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20.01.2022 Looks like pressure from governments including Australia's has lead to Google developing 'Google News Showcase' as a way to pay local news companies for stories. 7 Australian outlets have signed up for this new system, although 1 outlet, 'Nine', has specifically said that it will wait to see any regulations passed before negotiating with Google. https://www.theverge.com//google-news-showcase-uk-argentin

16.01.2022 Not a big article, but potentially a significant one: Elon Musk's Telsa is known for making electric cars. They just bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin, and are planning on accepting bitcoin as payment for their cars. This has caused the price of bitcoin to jump to $61 000/bitcoin, by the way.... https://www.cnbc.com//tesla-buys-1point5-billion-in-bitcoi

14.01.2022 Looks like Facebook and the Government have reached an agreement over the Media News Bargaining Code. Basically, Facebook agreed to allow news outlets back on the platform on the condition that the government amended the code before it was passed into law. Read more at: https://ia.acs.org.au//news-media-bargaining-code-passes.h

14.01.2022 In an interesting move, Telstra is moving to reclaim all of their retail store franchises. Their strategy is to use this to allow them to improve consistency of service across their stores. Also interesting to note, they are planning on moving their call-centers back to Aussie soil. Currently, 65% of customer-support calls are answered in Australia. They want to make that 100%. https://ia.acs.org.au//telstra-to-reclaim-all-franchisee-o

07.01.2022 DuckDuckGo is an alternative search engine to Google, which is committed to ensuring the privacy of their users. They've been steadily growing for 12 years now, and have reached the milestone of 100 million searches per day. Still a way to go to meet Google's 5 billion per day, but it is good to see that a privacy-based company is gaining popularity with the general public