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Logistics and online sales are set to be critical according to retailers and specialist audio and custom install Companies after the hapless...

Wesfarmers Shuts All Retail Stores In Melbourne For 6 Weeks

Wesfarmers has confirmed that it will close its retail stores in Melbourne for six weeks from midnight on 5th August, in line...

Revenue Down, But Fuji Xerox Australia Returns To Black

SYDNEY: Fuji Xerox Australia has posted a profit for the year ended March 31, despite a drop in revenue to $608 million,...

STAGE 4 LOCKDOWN Thousands Of Vic Workers Ordered To Stay At Home

MELBOURNE: Telecommunications companies and the media have largely escaped shut-down, as Victoria enters a Stage 4 lockdown, due to the surge in...

BREAKING NEWS:Harvey Norman, Bunnings, JB Hi Fi, Winnings & The Good Guys Face Weeks Of Major Store Closures

JB Hi Fi, The Good Guys and Harvey Norman as well as Winnings are facing a major shut down of their Victorian...

NAB Online Retail Index Up 49.6%, Led By Groceries & Appliances

The NAB Online Retail Sales Index continued to improve in June increasing by 49.6% year-on-year and 0.2% month-on-month. “The year-on-year result implies...

COVID Restrictions Drive 18.6% Growth In Worldwide Tablet Shipments

After two quarters of decline, the global tablet market recorded 18.6% year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in the second quarter of 2020, with shipments...

Global Smartphone Market Plummets 14%, Apple Only Growing Vendor

The global smartphone market contracted by 14% in Q2 2020, with 285 million smartphones shipped, according to the latest figures from market...

EXCLUSIVE: Niles Audio & Sunfire To Be Merged Into Speakercraft Brand In Major Rationalisation

August 2, 2020

US security & control conglomerate Nortek is undertaking a major rationalisation of their popular audio brands Nile Sunfire and Speakercraft, a big...

ACCC Release Framework For Google & Facebook To Pay Oz Media For Content

The ACCC has released a draft mandatory code of conduct that would allow Australian media companies to bargain with Google and Facebook...

Amazon’s Sales Surge 40% As Shoppers Move Online

Amazon’s net sales increased by 40% year-on-year (y-o-y) to $88.9 billion in Q2 2020, as shoppers across the globe moved to online...

Alphabet’s Revenue Falls For The First Time As Advertising Dries Up

Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube, has recorded its first ever quarter of revenue falls, as advertisers cut down on spending during...

Huawei Leads Global Smartphone Market For First Time, Despite Falling Sales Overseas

China’s Huawei shipped more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor for the first time in the second quarter of 2020, despite its...

COMMENT: Junkee Introduces No Byline Journalism, For Whimp Journalists

What a load of bollocks! It appears that what we now have is a bunch of new age writers who don’t want...

ACCC Loses TPG ‘Prepayment’ Appeal

The Full Federal Court has dismissed the ACCC’s appeal against TPG over a $20 ‘prepayment’ for selected prepaid plans, however, the consumer...

Wesfarmers Bought Catch For $230M – It’s Now Worth $1B

In June 2019 Wesfarmers purchased Catch Group – which owns the ecommerce site Catch.com.au – for $230 million. Now, analysts and fund...

Shopify Sales More Than Double In Q2 As Merchants Move Online

Shopify’s gross merchandise value (GMV) – that is, the total value of goods sold on its platform – more than doubled in...

Samsung Q2 Profit Up 23%, Second-Half “Gradual Recovery” Expected

Samsung has reported a 23% YoY lift in Q2 operating profit prompt by its memory chip business. The Korean giant is expecting...

Zuckerberg Grilled By Antitrust Committee For Buying Out Competition

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was yesterday questioned by the US Congress Antitrust Subcommittee about the tech giant’s history of buying out competing...

BREAKING NEWS: TCL Facing Major TV Supply Issues JB Hi Fi Ffalcon Range Affected

TCL’s TV division in Australia is having major problems with supply with the JB Hi Fi Ffalcon range which is manufactured by...

Amazon Slammed Over “Troubling” Private-Label Practices In US Hearings

Amazon Chief Executive, Jeff Bezos, has been slammed with questions over the e-commerce giant’s private-label practises in today’s landmark US hearings, citing...

ACMA Launches Phone Scam Plan

SYDNEY: The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has ramped up its efforts to help consumers combat scams, using a suite of...

Aussie Outfits To Spend More On Biz Transformation: Telsyte

SYDNEY: Despite the ongoing pandemic, Australian organisations are looking to business transformation to improve employee systems, according to a new Telsyte report....

Legal Centre Calls For Buy-Now Pay-Later Crackdown

SYDNEY: Fintech operators like Zip and Afterpay are now worth more than retail giants Myer and David Jones, on the back of...

AMD Revenues Up 26% As It Continues To Take Market Share From Intel

AMD’s revenues increased by 26% year-on-year (y-o-y) in Q2 2020 to total $1.93 billion, as the company continues to eat into Intel’s...

Canon Hit By WFH, Profits Down 32.3%

Canon has reported its first quarterly loss, with gross profits contracting by 32.3% and net sales were down 25.7% in Q2 2020....

Mobile Data Reveals How Activity In Melbourne Has Plummeted

According to mobile location data gathered by UberMedia and Roy Morgan, has revealed that activity in Melbourne has fallen dramatically during the...

ACCC Slams Energy Provider Over Ad Breach

The ACCC has slammed electricity provider, Local Planning Energy (LPE), for an alleged failure to advertise prices online in accordance with the...

‘Made in India’ iPhone 11 Enters Production

Taiwanese component manufacturer, Foxconn, has reportedly commenced production of Apple’s iPhone 11 series at its Indian Chennai plant, as the company seeks...

Home Entertainment Gear Demand To Spike After Landmark Movie Deal

A landmark deal between the world’s largest theatre chain, AMC, and Universal Pictures has significantly reduced the time new films will take...

Big W’s Bub&Me Sale Features Uniden Cameras, UV Sanitiser Bags & More

Tomorrow Big W is kicking off its bi-annual Bub&Me sales, which will run in-store and online until 12th August. This time round,...

Dodgy Bank Used By Distributors Facing New Money Laundering Claims

Westpac’s anti-money laundering drama has taken a new turn with authorities now finding several large undisclosed transfers to questionable accounts overseas. Westpac...

Big W Inks Amazon Echo Show Deal Amid Turnaround

Embattled Woolworths-owned department store, Big W, has gained distribution of Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays, as the discount retailer continues to progress...

EXCLUSIVE:Supply Chain Facing Major Problems As Chinese Factories Stop Credit

Consumer electronics, audio and appliance distributors are facing new supply issue with Chinese factories now demanding “cash up front”, at the same...

LG Debunks Solar Module Business Exit, Invests Millions

LG Electronics has firmly debunked rumours it’s selling its solar module business, affirming it’s currently investing tens of millions of dollars into...

Google Extends Work-From-Home To July 2021, Others May Follow Suit

Search engine behemoth, Google, has extended its work-from-home mandate for staff across most of its major offices by another year, affecting around...

Big Retail Group Offers Up $1.4 Billion To Settle Accounting Scandal After Off loading Harris Scarf

Steinhoff, the corrupt South African retail group who changed their name to Greenlit Brands in Australia and were responsible for the questionable...

Facebook Takes EU To Court For Privacy Invasion

The Financial Times has reported that Facebook has taken the European Union (EU) to court for invading the privacy of its employees...

Dicker Data’s Revenues Up 18.1% On The Back Of COVID-Driven Demand

Dicker Data, one of Australia’s leading value-added distributors of hardware, software, cloud and emerging technologies, has recorded a strong H1 2020, led...

Foxtel Commit $2.5M To Support Mental Health Charities

Foxtel has announced a two-year, $2.5-million commitment to raise awareness and support for community mental wellbeing, through relationships with Raise Foundation, ReachOut...

Google Sued For Misleading Oz Consumers About Combining Personal Data

The ACCC has launched Federal Court proceedings against Google for allegedly misleading Australian consumers to obtain their consent to expand the scope...

David Jones Sales Down 8.1%, But Says Foot Traffic Is Improving

Sales at David Jones – which is owned by South Africa’s Woolworths Holdings – have fallen by 8.1% year-on-year in the last...

Google’s E-commerce Platform To Rival Amazon’s, Removes Fees

Google is continuing to make its e-commerce platform more appealing to sellers, as it ramps up its efforts to compete with Amazon....

Huawei ‘Better World’ 2020 Summit To Kick-Off As CFO Faces Extradition

Huawei’s multi-day virtual conference ‘Better World 2020 Summit’ is set to commence today, running until 30th July. This coincides with a court...

Google Shopping Takes Aim At Amazon With New Seller Initiatives

July 24, 2020

Google has offered another focused attempt to compete with Amazon’s online portal, this time accelerating its ‘Shopping’ web platform to better capitalise...

Apple’s Woz Sues YouTube

July 24, 2020