Facebook brings news sharing back to Australia – ITPro.works
The Facebook-Australia news battle seems to have reached an end, Android gets an update and Lucid Motors is going public via SPAC. This is your Daily Crunch for February 23, … Read More
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Google threatens to close its search engine in Australia as it lobbies against digital news code – ITPro.works
Google has threatened to close its search engine in Australia — as it dials up its lobbying against draft legislation that is intended to force it to pay news publishers … Read More
Australia sues Facebook over its use of Onavo to snoop – ITPro.works
Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017, of the Onavo VPN app to … Read More
E-scooter startup Neuron Mobility adds $12M to its Series A for expansion in Australia and New Zealand – ITPro.works
Neuron Mobility, a Singapore-based e-scooter rental startup, announced today that it has added $12 million to its Series A. Led by Square Peg, an Australian venture capital firm and GSR … Read More
Facebook threatens to block news sharing in Australia as it lobbies against revenue share law
Adtech giant and self-styled ‘free speech champion’, Facebook, has threatened to pull the plug on the public sharing of news content on Facebook and Instagram in Australia. The aggressive threat … Read More
Google warns users in Australia free services are at risk if it’s forced to share ad revenue with “big media” – TechCrunch
Google has fired a lobbying pot-shot at a looming change to the law in Australia that will force it to share ad revenue with local media businesses whose content its … Read More
Australia now has a template for forcing Facebook and Google to pay for news – TechCrunch
Australia is closing in on a legally binding framework to force adtech giants Facebook and Google pay media companies for monetizing their news content when it’s posted to their social … Read More