MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Australia's beauty retail landscape is undergoing a major transformation, with online marketplaces now generating as much revenue as all major specialist beauty retailers combined, according to a new report from global ecommerce accelerator Pattern. The 2026 State of Beauty & Personal Care in Australian Ecommerce report shows that Australia's...
SHANGHAI, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2026, China's health and nutrition industry ushers in a historic opportunity. China's market for medicine and food homology products is projected to exceed RMB 450 billion, while the industry's full value chain is valued at more than RMB 2 trillion. Health spending is shifting decisively from reactive treatment to proactive wellness. The year also marks the start of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, as...
HONG KONG, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Xsight Group (known as Xsight), a Hong Kong–headquartered cross-border technology group founded in 2004, has been featured as a research case in "How AI Agents Orchestrate Work Across Silos," a special report published in the September–October 2026 issue of Harvard Business Review. The article examines how a new generation of AI systems can connect functions and reduce the coordination friction that...
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NEW YORK and LISBON, Portugal, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Feedzai, the global leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, today launched Farol, an embedded AI agent engineered to slash fraud investigation latency and sharpen threat detection across risk operations in banking. The launch lands as fraud grows costlier to fight on every front. Mandatory reimbursement rules are increasing loss exposure, while technology spend and manual...
MUTSAMUDU, Comoros, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, recorded the deepest combined BTC and ETH futures order book depth within the 0.03% band, and the lowest median slippage for a $300,000 silver futures sell order among all surveyed exchanges, according to TokenInsight's Crypto Exchange Liquidity Report for September 2026. The report provides a systematic assessment of liquidity performance across...
HONG KONG and SHANGHAI, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd. ("Ping An" or the "Group"; HKEX: 2318; SSE: 601318) announced that Ping An's Chief Technology Officer, Ray Wang, was invited to speak at the 2026 Apsara Conference. In a presentation titled "From Tokens to Value: Ping An's Approach," he shared the Group's experience in deploying AI at scale across its businesses.
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SINGAPORE and SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LingoAce, a leading global EdTech company, today announced that it has been ranked No. 1 globally by number of cumulative paying students among online Chinese education platforms serving non-native Chinese-speaking regions (2017–2026H1), according to independent market research by Frost & Sullivan, a leading international market research and consulting firm. The recognition is...
BRUSSELS, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- New EU 27 analysis finds 72% of online gambling revenue is unregulated — while 91% of the content encountered by consumers actively interacting with gambling promotes the unregulated sector. The new report, Online Gambling 2024–2025: EU 27 Europe, produced by Gaming Compliance International (GCI) for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling (CFG), finds that...
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, today released "Operational Resilience in the Age of Connectivity," an industry insights report based on input from 1,500 manufacturing and industrial operations decision makers across 17 countries. The research reveals a disconnect between confidence in comprehensive...
WALLDORF, Germany, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The new 2026 Transformation Study by Natuvion and NTT Data Business Solutions shows that a transformation to SAP S/4HANA is far more than just a technological upgrade. It lays out the operational foundation for enterprise AI, process automation, and continuous digital innovation. However, to truly realize this potential, companies must consistently analyze, cleanse, and strategically evaluate...
HANGZHOU, China, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision has developed Guanlan Encoding, a technology that uses AI to identify more and less information-rich areas in video images and encodes every frame accordingly. To gauge the potential impact of the new technology, asmag.com and Hikvision have teamed up for a survey of asmag readers, entitled "AI encoding technology for video security," and...
The financial regulator has found insurers often offer cash payouts to repair damage based on a single quote, which can leave customers out of pocket.
An investigator has apologised to a Senate inquiry for failing to properly probe claims of misconduct at one of the biggest multinational auditors.
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More businesses are investing in artificial intelligence to boost productivity but a leading tech firm says they are not all getting investments right.
Thousands of Australians are reporting trouble with their mobile phone service, with smartphone snags responsible for almost half of all ombudsman complaints.
The head of KPMG Australia has resigned after the corporate regulator publicly confirmed in real time it is probing registered company auditors at the firm.
A major Australian bank will no longer require more than one document to turn you into a customer by tapping into hidden technology.
An Australian-first legal right to work from home might not be shielded from a constitutional challenge by the use of anti-discrimination laws.
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More Australians are upgrading their broadband connections, choosing faster plans and setting download records, NBN Co has revealed.
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A defiant UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is digging in, telling colleagues he's "won every fight I've ever been in", amid calls for him to resign.
Artificial intelligence-powered scams featuring fake celebrities are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI risks facing consumers, ASIC warns.
A Sydney-based delivery firm that promised to undercut Australia Post has abruptly stopped taking bookings, causing alarm for businesses.
An Australian corporate travel agency says large clients in the UK have been overcharged going back three years, and an investigation is ongoing.
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Shares in Australian technology giant WiseTech are in freefall, down 15 per cent in early trading, after revelations of an ASIC-AFP raid.
A fibre optic internet backbone will deliver internet speeds up to six times faster as well as a multi-billion-dollar boost to Australia's economy by 2040.
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US President Donald Trump and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen have agreed to the framework of a trade deal fixing tariffs at 15 per cent on EU goods.
Macquarie's brokering arm is being taken to court by the financial regulator for allegedly failing to report up to 1.5 billion short sales over 14 years.
Meta faces a historic antitrust trial which may force it to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought that have become social media powerhouses.
Markets are betting the Reserve Bank will cut rates by 50 basis points at its next meeting as American tariffs batter the global economy.
Australians are being urged not to panic about their retirement incomes after Donald Trump's trade war sent global markets into a tailspin.
Everything from fine payments to marriage certificates have been hit with wrongful merchant surcharges in NSW over eight years.
