NBN Co has no plans to increase the number of premises that receive fibre-to-the kerb (or curb as the company calls it) and these will not increase beyond a million as it has already specified.

Myer is now an official Amazon retailer with the US giant’s Kindle e-reader range on the department store’s shelves and in its online store from today.

Data centre operator NEXTDC has reported a net profit after tax of $23 million for the year to the end of June, a significant lift of $21.2 million on profits of just $1.8 million for the 2016 year.

The NBN Co makes nice PowerPoint slides whenever it creates the corporate plans that it intends to use as a means of telling the world that all is well at headquarters, says Sam Varghese in this biting critique.

Dendy Cinemas and Foxtel are joining forces to release selected movies to subscribers just one week after their theatrical release.

Macquarie Telecom has recorded a third successive year of profit growth, with the company declaring a net profit after tax of $14.2 million, a rise of 170% year-on-year, on full-year revenue of $219.7 million.

The New America Foundation, a think-tank which received large infusions of funds from Google, sacked the head of its Open Markets group after he cheered the European Union for hitting the search firm with a fine of US$2.7 billion in June.

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