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Singles Day Rakes In $25bn Haul

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SHANGHAI – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says its Singles’ Day sales extravaganza hit US$25.4 billion over the weekend, smashing its own record from last year and cementing it as the world’s…

WeWork Spreads Down Under

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MELBOURNE – US-based co-working space operator WeWork is looking to push deeper into the Australian market after opening its first Melbourne office. It already has a Sydney presence and is reportedly…

Aussie IoT Set To Drive New $120bn Market: Report

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SYDNEY – Widescale use of Internet-connected devices could drive up to A$120 billion of new economic activity in Australia over the next decade, according to a report published by the Internet of…

AI Experts Make A Movie, In Bid To Stop New Killer drones

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SYDNEY – The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, an international coalition working to ban the development of fully autonomous weapons, has ramped up its warnings, releasing a short, professionally produced…

Virgin To Outflank Qantas With Internet-Equipped Flights To USA

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SYDNEY– Virgin Australia is looking to get a jump on rival Qantas by offering inflight Internet on selected flights to Los Angeles from the end of November. US carriers United…

Kiwi Xero To List On ASX

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SYDNEY – New Zealand-based accounting software flogger Xero – a major competitor for the Sydney-based MYOB – is planning to delist from the NZ stock exchange and list instead on…

Optus Vocus To Join Telstra In Offering

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SYDNEY – Australia’s No 2 telco and NBN operator Optus is to join Telstra in offering refunds to NBN subscribers who are unable to achieve the -load speeds they signed…

EU Probing Apple – Again

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BELGIUM – Apple nemesis Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, has not ruled out further probes into the iPhone maker after the Paradise Papers revealed Apple has been using a…

Investors Dump Snap

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SAN FRANCISCO – Investors are throwing Snap shares overboard after the owner Snapchat reported slower than expected user growth. Wall Street saw Snap shares tumble by as much as 20…

Online Xmas Sales To Hit $100bn

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SAN FRANCISCO – Online retailers in the US are expecting holiday season sales to hit US$100 billion for the first time ever. In its annual report on the online sales,…