| Hi John, Australia’s second largest print media group is about to be swallowed by the country’s largest electronic media conglomerate. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the free light for a proposed merger between Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment announced in July.
The smartphone market continued its free fall last quarter, with new results from technology analyst firm Canalys bearing out an earlier report from IDC. Smartphone shipments fell by 7% in the third quarter of 2018, the fourth straight quarter of declines and the worst third quarter showing since 2015.
The European Union has almost completed a third inquiry into Google's parent company Alphabet — this time into the company's AdSense advertising business — according to the bloc's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager.
New Zealand accounting software company Xero has lifted revenue by 37% to NZ$265.5 million for the first half of the 2019 financial year, but suffered a net loss for the six months of NZ28.6 million.
The Internet of Things (IOT) is predicted to continue to deliver new opportunities for digital business innovation for the next decade, according to a newly published report from analyst firm Gartner.
Modular data centre colocation services operator Data Exchange Network has shipped its global cross-connection modules to its colocation data centre in Sydney. And of course, there's plenty more so for all the news visit www.itwire.com.
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