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Apple’s App Store is the only way to download new apps in Australia, and a percentage of anything you pay to developers and service-providers goes to Apple.

Will new competition laws make your digital life cheaper?

An EU-style regime aims to stop big tech locking down their platforms. But we are still a long way from making smartphones a truly open ecosystem, like home computers.

  • Tim Biggs

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Apple’s app store and similar stores will be targeted by the government’s overhaul of competition law.

Tech giants face $50 million fines in app store battle

Just days after banning under 16s from social media, the federal government is now targeting tech companies’ app stores amid competition fears.

  • Shane Wright
Law firms Phi Finney McDonald and Maurice Blackburn this week separately announced proposed class actions against Google.

‘Egregious’: Google facing two Australian class actions

The tech giant allegedly took billions in revenue that should have gone to Australian publishers, law firms claim.

  • David Swan
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy in the lawyers as often as possible.

‘What happens in Vegas’: How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

As the internet giant stored the world’s information, it created an office culture that tried to minimise its legal footprint, telling employees to destroy messages and copy in the lawyers as often as possible.

  • David Streitfeld
Multinational tech firms are being targeted by a swathe of new laws.

Big Tech didn’t like Biden. Trump won’t be any better for Google & Co

The Biden administration has used antitrust legislation to target the technology giants, even seeking to break up Google. Trump’s nominees to key posts overseeing the tech sector won’t be much friendlier.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Almost have of all Australian workers have some form of restraint clause in their job contracts.

The clause in your job contract that costs you $500 a year – and Australia $7 billion

It’s not just chief executives. Almost half of Australian workers have signed contracts that restrict their ability to move jobs. New research shows the drag on the economy.

  • Shane Wright
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Before anything even springs out of the ground or fattens up in a paddock, farmers are dealt a tricky hand.

Finding it hard to stomach higher prices? Something seedy is going on

It’s not just supermarkets that are likely to be pushing prices higher. Some of us are getting squeezed from more angles than one.

  • Millie Muroi
Optus sued for pressuring vulnerable customers.

Forget the ‘Yes’ slogan, Optus. It’s a big ‘No’ from the ACCC

The telco has joined the ignominious list of companies doing the wrong thing in their treatment of Indigenous Australians.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Google’s quarterly trend results show a huge bump in interest in AI.

Can Google’s search dominance be broken by its break-up?

The tech giant could be broken up if the US Department of Justice has its way - but it could take years to get to that point.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
The Google Bay View campus in Mountain View, California.

US weighs Google breakup in historic Big Tech antitrust case

The effort is the most significant move to rein in a major tech company over illegal monopolisation since Washington unsuccessfully sought to break up Microsoft two decades ago.

  • Leah Nylen

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