The Australian arm of Google Inc. has received a financial-services license from the Australia Securities and Investments Commission, removing one barrier the search engine would have in establishing ...

A special Google Doodle marking Australia Day has won widespread praise for highlighting the indigenous people’s centuries-old suffering. Visitors going to the search giant’s Australian homepage are ...

Google threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia if officials there approve a law requiring it to pay news publishers for their content. In a dramatic escalation of its aggressive fight ...

Google is reviving plans to launch its own news website in Australia within weeks, according to a local media outlet contracted to provide articles for the venture, as the search giant fights ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand >> Google today threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Australian Prime ...

Google Australia has confirmed that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is chasing it for a debt relating to unpaid tax, noting it will "lodge an objection" against the amended income tax assessments ...

OK Google, please turn my house into a giant Google search engine... and organise my day while you're at it. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and producer covering all things space, futurism ...

For the past year, the Australian government has been readying legislation that forces tech companies to pay local publishers for content that appears in Search and News. If the new law passes, Google ...

Google has publicly advertised for someone to lead its Australian and New Zealand operations, following the announcement of the promotion of its current local chief Karim Temsamani to a key mobile ...

Back in April, Australia set out to force Google (and Facebook) to pay local publishers for content that appears in products like Search and News. An AU$600 million to $1 billion yearly payment has ...