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Best International Merchant Accounts for Secure Global Payments
The six best international merchant accounts are: An international merchant account allows businesses to accept cashless payments such as credit cards, digital checks, and ACH from customers across the globe. It manages multiple currencies through a network of partnerships with local processors in different countries. Back in the day, businesses with international clients were mostly large B2Bs. However, with new…
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AI to create better products and services, add $19.9T to global economy — IDC – Computerworld
New job roles to emerge A survey of CFOs in June by Duke University and the Atlanta and Richmond Federal Reserve banks found that 32% of organizations plan to use AI in the next year to complete tasks once done by humans. And in the first six months of 2024, nearly 60% of companies (and 84% of large companies) said they had…
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Sovereign cloud demand is “truly global” according to Oracle — and the company is well placed to capitalize on it
The demand for sovereign cloud capabilities is “truly global” according to a senior figure at Oracle, and the company intends to fully capitalize on this trend in the year ahead. Speaking to ITPro at a roundtable at Oracle CloudWorld 2024, Scott Twaddle, SVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), product and industries, described the burgeoning sovereign cloud computing market as “fascinating”…
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Australian Firms Lag in Global Digital Transformation Race
A disproportionately large portion of Australia’s local companies are struggling to keep up with the pace of global digital adoption and transformation, according to new data from the local arm of Accenture. The consulting firm found 40% of local companies fall in the bottom quartile of companies when ranked by their digital maturity level against global competitors in countries in…
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NinjaOne promotes Andre Schindler to SVP of global sales
Endpoint management and security specialist NinjaOne has announced the promotion of Andre Schindler to the position of senior vice president of global sales. The new role will see Schindler initially lead the company’s global account management and sales development teams, as well as continue his duties as general manager for EMEA. He will also oversee NinjaOne’s EMEA operations and growth.…
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CrowdStrike exec will testify to Congress about July’s global IT meltdown
Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior vice president of counter adversary operations, has agreed to appear before the panel on September 24th at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, the committee announced. Committee leaders had previously called on CEO George Kurtz to testify, but he’s not currently listed as a witness. In a statement, Committee Chair Mark Green (R-TN) said that while he’d hoped…
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Upgrade cycles to boost global sales of AI-enabled PCs: Lenovo – Computerworld
At Computex 2024, Lenovo expanded its AI portfolio with laptops powered by AMD’s 3rd Gen Ryzen AI processors, targeting a broad spectrum of users, from consumers to small and medium-sized businesses. Lenovo also partnered with Qualcomm and Microsoft to introduce the first Copilot+ PCs powered by Snapdragon X Elite processors. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x and ThinkPad T14s Gen 6,…
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APAC Telcos Poised to Lead Global 6G Rollout
New research shows that the APAC region is poised to set the pace for the next wave of mobile technology. The Global Mobile Suppliers Association has predicted that APAC will lead the global 6G mobile network rollout in the next decade, as telecommunications operators in the region innovate and outpace some of their more conservative counterparts in other parts of…
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SailPoint hires first global sales chief amid leadership expansion
Unified identity security specialist SailPoint has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Gary Nafus to the newly created role of chief sales officer. As part of the reshuffle, Matt Mills has been promoted to the role of president, having served as president of the company’s worldwide field operations since 2021. Nafus joins the business from Microsoft where he…
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Australian Enterprises Coming 4th in 2024 Global Survey of Generative AI Usage
Australian organisations have ranked fourth in an assessment of how widely enterprises in 16 countries are using and implementing generative AI. The survey, conducted by data analytics firm SAS, found that 63% of Australian businesses are now using generative AI. The findings, based on responses from 1,600 global AI and data analytics decision makers, found that Australian generative AI usage…
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