Australia

Facebook, Google and news. Why Americans should pay attention to Australia. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Hey, did you hear the news out of Australia?

This is a bit of a bad pun, because the news out of Australia is actually about the lack of news in Australia. A few things happened yesterday:

• First, News Corp announced it’s worked out a deal with Google, where the tech giant will pay for content from sites like The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Th…