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If Facebook really pulls news from its Australian sites, we’ll have a much less compelling product
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Facebook has announced it will ban publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram if a proposal...
$2.5 billion lost over a decade: Nigerian princes lose their sheen, but scams are on the rise
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Last year, Australians reported more than A$634 million lost to fraud, a significant jump from $489.7 million the year before.
The Australian Competition...
Facebook vs news: Australia wants to level the playing field, Facebook politely disagrees
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The Australian government is setting out to develop a “bargaining code” to address power imbalances between news media publishers and digital platforms such as...
The ACCC is suing Google over tracking users. Here’s why it matters
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced yesterday it is suing Google for misleading consumers about its collection and use of...
Consumer watchdog calls for new measures to combat Facebook and Google’s digital dominance
Facebook and Google potentially face fresh curbs on
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has called for “holistic,...
Inducing consumer paralysis: how retailers bury customers in an avalanche of choice
Three decades of behavioural experiments show consumers given too
many choices are more likely to make a bad or no choice. www.shutterstock.com
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