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YouTube Go App Retired

Nathan Jolly May 6, 2022 No Comments

YouTube has announced it will be retiring its YouTube Go app in August. The app was launched in 2016, “for viewers in locations where connectivity, data prices, and low-end devices”.…

Inflation To Hit 6% By Year’s End: Reserve Bank

Nathan Jolly May 6, 2022 No Comments

The Reserve Bank has revised its previous economic forecast, now anticipating the Consumer Price Index to reach 6 per cent by the end of the year. This will be “partly…

Facebook Hampered Vital Aussie Services To Influence Legislation

Nathan Jolly May 6, 2022 No Comments

A number of internal documents given to US and Australian authorities by whistleblowers show that when Facebook blocked all news pages in Australia last year, as a pre-emptive hit against…

Block’s Revenue Tumbles, Bitcoin To Blame

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Afterpay’s owner Block missed analyst forecasts for its first quarter earnings, as a dive in cryptocurrency prices hurt the company’s bottom line. Demand for Bitcoin has dropped, as the coin’s…

Shriro Directors Bristle At EGM Chaos

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Consumer appliances supplier Shriro has cycled through three chairmen in the last six months, and now shareholders are trying to move the board pieces around even more. Former SurfStitch director…

Peloton Searches For Investors As Stock Sinks

Nathan Jolly May 6, 2022 No Comments

Peloton is searching for potential investors willing to buy 15-20 per cent of the fast flagging company. The Wall Street Journal reports the fitness company has been meeting with industry…

Wesfarmers, Woolies CEOs Back Wage Increases

Nathan Jolly May 5, 2022 No Comments

The CEOs of two of the country’s biggest retail groups, Woolworths and Wesfarmers, have backed the Australian Retailers Association’s call for the Fair Work Commission to lift the minimum wage.…

Elon Musk Considers Charging For Twitter

Nathan Jolly May 5, 2022 No Comments

Elon Musk might want Twitter to become a bastion of free speech, but ‘freedom’ and ‘free of charge’ are two very separate concepts. Musk has publicly toyed with charging a…

Netflix Sued For Hiding Declining Subs

Nathan Jolly May 5, 2022 No Comments

Netflix has been slapped with a lawsuit for misleading shareholders about its declining subscriber growth. The lawsuit, filed yesterday in San Francisco federal district court, alleges Netflix made “materially false…

SoundCloud Buys AI That Predicts Hit Songs

Nathan Jolly May 5, 2022 No Comments

Music hosting, streaming, and discovery company SoundCloud has acquired Musiio, an artificial intelligence business that predicts hit songs. “By ‘listening’ to more tracks than a human could ever comprehend and…