Yahoo Finance Our 5 favourite stories of the week
A Telstra outage saw EFTPOS machines across the country go offline, just in time to disrupt Thursday’s late night shopping.
But if Australians thought the worst was over when it came to outages, they were swiftly proven wrong with the government’s myGov tax and Centrelink portal crashing on Friday under the weight of record traffic.
Aw Mum! An unusual post on Gumtree caught Australia’s eye this week. The post advertised a child for sale for $50 in the Northern Territory. The post has since been removed.
Shh… they can hear us: You might be confident about Facebook’s privacy restrictions, but Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is far from sure, urging everyone to delete Facebook.
Forever.
Supermarket wars: Your shopping data isn’t exactly private either, with Coles announcing its new artificial intelligence strategy would mine customer spending insights to better target sales and products.
Wake up: Australians like to think of themselves as laid-back, but it turns out we’re just lazy and it’s costing us thousands.
Yep. Australians are spending a whopping $6.5 billion on services they don't need or use, just because they're not paying attention to where their money’s going, new research from Rest released this week finds.
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