Telstra is cutting an additional 280 jobs as it continues culling its workforce as part of the program announced in 2018 that it would effect a net reduction of 8000 employees and contractors by 2022 - and reduce two to four layers of management, with one in four executive and middle management roles to go.

Scammers are using new online platforms to take advantage of their victims, with dating and romance scams making up one fifth of losses amounting to millions of dollars, across all scams reported to the ACCC’s Scamwatch service in 2019.

International Formula 1 championship racing team, McLaren Racing, has competed for almost 50 years. Keeping up with technology, McLaren has announced a global partnership with data insights firm Splunk to deliver actionable information around race performance.

Australia’s National Relay Service (NRS) which provides telecommunications services to support people who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment to make and receive phone calls, has ceased to use the CapTel handset.

The Australian Government has released a national strategy for blockchain technology aptly titled the National Blockchain Roadmap.

Chinese smartphone makers Huawei, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi plan to jointly launch a platform, known as the Global Developer Service Alliance, where developers can upload apps for all four brands.

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