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Google’s fully self-driving vehicle will be leaving the company’s testing facilities and hitting the open road.

91,637 took to the ACCC with complaints of scams in 2014, resulting in an accumulated loss of $81,832,793.

There are less Australians applying for post-paid plans with new mobile phone handsets, according to telecommunications data released by Roy Morgan Research.

It was only yesterday that we saw Quickflix lock in a trading halt on the ASX, and now the company is coming back to life thanks to a partnership with Foxtel’s Presto on-demand streaming service.

If you’re already finding it hard to jump off Facebook, the company’s new service will have you well and truly stuck.

The operator of online electronics store Electronic Bazaar has been fined $100,000 for misleading customers regarding refunds and the liability for faulty goods.

Yesterday streaming service Netflix released its first Netflix ISP Speed Index taking into account Australian and New Zealand providers, and Telstra has a thing or two to point out.

The Abbott Government has unveiled the 2015-16 Budget, unveiling a $5.5 billion package driven by tax breaks aiming to support the nation’s 2 million-plus small businesses.

Streaming service Netflix has released their first index naming Australia’s fastest Internet Service Providers, and guess who’s come out on top.

Consumer confidence has strengthened following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to cut the cash rate to a record low of 2.0 per cent.

The Abbott Government is to provide telecommunication companies and internet service providers with $131 million in order to help cover the cost of storing customer metadata over the next two years.

Australia’s small businesses are said to be receiving a tax cut in tonight’s budget, part of a portfolio that Small Business Minister Bruce Billson described as “delicious” and “delightful”.

The findings highlight relatively unchanged conditions of subdued confidence, which the NAB says points to a lack of movement towards “a sustained economic recovery developing”.

The second quarterly report on the Australian petroleum industry by the ACCC revealed the nation’s petrol prices hit their lowest point in real terms in over fifteen years, hitting 103 cents per litre in early February 2015.

Music-streaming company Spotify is to give YouTube some competition by entering the Web-video market, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Unions are calling for the Abbott Government to make employment the focus of next week’s Federal Budget, as new ABS figures reveal an increase in unemployment.

Staff are to be back-paid $4.8 million after their overtime rates were underpaid for at least six years.

Business confidence is at its lowest level in almost four years, according to the latest Roy Morgan Research Business Confidence results.

Australians could be seeing cheaper mobile phone call charges and a reduction in the price of texts if a draft decision by the ACCC gets finalised.

Retail turnover saw another small rise in March, up 0.3 per cent following a 0.7 per cent climb in February 2015.