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Four-wheel drive and camping accessory retailer Outdoor Supacentre (trading as 4WD Supacentre) was fined $302,500 for sending more than 83,000 marketing text messages that breached spam laws, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

Following consumer complaints, the Australian Communications and Media Authority launched an investigation and found retail company Kmart Australia sent 212,471 marketing emails to customers between July 2022 and May 2023 who had previously unsubscribed, breaching spam laws.

COMPANY NEWS: Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, today announced its vision to help companies and individuals fully realise the benefits of the global economy.

Food delivery platform DoorDash has paid a $2,011,320 fine for sending over one million texts and emails which breached spam rules.

Snowflake has introduced performance enhancements that make the product faster for all customers, with economic improvements. Additionally, Snowflake's Snowgrid tech enables customers to operate at global scale with enhancements across cross-cloud collaboration.

Australia's second biggest telco Singtel Optus dropped its daily digital advertising spend from US$55,000 (A$88.1 million) on 21 September to less than US$5000 on 22 September, the day it announced a massive data breach, a data analytics company says.

GUEST RESEARCH: Spryker, the leading platform for enterprise marketplaces, thing commerce, and unified commerce, has today launched its Australian Online Grocery Report 2022. The research of 2,500 Australian consumers finds almost half – 48% – of Australians buy least some of their groceries online, with 10% now ordering most or all of their groceries via the internet. In total, 23% of Australian household food budgets is now spent ordering online. The research, conducted by Spryker in partnership with market research firm Appinio, surveyed consumers from across Australia on their experiences and opinions of grocery shopping.

Australian short-distance electric-powered delivery vehicle provider Zoomo has appointed Jules Flynn to the role of COO, Michelle Crocker to the role of vice president of people and culture, and Alan Wells to the role of vice president of product.

New Dashboard, Pickup Screen, Dispatch, Intercom, and Click & Collect features now available to Australian customers

COMPANY NEWS:  Following its expansion into Australia last month, Deliverect, a Belgian scale-up that connects UberEats, Deliveroo, Doordash, Menulog and other platforms directly to restaurant POS systems, has announced a new product suite that will continue to help Australian restaurants benefit from emerging technology to successfully satisfy consumers’ delivery orders, at a time when food delivery is booming.

Delivery management solution Deliverect has launched in Australia with the appointment of Jeremy Van Dille as the company’s general manager for Australia and New Zealand. Van Dille will be based in Sydney.

Global interactive and immersive virtual events platform provider Airmeet has boosted its coffers with a US$12 milion Series A capital raising.

Square – originally famous for its compact payment card readers – is steadily expanding into the omnichannel commerce market.