Tax on News Content, Facebook takes on Zoom, MacBook Rumours

The Australian Government have seized this opportunity to not just roll out a contact tracing app with questionable optics this week, but also going HAM on the tech titans, as they seek to have our mainstream media compensated with payments from Google and Facebook for reusing their precious content.

All the while Zuckerberg tries to get into the e-commerce game in India and plays catchup to Zoom by announcing a new video conferencing service on Messenger.

We also discuss Apple’s potential pivot to ARM chipset architecture and chat about our favourite streaming shows we caught up with during the week.

As always we cover all angles using audio clips from different sources so you get everything you need to know, right here on the Naked Tech Podcast.

Episode 142. Recorded Sunday 26 April 2020.

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Show links:

• Apple to launch several Macs with ARM-based processors in 2021 | Macrumors
• The government’s contact tracing app launches | ABC News Youtube
• Every Covid-19 commercial is the same | Youtube
• Google and Facebook must pay media for content reuse | Techcrunch
• Australia wants Google and Facebook to pay news outlets, should the world follow? | Buzzfeed
• Facebook buys $5.7bn stake in India’s Jio to bring Whatsapp payments to grocery stores | VentureBeat

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