Joseph Lam

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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telecommunicationsTechnology

Aussie Broadband cops new blow in Superloop takeover bid

Telecommunications group Superloop wants rival Aussie Broadband to sell down its 19 per cent stake after rejecting its $466m takeover bid.

Joseph Lam

search enginesTechnology

2/11/2023 Gina Cass-Gottlieb is the chair of the ACCC, speaking during the Economic & Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne. Aaron Francis / The Australian

Call for quality test of big tech’s search engines

The competition watchdog is putting search engines on notice, announcing plans to scrutinise the competitive nature and quality of popular services including Google and Bing.

Joseph Lam

EXCLUSIVECompanies

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 21: Pedestrians walk past an Optus store in the CBD on November 21, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Optus' CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down on Monday after an extended outage last week caused millions of Australians to be disconnected from the network, with no access to emergency numbers for hours. The outage followed a hack that saw millions of customers' data shared online last year. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Inside the battle to find Optus’s next chief executive

The telecommunications union warns a lack of stability at Optus is ‘clearly impacting its ability to deliver’ as Canadian investment giant Brookfield circles.

Jared Lynch and Joseph Lam

Technology

14/03/2024. Ali Chebbani in front of his TikTok-famous burger foodtruck in Roselands in Sydney's Western suburbs. Mr Chebbani, who worked at McDonald's as a teenager, started selling burgers from his Bankstown driveaway in 2020 during lockdown. His business went viral on the platform allowing him to turn it into a foodtruck and, soon, a new Marrickville restaurant. Britta Campion / The Australian

TikTok sensation Chebbo’s Burgers on why a ban would crush business

Chinese social media platform TikTok has become a marketing tool for many Australian businesses and a ban would severely impact operations, content creators say.

Joseph Lam

takeoverTechnology

Appen loses $154m Innodata bid

Innodata has pulled its Appen offer with the company claiming the proposal was meant to remain confidential.

Joseph Lam

LogisticsProperty

The 64.4ha parcel in Melbourne's Cranbourne where ESR and Frasers are developing an industrial estate

Top Asian property players snap up land for major project

Two of Asia’s largest real estate companies have teamed up to buy a major parcel of land from Salta Properties, owned by the billionaire Tarascio family, where they are planning a $900m industrial estate.

Joseph Lam

TechnologyTechnology

Appen mulls $154m takeover bid from US tech player

The board is considering its second takeover offer in just two years, after recently losing a lucrative contact with Google.

Joseph Lam

Technology ReviewGadgets

EMBARGO Oct 5 1.30am: Google's second smart watch after acquiring Fitbit, the Pixel Watch 2.

Google Pixel Watch 2: Keeping it simple is now smart

When it comes to smartwatches, Google’s Pixel Watch 2 shows that simple is probably best.

Joseph Lam

exclusiveTechnology

Start-up cracks the code to infinite plastic recycling

It could be the holy grail of plastic recycling; a Sydney start-up has found a way to ‘infinitely’ recycle plastic used for our food containers.

Joseph Lam

trackingGadgets

The Tile Slim is a Bluetooth device designed to let you track items, like your wallet, from an app so they never get lost.

Stalk someone with our device and we’ll sue for $1m

An ASX-listed tracking company says it will bring its ‘entire resources to bear’ to sue anyone who uses its device to stalk others.

Joseph Lam

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