The Coalition government is on the verge of finalising the sale of the nation's company database to a private operator.

ASIC, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, has launched its MoneySmart Cars app to "highlight the real cost of buying a car".

Optus is refunding more than $2 million to about 175,000 of its mobile customers after failing to disclose information about its mobile phone insurance.

iiNet shareholders will meet on 27 July in Perth to decide whether to approve the takeover of the company by rival telco and ISP, TPG.

The Internet Society wants the federal government to delay for at least a year its proposed Copyright Legislation forcing ISPs to block access to pirate websites, while undertaking an independent study on the “real extent” of video piracy.

Online accounting software company MYOB has at last confirmed what the market has been expecting for many months, announcing it will list on the Australian Stock Exchange with an IPO which it expects will raise between $831.7 and $833.8 million.

Corporate watchdog ASIC has issued an unusual public warning to Australian bitcoin miner Bitcoin Group, prohibiting the company from making public statements about its planned float until it issues a prospectus.

ANALYSIS: Apple will release its annual financial results today. It is expected to announce record revenues and profitability on the back of sales of the successful iPhone 6.

It is World Consumer Rights Day tomorrow and it has prompted Australia’s consumer watchdog to alert Aussies that they should make sure they understand their consumer rights, particularly when buying and using their mobile phones.

Serious concerns have been raised about the use of Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act by ASIC and other government agencies to block websites.

ASIC has extraordinary powers to close down criminal websites, but it ‘didn’t know’ some legitimate websites could also be affected.

The blocking of 1200 legal websites by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sparked calls for the federal goverment to reveal who it's censoring, and why.

Another problem has come to light concerning Melbourne's much-criticised Myki public transport fares system, with credit card information being exposed.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has signed a further three year, multi million dollar extended licence for the locally developed Nuix forensic data analysis system which is also being used by the Tax Office, Australian National Audit office and Federal Police.

A registration backlog is still choking the performance of the $33 million Personal Property Security Register, with the Government admitting that it had not made as much progress as had been hoped over the weekend and delays were still occurring.

Is making 12,000 calls to people on the Do Not Call Register blatant enough to attract a significant fine?  ACMA thinks so.

Australian software house the SMARTS Group - acknowledged as a world leading supplier of financial market surveillance systems - has been snaffled by NASDAQ OMX, the world's largest financial exchange company.

ANZ Bank has a serious case of egg on their Facebook after discovering its Melbourne-based debt collection unit created a fake Facebook account in an attempt to lure debtors to give up contact details.

With just six months to go before it takes over the real time share market monitoring role from the Australian Stock Exchange, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission has selected locally developed technology to conduct market surveillance.