Business

Market movers

Vehicles queue for petrol in North Carolina following the decision by Colonial Pipeline to shut its infrastructure following a ransomware attack.

Cyber security

‘Millions impacted’: Industry super group faces ransomware attack lawsuit

IFM has been hit with a class action that alleges millions of consumers, from large businesses to regular motorists, paid higher prices for fuel when the pipeline was closed following a ransomware attack.

by Sarah Danckert

Senator Andrew Bragg is representing the interests of small outlets in negotiations with Google and Facebook. These outlets include Junkee Media and the Northern Beaches Advocate.

Media bargaining code

‘The big tech companies are hard to deal with’: Senator Bragg

by Zoe Samios

Clive Palmer

The calamitous world of King Clive Palmer

by Sarah Danckert

Home loans, the cornerstone of bank profits, face a growing threat of digital disruption.

Fintech

Banks beware: Fast, cheap loans set to disrupt $1.9 trillion mortgage market

by Clancy Yeates

Robert Millner

The very busy chairman who is ‘as Australian as they come’

by Lucy Battersby

Currency

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Companies

AustralianSuper says it has complied with all company policies regarding the sharing of member data with The New Daily.

Media & marketing

AustralianSuper dismisses member privacy concerns over The New Daily

One of the country’s largest superannuation funds says it complied with its internal policies when handing over member data to news website The New Daily.

by Zoe Samios and Jennifer Duke

NBN Co management are in bi-weekly calls with telcos about the issue.

Telecommunications

NBN Co may have to pay telcos millions for scheduling blunder

NBN Co is planning to pay telcos for every complaint made to the telecommunications ombudsman about a scheduling problem in addition to rebates for failure to appear at appointments.

by Zoe Samios

Media bargaining code

‘The big tech companies are hard to deal with’: Senator Bragg

by Zoe Samios

Countries have struggled for years to agree a way to tax large multinationals such as Google, Amazon and Facebook, which often log profits in jurisdictions where they pay little or no tax.

G7 summit

Landmark G7 tax deal targets Google, Amazon, Facebook

by Jennifer Duke, David Milliken and Kate Holton

Commercial real estate

Hong Kong investor splashes out $19.5m on office

by Nicole Lindsay

Markets

Wall Street’s benchmark S&P500 index ended the week with a 0.6 per cent gain.

World markets

ASX to edge higher as US jobs report calms Fed fears

2 hours ago
by Damian Troise and Alex Veiga

Cyber security

‘Millions impacted’: Industry super group faces ransomware attack lawsuit

by Sarah Danckert

Robert Millner

The very busy chairman who is ‘as Australian as they come’

by Lucy Battersby

The economy

Opinion

Wage growth

Morrison needs the gumption to save business (and the unions) from their folly

by Ross Gittins

Property market

‘Grandparents need the backyard’: Boomers deepen housing crisis by staying in empty nests

by Matt Wade and Tawar Razaghi

Coronavirus pandemic

‘Remarkable’: Economic experts predict quick bounce from lockdown woes

by Noel Towell and Shane Wright

Opinion & Perspectives

Morrison needs the gumption to save business (and the unions) from their folly

Ross Gittins

It would be bad for our economy for us to stay a hermit kingdom. But it’s wrong to imagine that re-opening our borders would immediately strengthen the recovery given low wage growth.

Meat giant JBS’ cyber woes lay bare a dangerous reality

Adele Ferguson

A cyber attack from a criminal network in Russia has thrown the spotlight on the rampant consolidation of the food industry and JBS’ growing global footprint.

When it comes to spontaneous networking, nothing beats planning it

Jim Bright

Discovering chance connections - or creating them - can have beneficial career spin-offs.

by Charlotte Grieve

Fintech

Banks beware: Fast, cheap loans set to disrupt $1.9 trillion mortgage market

by Clancy Yeates

Clive Palmer

The calamitous world of King Clive Palmer

by Sarah Danckert

Huarong has been meeting interest payments on its debts with the help of liquidity provided by state-owned banks as the central authorities try to decide how to deal with it.

Opinion

China

The woes of China’s ‘bad bank’ point to deeper problems

by Stephen Bartholomeusz

Bernie Madoff was the mastermind of the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme.

Wall Street

The hunt for missing billions goes on after Bernie Madoff’s death

by Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

Property investors are likely to make up for the retreat of first home buyers from the market, says mortgage broker AFG.

Property investment

Housing investors to pick up slack as first home buyers retreat: AFG

by Clancy Yeates

Startups

The damage email most likely exerts is no longer physical but psychological.

Opinion

Entrepreneur

Do you have email-triggered anxiety?

Once upon a time, it was possible to leave work at work.

by James Adonis

A Cloud Guru co-founder and chief executive Sam Kroonenburg.

Start-ups

Aussie brothers strike it rich after US firm snaps up ‘bedroom startup’ for $2bn

Melbourne brothers Sam and Ryan Kroonenburg have become instant richlisters after their online learning startup was snapped up by US giant Pluralsight for over $2bn.