Microsoft
Tech giants claiming as little as 5 per cent of their revenue is taxable
Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft earn billions of dollars a year in Australia, and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has said he expects multinationals to “pay their fair share”.
- by Rachel Clun
Latest
Opinion
Cyber protection
The world’s biggest tech firms are enabling the most nauseating crimes imaginable
The big internet companies are not even doing “the bare minimum” to protect our societies from the mass-scale paedophilia and terrorist incitement flourishing on their sites.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Sharemarket
Will the ‘Magnificent Seven’ remain magnificent?
Apple, Nvidia and other tech giants have driven Wall Street to record levels. That could turn into a problem.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Review
PCs & laptops
The new MacBook Air is more powerful than ever, with a few extra tricks
The M3 Air might not be light years ahead of its predecessor M2, but it’s still a seriously powerful lightweight laptop when stacked up against anything older.
- by Tim Biggs
Opinion
AI
Why Elon Musk’s epic troll of AI company is totally justified
Billionaire Elon Musk has sued the world-leading AI company and its chief, Sam Altman, for breaking their founding agreement about working to benefit humanity.
- by Parmy Olson
Opinion
Sharemarket
The $3.1 trillion monster that took over Wall Street
First it was the “Magnificent Seven” and now, it seems, Nvidia might be “The One”. Following last week’s extraordinary result, the future of the sharemarket may depend on it.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Xbox to publish more games on PlayStation, Switch in push for growth
Microsoft plans to disrupt the traditional console gaming market, saying it wants its games to as big and popular as they could possibly be.
- by Tim Biggs
Microsoft says state-backed Russian hackers accessed emails of senior leadership team members
The hackers broke into the corporate email system and accessed the accounts of members of the company’s leadership team, as well as those of employees on its cybersecurity and legal teams.
- by Frank Bajak
The Vatican’s top expert on AI ethics is a friar from a medieval Franciscan order
Paolo Benanti is the go-to person on artificial intelligence and he has the ear of Pope Francis and of some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers and executives.
- by Frances D'Emilio
Husic shuns EU path for AI, unveils government’s vision
Members of Australia’s technology sector have given a measured tick of approval to federal government’s move to regulate high-risk AI use cases.
- by David Swan
Microsoft overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable company
It comes as worries over smartphone demand weigh on Apple’s stock in recent weeks.
- by Ryan Vlastelica and Subrat Patnaik