Asia Pacific stories
Many firms are still unable to govern or access data fully, leaving AI projects exposed to quality, integration and cost setbacks.
Payroll providers can now handle salary payments and statutory remittances through one interface in more than 70 countries.
Fewer than half of firms have the safeguards to track staff AI use, even as 77% reported a cyber incident in the past year.
The hire sharpens Intuit's APAC push as it adapts QuickBooks and Mailchimp to local tax and compliance demands across the region.
The hire comes as enterprises in Asia Pacific and Japan face rising demand for identity security in AI-driven systems and real-time access control.
Many Asia-Pacific firms are seeing AI efforts stalled by rigid systems, with failed modernisation programmes driving higher costs and risk.
The hire puts a veteran sales executive in charge as Zoom seeks deeper partner ties and wider customer uptake across Australia and New Zealand.
Singapore climbed into the top eight as Asia Pacific took 10 of 25 spots in Kearney's latest FDI ranking, with investors favouring innovation.
Finance teams could cut manual close work as Trintech embeds AI guidance, risk checks and auto-matching into existing workflows.
Proxy networks built from compromised home devices are helping attackers hide in plain sight across Asia Pacific, Lumen says.
Most technology leaders are still finding their feet as companies race to deploy AI despite skills gaps, data problems and compliance pressure.
More than 90 per cent of large-company executives now see outsourced support as vital to scaling agentic AI, a KPMG survey found.
Airlines could cut chargebacks and manual review costs as Outpayce adds Riskified's fraud screening to its payments platform worldwide.
The move underlines Akamai's push to expand cloud, security and AI sales in a region where data rules and latency requirements vary widely.
Stronger safeguards and faster rollout could help Japan turn advanced connectivity into wider economic gains as scams and exclusion persist.
Training compliance at Aurelia Metals jumped from 32% to 96% in a year, helping cut safety delays and lifting incident performance.
International visitors to South Korea can now tap iPhone and Apple Watch for subway, bus and taxi fares, avoiding cash and local cards.
Australia could miss AI investment unless it tackles power, cooling and land for data centres, Logicalis says.
Critical infrastructure and cloud operators face harder-to-detect attacks as criminals turn routers, VPN gateways and IoT kit into proxies.
Poor governance could expose Australian firms to legal, reputational and operational risks as they deploy autonomous AI agents at scale.
