Credit Cards Get The Finger
Mastercard has unveiled what it claims is a next-generation biometric credit card, combining chip technology with fingerprints to verify the cardholder’s identity... Read More
Bose Accused Of Spying On Customers In Class Action Suit
A class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Chicago federal court in Chicago has sought an injunction to stop Bose’s “wholesale disregard”... Read More
Yahoo Posts Profit Ahead Of Verizon Takeover
Yahoo has reported a profit of US$99 million for the first quarter of 2017, up from a loss of US$99 million in... Read More
Google Opens Android To Rivals
Alphabet will open up its Android mobile operating system to rival search engines in Russia as part of a deal to settle... Read More
Did Optus Outwit Teoh? TPG Shares Tumble On ASX
The value of David Teoh’s TPG Telecom plunged more than $1 billion on the ASX yesterday, with investors less than thrilled with... Read More
Woolworths Prepares For Fight Against Amazon
Woolworths has revealed it plans to continue to leverage data collected through its Rewards program in the lead up to Amazon’s Australian... Read More
eBay Threatens To Lock Out Oz Over Amazon Tax
In a submission to the Senate inquiry on the “Amazon Tax”, international online shopping eBay has indicated the platform may have to... Read More
Google Settles In Russian Legal Battle
Google has settled in its legal battle with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service, caving to demands that it should do more to make Android... Read More
Samsung Team Up With Westfield To Show Off S8
Visitors to Parramatta Westfield shopping center will be among the first in the world to get their hands on the Galaxy S8 ahead... Read More
Google Scraps Plan For New Sydney HQ
Google has ended negotiations with the NSW government to move its headquarters to a new tech hub in Sydney’s inner west. Plans to redevelop... Read More
TPG Buys Spectrum, Moves To Build Own Mobile Network
TPG is set to part ways with mobile partner Vodafone, following the company’s acquisition of 700Hz spectrum and the announcement that it... Read More
Rupert Takes Axe To Oz Headcount
Rupert Murdoch’s News group has closely followed Aussie rival Fairfax in taking a hatchet to its newsroom and photography staff. The changes... Read More
Toshiba Announce $12B Loss, Future In Doubt As PWC Refuse To Sign Off Books
Toshiba’s future has just got a whole lot worse with the Japanese Company admitting that they “doubt” it can survive in the... Read More
Woolworths Face $100M Shareholder Class Action
Compensation firm Maurice Blackburn has announced it’ll be spearheading an investigation and possible class action lawsuit against supermarket giant Woolworths over allegations... Read More
Panasonic Enter OLED TV market With A Cracker Of A TV
The July entry, of Panasonic to the OLED TV market seriously throws down a gauntlet to both LG and Sony who are... Read More
Apple iPhone Maker Bids A$37 To Rescue Toshiba
Their PC business is all but dead, but this has not stopped leading Taiwanese technology Company Foxconn bidding A$37 Billion for Toshiba’s... Read More
Toshiba Narrows Bidder List
Toshiba has narrowed the number of bidders for its semiconductor business from 10 to a small group that includes Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision and... Read More
Amazon To Benefit From Changes To Penalty Rates
As Amazon hunts for distribution warehouse space in Australia the Company has announced that it is set to create 30,000 part-time positions... Read More
LG Reports Record A$1B Profit, G6 Tipped To Struggle
LG who is currently rolling out their new Wall OLED TV along with an all new G6, has reported an 82% rise... Read More
Handwritten Notes Emerge In Trial Of Samsung Vice Chairman
39 pages of handwritten notes found on various notebooks are set to be aired as South Korean prosecutors go after Samsung Electronics,... Read More
Huawei Wins $15.4m Patent Case Against Samsung
Samsung has been ordered to pay 80 million yuan ($15.4 million) by a Chinese court for infringing Huawei’s smartphone patents. Huawei alleged... Read More
ACCC To Monitor Oz Broadband
The ACCC has announced that it’ll be working with the Federal Government to launch a new broadband monitoring program with the goal... Read More
COMMENT: The Good Guys Under Smart Will The Brand Get Roughed Up A Bit?
The move by Richard Murray, the overall CEO of both The Good Guys and JB Hi Fi, to anoint Terry Smart as... Read More
Spotify Agrees Limited Free Play
Spotify has inked a long-term licensing deal for songs from record label giant Vivendi’s Universal Music Group for limited free play on... Read More
Google Accuses Exec Of Stealing
Google has accused its former driverless-car executive Anthony Levandowski of slyly developing a competing company for more than three years before he... Read More
Fairfax Plans More Cutbacks, $30 million Restructure
More bloodletting at Fairfax Media has been announced as the publishing arm looks to deliver $30 million in annual savings. The major... Read More
TPG Nails Singapore Spectrum
Australian ISP and telco TPG Telecom has purchased more spectrum in Singapore where it is moving to take on current mobile network... Read More
ACCC Takes Apple To Court Over Consumer Guarantees
The ACCC is taking tech giant Apple to federal court over allegations the company has made “false, misleading, or deceptive representations about... Read More
Hisense Suspends Shares Ahead Of Major Announcement
Hisense has moved to suspend their shares pending a major announcement. ChannelNews understands that the company will announce a major acquisition. We... Read More
Infinity Display Pushes Samsung’s Foldable Plans Back To 2019
Back in January, it looked like 2017 might finally be the year of the foldable smartphone. However, after the warm reception that... Read More
Woolworths Now An Official Android Pay Partner
While Apple feuds with the local financial sector, Google’s Android Pay continues to make gains. Specifically, the mobile payment service has now... Read More
NAB Branch Gets Apple Look
National Australia Bank is taking a very different approach from rival ANZ, which is currently trialling voice recognition to encourage mobile banking... Read More
Android Overtakes Windows As #1 OS
In a sign of just how much smartphones have displaced the traditional PC paradigm, StatCounter say that Google’s Android platform has now... Read More
Yahoo And AOL To Merge Into ‘Oath’
When Verizon’s US$4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo is finalised later this year, it will merge AOL and Yahoo into a new brand... Read More
Apple, Amazon + Google, Bid For Distressed Toshiba Assets As Shares Plunge
As some of the world’s largest tech companies scrabble to buy up Toshiba memory chip assets on the cheap, their shares were... Read More
Thorn Group Stand Ground In Radio Rental Class Action
The Thorn Group, parent company of Radio Rental has defended claims that it overcharged vulnerable or disadvantaged customers through its “Rent Try... Read More
Oz Retail Sales Down In Feb
According to the latest data out of the Australia Bureau of Statistics, Australia’s retail sector slipped 0.1% (in seasonally adjusted terms) during... Read More
Officeworks Offer Rejected As Amazon Fear Affects Sale
An offer for Officeworks, by the $129 Billion-dollar investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, has been rejected, now Wesfarmers is looking to bring... Read More
Nvidia Appoint New Oz Distributor
Graphics card giant Nvidia have announced the appointment of Multimedia Technology as the master distributor for their new Quatro range of products.... Read More
Foxconn Posts Lift In Q4 Profit
Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and a key Apple supplier, posted a 30 percent jump in fourth quarter net profit,... Read More
Has Gerry Harvey’s Mouth Cost Him Millions, And What Is He Afraid Of?
The CE industry knows that Gerry Harvey suffers from verbal diarrhoea, but after berating “criminal short-sellers” his opponents have simply cranked up... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: Powermove ‘Not For Sale” Claims CEO
Powermove, is not for sale according to CEO Crawford Giles. Despite industry rumours, Giles has told staff and parties interested in buying... Read More
Australian Banks “Disappointed” With Apple Pay Ruling
With the ACCC now having denied authorization for collective bargaining to the Australian banks seeking to wrest control of the iPhone’s NFC... Read More
BREAKING NEWS: ACCC Deny Banks Over Apple Pay
Despite narrowing their submission last month, the coalition of Australian banks (NAB, Westpac, Commonwealth and Bendigo Bank) determined to wrest control over the... Read More
Gerry Harvey Has Another Rant As He Tips In, Another $9M Propping Up Harvey Norman
Gerry Harvey has again been forced to wade into the market to prop up Harvey Norman shares, after already forking out over... Read More
Stan Adds Value To Fairfax In Potential TPG Capital Takeover
Fairfax’s 50% share of video streaming service Stan is expected to play a major role in TPG Capital’s potential takeover of the... Read More
UPDATED: EXCLUSIVE: Qualifi Take Klipsch From Powermove
EXCLUSIVE: Qualifi the distributor of Marantz, Heos and Denon products in Australia is set to be appointed as the new distributor of... Read More
Radio Rentals Face Class-Action Over ‘Rent Try $1 Buy’
Compensation firm Maurice Blackburn has launched a class action lawsuit against appliance giant Radio Rentals over their ‘Rent Try $1 Buy’ scheme.... Read More
TPG Capital Considers Fairfax Takeover
Fairfax Media could be set for a takeover as early as this week as private equity firm TPG Capital reportedly buys millions... Read More
Mike Wilson Joins Indi, Big Brand Announcement Tipped
Indi Imports the Melbourne based distributor has hired well known sound industry executive Mike Wilson to head up their sales operation. Wilson... Read More