Telstra's 2018 Small Business Intelligence Report, unveiled during the launch of the 2018 Telstra Business Awards today, shows that "digital is widening the gap between small businesses and potential customers."

Many Australian small businesses are not confident in the government’s ability to deliver the National Broadband Network (NBN) within the next two years as promised. SMBs are worried about being left behind in today’s digital economy race as a result of slow Internet speeds.

Social media company Twitter has reported its first ever quarterly net profit, of US$91.1 million, in the final quarter of 2017, compared to a loss of US$167 million a year prior.

From time to time, Google makes an attempt to try and convince the world at large that it takes security seriously. Its latest stunt is to announce that from July 2018 onwards it will be marking all pages that are not using secure protocols as insecure when viewed in its Chrome browser.

The Competition Commission of India, the country's anti-trust watchdog, has fined Google 135.86 crore rupees (about US$21.1 million) for "abusing its dominant position in online general Web search and Web search advertising services in India".

The primary concern for businesses after the Australian data breach law takes effect on 22 February will be information security, as without that in place, it will not be possible to protect personal information, an expert in cyber security and law says.

Apple has confirmed that the source code for iBoot from a version of iOS was posted on GitHub on Thursday, with the company forced to make the admission as it filed a DMCA takedown request to the hosting site.

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