![Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/q/x/f/6/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gvyyry.png/1493941140967.jpg)
![Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/q/x/f/6/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gvyyry.png/1493941140967.jpg)
Canberra company Skoolbo takes to world stage with new TV program
![Skoolbo director Shane Hill was in Singapore last month to launch a new TV program.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/h/e/m/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvykmg.png/1494024704015.jpg)
Canberra company Skoolbo launched a new television program called Preschool Play in Singapore last month.
Why this Google Docs phishing attack is particularly sneaky
![Google's popular Docs product has been subject to a phishing attack.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/c/s/5/q/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvyf3i.png/1493864476208.jpg)
If you've received an invitation to join a shared Google Doc that you weren't expecting, you might want to steer clear of it. It's probably a phishing scam that could compromise your account.
Facebook hiring 3000 to monitor live video violence
![Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the network hopes to cut down on the response time between when someone reports a ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/o/m/6/x/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvye6i.png/1493856288861.jpg)
​Facebook is nearly doubling the number of workers it employs to monitor Facebook Live video feeds, in an attempt to catch violent streams before they spread across the network.
Facebook raking in $1 billion a week this year
![Net income rose to $US3.06 billion, or $US1.04 a share, compared with the 87-US-cent average estimate compiled by Bloomberg.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/e/b/8/6/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvyezx.png/1493862732477.jpg)
Facebook's main social network is still driving sales growth, even as executives seek to temper investor exuberance.
Is Microsoft Windows 10 S for students the next Windows RT flop?
![Panos Panay, corporate vice-president of Microsoft Surface, unveils the new Surface during the #MicrosoftEDU event in ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/x/r/g/b/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvxv6m.png/1493797660074.jpg)
A "full" version of Windows which only lets you install Microsoft-approved apps, Windows 10 S will be a hard sell for some parents.
Entering the 'golden age of espionage' for hackers
![The spate of global cyber espionage has unfolded largely under the public radar.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/x/r/o/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvxr2x.png/1493768633202.jpg)
Nations across the globe are pouring money into cyber espionage units allowing smaller nations to close the espionage gap without satellites or tech muscle.
Apple can't ignore Microsoft's slick, new laptop
![The Surface Laptop's affordable price, portability and features could appeal to a far broader audience-including Mac ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/x/r/c/h/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvxr4j.png/1493777200729.jpg)
Microsoft has already cracked the professional and creative markets.Now it's chasing another category many believe is Apple's to lose: the A$1,300 laptop for everyone.
In elections, tech vies to fight fake news
![Andreas Vlachos, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield in England, is one of a growing number of ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/w/u/o/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvwt5m.png/1493678614177.jpg)
Computer scientists, tech giants and start-ups are using sophisticated algorithms and reams of online data to quickly – and automatically – spot fake news faster than traditional fact-checking groups can.
Pokemon Go player faces years in Russian jail
![Ruslan Sokolovsky, now 22, protested that his potential punishment outweighed the crime.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/w/a/c/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvw0r9.png/1493739154843.jpg)
Amnesty International called Sokolovsky a "prisoner of conscience" and criticised the Russian government for detaining the blogger.
Tech giants making all the rules this week
![The companies have vast networks of complementary products.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/u/8/3/u/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvwt75.png/1493797862243.jpg)
The companies have vast networks of complementary products that feed off one another to generate more sales, making it ever harder for competitors to keep up.
Learning from the soon-to-be richest man on Earth
![Jeff Bezos is a mere $US5 billion away from the Microsoft founder Bill Gates.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/4/g/e/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvwt7v.png/1493796747505.jpg)
What are the lessons that every business – and investor for that matter – can learn from Jeff Bezos? Here are five of the most important.
Theft of new Netflix season portends a TV crisis
![Screenshot of download website PirateBay where the episodes are available.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/v/z/9/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvvz4o.png/1493737464112.png)
Hacking group is now threatening to release shows by four other networks unless the networks' pay a ransom.
Google's Chrome ramping up warnings when you visit insecure websites
![Always check for the HTTPS padlock when you're concerned about online privacy and security.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/z/r/y/1/c/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvw4r6.png/1493653658889.jpg)
Google's Chrome web browser is stepping up alerts when you use sites missing that all-important HTTPS security padlock designed to stop online eavesdropping.
Facebook Messenger big deal for Aussie business
![ABC and Qantas are two examples of local businesses using Messenger to reach consumers directly.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/w/3/z/v/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvw3hc.png/1493600440124.jpg)
Australian companies are the biggest users of Messenger globally, said Stan Chudnovsky, head of product for messaging at Facebook.
Twitter finally gives backers something to tweet about
![Last week, the company revealed that monthly user numbers - an all-important metric for tech companies - had increased ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/v/t/b/0/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvvzeb.png/1493589649567.jpg)
Against all odds, Twitter is turning itself around.
Apple surges as investors bet on new iPhones
![What's driving the stock, say sceptics and fans alike, is hope - hope that the new iPhones due in September, after the ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/i/3/y/p/y/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvvzmn.png/1493609143083.jpg)
As investors pour in, Apple's shares have closed at $US143.65, up nearly 60 per cent from last May's trough.
Facebook 'must pay to police internet' or face fines
![Internet firms have faced repeated accusations that they are failing to address concerns over the material being ...](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/6/9/d/7/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvvz2e.png/1493629583153.jpg)
SOCIAL media firms may be forced to pay for the cost of policing digital crimes and should be fined if they do not quickly censor illegal posts, under plans published by a parliamentary committee today (Monday).
'It didn't have to be this way, Netflix': Hacker's taunt
![The cast of Orange is the New Black.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/n/q/9/g/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvvmju.png/1493536372142.png)
A hacker or hackers who claim to have stolen unreleased television shows from several major networks shared the coming season of the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black after the streaming service failed to meet its ransom requests.
The war on fake news will be lost whilst the phrase is meaningless
![Neither side of politics can claim the moral high ground when it comes to bending the truth.](/web/20170506230025im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/y/j/e/4/image.related.landscape.120x80.gvuhbp.png/1493420620131.jpg)
One person's fake news is another's explosive revelation, so how can Google, Facebook and others cut to the truth of the matter?