India’s 2020 budget continues the process of opening up to overseas investment.

Announced greenfield projects into China plummeted in early 2020 with the US and Europe taking the lion's share of global foreign investment. 

Ajmal Ahmady, Afghanistan's minister of industries and commerce, outlines government efforts to make the country more conducive to business.

A government bailout for the ailing subsidiary of the telecoms powerhouse has fallen through. 

Pedro Calado, vice-president of Madeira’s regional government, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the island's capacity for more upmarket tourism and its ongoing struggle to gain financial independence from Portugal. 

Project numbers drop almost 40% between 2017 and 2018.

Figures show 2018 was India’s best year for manufacturing FDI in seven years.

Australia is seeking the world’s best and brightest talent to relocate to one of the safest, most economically stable and innovative countries in the world.

Australia’s space industry is ready for lift-off, after granting the first-ever launch facility licence to Australian company Southern Launch.

India is one of Australia’s fastest growing tourism markets. Tourism businesses can realise the potential of the Indian market by learning about travellers’ culture and service expectations.

There are strong prospects for Australian sheepmeat exporters, thanks to rising demand and reduced tariffs under Australia’s trade agreement with India.

Australian Hass avocados have received provisional access to the Indian market. New access was granted after Australia demonstrated that its high-quality avocados could meet India’s biosecurity and food import requirements.

Expansion in processing of nickel, coal and bauxite in Indonesia will increase demand for Australian METS.

Black Friday is still weeks away but early deals are rolling in. Kindle Book Deals are especially hot with e-books as low as $1.99.

Save 34% on an Apple AirTag at Walmart.

Australia’s landmark AI-ECTA trade deal to come into force on 29 December

Coopers’ craft beers are available across India after Austrade helped secure a new nationwide distributor for the brewery.

Taylors Wines has launched in India, ahead of the AI-ECTA entering into force.

Hobart-based fisheries company, Australian Longline, is now exporting Patagonian toothfish to India.

Malaysia’s LIMA exhibition for defence, aerospace and maritime businesses will host a strong contingent from Australia.

Join us for an overview of doing business with the mining industry in Brazil, delivered by Austrade with guest speakers from Cescon Barrieu, one of the leading law firms in Brazil.

Tassal is exporting to India for the first time, aided by tariff cuts under the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement.

First Nations business Aldridge Railway Signals was named Exporter of the Year at Supply Nation’s Supplier Diversity Awards.

From today Australian and Indonesian businesses and workers will have even greater opportunities to boost their skills and expertise, with the signing of an expanded Memorandum of Understanding on the Indonesia-Australia Skills Development Exchange Pilot.

Australian environmental services company Hydroflux is providing sustainable water solutions and services to Pacific nations.

Birders and organized labor dominated a recent public comment period, while beach towns were mostly mum. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will now consider the input ahead of an anticipated auction this spring.

Senators heard three hours of testimony from anti-wind sources and just one hour from proponents of renewable energy

South Fork Wind Farm is a 132 MW project to be located 19 miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. The project is approved to install 12 or fewer wind turbines and will use Siemens-Gamesa’s 11 MW turbines. Kiewit Offshore Services will design and build the project’s substation.

Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the third quarter of 2023 closed with 359.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.7 million domain name registrations, or 0.8%, compared to the second quarter of 2023. Domain name registrations also […]

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Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the fourth quarter of 2023 closed with 359.8 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or 0.2%, compared to the third quarter of 2023. Domain name registrations also […]

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Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the first quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 2.5 million domain name registrations, or 0.7%, compared to the fourth quarter of 2023. Domain name registrations also […]

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Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the second quarter of 2024 closed with 362.4 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), unchanged compared to the first quarter of 2024. Domain name registrations increased by 5.8 million, or 1.6%, year over year. Check […]

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Today, the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief Quarterly Report was released by DNIB.com, showing the third quarter of 2024 closed with 362.3 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of 0.1 million domain name registrations, or less than 0.05%, compared to the second quarter of 2024. Domain name […]

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NVIDIA today announced that Japan cloud leaders SoftBank Corp., GMO Internet Group, Highreso, KDDI, Rutilea and SAKURA internet are building AI infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing, networking and software to accelerate transformation across the nation’s robotics, automotive, healthcare and telecom industries.

Editor’s note: The name of NIM Agent Blueprints was changed to NVIDIA Blueprints in October 2024. All references to the name have been updated in this blog. Enterprises and public sector organizations around the world are developing AI agents to boost the capabilities of workforces that rely on visual information from a growing number of Read Article

Consulting giants including Accenture, Deloitte, EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd. (or EY Japan), FPT,  Kyndryl and Tata Consultancy Services Japan (TCS Japan) are working with NVIDIA to establish innovation centers in Japan to accelerate the nation’s goal of embracing enterprise AI and physical AI across its industrial landscape. The centers will use NVIDIA AI Read Article

Robots transporting heavy metal at a Toyota plant. Yaskawa’s robots working alongside human coworkers in factories. To advance efforts like these virtually, Rikei Corporation develops digital twin tooling to assist planning. And if that weren’t enough, diversified retail holdings company Seven & i Holdings is running digital twin simulations to enhance customer experiences. Physical AI Read Article

The next technology revolution is here, and Japan is poised to be a major part of it. At NVIDIA’s AI Summit Japan on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and SoftBank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son shared a sweeping vision for Japan’s role in the AI revolution. Speaking in Tokyo, Huang underscored that AI Read Article

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DESPITE the sweltering summer heat, tourists visiting Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, now has a new attraction to explore — the world’s largest indoor ice and snow theme park. The