Eight years after Microsoft made an offer of US$44 billion to buy Yahoo!, the company that once was synonymous with Internet search has been sold to Verizon for US$4.83 billion. The sale was announced on Monday US time and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2017.

Insurance, financial services and utilities comparison website, iSelect, has signed a multi-million deal to deploy Salesforce Service Cloud customer management solution across its customer management network.

Australia’s new Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner received nearly 200 serious cyberbullying complaints, conducted more than thousands of investigations into online child sexual abuse content and educated more than 59,000 students across Australia through virtual classrooms in its first 12 months of operation.

ICT services provider, Data#3, has successfully deployed a next-generation Cisco network service for Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Western Australia.

Netflix continues building its competitive content advantage, announcing it will be the ‘exclusive global streaming home of FX’s American Crime Story franchise in 2017.’

Vodafone has alleviated more mobile phone blackspots with the completion of a new mobile base station at Invergowrie near Armidale in north-west NSW to deliver increased coverage to mobile users in the region.

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