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Communications Minister Clare Curran wants to get rid of a siloed approach in digital policymaking, as she seeks to bridge the digital divide between communities with good internet access and those without.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Monday called on Facebook to pay "trusted" news publishers a carriage fee.

Facebook says it will open three new centres in Europe to train people in digital skills and committed to training one million people over the next two years.

Shares of Facebook Inc fell more than 4% and were on track for their worst session in more than three months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes that he said would hit user engagement in the near term.

First Apple Inc came under fire and now Microsoft has said that software patches released to guard against microchip security threats slowed down some personal computers and servers.

A French prosecutor has launched a preliminary investigation of Apple over alleged deception and planned obsolescence of the tech giant's products, a judicial source says.

The government's Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert NZ) says people should make sure software on their devices is up-to-date after a design flaw in most processing chips was made public last week.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said his goal for 2018 was to put the business he co-founded on a more solid footing, a break with his longstanding practice of setting a purely personal annual goal.

Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the year-old software change was revealed.

Apple Inc has addressed claims from an app company that says the maker of iPhones slows down the performance of older phones.

Facebook Inc said it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial template on file.

Facebook Inc rolled out Messenger Kids, an app that lets the world's biggest social media company expand into a so-far untapped market of kids under 13 while also giving parents complete control over what their children see.

Snapchat faced a worldwide outage for at least four hours, prompting a flood of complaints on rival mobile application Twitter a day before posting its third quarterly earnings as a public company.

Apple Inc quashed concerns of muted demand for its iPhone X, saying pre-orders for the 10th anniversary phone were "off the charts".

EU privacy regulators have rapped WhatsApp on the knuckles for not resolving their concerns over the messaging service's sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, a year after they first issued a warning.

Facebook Inc said it was testing the idea of dividing its News Feed in two, separating commercial posts from personal news in a move that could lead some businesses to increase advertising and see fewer links to news stories.

Britain said WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption communication services allows paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law.