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• Australia’s competition boss sees need to rein-in power of Google, Facebook

  Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims says there are currently five active investigations arising from the ACCC’s scrutiny of the market power of Google and Facebook.

• NBN Co to target business market with new bundles

  NBN Co plans to next year launch a range of new bundled products targeting the business market, the company announced this morning.

• ACCC mulls forcing Google to offer users a choice of browsers, search engines

  Tech giants such as Google and Facebook could face major new regulations under a range of preliminary proposals released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as part of its ‘digital platforms’ inquiry.

• Australia’s telcos prepare for 5G era, spending $834 million on key spectrum

  Mobile network operators will hand over $834 million for spectrum that will be used to deliver the first Australian 5G services.

• Queensland government seeks broadband boost with ‘FibreCo Qld’

  The Queensland government will establish a new entity dubbed FibreCo Qld to help provide cheaper backhaul in regional areas of the state for telcos.

• How Tinder creates better matches using AWS image recognition technology

  Popular dating app Tinder is using image recognition technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its matching algorithm for premium users.

• With Google Chromium move, Microsoft raises white flag in browser war

  After a years-long pummelling, Microsoft has surrendered in the browser war, saying that it will junk Edge's home-grown rendering engine.

• What is an SSD? How solid state drives work

  Solid state drives use interconnected pools of flash memory that are managed by an SSD controller to deliver speeds far beyond what a hard disk drive (HDD) can offer.

• The rise of ‘smarketing’ and the importance of business alignment

  The IT industry and especially the channel are constantly in flux. Changes in technology, mergers and acquisitions, and evolving service models mean that no company can afford to sit still when it comes to marketing and sales.

• AustCyber calls for cool heads after encryption bill passed

  AustCyber – the government funded not-for-profit tasked with growing the Australian cyber security sector – has called for cool heads following the passage of the so-called encryption bill by parliament.

• MNF Group wins Inabox takeover tussle

  Inabox shareholders have voted to accept an offer by MNF Group that will see the MyNetFone owner acquire all of Inabox Group’s operating businesses.

• ACCC asks whether telcos get enough data from NBN Co

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s inquiry into NBN Co’s wholesale service standards has entered its “next phase,” the ACCC said today.

• Microsoft Edge embraces open-source Chromium code, plans move to Windows 7, 8, and Macs

  Microsoft's Edge is embracing the open-source Chromium project and expanding to other operating systems.

• IBM offloads software products to HCL Technologies in $1.8B deal

  HCL Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire some IBM software products in a US$1.8 billion deal.

• Top Huawei executive arrested on US request

  The daughter of Huawei's founder, a top executive at the Chinese technology giant, was arrested in Canada and faces extradition to the United States, stirring up fears it could reignite a Sino-U.S. trade row and roiling global stock markets.