‘Price Gouge’: Clubs Plan Boycott As News Group Ups Video Charges
The powerful NSW and Queensland clubs lobby has rejected proposed massive subscription increases proposed by News Corporation’s Fox Sports for showing its... Read More
Dicker Ticker Gets 10pc Flicker
ASX-listed technology products distributor Dicker Data has reported a 10 percent rise in group revenue to $1.18 billion for the year to... Read More
Telstra Joins YouTube Advertising Boycott
Australia’s largest telecommunications company Telstra have joined ranks with companies across the world by dropping advertising on YouTube in response to an... Read More
LG Takes BLU To Court
LG has filed a lawsuit against smartphone vendor BLU, alleging that the US-based company infringed on five of its LTE patents. LG... Read More
Dyson Posts Record Sales
Dyson has reported a 45% increase in sales to £2.5 billion ($4.1 billion) in 2016, with a new range of cordless vacuum cleaners finding significant... Read More
Optus Commence 2G Shutdown
Optus is set to formally begin the process of shutting down its older 2G network in the coming weeks, with services in... Read More
Aldi Rebrands
Aldi is set to undertake a global rebranding later this year, including the company’s first logo refresh in 11 years. The German company first revealed... Read More
Samsung Press Pause On Restructuring
Despite earlier indications by the company late last year, it looks like Samsung is going to back off on plans to restructure itself as a... Read More
YouTube Bleeding Advertisers
Google can’t stop the haemorrhaging of its advertisers as they continue to pull their ads from YouTube over the Internet giant’s inability... Read More
Fetch TV Rebrands $10M Campaign
As exclusively tipped by ChannelNews, award winning content provider Fetch TV has rebranded and is now simply called ‘Fetch’. The move comes... Read More
Harvey Norman Facing 100 ASIC Questions, Court Rules Franchisees Not Independent
Serious problems are mounting for Harvey Norman and his franchise network, with Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigators now probing the Companies books,... Read More
ZTE Report Growth Despite Sanction Violations
Chinese tech player ZTE has released its latest quarterly earnings report, growing revenues 1.04% to 101.2 billion yuan (approximately $19.3B) despite taking a... Read More
Harvey Norman Shares Heading Down, Down Down
Shares in Harvey Norman have tumbled further today, despite Chairman Gerry Harvey moving to prop up his share value by buying further... Read More
Oz Retailers Top Big Spenders On IT: $1.6 Billion Set To Flow
Australian retailer IT spending is expected to reach A$1.6 billion in 2017, as local retailers invest more in technology to remain competitive.... Read More
Harvey Norman Does Backflip, They Now Admit ASIC Investigation
Harvey Norman management who are well known for their “arrogance”, have finally admitted that their accounts are under investigation by the Australian... Read More
NAB & HSBC Go After Former Dick Smith CEO, None Executive Directors Deny Any Wrongdoing
Dick Smith Bankers, NAB and HSBC have moved to commence separate proceedings against Dick Smith’s executive directors, Nick Abboud and Michael Potts... Read More
US Telcos Drop Google Advertising
AT&T and Verizon are pulling advertising from YouTube and Google after ads from the brands appeared alongside controversial videos and articles. The... Read More
More Aussie Car Buyers Looking Online For Advice: Roy Morgan
Some 43 percent of Australians who intend to buy a new car before 2020 are doing most of their automotive research online,... Read More
Qantas To Be Hit As UK Joins Trump’s IT Carry-On Bans
Australia’s Qantas airline appears certain to be affected by changes in carry-on restrictions, after the UK yesterday joined the USA in banning... Read More
Gerry Harvey Dismisses Sell-Off Claims As “Stupid”
Gerry Harvey has dismissed suggestions that his wife’s recent decision to sell off 210,000 Harvey Norman shares was connected to Monday’s dive... Read More
Has Q Acoustics Appointed A New Distributor?
Struggling audio brand Q Acoustics,have told potential distributors, that they have already locked in a new distributor, despite telling ChannelNews that they... Read More
Harvey Norman Responds to Share Fall
After Harvey Norman shares fell eight per cent on Monday, the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) asked the company why, the answer came... Read More
TPG Reports 11% Profit Growth
TPG has reported a 11% lift in profit for the half year ending January 31, with new NBN subscribers and subsidiary iiNet... Read More
Guard Changes At Huawei Oz
Huawei Australia has named Meng Xiaojie (known locally as “Aragon”) as its new CEO, replacing incumbent Zhao Xichu (“James”) who has held... Read More
Australian Retailers To Spend $1.6B On IT In 2017
Australian retailer IT spending is expected to reach US$1.24 billion ($1.6 billion) in 2017, as local retailers invest more in technology to... Read More
NBN Co Hires New Team In Bid To Fix Sky Muster Debacle
NBN Co will expand its team of engineers and architects overseeing the troubled Sky Muster satellite service. Initially reports say it plans... Read More
Harvey Norman Share Take A Battering As Ackery + Page Sell Down Shareholding
Harvey Norman shares are taking a battering, after it was revealed that both Katie Page and the head of consumer electronics and... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: David Jones To Get Back Into CE Looking For Buyer
David Jones is looking to get back into the consumer electronics and audio market, following a disastrous relationship with Dick Smith who... Read More
Online Shopping Scams On The Rise
More than 1,000 reports of online shopping scams have been received by the ACCC since the start of 2017, after reports increased by... Read More
EU Issues Deadline For Net Rules
The European Union’s executive body has given US social media companies one month to comply with consumer regulation. On Friday the EU... Read More
Small IT Is Beautiful, Cities Minister Taylor Tells Oz Reptiles
Angus Taylor, Australia’s assistant minister for cities and digital transformation, says the Turnbull Government is determined to use the much criticised Digital... Read More
Former Dick Smith Directors To Appear In Court Over Dodgy Rebate Practices
16 months after Dick Smith collapsed with debts of over $400M, the directors of the Company have been served notices to appear... Read More
OLED Supply Struggles Against Growing Demand
According to a report from DigiTimes, a sizeable gap between supply and global demand for OLED panels will play a major role in... Read More
SA Brings World’s Largest “Virtual Power Plant” Online
In the midst of the current South Australian power crisis, AGL have flicked the switch on their new Virtual Power Plant, which they say... Read More
US Digital Ad Market Up 16pc
Total digital ad spending in the US will increase 16 percent this year to US$83 billion (A$110 billion), led by Google’s continued... Read More
Choice Slams Amazon Contracts
Consumer rights outfit Choice has called for a ban on online contracts for IT goods that are too long or are written... Read More
ACCC Highlights Digi-Challenges
Cutting-edge technology poses significant challenges to regulatory bodies and incumbent companies who find difficulty in keeping in step, says ACCC chairman Rod... Read More
Myer Inks Online Pay-Later System
Myer is set to allow online shoppers to buy now and pay later after it signed a two-year deal with listed payments... Read More
ACCC Highlights Digital Challenges At NCC
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims has addressed the National Consumer Congress in Melbourne today, highlighting the challenges facing the... Read More
Exclusive: TEAC Australia Halts Trading, Hints At “Change Of Control”
TTA Holdings, the official distributor of TEAC consumer electronics products in Australia, has had its shares on the Australian Stock Exchange placed... Read More
Lee Could Run Samsung From Cell
While the head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y. Lee, may be in jail, reports say he is allowed plenty of... Read More
St George Goes Down – Again
St George bank – these days part of the Westpac empire – had its second outage in a week yesterday. Attempts to... Read More
ANZ Dumps Amex Cards
The ANZ Bank has reportedly cut all ties with American Express, following changes to card regulations – which would see banks getting... Read More
Apple Guilty Of iPhone Price-Fixing In Russia
A Russian watchdog has found Apple guilty of fixing the price of iPhones sold at Russian retailers. The country’s Federal Antimonopoly Service said... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: BSR To Open New Betta Company Owned Store
The BSR Group who operate the Betta Electrical retail stores is set to open a series of Company owned stores in an... Read More
Oz PC Market In Decline, But 2-In-1s Buck The Trend
Australian PC shipments were down 3.2% year-on-year during Q4 2016, with 1.12 million desktop and notebooks shipped according to research from IDC.... Read More
Panasonic To Benefit From Tesla’s SA Power Fix
Panasonic would be a major beneficiary of Tesla’s proposed energy storage solution for South Australia’s power crisis. Beginning in January, the two... Read More
Oculus Strike Back In Legal Offensive
Following January’s extensive legal battle and last month’s injunction against Facebook-backed VR player Oculus, the company’s CTO John Carmack has now struck back... Read More
Fake Reviews Or Genuine?, ACCC Takes Action Against Online Website
The ACCC has announced it’ll be taking Perth-based home improvement company to court over websites it created for the purposes of generating... Read More
Logitech Is On A Roll But What About Their Future?
In Australia Logitech, has gone from flogging keyboards and mice to a new generation of top end Bluetooth headphones, conference communication gear... Read More