Australia

Threads is yet to get trending topics, the platform is now rolling out tags (not hashtags) to users in Australia in preparation for trending topics.

Meta Threads app is adding another feature called keyword search to all of the posts with users in australia and new zealand from this week.

TikTok has announced that it has 8.5 million monthly active users in Australia, in the short video platform first disclosure of its user numbers in country.

Australia has decided to ban TikTok to some extent in the country after the intelligence agency in the country warned about possible risks of Chinese-owned…

Twitter users in Australia and New Zealand faced a massive outage of Twitter services. Users reported issues with the Twitter app and website.

An Australian court fined Uber $14 million for threatening cancellation fees it never charged and overstating fare estimates on some rides.

Russian hackers carried out a cyberattack on a major Australian healthcare company that breached the data of 9.7 million people.

A parliamentary joint committee considering social media platforms like facebook should be regulated as carriage service providers in australia.

Google has fund US$1 billion for tech research and development in Australia to set up a new Google Research Australia for AI and quantum computing.

Australia competition watchdog said it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments…