The European Union has raised the prospect that it may consider breaking up Google into a number of smaller units, saying it harbours "grave suspicions" about the firm's dominance of the search market.

The Tasmanian Government has formally lodged a notice of dispute with Basslink, claiming damages to the tune of $122 million as a result of a six-month outage that began in December 2015.

Microsoft is launching a cloud computing initiative it says is aimed at boosting the digital capabilities of Australian public sector workers.

The US Federal Communications Commission has unveiled a formal plan to block subsidies to Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE for gear supplied to rural and small carriers.

New Zealand’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, has broadened the scope of a study it will undertake into regulation and changes to the country’s mobile telecommunications sector.

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