Tag: Amazon

Rebuilding national competitive advantage

Posted on   |  by David McKeague
Australia has had a competitively thinning economy over the last 30 years. Australian corporates have reduced inhouse research and development – Telstra Research, Comalco Research, Wormald Research are just...

Social media giants are ‘vast surveillance’ operations

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Social media giants like Facebook and X are “vast surveillance” operations that collect, trade and hold troves of people’s data, the US consumer and competition watchdog has found after...

AWS to build govt’s $2bn Top Secret cloud

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027....

Amazon’s Starlink rival gets Aussie carrier approval

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Amazon has been granted regulatory approval to operate its forthcoming internet satellite service Project Kuiper in Australia, as the company sets its sights on customer trials of the Starlink...

AirTrunk overtakes NextDC as biggest data centre emitter

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Airtrunk has marginally overtaken NextDC as the data centre provider with the largest greenhouse gases emissions in Australia, as total emissions from the sector hit record levels. On Wednesday,...

Consultants, tech firms make $1.4m in political donations

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A handful of tech firms and the big four consultancies together donated almost $1.4 million to Australia’s major political parties last year, according to newly released figures which have reignited...

Senate committee proposes new Big Tech regulatory body

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A digital platforms coordination body should be created by the federal government to address competition concerns presented by Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, a...

The Australians building biological data centre tech

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
“In our lab in Melbourne, we’re building the world’s first neural data centre,” explains Hon Weng Chong, whose fusion of biological computing with traditional tech has caught Amazon’s eye...

‘Amazon is a monopolist’: Tech giant sued in US antitrust case

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
US regulators have launched a long-anticipated antitrust case against Amazon, alleging that the tech giant is illegally maintaining monopoly power by stifling ecommerce competition and exploiting sellers on its...