Appen booms as voice tech takes off
As voice assistants like Siri and Alexa take hold, one Australian small-cap stock is reaping the rewards.
Online family detective answers questions from past
Combining Ancestry.com with Google sleuthing solved AFR columnist Peter Moon's 150-year-old family question in days.
Web pioneer Yahoo to be sold for $6.4b
Iconic web pioneer Yahoo's journey is set to come to an end on Monday with Verizon buying its core business.
Why Microsoft's Bing is no longer a joke
Its no Google killer but Bing has been aggressively positioned and is now making serious money.
Shares in tech firm Appen surge on growth update
Shares in the Aussie company driving the world's biggest search engines have jumped 15 per cent on the ASX.
Is Google Maps reliance frying our brains?
Misdirected tourists could be just the tip of the iceberg with concerns total reliance on GPS systems is changing our brains.
Appen highlights search and self-driving cars as future growth drivers
Language and search services provider Appen has grown its revenue by 62 per cent to $82.7 million for the full year, on the back of customers converting from pilot programs to paying users.
This computer scientist knows what you think
An Australian developed opinion search engine claims a multitude of uses from predicting election outcomes to preventing cyber bullying.
How Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent challenge Beijing's power
There is an overarching force in China upending how people live, but it's not the Communist party. Three internet groups are turning China upside down.
Google billionaire snacks on former Lehman Bros hedge fund stake
Google's billionaire chairman has bought a 20 per cent stake in $US36 billion hedge fund manager previously held by Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Yahoo 'cutting 300 jobs' in China
Yahoo is shutting down its office in China, a move that will eliminate 200 to 300 jobs, a person with knowledge of the matter has said.
Tweets to appear in Google search instantly
Twitter has struck a deal with Google to make its 140-character updates more searchable online.
Yahoo $US40b spinoff to benefit shareholders
Yahoo shares have jumped after the web company announced a tax-free spinoff of its entire stake in Alibaba Group Holding.
Children to be worse off than parents
Younger Australians are destined to become the first generation to have lower standards of living than their parents unless governments curb overly generous pension and health care services, a new report finds.
BHP thwarted by web squatters
Updated | After the biggest corporate branding exercise in Australia this year, resources giant BHP Billiton has been stumped by cyber squatters who bought the web address for its South32 businessand tried to charge it $10 million for it.
Time to hit downloaders hard, musicians say
APRA AMCOS, which collects royalties to more than 80,000 musicians in Australasia, is calling for stiff penalties for illegal downloading and refuted claims that making content more available would solve the piracy problem.
Losing the battle against online trolls
The Internet may be losing the war against trolls. At the very least, it isn’t winning. And unless social networks, media sites and governments come up with some innovative way of defeating online troublemakers, the digital world will never be free of their collective sway.
Proposed ASIO spying laws threaten bystander privacy
Civil liberties groups have criticised proposed laws allowing spy agencies to access the computers of a suspect’s associates as part of investigations.
Decision on Google risks stifling European tech start-ups
London | It takes a lot to feel even a shred of sympathy for Google. Any near monopoly with a market value of $US380 billion ($410 billion) and an aversion to paying a reasonable amount of tax can look after itself.
Harnessing the real power of search
Google and other search tools have so much more capability than most people ever use. Making use of the power at your fingertips can have major benefits.
Google’s weak quarter doesn’t faze analysts
Google's disappointing first-quarter results left Wall Street unfazed about the internet giant's ability to come to grips with the shift to the fast-growing mobile advertising market.
Keeping the personal views out of the professional sphere
Brendan Eich had a very bad 11 days. In late March he became chief executive of Mozilla; by April 4 he had quit, cut down by a virtual boycott of his company in response to his personal views.
