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ASX-listed drone connectivity solutions provider Elsight has unveiled a worldwide version of its Halo drone communications system, which, it claims, will allow operators to fly anywhere in the world without the need for equipment changes to accommodate different cellular systems.

GUEST OPINION: As the biggest sales event of the year looms large, online crooks are starting to target eager consumers looking to save big on Black Friday.

Unmanned aerial vehicle services provider DroneUp has agreed to purchase Elsight’s Halo, a modular, carrier agnostic, AI-powered connectivity platform, to support its initial fleet parcel of delivery drones.

Online retail giant Amazon has been accused of copying Indian products and manipulating search results to favour its own products over private Indian brands, according to a Reuters investigation. Amazon has denied the claims.

Social media app TikTok has found itself in a quandary since it has had no response from the government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the US about its owner ByteDance's plan to address the issues around data security raised earlier this year.

India has given WhatsApp, which is owned by social media giant Facebook, permission to start a payments service in the country, with the rollout initially limited to 20 million users.

A judge in the US has blocked the government from implementing a decision to make it mandatory for Apple and Google to remove the WeChat application from their respective app stores.

Indian outsourcing firms may be on a good wicket at the moment but could soon end up literally being caught in the slips due to the fact that their staff are unable to keep up with the changing technologies that companies that could become their clients have begun using.

A non-profit that has been critical of the business practices of giant US retailer Amazon, and claims to have grassroots support for average Americans, is funded by some of the company's main corporate rivals, a report claims.

The US is trying to intervene in technology regulation in India, this time telling the government that proposed rules on e-commerce will affect plans by Walmart and Amazon to invest in the country.

The online smartphone market in India is set to cross 15 million units in the third quarter of 2018, an increase of more than 25% year-on-year, and comprising 38% of the total online market, technology analyst firm Canalys claims.

The days of the smiling (or sometimes sour-faced) service attendants are all but over, soon to be victims of the unstoppable tsunami of automation. Can anything be done to stop the irresistible juggernaut of automated technology that threatens so many jobs? Perhaps, but only if we want it stopped.

Telstra has joined the ranks of the world’s top 100 most valuable brands for the first time this year with a brand value of $12.7 billion.

A brand new smart watch with built-in phone that also pairs with iPhones and Androids has just launched at the US Walmart chain for a very nice US $199 price.

Seattle's Boeing Field was chock-a-block with corporate jets thought to be linked to Microsoft's CEO Summit. More than 100 business and other leaders are attending.