One hates to be the bearer of bad news to News Corp's Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson, but her bombastic report on 10 October, which claimed Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies is pulling out of Australia, is wrong. Dead wrong.

Facebook has once again shown the Australian Government that it cares little about any edicts Canberra may have issued, snubbing SBS and The Conversation when they sought deals with the social media giant under the news media content legislation.

Media organisations in Australia, who are not awash in the green stuff, will have to fork out a goodly amount to hire moderators for their Facebook and other social media accounts - or face the likely prospect of paying damages for defamation or libel.

MarTech SaaS provider Netcore Cloud has hired Chantal Capablanca to be its first country head for Australia and New Zealand.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) gym tech company Wimp 2 Warrior (W2W) has hired James Fleet as its first CTO, following an an oversubscribed $7.5 million funding round.

Domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has appointed Tamara Oppen to the role of Australian managing director.

Sydney Water has appointed former News Corp chief information officer Dominic Hatfield as General Manager of Digital.

AWS has announced a raft of new services.

Australia’s competition watchdog, the ACCC, is not opposing the proposed acquisition of Racing Internet Services (Racenet) by Punters Paradise, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia Investments.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has rubbished a Google-funded report that claims news aggregators - like the search engine firm - can help struggling publishers by easing some of the negative consequences of digital disruption.

Digital platforms that possess substantial market power are engaging in anti-competitive practices that prevent publishers from competing on merit, News Corporation Australia says in a hard-hitting submission to the ACCC's digital platforms inquiry.

News Corporation and Telstra have announced an agreement to combine Foxtel and Fox Sports Australia, in what they claim is a move that "will deliver premium and innovative content to Australians with ever greater quality, variety and efficiency".

News Corp and Telstra have inked an agreement to merge Foxtel and Fox Sports into one new company.

Foxtel's revenue has fallen by 2% for the last financial year to A$3 billion because of lower subscriber numbers, according to its annual report issued last week.

Former News Corp chief commercial officer and director of sales, Sharb Farjami, is joining pay TV operator Foxtel as director of content commercialisation.

News Corp has acquired a 25% stake in hipages, an on-demand marketplace for hiring tradies in Australia.

Radio group Southern Cross Austereo has appointed Australian and US radio sales veteran Steve Brown as its director of digital sales and operations.

James Packer, Kerry Stokes and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp are leading investors in Australian P2P lending startup SocietyOne.

Subscription commerce provider Zuora has appointed Lane Russell as senior customer success manager for Asia Pacific.

Paid entertainment provider Foxtel has announced  three additional channels for its Internet subscription Foxtel Play - E!, 13th Street and Style.