Two thousand Victorian potential jobs may have evaporated after Mahindra Satyam this week pulled its plans to build an information technology learning centre at Deakin University in Geelong.
Australia Post's outgoing managing director Graeme John has announced the national postal service's plan to invest $700 million over three years in new IT systems.
Newly renamed Mahindra Satyam has reassured its existing local customers and is now on the market for new ones, according to the company's Australian country head. Yet rival Indian group Tata Consultancy Services is also seeking growth.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia subsidiary Bankwest today confirmed it would cut at least "a handful" of IT staff as part of a wider cull that has also seen the bank refrain from hiring an additional 50 IT contractors over the past few months.
RHG (formerly RAMS) has extended its loan processing outsourcing deal with Unisys for a further two years.
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