| Hi John,
The future of Kogan’s consumer business is on shaky ground. Online retailer Kogan is rationalising its consumer business under pressure from increased competition and will concentrate on further growing its main business to business divisions.
Telstra has sold its remaining 6.5% stake in the Chinese car website Autohome to Ping An Insurance Group for US$227 million (A$282 million).
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has refused to allow the merger of Sky Network Television and Vodafone New Zealand. Vodafone is already the dominant mobile carrier in NZ and the merger would have given the telco a very strong position in the broadband space.
A day after it said it would not be issuing any security fixes until 14 March, Microsoft has issued a patch to fix bugs deemed to be critical in versions of Adobe's Flash Player that run on several versions of Windows.
A digital marketplace for trading in energy generated by solar panels and stored in battery storage units has been launched, with green tech start-up GreenSync in the lead.
More than half of the traffic on the Web is now protected by encryption, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organisation dedicated to protecting civil liberties online. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
Have a great day!
Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire
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