Business
Companies
'The friendly activist': Wylie offers Graincorp a very different counter bid
John Wylie's 'friendly' counter to the highly-leveraged bid for Graincorp redefines activism.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Analysis
Huawei
Australia no longer isolated as 'Five Eyes' turn on Huawei
Australia has been out on a limb when it comes to Huawei for quite a while now. But not anymore.
- by John McDuling
Gold
WA's biggest new gold mine gets even bigger
The Gruyere gold mine near Laverton will produce 30,000 ounce per annum more than originally forecast.
- by Hamish Hastie
Telecommunications
Double blow for Huawei as senior executive arrested
The daughter of Huawei's founder has been arrested at the same time as British telco BT rips its equipment out of service.
- by Kirsty Needham & Jennifer Duke
Commercial real estate
Cash-strapped Liberals do Rolex watch deal
Global luxury watch brand Rolex has emerged as the mystery buyer behind the $37.1 million purchase of the Victorian Liberal Party’s Melbourne headquarters.
- by Simon Johanson
Waste
Brokers remain optimistic on Lynas despite Malaysian setbacks
Analysts suggest there may be ways around the onerous conditions put on the renewal of Lynas' operating licence in Malaysia.
- by Colin Kruger
Regulation
Former Murray Goulburn boss cops $200,000 fine for misleading farmers
Gary Helou will pay a fine and leave the industry for three years under a court deal.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Best places to work
The best US companies to work for in 2019, according to their employees
Missing from the top five for the first time since 2010 - though just behind it, and still in the top 10 - were any Silicon Valley heavyweights like Facebook or Google.
- by Jena McGregor
Opinion
Telecommunications
Huawei's Western assault: cyber threat or competitive advantage?
Huawei's rapid ascendancy and perceived threat to the West is deeply symbolic of the way Western economies have surrendered their one-time leadership role across vast swathes of industry and technology.
- by Jeremy Warner
Telecommunications
BT to strip China's Huawei from core networks, limit 5G access
Britain's BT Group says it is removing Huawei Technologies' equipment from the core of its existing 3G and 4G mobile operations and will not use the Chinese company in central parts of the next network.
'Yup go for it': Facebook gave some companies preferential data access
Files released by a UK politician show how Facebook debated generating revenue by selling access to data, tracked and fended off rivals and braced for blowback.
- by Munsif Vengattil & Paresh Dave