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FILE - In this June 26, 2016 file photo, visitors attend a launch event for the Huawei MateBook in Beijing. France's President Emmanuel Macron is cautioning against freezing out Chinese tech giant Huawei or exacerbating trade tensions with China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Google block rocks Huawei

In a huge blow for Huawei’s handset business, Google has reportedly suspended its Android licence.

Chris Griffith

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Scooters from Deliveroo and Uber Eats are apparently blocking up the footpath around the corner of Toorak rd and Chapel st... ***DRIVERS PICTURED ARE NOT NECESSARILY FROM UBER EATS AND DELIVEROO*** Not when the photographer was there, but apparently it's bad after 5:30pm some days. PICTURE : PENNY STEPHENS 8TH JUNE 2018

Amazon invests in Deliveroo

Amazon is dipping its foot into food delivery as its leads a $835m funding round into Deliveroo.

Nathan Allen

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A mobile phone screen displays the icons for the social networking apps Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, taken in Manchester, England on March 22, 2018. A public apology by Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg failed Thursday to quell outrage over the hijacking of personal data from millions of people, as critics demanded the social media giant go much further to protect privacy. / AFP PHOTO / Oli SCARFF

Big Tech ‘like Big Tobacco’

Google and Facebook’s power must be reined in before it’s too late, experts say.

Adam Creighton

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 22, 2018 This photo illustration taken on March 22, 2018 shows apps for Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and other social networks on a smartphone in Chennai. - Instant messaging service WhatsApp notified the Irish data protection authority of a security breach which may have allowed a

Facebook reins in streaming

Facebook says it is tightening access to live streaming in the wake of the Christchurch massacre.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Elysee Palace after his meeting with French president Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, Friday, May 10, 2019. Zuckerberg is meeting French President Emmanuel Macron as the tech giant and France try to pioneer ways of fighting hate speech and violent extremism online. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

Global regulators target tech giants

Governments are in a global race to scrutinise Silicon Valley, creating a broad regulatory wave.

Sam Schechner

BIG TECHThe Wall Street Journal

Break up Facebook: co-founder

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is calling for the social-media giant to be broken up.

Sarah E. Needleman

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Facebook forges digital coin

Meet Project Libra, Facebook’s secret plan to leverage its heft to push a new crypto-based payments system.

AnnaMaria Andriotis and Liz Hoffman

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Less ‘news’ is good news

Facebook hopes a new look and emphasis will help convince the public it’s taking criticism seriously.

Jeff Horwitz

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 15, 2017 Executive Chairman Alphabet Inc. Eric Schmidt gestures as he speaks during a session at The Viva Technology Event in Paris. - Google-parent Alphabet said on April 30, 2019 that Eric Schmidt, who was chief of the internet giant for a decade, will leave the board in June. Schmidt, who turned 64 this month, stepped down as chairman of the Alphabet board at the start of last year, remaining a member but shifting to a role as a technical advisor. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY / AFP)

End of an era for Google

Eric Schmidt is set to part ways with the company he helmed for a decade with a personal fortune of $US14bn.

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Millions head overseas

Facebook and Google have both posted record ad sales in Australia, while paying minimal tax.

David Swan

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Social media a big mistake?

The global social media revolution unleashed by a handful of ambitious young men has only just begun.

ALAN KOHLER

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Canadian flag waving with Parliament Buildings hill and Library in the background. Picture: iStock.

Canada rebukes Facebook

Canada’s privacy commissioner said Facebook broke the law when it harvested data from 600,000 citizens.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 24, 2018, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers his speech during the VivaTech (Viva Technology) trade fair in Paris. - Facebook's woes mounted Wednesday, December 19, 2018 as it faced a lawsuit alleging privacy violations related to data leaked to a consultancy working on Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a new report suggested it shared more data with partners than it had said. The suit filed by the District of Columbia attorney general is likely the first by an official US body that could impose consequences on the world's leading social network for data misuse. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP)

‘Big Tech shouldn’t make rules’

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says Silicon Valley tech giants can’t be relied on to write the rules.

David Swan

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 11, 2018 Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Facebook announced April 18, 2018 it would begin rolling out changes to how it handles private data this week to comply with forthcoming EU rules, with European residents seeing the measures first. The social network, which has been rocked by disclosures about the hijacking of personal data on tens of millions of its users, said it will start implementing

Zuckerberg yields on rules

Facebook’s CEO has called for global privacy rules as he accepts self-regulation has failed.

DAVID SWAN

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Bloomberg Best of the Year 2018: Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., listens during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Facebook braces for $7bn slap

Facebook has set aside $4.3bn for an expected fine from US regulators over privacy issues.

Jeff Horwitz

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Tristan Harris and Jim Steyer on an Aspen Ideas panel about children and technology. PHOTO: KRISTIN BRAGA WRIGHT FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

‘Downgrading humanity’

Moves by tech giants to tackle the dark sides of their services aren’t nearly enough, says former insider.

Betsy Morris

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Trump meets Twitter boss

Twitter’s CEO has met with Donald Trump hours after he again lashed out at the platform.

DAVID SWAN

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Heat on Facebook over election threat

The AEC has asked Facebook to remove unauthorised election content as the agency ramps up efforts to prevent disinformation.

Ben Packham

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Free delivery, even internationally, isn’t much of a selling point in China. PHOTO: ZHANG PENG/GETTY IMAGES

Amazon to pull China plug

Amazon is reportedly planning to shutter online retail operations catering to consumers in China.

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FILE - In this April 18, 2017 file photo, conference workers speak in front of a demo booth at Facebook's annual F8 developer conference, in San Jose, Calif. The U.K. for the first time on Monday April 8, 2019, proposed direct regulation of social media companies, with senior executives potentially facing fines if they fail to block damaging content such as terrorist propaganda or images of child abuse. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)

Nowhere to hide for Silicon Valley

We need a digital social contract to rebalance the implicit power held by the triumvirate of big tech, government and consumer.

Dipayan Ghosh

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**EMBARGO FOR THE DEAL, for first publication in late APRIL, 2019** 06/03/2019: Ex-Facebook CTO Bret Taylor, on why the public has lost trust in Facebook. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Facebook’s growth curse

The former chief technology officer sounds a warning for all tech giants about culture, values and trust.

David Swan

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Zucked: Inside the tech titan

‘I could not have imagined the damage to democracy, public health, privacy, and competition,’ says a key Facebook investor.

Helen Trinca

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The Chief Executive of News Corporation Robert Thomson poses for a photograph before delivering the 2019 Keith Murdoch Oration at State Library Victoria in Melbourne, Tuesday, April 16. 2019. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Time to rein in the tech giants

For too long politicians have been seduced by tech giants allowing them to grow unchecked, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson has said.

RICHARD GLUYAS

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Mob risk in West: News CEO

Society in “a strange phase of seeking affirmation through victimhood’’, says Robert Thomson.

TESS LIVINGSTONE

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16/04/19 Chief executive of News Corporation, Robert Thomson ahead of his speech for the 2019 Keith Murdoch Oration at the State Library of Victoria. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Charting the right course

Big Digital’s mobs test us but there is always the truth and those who tell it.

ROBERT THOMSON

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10/12/2018: ACCC chairman Rod Sims discussing preliminary report into Google, Facebook and Australian news and advertising. Hollie Adams/The Australian

Tech giants targets of rival parties

Technology giants including Google and Facebook will come under pressure regardless who wins next month’s federal poll.

LILLY VITOROVICH

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Guzman Y Gomez is one of the companies that have signed up to Wing's drone delivery service. Picture: Supplied

Drone delivery begins

Residents in the nation’s capital will be able to order fresh food, coffee and chemist items from this week.

Chris Griffith

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Journalist Peter Greste is seen speaking to media alongside Lamisse Hamouda, daughter of Hazem Hamouda (left) and lawyer Jennifer Robinson, at Queensland Parliament House in Brisbane, Thursday, April 4, 2019. An Egyptian-Australian man, Hazem Hamouda, is on his way back to Brisbane after more than a year without charge in a Cairo prison. (AAP Image/Glenn Hunt) NO ARCHIVING

Streaming ban faces review

Legislation to ban live-streaming of violent material is headed for review whichever side wins the election.

Andrew White

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An employee pushes a cart loaded with products for shipping to customers at the new Amazon Inc. fulfilment center on its official day of opening in Bielany Wroclawskie, Poland, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. The company announced on Monday that it's taking preorders for a streaming media stick that plugs into a TV, making it possible to watch a range of Internet video services. Photographer: Bartek Sadowski/Bloomberg

Amazon dents Google

Amazon’s loyal legion of shoppers is providing an audience that advertisers are finding hard to ignore.

Suzanne Vranica

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A blow to evil on Facebook

The government’s quick action will clean up social media without curbing valid news.

CHRISTIAN PORTER and MITCH FIFIELD

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