Numerous developing economies in Asia-Pacific (APAC) have low banking penetration rates, especially in the suburban and rural areas. In contrast, mobile penetration rates are impressively high, even crossing 100 percent in some countries. This has created opportunities for mobile operators to partner with banks, payment providers and merchants to develop new models of transactions. As a result, the mobile commerce (mCommerce) market -- mobile banking, mobile remittance, and mobile payment -- is expected togrow at a healthy rate over the medium term.

Massive technology-led disruption across all industries globally, driven by the rapid proliferation of connected devices and services is moving everyone and everything towards a state of 'connected everything'. Connected devices will continue to proliferate in every aspect of life with an average digital native of at least 10 personal connected devices at home and access to over 80 billion devices. It is expected that by the time we are into the 2020's, tens of millions of people will be connected by trillions of things and applications as a result of connected industries.

The need to optimise business processes is prompting organisations acrossAustralia and New Zealand (ANZ) to adopt radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions. The transport and logistics sector, in particular, has deployed these solutions for rail freight transport, truck tracking, and vehicle traffic management applications. Such implementations are expected to help increase awareness of RFID technology and, in turn, fuel deployments.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Australia increased 0.2 percent in May to 129.7 (2004 = 100), following a 0.2 percent decline in April, and a 0.2 percent increase in March.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for India rose 0.8 percent in June to 182.3 (2004 = 100), following a 0.7 percent increase in May and a 1.3 percent increase in April. Six of the eight components contributed positively to the index in June.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "IT Market in Malaysia 2014-2018" report to their offering.

IT is an integrated platform that includes hardware, software, and service solutions. The role of the IT section in an organization is to integrate various business processes through hardware, software, and service solutions and smooth the flow of information and processes. IT also helps organizations to align their business processes with various other technologies.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Korea declined 0.6 percent in May to 122.8 (2004 = 100), following a 1.0 percent increase in April, and a 0.8 percent increase in March.

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Cloud computing will be a major contributor to growth

The Australian data centre services market recorded revenues of $698 million in 2013; a growth of 17.2 percent over 2012. Revenue from co-location services increased by almost 17 percent during 2013 and accounted for about 69 percent of total market revenue. Managed hosting services revenue grew by 18 percent.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for India increased 0.7 percent in May. The index stands at 181.0 (2004 = 100), following a 1.4 percent increase in April and a 0.3 percent increase in March. Seven of the eight components contributed positively to the index in May.

The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® (LEI) for Australia declined 0.1 percent in April to 129.6 (2004 = 100), following a 0.2 percent increase in March, and a 0.5 percent increase in February.