IT Pro

Google charity extends to app challenge

Google will put $2 million plus human resources into four initiatives to help not-for-profits.

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Time to trade privacy for safety

Police Commissioner says Australian have to sacrifice some of their privacy expectations.

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Australian companies hit by increasing number of cyber attacks

Cyber criminals are wreaking havoc with IT systems.

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Former exec sues dating app Tinder for sexual harassment

Former Tinder marketing vice president Whitney Wolfe.

Sarah McBride 4:35 PM Popular dating-app company accused of sexual harassment and discrimination, is the latest technology business to face challenges over treatment of women.

Cyber crime

Microsoft to disrupt cybercrime rings with roots in Kuwait, Algeria

Microsoft is setting out to disrupt use of malware that can view screens remotely, log keystrokes.

11:23 AM Microsoft has launched what it hopes will be the most successful private effort to date to crack down on cyber crime by moving to disrupt communications channels between hackers and infected PCs.

Grant

Google charity extends to app challenge

Alan Noble, director of engineering at Google Australia.

Sylvia Pennington Google will put $2 million plus human resources into four initiatives to help not-for-profits organisations in Australia.

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Privacy

Time to trade privacy for safety, says NSW Police Commissioner

Andrew Colley NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione says Australian will have to sacrifice some of their privacy expectations in order to stay safe from terrorist attacks and criminal activity.

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News Bytes

News bytes

10:08 AM NAB's top tech women, Bitcoin start-ups wanted; Telco wholesaler Inabox acquires Neural Networks; Federal Court case

Cyber security

Australian companies hit by increasing number of cyber attacks

Stuart Corner Cyber criminals are wreaking havoc with the IT systems of Australian enterprises, with six in 10 companies admitting they have suffered multiple system crashes lasting up to six hours.

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Surveilance

NSA's first transparency report

OFFICIAL LEAKS: The NSA has released its first transparency report.

Ellen Nakashima US spies targeted nearly 90,000 foreign persons or organisations via American companies last year.

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Open internet

Google execs visit Cuba for first time to promote open internet

Thought leader: Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.

A team of top Google executives is visiting Cuba to promote open internet access, according to a dissident blogger who says she met the group in Havana.

Cybercrime

'Fly' swatted over cybercrime, credit card trafficking

Passport photo for Sergei “Fly” Vovnenko. He was arrested in Naples, Italy earlier this month.

Brian Krebs How an infamous cybercrook known was arrested in Italy after trying to frame me for drug posession.

Innovation

CSIRO scientists protest 'unprecedented' job cuts

CSIRO staff in Clayton, Melbourne, protesting the proposed 700 national job losses.

Nick Toscano 'We are supposed to be a smart economy, but how can we when we're cutting science?'

Jobs

Status update: Facebook not so diverse

Lack of diversity: Facebook's workforce lags behind its user base.

Jessica Guynn The world's most popular social network, released statistics on the makeup of its workforce that do not reflect the demographics of its users around the globe.

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IPO

Camera-maker GoPro makes picture-perfect debut

Going public: The GoPro camera is seen in action on the slopes.

Shares of GoPro, a maker of action cameras rise as much as 38 per cent in their market debut.

Strategy

BlackBerry's Android app deal

Euan Rocha Smartphones powered by BlackBerry 10 are now able to access Pinterest, Minecraft and 240,000 other apps.

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Storage

A 'fundamentally new' storage material

The ferrimagnet idea would be faster than DVDs.

Drew Turney Physicists have come up with a new synthetic material for optical data storage that could also make processor memory '100 times faster'.

Management

Foxconn's Gou urges patience as iPhone maker's sales slow

Billionaire Terry Gou promised higher earnings at Hon Hai, flagship of Foxconn, even as analysts predict the maker of Apple's iPhones and iPads will post its first profit drop in five years.

Tim Culpan iPhone maker boss asked shareholders to give him time to invest in new businesses including robots, car electronics and cloud computing amid slowing sales.

Failure

99dresses founder speaks out on failure in the start-up scene

Dream's up: Nikki Durkin will close 99dresses.

Ben Grubb She founded a start-up at 18, moved to the US to pursue her tech dream and was hailed for her courage. Now Nikki Durkin has opened up about failure to help others.

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Washington

Tech giants battle US 'big money problem'

PAC-MAN: Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak has joined a Super Action Committee to get money out of US politics.

Group of influential tech moguls, including Steve Wozniak and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel, aim to fix the way elections are financed.

Google's Skybox deal raises commodity trade concerns

Earlier this month Google announced it is making the acquisition for $500 million.

US consumer watchdog Public Citizen wants a review of Google's recent acquisition of aerospace start-up Skybox Imaging, citing trade manipulation concerns.

Big data

Ambulance Victoria adds fast data to hospital arrivals

Ambulances now announce their arrival at four Victorian hospitals via a real-time data feed.

Trevor Clarke Ambulance Victoria has joined the big data movement by establishing a real time data exchange system to provide hospitals greater visibility of incoming patients' needs.

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