Search giant Google, one of the companies that will be affected by a government-mandated code that will set a fee it will have to pay news publishers when it brings up their content in search results, is now saying it is doing these companies a favour by featuring their content in the results.

Global spending on IT is trending down, with the technology analyst firm IDC says it now expects a drop of 5.1% to US$2.25 trillion due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A vulnerability in the Salt management framework was exploited by attackers to install cryptocurrency mining software on the popular Ghost blogging platform, the company said in a notice on its website.

Almost half of Australian parents (45%) do not have existing measures in place to protect their children online, according to a new research report.

Apple has released an updated 13in MacBook Pro with the Magic Keyboard and twice as much storage in standard configurations.

The total number of MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) platform users globally is forecast to grow b y over fivefold by 2021 compared with 2019, resulting in worldwide market reach to over 1.3 million users in 2021, according to new research.

Power management company Eaton has announced the opening of the new Australian head office of Power On at a new integrated design and technology hub in Brisbane.

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing severe disruption to Australian small businesses, with many businesses “doing it tough”, according to Rod Sims, the Chair of the competition regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

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