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Cloud providers are the fastest growing segment of most Australian data centre providers, according to one telecoms analyst who says major global cloud service providers have huge growth expectations for the Asia Pacific region and are investing their capital to reflect their rapid growth.

The circumstances surrounding the Australian start-up Unlockd, which was forced to go into administration recently because Google played hardball with it, are another good reason for the competition watchdog to focus on the search behemoth in its digital platforms inquiry.

The NSA could have access to the code repositories residing on GitHub, which is now owned by Microsoft, if past practices of the Redmond-based software giant are any indicator.