APPLICATION SOFTWARE – AUSTRALIA

Optus to power National Geographic app

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Original article by Supratim Adhikari
The Australian – Page: 27 : 6-Jul-17

Optus has secured a deal to provide its postpaid mobile phone customers with exclusive content from National Geographic. The app will allow Optus customers to watch two live National Geographic TV channels and access the digital editions of its magazines. Ben White, the head of marketing and product at Optus, says the telco will also produce content in partnership with National Geographic. Customers will be able to view National Geographic content without any impact on their monthly data allowance. Optus has previously secured English Premier League rights.

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SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE, 21ST CENTURY FOX INCORPORATED, FOX NETWORK

New app enlists ride-share drivers to cover breaking news stories

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Original article by David Marin-Guzman
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 12-Apr-17

The NewsCar app, which will be launched in Sydney in late April 2017, allows motorists to be paid for supplying free-to-air TV networks with live video from the scene of breaking news events. The app enables TV networks to identify motorists who are close to the scene and direct them to record "first response" video on their mobile phone in return for instant payment. Members of the Ride Share Drivers Association of Australia will be given priority in allocating first response assignments.

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NEWSCAR, RIDER SHARE DRIVERS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED, NINE NETWORK AUSTRALIA LIMITED, UBER AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, BELL PARTNERS PTY LTD

Realestate.com.au still leads with 4.5m visitors vs 3.2m going to Domain – but 2.2m Australians use both

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 7-Jul-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 28 per cent of Australians aged 14+ (or 5.5 million people) used the website or app of Domain or Realestate.com.au in an average four weeks during the year to March 2016. About 4.5 million visited Realestate.com.au via website or app and 3.2 million visited Domain, while almost 2.2 million (11 per cent) accessed both property sites. The survey also shows that the Realestate.com.au website gets 4.3 million unique visitors in an average four weeks, ahead of almost 3.1 million for Domain. Meanwhile, a combined 1.5 million Australians use the app for either or both, including 1.2 million tapping into Realestate.com.au and 700,000 into Domain on their mobiles or tablets.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, REALESTATE.COM.AU, DOMAIN.COM.AU, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ

Expert called upon to settle REA, Domain fight

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Original article by Andrew Jefferson
The Australian – Page: 21 : 9-Mar-16

The legal dispute between Australian-listed REA Group and Fairfax Media-owned Domain will return to court on 21 March 2016, after the case was adjourned on 8 March. The case centres on allegations by REA that an advertising campaign by Domain was misleading and deceptive, by claiming that it boasts the nation’s leading property app. Justice Bernard Murphy proposed that the two parties hire an independent expert to determine which property app has the most listings.

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REA GROUP LIMITED – ASX REA, REALESTATE.COM.AU, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, DOMAIN.COM.AU, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS

Fairfax accused of misleading app claims

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Original article by Andrew Jefferson
The Australian – Page: 21 : 8-Mar-16

Australian-listed REA Group has alleged in the Federal Court that an advertising campaign by property listings rival Domain was misleading and deceptive. The legal action centres on ads that were published by Domain owner Fairfax Media in its newspapers in February 2016. The ads claimed that the Domain app is more widely used than REA’s realestate.com.au app and has a higher user rating on Apple’s app store. REA has disputed these claims.

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REA GROUP LIMITED – ASX REA, REALESTATE.COM.AU, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, DOMAIN.COM.AU, FEDERAL COURT OF APPEAL (CANADA)

A numbers game and semantic antics as Realestate and Domain fight over whose app is bigger or better

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 18-Feb-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 1,968,000 Australians aged 14+ have ever downloaded the Realestate.com.au app to one or more mobile devices, and 1,295,000 have downloaded the rival Domain app. The survey, which was carried out in the three months to December 2015, also shows that 30 per cent of those with either app (or 752,000 people) have downloaded both. Meanwhile, 1,414,000 Australians aged 14+ used the Realestate.com.au app in an average four weeks during the December quarter, while 901,000 used the Domain app.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, REALESTATE.COM.AU, DOMAIN.COM.AU

Megastar Millionaire wins investor vote

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Original article by Trevor Chappell
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 23 : 14-Jan-16

MSM Corporation International listed on the Australian sharemarket on 13 January 2016, via a reverse takeover of Minerals Corporation. The digital media and entertainment group has developed Megastar Millionaire, a digital platform that allows users to view and vote on contestants in online talent shows. MSM shares closed at $A0.091, compared with an issue price of $A0.06 in an IPO that raised $A7m.

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MSM CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL LIMITED – ASX MSM, MINERALS CORPORATION LIMITED, DIGITAL RIOT

Nearly 1 in 10 young Aussie singles use Tinder

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 2-Dec-15

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that an estimated 5.1 per cent of Australian singles aged 14+ used dating app Tinder on a mobile phone or tablet in an average four weeks in the six months to September 2015. The survey also shows that 8.8 per cent of singles aged 18-24 used the Tinder app in the last four weeks, compared with 6.4 per cent of singles in the 25-34 age group. However, just 1.5 per cent of singles aged 35+ and 1.6 per cent of those aged 14-17 reported using the app in the last four weeks.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, TINDER, SNAPCHAT INCORPORATED, FACEBOOK INCORPORATED

Back to realty: News Corp rules property search in Melbourne – but will Sydney be Fairfax’s domain?

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 12-Mar-15

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 819,000 property-hunters in Melbourne visited Realestate.com.au via website or app and/or read the Herald Sun’s weekday or weekend real estate section in an average week during the year to December 2014. This is seven per cent higher than in 2013. Domain’s total audience, comprising both digital visitors and readers of the print sections of The Age, rose by four per cent to 486,000 in 2014. In Sydney, Domain’s total digital and Sydney Morning Herald print reach rose by 10 per cent in 2014, to 675,000 in an average week. The number of people accessing Realestate.com.au and/or the Daily Telegraph’s real estate section in an average week was virtually unchanged at 683,000

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, NEWS CORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, NEWS CORPORATION – ASX NWS, REALESTATE.COM.AU, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, DOMAIN.COM.AU

Domain vs REA: apples for apples audience numbers from Roy Morgan Research

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 23-Feb-15

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that more than 3.5 million Australians aged 14+ accessed Realestate.com.au via its website or app in an average four weeks in the six months to December 2014. This compares with 3.3 million during the same period in 2013. Some 1.7 million Australians accessed Fairfax Media’s Domain in the second half of 2014, down from 1.8 million in the previous corresponding period. The total audience growth for Realestate.com.au comprised an increase in the number of both website visitors (up six per cent) and mobile phone or tablet app users (up seven per cent)

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED, DOMAIN.COM.AU, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, REALESTATE.COM.AU, REA GROUP LIMITED – ASX REA