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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found Radio 2GB Sydney and Radio 3AW Melbourne guilty of breaching broadcasting rules as both failed to disclose commercial agreements between their presenters and companies featured on their current affairs programs.

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.

Rideshare and food delivery company Uber has been fined $412,500 for sending more than two million emails without the unsubscribe button, breaching Australian spam laws.

Two teenagers have been found guilty of involvement in a number of attacks that included breahes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games, the BBC reported.

Data breaches are the scourge of the modern economic landscape. Over roughly a decade, data security has transformed from a relatively obscure subset of organizational infrastructure to an essential component of any modern business. Organizations that suffer a data breach now face regulatory fines of potentially millions of dollars, disastrous reputational damages, and even legal consequences. 

Ride-sharing company Uber has entered into a seven-year strategic cloud partnership with Oracle, migrating its most critical workloads to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The move enables Uber to modernise its infrastructure, which will deliver new products to market more rapidly and bring increased profitability.

The Federal Court has ordered ridesharing platform Uber to pay a penalty of $21 million after Uber admitted it had engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations to consumers in its app and on its website, in proceedings brought by the ACCC.

More than 100 companies and organisations in Australia have joined in a push to try and get at least a million electric vehicles on the country's roads by 2027.

Digital adoption platform provider Whatfix has appointed Raj Sundarason to the role of APJ leader, Sameer Mishra to the role of vice president and head of sales for India and Southeast Asia, and Manojkumar Narayanakurup to the role of vice president and global head for services partnerships and alliances.

Operational Technology (OT) and /IoT security firm Nozomi Networks says the timing of last month’s Uber security breach is interesting politically, though seems unrelated to the ongoing trial involving its former security chief.

Ride-sharing firm Uber says a recent compromise of its network was effected using stolen credentials of an external contractor, but claimed that there was no evidence that its production network had been accessed.

Construction tech platform Mooven has appointed Nick Walsh to the role of account executive.

Australian venture syndicate Ten13 has reached a new milestone with 550 experienced and sophisticated investors joining the new syndicate.

The ACCC is taking Uber to court, and as the ridehailing company has already "admitted it engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations" and agreed to an $26 million penalty the case would appear to be little more than a formality, assuming the judge agrees that the penalty is appropriate.

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.

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Workforce intelligence platform provider Reejig has appointed Jonathan Reyes to the role of vice president for North America.

Singaore-based AI and behavioural science powered platform OnLoop has announced that the product is now available to all users, after being in private beta since January this year.

Telco provider Optus is partnering with tech giant Uber to deliver mobile phones to customers’ homes within an hour, setting a new level of convenience in mobile retail business.