With the announcement that, from this year onwards, Australians will have to file their taxes online using the myGov portal, a nice new target has been created for hackers who, like all other humans, want maximum returns for minimum work.

Australia is not the only place that aims to crack down on alleged multinational tax dodgers. Google's offices in Madrid have been raided by authorities as part of an ongoing tax probe, according to media reports.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook, a staunch opponent of anti-LGBTI measures backed by the US Republican Party, hosted a fundraiser for House speaker Paul Ryan this week, inviting speculation about his motives for doing so.

Wholesale telecommunications services provider Inabox has sold its hosted collaboration solutions business to Telstra for $4.5 million.

Telstra has been having a horror 2016 due to network faults. However, so has its Kiwi counterpart. New Zealand’s largest telco, Spark, has been hit by a massive spike in faults on its broadband and landline services due to severe weather damage on the ageing Chorus copper line network. Fibre anyone?

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Stan Beer, Editor in Chief, iTWire


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