Cybercrime, increasingly including nation-state attacks, costs businesses and the community upwards of US$440bn a year, according to McAfee, and the problem is getting worse.

The move by chip manufacturer Broadcom to acquire VMware — the business that famously popularised virtualisation and led to the rise of cloud computing — in May 2022, caught the market by surprise for two reasons.

Sovereign states – and even corporations – are pondering the first heavy industrial-scale conflict in Europe since the middle of the 20th Century and some of the questions are being answered far from the trenches.

The growing focus on defence capabilities in space is likely to be a boon for many participants in the sector. Here are three companies set to benefit.

A decade’s worth of digital transformation, supercharged by two years of COVID-fuelled acceleration, delivered a boon for software businesses.

Listed software companies in ANZ and Asia experienced the same explosive burst in valuations as their US counterparts, but there are some important differences.

With 17,000 islands strung out across thousands of kilometres, Indonesia spans a vast arc of the planet's surface and at least 17,000 potential points of pain as climate change accelerates sea level rise and the chaotic disintegration of long-established weather patterns. But with more than 270 million people scattered through that island chain, working and living in one of the world's largest, rapidly developing economies, the huge republic is destined to drive technological and economic adaptation to change, both locally and at global scale.

With technology set to add trillions to the Indonesian economy over the next two decades, and with the Indonesian government creating a legislative and regulatory environment designed to accelerate growth, the nation's entrepreneurs are innovating across a wide selection of industries.

In financial markets, the storm is always perfect, and the lessons are always clear. That doesn’t mean we always heed them, or even remember them.

Until the first quarter of 2022, the mega growth cycle for tech stocks, fuelled by the Fed, the impact of global digitalization, and the growth of the Chinese economy, had continued to deliver a sustained bull run. More recently, with a COVID-inspired need to do everything online, we saw a massive spike in all things tech. When the pandemic hit, a huge number of second and third tier tech stocks lifted off.

Right now, just over half of enterprises globally say they are incorporating AI applications into their operations. According to McKinsey & Co, 70 per cent of companies will be using some form of AI in their business by 2030.

Use cases for AI are as varied as every device and every human who generates a data point. Here are five examples of AI companies solving real world problems that demonstrate the variety of opportunities available to entrepreneurs and the scale of those opportunities.

22 billion devices will be connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) by the end of this year, and that number is expected to surge to almost 39 billion by the middle of the decade.