Uber has made its debut as a public company, raising US8.1 billion (A$11.5bn) with completion of its initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

The US Government must hold Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg accountable for all the problems that the social media site has visited upon its users and break up the company, Chris Hughes, a co-founder of the company, says in an op-ed.

After a week of hard labour, the obvious instinct of a worker is to look for some light relief. Thankfully, one need not look very far this week, for Google chief executive Sundar Pichai has been waxing voluble on privacy, a topic which provides much comedic relief when tackled by Google executives.

New Zealand infrastructure fund Infratil says it is in talks with the Vodafone Group to buy the company's New Zealand business, along with another unnamed party.

Western Australia-based 3D metal printer manufacturer Aurora Labs says it has finalised the build and first live test of its pre-production rapid manufacturing beta printer (RMP1).

Digital transformation solutions firm Software AG has launched webMethods.io, a multi-function integration platform as a service that is claimed to combine the low-code usability of Built.io with the control of complex integrations and APIs in webMethods Integration Cloud.

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