Tag: Amazon

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...

Big Tech tells regulators to focus on ‘outcomes’ not algorithms

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The world’s biggest technology companies have dismissed concerns by Australian regulators about the potential for self-preferencing and the lack of competition, recommending that the watchdogs focus on “outcomes” rather...

Amazon Australia struggles to back boss’s AI claim

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Amazon’s local policy leaders could not name a single use of generative AI by the company in Australia or what datasets it would be trained on, despite its global...

Tech consultants caught in redundancy wave

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Tech job redundancies are continuing across the economy, with Accenture, the consulting arm of IBM, and Amazon the latest to confirm cuts. The cuts add to the job losses...