Savant Acquires Home Audio Brand Artison
Home automation company Savant has acquired audio components manufacturer Artison, best known for its range of integrated speakers, subwoofers and soundbars. Savant... Read More
Hell! Musk Running Short Of Cash
Elon Musk – the American who has promised to supply South Australia with a huge wind-powered energy battery farm within 100 days... Read More
Musk’s SA Visit Helped Business Confidence Jump 4.7pc: Morgan
Business confidence across Australia rose 5.2 points, up 4.7pc, in July to 117.0, the highest level since last year’s Federal election, according... Read More
Westpac Pumps $40m Into Digital Payments Player Zip
Westpac has pumped $40 million into ASX-listed digital payments company Zip for 17.11 percent equity, and the two companies have formed a... Read More
Jail For CommBank CEO? A Possibility, Says Nick Xenophon
South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon has suggested banking executives like the Commonwealth Bank’s Ian Narev should face the prospect of a jail... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: GFK Still Wants To Charge CE Vendors, Despite Losing Biggest Source Of Information
German research house GFK, still wants to continue charging their customers tens of thousands of dollars for tracking research despite losing the... Read More
NBN Nabs Nokia Exec For CTO Spot
NBN has recruited former Nokia Australia MD Ray Owen to fill the vacancy left by the departure of CTO Dennis Steiger in May.... Read More
Price Put On NBN Capacity Problems
A new report by The Australian has claimed that the speed-issues facing the national broadband network could be solved by telcos for... Read More
COMMENT: Is The CSIRO The Answer After Harvey Norman Dump GFK
The decision by Harvey Norman management to stop supplying GFK with key sales data is not surprising especially as Amazon is set... Read More
Online Sales Up, But Overall June Electronic Sales Dropped
Sales of electrical and electronic goods via retail outlets fell 0.1 percent in June , according to the latest retail trading report... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: Confirmed Harvey Norman Pulls The Plug On GFK.
UPDATED: Harvey Norman has made a commercial decision to stop supplying data to GFK according to seversal vendors the move will deliver... Read More
‘Gaming Video Content’ Could Be Bigger Than Netflix
According to research firm SuperData’s latest Games & Interactive Media Report, the audience for gaming-related content on Youtube and Twitch is more... Read More
Retail Spend Continues To Rise
Australian retail turnover rose by 0.3% in June, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This marks three... Read More
Amazon Germany Director To Manage Oz Operation
Amazon is bringing over one of its German directors to fill the role of country manager for Australia. Rocco Braeuniger currently works... Read More
Tablet Market Continues Downward Spiral, Says IDC
According to the latest data out of IDC, the tablet market has declined for the eleventh quarter in a row. IDC say... Read More
Former Coles and Dick Smith Exec To Head Up ALPA Retail
Former Coles and Dick Smith executive Michael Dykes has been appointed as the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation’s new general manager for... Read More
Fairfax Eyes Ten’s Financials Ahead Of Sale
Fairfax Media has reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement to allow it to look over Ten’s financial and business details. According to a report from... Read More
Amazon Confirms First Oz Fulfilment Centre
Amazon said it expects to create hundreds of jobs at a new 24,000 square metre fulfilment centre in Dandenong South. After advertising... Read More
US Claims Breakthrough With Rechargeable Alkaline Battery
A Massachusetts start-up company today plans to unveil what it claims is a major breakthrough in battery design: technology that it claims... Read More
HP Launches Wearable VR/PC
Hewlett-Packard has joined the virtual reality push with a wearable PC – but says it’s aimed at enterprise customers rather than gamers.... Read More
Media Invited To DVD Bonfire
The Australian media have been invited to witness the possibly fiery destruction of more than one million counterfeit DVDs seized by police,... Read More
ACCC Releases New NBN Consultation Paper
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has published a fresh consultation paper, inviting submissions on NBN Co’s revised variation to its Special... Read More
AI Market Set To Hit $23 Billion
Despite this public debate between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg on whether or not artificial intelligence (AI) is good for humanity (CDN,... Read More
Top Postie Resurfaces At BCG
After leaving Australia Post as its CEO on Friday, Ahmed Fahour has this week re-emerged at BCG Digital Ventures as non-executive chairman... Read More
Fake DVD Floggers Get Jail
Two Australians who sought to sell more than a million high-quality counterfeit DVD movies online have been sentenced to jail terms At... Read More
Ransomeware: Almost Half Of Oz Infected SMBs Agree To Pay
Almost half of Australian small-medium companies that have been hit by ransomeware attacks have elected to pay up – a surprisingly high... Read More
Mitel To Buy ShoreTel For $530m
Business communications systems and service provider Mitel is to acquire rival ShoreTel for US$530 million, saying the move will put it into... Read More
Spotify Passes 60 Million Paid Subscribers
Spotify has announced it now has over 60 million paid subscribers to its subscription music service, less than five months after reaching a... Read More
Samsung Topples Intel As No. 1 Chipmaker
Samsung, known mostly for its smartphones and televisions, has taken the mantel from Intel as the world’s largest chipmaker by revenue. Samsung’s... Read More
Billabong Dumps Netsuite Deal
Retailer Billabong has reportedly dumped its e-commerce platform provider NetSuite, following what are said to be “technical implementation issues”. It has terminated... Read More
Huawei Announces Move Away From Low-End Smartphones
Huawei has posted its latest financial earnings report, detailing an increase of 36.2% in the company’s revenues for the first half of... Read More
Sharp Australia Appoints New MD
Sharp Australia has announced current Sharp Brazil president Hitoshi Kagawa will be taking over as new managing director. Kagawa (pictured above, right)... Read More
Analysts Anticipate iPhone Delay
The first official indication of a delay for the upcoming iPhone may come in Apple’s guidance in its financial results later this week.... Read More
SoundCloud In Talks For Life-Saving Acquisition
Days after closing down their Sydney office, reports have surfaced that embattled music streaming company SoundCloud may be acquired by private firms.... Read More
Intel Revenue Jumps As Sales Of PC, IoT Chips Zoom
Intel has reported Q2 revenue and profit topping analysts’ expectations and raising its year outlook, citing higher expectations for PC sales this... Read More
Amazon Raids Singapore Market Ahead Of Australian Push
In what could be a preview of battles to come in Australia when Amazon makes its long-expected entry to the Down Under... Read More
SoundCloud Closes Sydney Office
Embattled music streaming player SoundCloud have taken another blow today, with Ad News reporting that the company’s Sydney office will close down today.... Read More
LG Revenues Grow To $12.89 Billion Despite Mobile Trouble
LG has reported revenue growth almost across the board for the second quarter of 2017, posting a quarterly operating income of $588.2... Read More
Switch Boosts Nintendo Profit
Nintendo’s Switch console, pictured, has been a hit with fans and the company’s balance sheet. Q1 profit for the games company beat... Read More
Amazon Costs Rise As They Move Into OZ, Retailer Faces Losing Three Buyers
Amazon.com who is looking to hire senior executives ahead of their role out in Australia has allocated “tens of millions” in costs... Read More
Samsung Race Ahead In Latest Earnings Report
Samsung has posted a record profit for the quarter, with approximately $6.7 billion (AU) in revenues and $896 million in profits. “Looking... Read More
AMD Basks In Revenue Jump
Advanced Micro Devices has forecast current-quarter revenue above estimates and raised full-year expectations, based on robust demand for its graphics chips and... Read More
Apple A Winner With Trump, But Must Pay $506m Damages
Donald Trump says Apple is moving forward with establishing three big factories in the US. The US President told the Wall Street... Read More
Vodafone Urges NBN Price Cut
Vodafone Hutchison Australia has called on NBN Co to reduce its network access charge, while still meeting the government-mandated commercial rate of... Read More
ICAC Claims Corrupt Technology CFO Embezzled $5 Million
At lease five IT companies have been caught up in a corruption probe of a former City of Botany Bay Council chief... Read More
Facebook Delivers 70% Earnings Growth
Facebook who are creating major problems for Australian media Companies along with Google, has reported a 70% increase in earnings. The social... Read More
Facebook TV To Go Live Next Month
As Companies such as Apple, Netflix and Amazon move to create their own TV content it’s been revealed that Facebook is set... Read More
LG Invests In OLED To Fight Off Shortage
According to a new report out of Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, LG is set to bolster its ability to compete with Samsung... Read More
TCL Has Not Cut A Deal With Amazon, Yet.
Chinese TV Company TCL, has not cut a deal with Amazon yet, they claim. Though, the local subsidiary does admit that they... Read More
Huawei Holds Lead Against Oppo
Huawei has held onto its top ranking within the Chinese smartphone market, despite quarterly shipments falling 3% to 113 million. “China’s smartphone... Read More