Cross-border buyers drove about two-thirds of Asia Pacific student housing deals in 2025 as institutional capital chased chronic supply gaps.
More than a third of ransom-paying organisations in Australia and New Zealand still failed to restore systems cleanly, a survey found.
Governance and infrastructure problems have forced 95% of enterprises to delay or scrap AI projects, according to a new Cloudera survey.
The platform could cut manual incident reviews for fleets by combining telematics, evidence and case tracking into one auditable record.
Only 11 per cent of executives said their data was ready for AI, even as 84 per cent trusted its output without human review.
The tie-up aims to help firms curb access risk as AI agents, bots and contractors increasingly outnumber traditional staff users.
Production AI agents on Bedrock can now share sessions for up to 14 days, making long-running workflows easier to run and coordinate.
Warehouses in Australia and New Zealand can now verify picks in real time as Kardex adds weight-based checking to AutoStore ports.
Australian shoppers will soon be able to verify payments with a face or palm as merchants trial optional biometrics alongside cards, phones and PINs.
Cards still dominate Canadian spending, but digital wallets now capture nearly a third of online transactions and are set to keep rising.
Law firms using both systems can now cut handoffs and duplicate data entry as AML checks move inside their core practice management workflow.
Asia Pacific is driving a retail shift as live, social and quick commerce from China spread into shopping habits worldwide.
