OUTinPerth is one of many small and independent publishers to benefit from new funding from Google via commercial deals negotiated by Andrew Forrest’s philanthropic Minderoo Foundation. With permission from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Minderoo’s Frontier Technology initiative coordinated negotiations between Google and twenty four independent publishers around Australia. The agreement comes after the introduction […]
Tags: Google, minderoo foundation, OUTinPerth, Q News, Star Observer
6 Jun 2022 /
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Eighteen of Australia’s small news publishers who produce public-interest journalism, are banding together, to negotiate collectively to secure commercial agreements with Google and Facebook for supply of news content on their platforms. Called the Public Interest Publishers Alliance, these important Australian publishers, from around Australia, attract multicultural audiences, focus on issues at a local and […]
Tags: Facebook, Google
23 Nov 2021 |
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To mark the end of Pride Month in the US, Google has paid tribute to Black trans pioneer, HIV activist and Stonewall hero Marsha P. Johnson in the day’s Google Doodle. A key figure in the 1969 Stonewall riots that were a major catalyst for the momentum of LGBTIQ+ rights around the world, Johnson was […]
Tags: Google, Google Doodle, history, Marsha P Johnson, stonewall
30 Jun 2020 |
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Members of staff for Sydney nightclub ‘The Shift Bar’ were informed by Google that their bar was ineligible for listing with Google Maps as it failed to meet company guidelines. Shift Bar staff had called the online colossus to inform Google that they had made some slight changes to the venue’s official name. The representative […]
Tags: Google, Maps, Mardi Gras, Sydney, The Shift Bar and Club
31 Jul 2015 |
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A game available on the Google Play Store entitled ‘Ass Hunters’ has attracted controversy. The object of the game is to shoot as many gay men as possible to avoid being sexually assaulted. The rules of the game are explained on the Google Play Store: “Popular game hunting on gays is now on android! Play […]
Tags: app, ass hunters, game, Google
25 Nov 2014 |
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Apple has banned a gay cure app from it’s itunes store. The ‘Setting Captives Free’ app claimed, “Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, you do not have a ‘homosexual gene,’ nor were you born this way with no hope of freedom. You can be set free from the bondage of homosexuality through the power […]
Tags: Apple, gay cure, Google, iPhone, Setting Captaives Free, Smartphone
2 Jun 2013 |
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A Smartphone app designed to allegedly ‘cure’ people from the ‘bondage of homosexuality’ has appeared on both Google and Apple App stores. LGBT advocates from the ‘All Out’ organisation have called for both Google and Apple to drop the app that appeared this week. Andre Banks, Executive Director of All Out, argued the validity of a […]
Tags: All Out, Andre Banks, Apple, Bondage of homosexuality, Curing Homosexuality, Google, iPhone App, LGBT Advocates, Setting Captive Free
31 May 2013 |
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Google have highlighted that today would have been gay artist Keith Harring’s fifty fourth birthday by redecorating the Google logo in the style of the artists work. Haring whose distinctive work was inspired by the street culture of New York passed away in 1990, aged just 31 of an AIDS related illness. Haring first came […]
Tags: AIDS, Any Warhol, Google, Google Doodle, Jean Michael Basquiat, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Madonna, Silence = Death
4 May 2012 |
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