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Apple and Google act to block predatory chat app after eSafety alert

Adrianne Saplagio

November 16, 2025

Apple and Google have removed the OmeTV chat app from Australian stores after eSafety warned it was being used by…

PR’s big moment in the age of AI search

Luke Dean-Weymark

September 30, 2025

PR budgets may have tightened, but the potential for impact has never been louder. In an AI-first world, it’s not…

Transparency powers expose child safety failures at world’s biggest tech platforms

Adrianne Saplagio

September 16, 2025

Three years after eSafety first exposed child safety concerns, global tech giants like Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft still leave…

Guidance released for online services on preventing underage social media accounts

Adrianne Saplagio

September 16, 2025

eSafety has released consultation summaries and a self-assessment tool to help online services assess if they qualify as age-restricted social…

Google’s AI search shift demands smarter storytelling and targeted messaging

Commsadmin

June 9, 2025

Google’s rollout of AI Mode in the United States marks a major transformation in how people search, discover and consume…

The AI Showdown: ChatGPT against Google Bard

Comms Room Staff

May 23, 2024

Bard, an AI rival to ChatGPT, is accessible for free in over 180 countries. Bard, now known as Gemini, demonstrates…

Tech leaders unite to safeguard 2024 elections against deceptive AI usage

Pearl Dy

February 20, 2024

At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) today, major tech firms committed to combating deceptive AI content ahead of this year’s…

Google turns 25: the search engine revolutionised how we access information, but will it survive AI?

Mark Sanderson, Julian Thomas, Kieran Hegarty and Lisa M. Given

September 5, 2023

Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted…

Google parent cuts 12k jobs in the most recent tech downsizing

Jaw de Guzman

January 25, 2023

The parent company of Google announced it will be cutting 12,000 jobs, or 6 per cent of its staff, in…

Google prevails in lawsuit against Russian bot scam org

Jaw de Guzman

November 23, 2022

Google has won a crucial court battle against a group that operated a network of bots to influence systems of…

High Court decision on Google shocks defamation lawyers

Jaw de Guzman

August 19, 2022

In a huge win for internet giant Google, the court found the search engine was not legally responsible for defamatory…

High Court finds Google not responsible for defamatory articles

Jaw de Guzman

August 18, 2022

Australia’s highest court has ruled Google is not legally responsible for defamatory news articles as it is not the publisher…

Google ordered to pay $60m for misleading data collection policy

Jaw de Guzman

August 12, 2022

Google has agreed to pay $60 million in penalties flowing from a long-running court fight with the Australian competition watchdog…

Pinterest names Google commerce exec as new CEO

Jaw de Guzman

June 30, 2022

Pinterest announced longtime CEO Ben Silbermann is stepping down, making way for Google commerce executive Bill Ready to take over….

Google launches special initiatives for Int’l Small Business Week

Jaw de Guzman

June 28, 2022

Google has introduced a couple of new SMB support tools and services in celebration of the International Small Business Week….

YouTube Shorts is catching up to rival TikTok – Google

Jaw de Guzman

June 17, 2022

Google revealed that more than 1.5 billion people watch YouTube Shorts every month, showing that the short-video service had reached…

Digital platforms to sign new EU Anti-Disinformation Code

Jaw de Guzman

June 14, 2022

The Financial Times (FT) reported Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, and TikTok are all planning to sign a revamped version of…

Tech giants’ 2021 misinformation transparency reports

Jaw de Guzman

June 14, 2022

The first annual review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation have commenced and recommendations to improve…

Voluntary misinformation code’s first review launched

Jaw de Guzman

June 8, 2022

A year after introducing the voluntary misinformation code, the Digital Industry Group (DIGI) launched its first review of the code….

Google loses defamation battle, ordered to pay John Barilaro $715,000

Jaw de Guzman

June 7, 2022

A federal court has ordered Google to pay $715,000 to former New South Wales deputy premier John Barilaro following a…