Stories about: PwC

The Australian Taxation Office is on top of its game when it comes to information security, an independent investigation has found.

Can the US tech industry continue to defy the overall economic downturn?

What is true enterprise security and how do you get it? Bogus promises by vendors are all too common. In this interview, outspoken security analyst Nick Selby humorously tackles the truth about data leakage products, smartphone protection, hotspot threats and the word "solution." Nick Selby leads The 451 Group's Enterprise Security Practice. Selby also serves as The 451 Group's Director of Research Operations and is on the faculty of the Institute for Applied Network Security.

The business world seems to be on a constant collision course with new technologies, some of which are beneficial to the organization and some of which are not. Recently, the workplace has been colliding with that burgeoning technology-based phenomenon known as social networking.

Online advertising continues its strong growth with expenditure for the third quarter of 2007 totalling $A347.75 million, the largest quarter ever recorded. The results showed continued steady growth of 6.8 per cent over second quarter 2007 and an increase of 32.2 per cent from the third quarter of 2006.

Enterprise IT companies were conspicuously absent from the list of the 10 largest venture capital deals struck during the third quarter, as the growing market for alternative energy and other "clean tech" companies piqued investors' attention.

Google has agreed to buy DoubleClick for $US3.1 billion in cash, an acquisition that strengthens Google's status as an online advertising powerhouse.

Online ad spending in the U.S. grew 34 percent in 2006, compared with 2005, as marketers continued expanding their use of the Internet to promote their products and services, according to a new study.

U.S. researchers have come up with a technique that claims to be able to stop Internet worms within milliseconds of an outbreak.

U.S. companies spent 37 percent more in online advertising in the first half of the year, compared with the same period in 2005, according to a new study.

In the evolving world of business intelligence, swift and targeted access to reports and analysis is the name of the game. But the frequent inability of employees to locate the results they need from high-end BI applications is prompting several enterprise search vendors to step in and address the challenge.