Facebook Suffers Global Outage
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November 13, 2018
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On Monday people around the whole reported having difficulties accessing Facebook, many users took to Twitter to lament the situation that has... Read More
Facebook Portal Slammed For Collecting User Data
As retailers crank up sales of smart display speakers, Facebook has admitted its video-enabled ‘Portal’ does track some user data – information... Read More
Tech Trembling As Trump Mulls More China Tariffs
Is Wall Street tanking not enough? Let’s really get the tech industry’s nerves shaking by floating the prospect of full-blown tariffs on... Read More
Facebook Q3 Earnings Miss Analyst Forecasts, Users Slip
Facebook has post lower-than-expected Q3 revenue, notching US$13.73 billion versus US$13.77 billion analysts expected. The social media giant has continued to shed... Read More
Facial Recognition Tech Unethical, 450 Amazon Staffers Claim
An anonymous Amazon staffer has posted a letter in which he claims that 450 fellow staffers wrote to Jeff Bezos, protesting the... Read More
Another Video Streaming Product From Facebook That Attaches To A TV.
Days after Facebook revealed their ‘Portal’ smart display the social media Company has been revealed as working on a TV connected device... Read More
29 Million Affected by Facebook Data Breach
Facebook has announced that 29 million Facebook accounts have been breached by attackers exploiting a vulnerability in Facebook’s security settings. This is... Read More
Google+ Dumped As Bug Exposes 500K Accounts
Google has finally revealed that up to 500,000 Google+ user accounts were potentially affected by a bug that may have exposed their... Read More
Facebook Enters Video Chat Hardware Market With New Portal
Hot on the heels of Google and Amazon, Facebook is entering the hardware video business with a new video ‘Portal’ device. And... Read More
Internet Giants Join Campaign To Scupper Oz Encryption Bill
The Australian offshoots of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon have reportedly joined an alliance with civil libertarian groups to campaign against the... Read More
Aussies Beware Cyber Chief Predicts New Phishing Attack
Australians should on the alert for new phishing attacks, following last week’s Facebook security breach, Australian Cyber Security Centre CEO Alastair MacGibbon... Read More
ACCC Calls On Google, Facebook To Crackdown On Fake-Ad Scams
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September 26, 2018
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has called on Google, Facebook and Instagram to do more to crackdown on fake ads to... Read More
Facebook Creates AI Tool To Automatically Fix Bugs
Facebook has created SapFix, an artificial intelligence tool designed to automatically generate fixes for bugs then propose them to engineers. “With SapFix,... Read More
Facebook Launches ‘Watch’ To Combat Netflix & YouTube
Facebook has further expanded into the streaming video on demand (SVOD) market, launching its new ‘Watch’ service worldwide, in a bid to... Read More
Social Media Giants Discuss Election Meddling
Google, Facebook and Twitter executives met on Friday August 25 to discuss strategies to stop meddling in the 2018 United States mid-term... Read More
Ban Boosts Right-Wing App
The hottest app on the block is the one banned by the tech giants. Just days after Google, Facebook and Apple purged... Read More
Facebook Looks To Buddy Up With Aussie Newsrooms
Facebook is advertising on LinkedIn for a strategic partner manager to “collaborate with some of the biggest newsrooms across Australia and New... Read More
Google Snares 34% Of Online Usage, Facebook Dives
Latest research reveals online users are spending over one third of their time on Google-owned sites, whilst former giants such as Facebook... Read More
Facebook Asks Banks For Your Data
Facebook is reacting to yet another controversy, this time inspired by a Wall Street Journal article that exposed the social media giant... Read More
Facebook Hit With Lawsuit After Historic Stock Plunge
Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing a lawsuit over his company’s historic stock market plunge where it lost close to... Read More
Facebook Shares Tumble 23% After Privacy Saga
UPDATE Facebook shares have plummeted a further 23 per cent after close from the company admitting to its growth slowing down. This... Read More
90% Of Aussies Unsure How Google Shares Data
Latest research from Roy Morgan reveals over 90% of Australians lack proper understanding about how leading apps collect and use their personal... Read More
Facebook May Cop $3 Billion Bill To Compensate Aussies
Litigation funding legal firm IMF Bentham appears to be looking for a compensation payout of up to $3 billion by Facebook to... Read More
Facebook Cops £500K Fine For UK Data Breach
Facebook has been fined £500,000 for two breaches of the UK Data Protection Act, following its Cambridge Analytica breach early this year – despite... Read More
Addressable TV To Fight Facebook & Google
Roy Morgan expects ‘addressable TV’ to significantly shake up Australia’s advertising market, and increase the TV industry’s power against Facebook and Google.... Read More
Facebook Blitz Hits Australia
The worldwide PR blitz Facebook launched in April to counter the Cambridge Analytica scandal has finally hit Australia. Facebook is bombing television,... Read More
European Union Rejects Online Copyright Reform
The European Union has rejected draft legislation which sought to penalise digital platforms for user-uploaded copyright breaches – reform incurring significant costs for... Read More
Facebook Loses $12B After Wider Cambridge Analytica Probe
Social media behemoth, Facebook, has seen $12 billion wiped from its market value, after reports revealed the Cambridge Analytica federal probe may be... Read More
ACCC Warns Facebook, Google Data Collection A Major Issue
ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, affirms analysing the societal impact of digital platforms (such as Facebook and Google) is a “vital” for Australia... Read More
Facebook Unblock Bug Affects Over 800K Users
Facebook has confirmed the presence of a bug which unblocked accounts for over 800,000 users. The news is the latest privacy breach... Read More
New Oz Taxes Sting Tech Giants Extra $380M
America’s four biggest tech companies – Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft – have reportedly paid an extra $380 million in Australian tax... Read More
Amazon Has Failed To Live Up To Pre Launch Hype As Consumers “Come Home”.
Consumers are shifting to shopping on local retail sites according to new research and Amazon has failed to live up to the... Read More
Facebook Bug Turns 14 Million Private Profiles Public
Facebook has acknowledged a bug in its system which has turned its users private profiles to public with more than 14 million... Read More
Facebook Confirms It Shared Data With Chinese Tech Companies
Facebook has confessed to sharing its users personal data with at least four Chinese tech companies. The companies with the data include,... Read More
Facebook To Undergo More Probes
Facebook will be questioned by the US Senate Commerce Committee over a report that it allowed Apple and other device makers to... Read More
Facebook Dumps Trending Topics After Bias News Backlash
Social media giant Facebook will be ditching its trending topics feature after backlash from conservatives claiming it would only show liberal based... Read More
Facebook Developing Chip To Help Filter Live Videos
Facebook is heading into the computer chip business with the social media giant designing its own chip to help filter live videos. According... Read More
Oz Media Accuse Facebook, Google Of Abuse In ACCC Inquiry
Considered a world-first and the ‘broadest inquiry’ of its kind, the ACCC has today published 57 submissions from Australian media companies, concerning the impact digital tech... Read More
Facebook Smart Speakers Could Hit Aussie Shelves Before US
The upcoming Facebook smart speakers could arrive in Australia before the US as American citizens and politicians are closely watching the social... Read More
Facebook Wants To Help You Find Your Soulmate
Facebook is heading into the match-making business with the company building a new dating feature for the social media site. At F8,... Read More
WhatsApp Co-Founder Quits Amid Facebook Privacy Saga
WhatsApp Co-Founder and Chief Executive, Jan Koum, has announced his resignation, after reportedly clashing with parent company, Facebook, over privacy standards and... Read More
Seven & Nine Unite Against ACCC Facebook/Google Probe
Complimenting previous remarks from Seven West Media’s Kerry Stokes, Nine Boss, Hugh Marks, has urged the Australian media industry to unite, as the ACCC prepares to... Read More
Wall St Mauls FANGs Apple
The so-called FANG stocks – Facebook Amazon Netflix and Google (Alphabet) have felt a heap of pain from Wall St this week... Read More
Facebook Gets Into Chip Business
Facebook is following the footsteps of Apple, Google and Samsung heading into production to make its own computer chips. According to Bloomberg,... Read More
Facebook Dobs On Tech Giants Says They Also Collect Data
Facebook has updated its users on how it collects their data when they are not using the site after CEO Mark Zuckerberg was... Read More
Foxtel Slashes Facebook Ads
The Foxtel streaming video service – jointly owned by the Murdoch media business and Telstra – is reportedly slashing its digital marketing... Read More
Zuckerberg Admits Facebook Was ‘Too Slow To Spot Russian Interference’
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook says the social media giant was ‘too slow to spot Russian interference’ and the company is working hard... Read More
Facebook Facial Recognition Apparently Violates Users’ Privacy
A consumer group is claiming Facebook’s facial recognition software violates its user’s privacy and is filing a complaint to the Federal Trade... Read More
Oz Privacy Commissioner Opens Facebook Investigation
The Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner will be launching an investigation into Facebook after it was revealed the data of more... Read More
Aussies Hit By Facebook Data Scandal
Facebook has admitted the data of more than 300,000 Australians were improperly shared to Cambridge Analytica. During a press conference held by... Read More
