Paul Montgomery

Australian broadsheet newspaper publisher John Fairfax has signed a deal with Westpac, one of Australia’s four banking giants, to marry its real estate content with Westpac’s home loan services. The first part of the deal will be a project in March to integrate Fairfax’s domain.com.au site, operated by its f2 subsidiary, with Westpac’s Home Loan […]

LookSmart will take its rightful place as the largest pure Internet company to have originated in Australia when it lists on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) later this year. The Australian shares will be equivalent to one-twentieth of an existing common LookSmart share on the NASDAQ exchange. “As an Australian-founded organisation which maintains substantial local […]

Despite being characterised in the media as the David who slew Goliath, Australian ISP eisa will have to wait for regulatory approval before it successfully snatches rival OzEmail from the embrace of Telstra. eisa confirmed widespread speculation this week that its trading suspension on the Australian Stock Exchange last Friday was due to its announcement […]

Pioneering Australian e-commerce developer Creative Digital Technology (CDT) has created three companies to deal with different parts of its diverse product set, with one of them aiming for a listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange later this year. CDT is the only Australian developer to have competed against the likes of Microsoft, Open Market and […]

Analyst firm IMR Worldwide has added further fuel to the fiery debate about Web audience metrics in Australia with the release overnight of figures which challenge the claims of Yahoo! Australia & NZ to be on a par with the country’s leading publisher, Ninemsn. According to figures from IMR released to australia.internet.com overnight, Yahoo!’s reach […]

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. has come under fire from consumer groups and media watchers for involving itself in negotiations with Telstra to provide content for the telco major’s commercial portal site. According to reports in most major newspapers on Saturday morning, the ABC is in the late stages of talks to cement a deal which […]

The Australian subsidiary of Oracle has entered a joint venture with an American developer to construct the software back end for its ambitious interactive television projects. Oracle Australia will form a company called ICE Interactive in conjunction with Liberate Technologies, a specialist developer of content and applications for TV set-top boxes. Oracle has been vocal […]

Dominant Australian telco Telstra has added another string to its bow in the increasingly important area of managed network services with the buy-out of the minority stakes of IBM and Lend Lease in a local joint venture. Telstra has signed a letter of intent to purchase the remaining shares in Advantra. The venture was formed […]

Amazon.com has made its first foray into Australia by indirectly taking a stake in a fledgling toy e-tailer called ToySpot.com.au. The deal came through a complex transaction which also involves Australian publishers John Fairfax Ltd. The deal involves Amazon.com taking a 50 per cent share of f2 Investments, which is a holding company created by […]

The previously unassailable strength of the broadband cable network of dominant Australian telco Telstra has come under increasing pressure Monday with a law suit to open up its network from a potential datacasting rival. The Seven Network, the second-ranked television station in the country, has made a legal challenge to open up Telstra’s optic fibre […]

Telstra has been left hanging on the decision of the Australian corporate regulator as to whether to approve Telstra’s proposed take-over of OzEmail‘s consumer ISP operations. Telstra signed a heads of agreement deal with MCI Worldcom last Christmas Eve to purchase the consumer ISP division of its Uunet Australia subsidiary, which is the only part […]

The Australian domain registrar community will watch closely the entry of a new company in February called ClicknGo! which could change the dynamics of the small but lucrative industry. Due to launch on February 1, the new company will be only the second registrar to have direct access to the registrar operations of the Internet […]