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Google pays no tax, gets even fatter and richer in Australia

Thursday 19th August 2010

Online advertising, Australia, 2005-2010

Google pays virtually no taxes in Australia, because its Adwords advertising business is registered in Ireland.
So, as the latest estimates from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) reveal, the company is growing even richer and fatter off the backs of Australian businesses.
That’s a harsh characterization, no

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Australian ecommerce to double in size over over next four years.

Australia’s ecommerce marketplace will double in size over the next four years, growing from $12billion this year to $18billion by the end of 2014.
That’s the bold prediction from a new research report set to be released next month by market researchers Frost & Sullivan.
Preliminary findings from the report were outlined in Sydney on Wednesday at a

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Google gets biggest chunk of $512million in March quarter online advertising down-under

Paul Fisher, CEO, Interactive Advertising Bureau

Australian businesses are continuing to shift their marketing budgets online at a rapid rate.

In the first three months of 2010 they spent an estimated $512 million advertising online,  up 17% on the same period last year.

Paul Fisher, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Australia (IAB), said the data

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1.4million New Zealanders now shopping online

?Shopping online has never been more popular in New Zealand with a new research report from market researchers – Nielsen revealing 1.4million Kiwis shopped online during the past year.
This is an increase of some 2.4% on the figure for the previous year, and means some 45% of adult Kiwis are now active online shoppers.  The comparable

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PayPal reports 3 millions active Australian users

PayPal has celebrated its fifth anniversary in Australia with an announcement that it now has 3 million active users, and that over 30,000 Australian businesses accept payments by PayPal. It said that the growing Australian ecommerce market had seen the number of customers registering new accounts up more than 25% in the last calendar year.

Total payment

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