Multinational US technology companies like Google and Facebook will have to pay a 3% turnover tax in the EU, according to a draft proposal from the European Commission.

Independent EFTPOS and payment provider Smartpay Holding has signed a deal with Chinese payment provider Alipay that will give up to 25,000 Australian and New Zealand Smartpay merchants the ability to access what is China's preferred payment method.

Next generation energy storage, autonomous systems, personal health and ageing have been cast as some of the emerging high-growth industries expected to fuel future regional growth and job creation in Australia and the South East Asian region, according to a newly released report.

Mobile video plays topped 60% globally for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2017 — garnering a 60.3% share of all video starts, according to new research published by Telstra subsidiary and video software and services vendor Ooyala.

A company that was asked to review a series of flaws claimed to be in some AMD processors says it recommended to the firm that found the flaws — the previously unknown Israel-based CTS Labs — that it disclose the vulnerabilities through a CERT advisory as is standard practice.

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