Australia is gearing up to implement a groundbreaking levy on major tech giants. If platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok fail to compens...

European Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...

The global spotlight on the first such ban on people under 16 using popular apps appears to have encouraged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese...

The legislation, first flagged last month, will broaden the legislation that empowers the Reserve Bank of Australia to regulate payments so...

The Australian government plans to introduce laws that would allow the central bank to regulate digital wallet providers such as Apple Pay ...

The EU may have just forced it to make one of the biggest changes that would come to iPhones in almost 10 years.

Services such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and China's WeChat Pay, which have grown rapidly in recent years, are not currently designated as pa...

The legislation was passed on Thursday and will ensure “news media businesses are fairly remunerated for the content they generate,” Treasu...

The social networking giant, which has been tussling with Australia over a law that would make social platforms pay news organizations, sai...

Google had threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia in response to the legislation, which would create a panel to make...

Australia is on course to become the first country to require Facebook and Google to pay for news content, legislation that is being closel...

Only rolled out previously in Brazil and Germany, the News Showcase platform was originally slated for launch last June. But Alphabet Inc-o...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had since spoken to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella about its search engine Bing filling the ...

Australia is on course to pass laws that would make the Big Tech giants negotiate payments with local publishers and broadcasters for conte...

Australia plans to force Google and Facebook to pay media organisations when their platforms host their content or face millions of dollars...

Google and Facebook ferry more than 80% of external traffic to various news sites, according to Parse.ly, a web analytics and content optim...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would release in late July draft rules for the platforms ...