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Just a week after announcing a 15% jump in first-quarter revenue year-on-year, Google has informed staff that it will be sacking at least 200 from its core teams and moving some jobs to India and Mexico.

Google has made its opposition clear to a California bill aimed at making the company pay for using news snippets, threatening to delete links to news sites in what it calls "a short-term test for a small percentage of California users".

British firm Softiron says it will start manufacturing computer hardware in Sydney, having begun the process of commissioning, and aiming for a start in early 2022.

ANALYSIS A Facebook engineer issued a command to assess the availability of global backbone capacity and this, unintentionally, took down all the connections in the company's backbone, effectively cutting off all its data centres, the company says.

Western Australia-based IT services firm NEXION Group has signed a deal with California-based Aryaka which it says will help establish Perth as a pivotal global SD-WAN city and get it ready for widespread adoption of secure cloud solutions nationally.

California-based Amphastar Pharmaceuticals has joined the army of companies hit by ransomware, with the firm appearing to have suffered an attack by cyber criminals who have used the DopplePaymer ransomware that attacks Windows systems.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved the landing license of international bandwidth provider Southern Cross Cable Network’s NEXT cable system.

Brisbane electric vehicle (EV) charging company Tritium continues to export its technology globally, with the latest deal involving the expansion of EV DC fast charging locations in urban areas throughout California.

Brisbane-based global electric vehicle DC fast-charging technology provider Tritium has been awarded a contract from the City of Pasadena in California to install 20 Tritium RT50/50kW DC Fast Chargers in the city’s Marengo Charging Plaza.

MariaDB Corporation, the database company born as a result of forking the well-known open-source MySQL database, has opened new US headquarters in Redwood City, California, indicating that it is growing in prominence.

ICT services giant NEC has appointed company veteran sales and marketing executive Mitsuhiro Murooka as managing director for its Australia and New Zealand business.

Global communications giant Motorola Solutions has paid US$445 million to acquired VaaS International Holdings, a data and image analytics company based in Livermore, California and Fort Worth, Texas.

Google's chief economist Dr Hal Varian is of the opinion that his employer should not pay "excessive" tax on its Australian revenue because this money is derived due to its "intellectual capital" which mostly resides in California.

A US Government bid to force Facebook to break the encryption on its Messenger client and obtain voice data that is claimed to be needed in a crime investigation has failed, with a US District Court in California ruling against the move.

A crowd-sourced coding start-up named Koder that helps businesses build software using a network of people has launched the beta version of its platform.

American semiconductor equipment manufacturer Revasum has decided to seek a listing on the Australian Securities Exchange after it conducted a successful pre-IPO capital raising.

A tech worker in the US lost his job due to the company's automated systems removing him from the rolls eight months into a three-year contract because his manager did not update his contract terms.

Telstra aims to be ready to take advantage of the 5G market, saying it will be network-ready by the first half of FY19 and rolling out to capital cities, regional centres and other high-demand areas by FY20.

Satellite communications provider Iridium has announced that all five NEXT satellites for its sixth launch are in processing at SpaceX’s west coast launch site, the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Both Democrats and Republicans from the US House of Representatives have characterised as "highly questionable" the FBI's claim that it could not gain access to 7800 mobile devices last year.