Up to 75 students will benefit from a partnership between the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) and Huawei Australia, with funding from the New Colombo Plan Mobility Programme. [ + ]

Enterprise mobility and unified communications specialist Wavelink has appointed Paul Craven to head a new Health Practice. [ + ]

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow by 17.2% in 2016, with the highest growth coming from cloud system infrastructure services. [ + ]

LinkedIn has announced its 2016 Power Profiles for Australia — a list of the most viewed professionals on LinkedIn. [ + ]

Mark Fioretto and Angela Fox will take over at Dell EMC from February 2017, following Dell's acquisition of EMC. [ + ]

Selected start-ups will receive up to $75,000 to work with Optus and Singtel Innov8 to test and validate solutions to business challenges such as Internet of Things, augmented reality solutions and artificial intelligence. [ + ]

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has found that privacy and vulnerability issues could have been avoided if device manufacturers had implemented the correct security and privacy principles. [ + ]

SAP has become the first multinational technology company to be awarded the worldwide Economic Dividends for Gender Equality (EDGE) certificate. [ + ]

A $1 million investment from HCF will assist Curo Technologies in bringing its aged care technology to the Australian market. [ + ]

The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) and Empired have partnered to build a new digital platform, designed to help RAA deliver on its digital transformation strategy. [ + ]

Gartner has urged organisations to update their network access policies and enforcement practices to address the growing number of IoT devices requiring access to the enterprise network. [ + ]

Nutanix has appointed Howard Fyffe as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand business, following the move of outgoing MD Wayne Neich to a new Asia–Pacific role. [ + ]

NEC Australia is inviting technology graduates to join its 2017 graduate program, which is a structured combination of job experience, coaching, workshops, performance planning and feedback. [ + ]

The merger of Dell and EMC to form Dell Technologies has produced what the new company claims is the world's largest privately controlled technology firm. [ + ]

The federal government will work with Hypercat Australia, the local chapter of the UK-based industry alliance Hypercat, to help establish a global standard for the IoT and smart cities. [ + ]