Australia’s number two telecoms operator Optus has been hit with a $504,000 fine by the telecommunications regulator ACMA for breaching Australia’s spam laws.

Australia's national science agency, the CSIRO, has joined the effort to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus that is threatening to spread around the globe.

New Zealand telco Spark says the British decision to give Chinese vendor Huawei a limited role in its 5G networks has not led to "any significant change" in its own rollout.

Australian-listed space technology operator Kleos Space invoiced just over $630,000 in contract revenue in December, according to the company’s fourth quarter 2019 activities update.

Global smartphone shipments fell for the second year running in 2019, a first, the technology research firms Canalys and Counterpoint Research say, with a drop of 1% year-on-year in 2019 and a 4% fall in 2018.

Merger and acquisition deals globally dropped dramatically in the final month of 2019. The figure of just over US$17 billion marked a decrease of 44.7% over the previous month and a drop of 35.8% when compared with the last 12-month average, which stood at US$26.51 billion.

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