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Revenue from contracts with customers increased by $NZD 1,089,292 compared to 2020's figures.

Jellysmack, a global creator company, has been named in Fast Company's annual list of the World's Most Innovative Companies for 2022. 

A new report by Emplifi highlights how the country’s government used social media channels to engage with Singapore residents, revealing Instagram is the public sector’s most popular.

Video-based human insight company UserTesting has released new templates for its Human Insight Platform, enabling fast, opt-in feedback from any metaverse or virtual reality user, including those using Meta (formerly Facebook).

Artificial intelligence will play an increasing role in augmented and virtual reality in 2022, according to ABI Research.

"Understanding the metaverse is complicated, especially because it doesn’t exist yet."

The code aims to establish a self-regulatory framework to protect New Zealanders from online harm and harmful content.

There will be two new integrations that will help businesses who use both Workplace and Microsoft Teams to communicate more easily with their employees.

“The metaverse has huge implications - it comes with fantastic advantages and terrifying dangers."

Microsoft's announcement juxtaposes the genuine potential of Mesh for Microsoft Teams with widespread criticism of Facebook's rebranding as Meta.

"The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today's online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world."

Following a six-hour outage on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, bringing millions of digital lives to a halt, criticism of the company has been widespread. 

ESET researchers have investigated a targeted mobile espionage campaign against the Kurdish ethnic group. 

The initiative aims to ensure technologies are designed and implemented in ways that are privacy-protecting, user-controlled, equitable, and interoperable.

“Harmful experiences, directly and indirectly, cause physical, financial, and psychological harm, decrease user confidence, and undermine investment in the digital economy and society,” says Netsafe chief Martin Cocker.

"As the opportunities of data and information flows grows for society, so does the complexity of the challenges associated with how this ever increasing volume of data is managed and governed."

"An increasing number of governments are deploying a range of surveillance technologies under the promise of maintaining order and public safety."

The Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT), located in the NUS Kent Ridge campus, will serve as a research point and innovation hub for academia and industry. 

As part of the Low-Carbon Patent Pledge, the three companies have made ‘hundreds’ of royalty free patents available.

"Google and Facebook's threat to tamp down their services or pull out of a country entirely creates a new vulnerability for democracies and underscores the need for new rules for digital markets."

Microsoft has maintained its position as the brand most often found in phishing emails, followed by Facebook and PayPal.

Facebook users are engaging just as much with ads as they are with each other, according to new data from Hootsuite and We Are Social. 

"Nothing is truly free, and, unfortunately, the current business model for free services means that, essentially, we pay with our data."

Workplace from Facebook has rolled out a couple of new services designed to help businesses and their employees navigate hybrid working and lockdown periods.