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A smartphone with a Google app icon is seen in front of the displayed Australian flag in this illustration, January 22, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration SYDNEY, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Google will spend A$1 billion ($736 million) in Australia over five years, the tech giant said on Tuesday, just months after it threatened to pull its services from the country in response to tougher government regulation. The main operating unit of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) said it planned to expand cloud… Source link

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Instructors gaze watchfully from the shade of a tree as men in neon-green vests manipulate hand-held controllers clipped to mobile telephones as they direct drones flying over a vast Sydney field. Sebastian Litchfield flies a drone during a course to obtain Remote Pilot’s Licence in Sydney, Australia February 4, 2021. REUTERS/Jill Gralow The classes are run by Droneit Group, an Australian firm that accredits learners to fly the unmanned aerial vehicles, but which is now… Source link

SYDNEY — Google threatened Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism posted on their platforms. Representatives of Facebook, who appeared with Google representatives at an Australian Senate hearing, reaffirmed a threat of its own, vowing to block users in Australia from posting or providing links to news if the bill passed. In both cases, the dire warnings — which one senator… Source link