Toyota remains the most valuable global car brand in the 2016 BrandZTM Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking, released today by WPP and Millward Brown. The company saw a 2% rise in value to $29.5 billion, having worked hard over the last year to combine technology leadership with a business strategy that appeals to its broad target market.
A world first Australian expressive therapy program targeting children impacted by trauma, has been hailed a ground breaking success, with a Cost Benefit Analysis Report released this week showing the program run by KidsXpress delivered $2.8m in value to society in 2015 and untold value to the children it supports.
Signal, the global leader in real-time, people-based marketing technology, today announced that it has raised $30M in Series E funding. I2A led the round with participation from other major investors, including Pritzker Group Ventures, Baird Capital, EPIC Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
Continual innovation, increased revenue from advertising, and growth in its cloud business has helped Google reclaim from Apple the no.1 position in the 2016 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking, released today by WPP and Millward Brown. The brand increased its value 32% to $229bn, while last year’s leader Apple dropped to no.2 after declining -8% in value to $228bn. Microsoft remains at no.3, growing 5% to $122bn, while Facebook (+44%, no.5) and Amazon (+59%, no.7) entered the Top 10 for the first time. The total brand value held by the Top 100 rose 3% year on year to hit $3.4 trillion.
MNF Group, Australia’s largest provider of hosted voice and data communications services, today announced the appointment of Lee Atkinson to the newly created senior role of Head of Products.
Rombii, a leading digital and marketing services agency, has announced the appointment of Marcus Wilkinson as Managing Director for Australia and the APAC region. Wilkinson, who was previously Senior VP at IDG Communications, will take responsibility for the day to day management and direction of Rombii, working alongside the founder Sam Howell. He will be based in Sydney.
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) announced that Mazenod College has become one of the first high schools in Australia to embrace New IP networking as part of a comprehensive campus LAN upgrade. The Brocade® networking solution has enabled the school to guarantee that each of its 850 students have access up to 100 Mbps of bandwidth on the network at all times. It also allows the school to maximise the use of locally hosted high-definition video, multimedia and other content utilised in enhanced teaching and learning activities.
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ruckus Wireless™. This represents an important step in Brocade's strategic vision to build a pure-play networking company that supports the rapidly evolving requirements of the digital transformation era.
New Company Will Combine Brocade Networking Solutions with Local Innovation in Big Data to Help Customers Build Networks that are Platforms for Innovation
World’s largest media investment group and leading global video marketing platform aim to complement advertisers’ linear TV campaigns by scaling across living room devices
Australian online advertising has recorded another solid quarter, reaching $1,731m for the quarter ending March 2016, a 33.5 percent year on year increase.
Brocade Workflow Composer Transforms IT Operations with DevOps-Inspired, Cross-Domain Network Automation to Increase Business Agility
Expanded network enables inter-regional business across the USA, Europe and Asia for TNZI customers
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced the appointment of Paddy McDermott as director of Infrastructure Analytics for Asia Pacific Japan (APJ).
TollShield, the world leading toll fraud mitigation platform, today announced that it has successfully completed interoperability testing with BroadSoft’s VoIP application platform BroadWorks.
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) launched the results of its latest global study ‘Unlocking the Power of Digital Transformation: Freeing IT from Legacy Constraints’, which identifies that businesses are missing opportunities to unlock innovation more quickly and more effectively due to legacy technology and historical misperceptions about the role of IT departments.
Making a difference is in AOL’s DNA. Nearly every day, the company unleashes initiatives focused on making the world a better place. AOL plays a powerful role in bringing communities together, raising awareness and educating individuals through its content, distribution and platforms.
VML has taken the top honors in IAB’s Creative Showcase Round 10.4 for its Loaded campaign for McDonald’s Australia launch of its Loaded Fries. Second place was awarded to Digital Arts Network for its Krispy Kreme campaign, and second runner up went to Southern Cross Austereo for its work for EA Games.
Current NBN model threatens to reduce competition, squeezing out mid-tier telco companies
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) (the “Company” or “Seagate”) today reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2016 ended April 1, 2016.