How Facebook post led to $4.6m business
Two men who met on Facebook – and in person for the first time just days before lockdown – have built a multimillion-dollar business in one year.
ACCC to probe Slack takeover
Slack probe highlights the ACCC’s move into technology aimed at potentially stopping deals before the companies grow to the size of Google and Facebook.
Learning all about you in the snap of an app
Modern surveillance technology imperils our democracy in a way we’ve never before seen.
Facebook hits back: we didn’t hurt consumers
Action marks its first legal salvo since the FTC and 46 states sued the company in December.
Sims ‘not concerned’ by Facebook deal delay
The competition tsar says he’s confident the tech giant will reach deals with Australia’s major publishers.
Phelps’ partner’s vaccine post on Hunt deleted
The wife of City of Sydney councillor Kerryn Phelps has removed a Facebook post questioning whether a bacterial infection contracted by Health Minister Greg Hunt was connected to him receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
Australian FB rival breaks crowdfunding record
LITT has raised $500,000 in just 40 minutes, with more to come.
Mammoths to minnows for ACCC
ACCC chief Rod Sims has gone from battling tech behemoths Facebook and Google to fighting Mildura-based Zimmer frame supplier Country Care.
YouTube: Trump can return when risk abates
The former US president has been banned from other online platforms including Twitter and Facebook.
Consent and Facebook dominate debate
A QandA panel of women focused on the allegations surrounding Linda Reynolds and Christian Porter.
Premier’s Facebook dummy spit
One state has borne the brunt of a social media tantrum from WA Premier Mark McGowan after he took offence to a request for payment.
Sims wants reforms to ’game-changer’ act
Fresh from a bruising tussle with Google and Facebook, ACCC chief Rod Sims has called for further reforms to the Competition and Consumer Act.
What another year of WFH will look like
Facebook considered tracking its employees. Lyft is making some workers move before April. Here’s how big companies are wrestling with thorny work-from-home issues.
ACCC warns on ‘overreading’ code changes
The chairman of Australia’s competition regulator says some are ‘overreading’ the impact of last minute changes to the media bargaining code.
The rules of the tech game are changing
A new, dynamic phase in the global tech contest is underway as digital markets shift towards oligopolies.
Treasurer not for turning: how the future was unlocked
With Mark Zuckerberg ‘lawyered to the gills’, Josh Frydenberg had to find a different approach to end the Facebook stalemate.
The Facebook outrage that’s far, far worse
Encryption move helps pedophiles hide from the law.
Smaller media sign deals with big tech
Australia’s competition regulator points to deals that smaller media organisations have already done with Facebook and Google.
Europe to have bargaining law by June
EU countries face a June deadline to adopt national versions of a law that aims to improve media producers’ bargaining position against tech powerhouses.
Aussie news content refriended from Friday
Australian news content will return to Facebook on Friday, eight days after the social media giant banned it from the feeds of the digital platform’s local users.
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