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TPG reported a steady half to January 31 with AU$1.25 billion in revenue reported, up 1% year on year. Broken down between its divisions, consumer increased revenue by AU$20 million to AU$872 million, while corporate dropped AU$10 million to AU$373 million. Beyond that, profitability is a case of how one wishes to read it. In […] More
Telstra CEO Andy Penn with a mmWave hotspot Image: Telstra Australia’s incumbent telecommunications carrier released new climate change targets on Wednesday, with a target of reducing its absolute emissions by 50% in 2030. The company is wanting to be carbon neutral for its operations this year and has plans of “enabling renewable energy generation” equal […] More
Twitter just told all its 5,000 workers to work from home because of the COVID-19 coronavirus. It wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. Your company may be next. Fortunately, many video-conferencing services are now offering free access to their services for a limited time to help make life easier during the pandemic. […] More
While each of us certainly hopes that coronavirus won’t become a major health event in their part of the world, the reality is that businesses are already considering every contingency plan with a close eye towards avoiding serious disruption of their operations. Remote working, or the practice of working for an extended period outside the […] More
Dell Technologies delivered mixed fourth quarter results as earnings fell short of expectations and sales were in line. The company reported fourth quarter revenue of $24 billion, up 1% from a year ago, with earnings of $416 million, or 54 cents a share. Non-GAAP earnings were $2 a share. Wall Street was expecting Dell to […] More
At first glance, the proposed deal makes little sense. The Internet Society is trying to sell the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for the “.org” top-level domain (TLD), to the new private-equity firm Ethos Capital for $1.135 billion. There are about 10.5 million .org domains, and most — but not all — are […] More
Image: Asha McLean/ZDNet Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) has seen its revenue decrease by 3%, mobile customer base shrink by 5%, and its net loss blow out from AU$124 million last year to AU$279 million for its 2019 full year. On the positive side, the company grew its fixed-line broadband customers to 114,000 and posted a […] More
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has opened consultation on whether any competition issues are likely to appear with the upcoming allocation of licences in the millimetre wave 26GHz and 28GHz spectrum band set that will be used for 5G deployments. The 26GHz band, from 25.1GHz to 27.5GHz, is set to be allocated by […] More
