A number of news organisations in the US will make a bid to band together and negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook, provided they can get an anti-trust exemption from Congress to do so.

Google has announced it will be providing US$805,000 to the British news agency Press Association to pay for the creation of an automated local news service.

The Australian Government has set up a review to look into the accessibility of Medicare card numbers by health providers, with former public servant Professor Peter Shergold as its head.

Mastercard and Transport NSW have launched the first Australian contactless ticketing payment using Mastercard’s contactless cards or smartphone mobile wallets.

Trend Micro's bug bounty programme, the Zero-Day Initiative, paid out more than US$2 million in bounties in 2016 to researchers who submitted details of various flaws to it, the company says.

Fujitsu has announced the global extension of its digital Platform-as-a-Service — RunMyProcess — with the addition of new regional cloud platforms in Australia and North America to add to existing platforms in Europe and Asia.

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