Companies which employ 19 or fewer people will have to report through the single touch payroll (STP) system from 1 July, the Australian Taxation Office says, adding that they can take additional time until 30 September to do so if required.

Leaked internal Facebook documents show that the company was targeting politicians in a number of countries, promising them investments and incentives in exchange for pushing against privacy laws on the social media giant's behalf.

The Canadian Government has given the go-ahead for the extradition case relating to Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies, to proceed.

Global ride sharing platform DiDi is expanding Australian services with the rollout of extensive driver and rider recruitment programs in anticipation of the official launch of DiDi Express, its core ride-hailing service, in Newcastle.

The Nine network has called for a regime to regulate dominant digital platforms — aka Google and Facebook — which would be administered by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and new powers for the competition watchdog to issue rules in order to encourage more competition.

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