Facebook Hits Back At “Unprecedented” ACCC Report
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March 6, 2019
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Facebook has slammed the ACCC’s preliminary report, calling the regulator’s proposals for digital platforms “unprecedented” and warning they will not address digital... Read More
Nine Group Calls For New Controls on Google, Facebook
Nine Entertainment, which now includes the Fairfax empire of Australian news organisations, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, has backed... Read More
ACCC Query Facebook, Google “Unfair Advantage”
The ACCC has warned digital tech giants – such as Google and Facebook – may have an “unfair advantage” over traditional media... Read More
Facebook Oppose ACCC Algorithm Review
Facebook Australia has slammed the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s (ACCC) proposal to appoint an independent body tasked with reviewing online media... Read More
Facebook Facing Multi-Billion Dollar Fine
Facebook is reportedly negotiating a multi-billion-dollar fine with the US Federal Trade Commission in response to the social media giant’s past privacy practices. According... Read More
Apple Clamps Down On Google
Apple has revoked Google’s ability to offer its employees internal-only iPhone apps, causing significant disruption to the search giant. Apple punished its... Read More
Facebook Q4 Profit Up 61% Despite Privacy Saga
Facebook has post a whopping 61% year-on-year increase in Q4 profit to a record US$6.9 billion, despite several security and data privacy... Read More
Radical Revamp of Facebook Apps
Facebook is planning to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of its WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services and incorporate end-to-end encryption to... Read More
New York Yanks & Microsoft Try To Control What The Daily Mail Reports
The Daily Mail one of the most popular news websites in Australia has been slammed with Microsoft moving to deliver third party... Read More
WhatsApp Limit Message Sharing, Fight Fake News
Facebook-owned messaging service, WhatsApp, has cracked down on fake news, with users now restricted to forwarding a text up to five times.... Read More
Facebook AR Glasses On The Horizon
Facebook is inching closer to launching commercially viable futuristic AR glasses as it rapidly expands its AR team. According to a report... Read More
Facebook Staff Leave 5-Star ‘Portal’ Reviews On Amazon
Its been a tough time for Facebook – declining user growth, lost trust and its explosive Cambridge Analytica scandal – the latest... Read More
CES 2019: Intel & Facebook Partner On AI Chip
Debuted at CES 2019, Intel has announced it’s partnered with Facebook to create a new artificial intelligence (AI) computer chip, the ‘Nervana’.... Read More
Facebook Called To Help Aussie Government
The Morrison Government is looking to set up a nationwide mentoring program – hopefully with help from Facebook and Google – to... Read More
Overseas Tech Outfits Must Go Along With Oz Encryption Laws
US and Europe-based technology companies operating in Australia have been warned that Australia’s new laws to enforce encryption of suspect material will... Read More
Brits Seize Facebook Secrets
In an extraordinary move, the British Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents ahead of an unprecedented international... Read More
Facebook Ad Platform Crashes Days Before Black Friday
Facebook’s advertising platform has reportedly crashed, just days before one of the world’s largest annual sales events – ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber... Read More
Apple Leads Tech Stocks To Over $700 Billion Decline
Major tech stocks such as Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google and Netflix have seen US$728 billion wiped off their market value in the... Read More
Instagram Expands Shopping Functions Ahead Of Christmas
As parent company Facebook continues to face dwindling user trust, photo sharing app Instagram has increased its range of shopping functions –... Read More
Facebook Suffers Global Outage
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 camera-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
