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| 10.05.2024 | Nine Aussie startups that raised $233.5 million this week | L-R: Kite Therapy founders Gregor Whyte, Rachelle Dunstan and Matt Morrison. Source: supplied article-article-body
As far as Australian startup funding goes, this week is one for the record books.
By our count, nine local startups have coll... |
| 08.05.2024 | Federal budget: $91 million tradie training pledge to help Australia hit ambitious housing target | A rope access construction worker is seen working on the side of a new apartment building in the suburb of Coorparoo in Brisbane, Friday, June 2, 2023. Source: AAP Image/Darren England article-article-body
The upcoming federal budget will f... |
| 06.05.2024 | AUKUS is Much More Than Submarines | AUKUS is a historic chance for Australia as a natural key player in the Indo-Pacific to work towards long-lasting regional and national security. Australia’s own conflicted attitude towards nuclear power (and weapons) might jeopardise this ... |
| 06.05.2024 | Newcastle newsagency files for liquidation after failed battle to retain Aus Post license | The Lambton Nextra, which operated as a Licenses Post Office until May 1. Source: Facebook article-article-body
A Newcastle licensed post office that fought to keep its doors open has entered liquidation, as Australia Post champions reforms... |
| 03.05.2024 | Seven ANZ startups that raised $27.4 million this week | Representatives from Altop, Hickory, SRG Global, Austrade, G&M Capital, Vic Global, Wuzhong Constructions, CSSD, Oulin and Matrak at the opening of Matrak's office in China. Source: Supplied article-article-body
This week’s startup fund... |
| 02.05.2024 | What the government can do to stop Australians from losing $5,200 a minute to scams | Source: joshua hoehne/unsplash. article-article-body
What if the government was doing everything it could to stop thieves making off with our money, except the one thing that could really work?
That’s how it looks when it comes to scams, wh... |
| 01.05.2024 | Bonza isn’t the first Australian budget airline to struggle – and it won’t be the last | Source: Facebook article-article-body
The history of budget jet airlines in Australia is a long road littered with broken dreams. New entrants have consistently struggled to get a foothold.
Low-cost carrier Bonza has just become the industr... |
| 30.04.2024 | Labor bets big on quantum with $1 billion deal for PsiQuantum and multimillion-dollar Sydney Uni hub | Source: PsiQuantum. article-article-body
The federal government is putting its money where its mouth is by investing millions of dollars to help a Silicon Valley quantum computing startup establish its regional headquarters in Brisbane, and... |
| 26.04.2024 | Nine ANZ startups that raised $60.3 million this week | Deeligence founders Elena Tsalanidis and Justin Hansky. Source: supplied article-article-body
It’s been a bumper week for startup funding announcements, with nine Australian and New Zealand startups revealing they have fresh capital to depl... |
| 17.04.2024 | Tech Worker Salary Growth in Australia Has Normalised | IT workers in Australia are not too far past the pandemic to remember the upward surge in salaries it resulted in. As companies ramped projects back up after shelving them during 2020, suddenly the competition for tech skills and talent was... |
| 12.04.2024 | China may have removed tariffs on Australian wine but its market is no longer the same | China’s Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas article-article-body
China’s Ministry of Commerce has finally ended its tariffs on Australian wine, which had been imposed for more than three years at rates as high a... |
| 12.04.2024 | Three Aussie startups, and a fast food chain, that raised $247.5 million this week | L-R: David Carter (CEO, RACQ). Richard Joffe (Founder and CEO, Honey Insurance), Peter Tonagh (Chairman, Honey Insurance). Source: supplied article-article-body
It’s been a big week for funding news, and a slightly unusual one too.
Our week... |
| 12.04.2024 | Massive tax consequences coming for 42,000 small businesses ‘disengaged’ from ATO | Australian Parliament House is seen behind a ‘Pay Here’ sign at a parking pay station in Canberra, Saturday, October 14, 2023. Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch article-article-body
More than 42,000 small businesses are reportedly “disengaged” f... |
| 11.04.2024 | Can Australia go nuclear? Alan Finkel weighs in | Source: Unsplash/Viktor Kiryanov. article-article-body
Nuclear power is a credible source of abundant zero-emissions electricity, but it would take 20 years to commence operations from a standing start in Australia.
The battle lines have be... |
| 10.04.2024 | Ola joins long list of departed rideshare competitors in Australia | Source: Facebook/ Ola Australia article-article-body
Rideshare platform Ola appears to have departed the Australian market, leaving American juggernaut Uber as the dominant player in the sector.
The Australian reports Ola has informed its d... |
| 09.04.2024 | Innovation consultancy Inventium extends search for next CEO | Profile Inventium
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Inventium founder Amantha Imber has put $5,000 on the table for whoever finds the behavioural science & innovation consultancy’s next CEO, with applications due to close on Friday.
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| 08.04.2024 | Money transportation is becoming uneconomic. Is this the end for cash? | Source: Canva article-article-body
If you’ve ever taken money out at an Australian ATM, been handed $20 change at a supermarket or paid someone in cash, you’ve probably used the services of Armaguard.
Owned by Linfox Group, Armaguard is Aus... |
| 05.04.2024 | Five ANZ startups that raised $79 million in the past two weeks | The Starboard Maritime Intelligence team. Source: supplied article-article-body
April is off to a strong start for startup funding deals, led by $50 million in Series A funding secured by fintech Constantinople.
We’ve also included two rais... |
| 27.03.2024 | CBA boss suggests ban on cash payments above $500 | Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn. Source: AAP/Dan Himbrechts article-article-body
Cash payments above $500 should be banned to help curb the shadow economy, according to Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn, who outlined a bold suite of economi... |
| 26.03.2024 | Adam Neumann eyes WeWork buyback with $500m bid: report | AcquisitionsNewsStartups
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Adam Neumann, the co-founder of embattled WeWork, is attempting to reacquire the office-shari... |
| 25.03.2024 | Calls to increase competition amid Chemist Warehouse’s merger with Sigma Healthcare | A Chemist Warehouse location in Liverpool, Sydney, in 2021. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry of them across the business scene, a new blockbuster has ... |
| 20.03.2024 | Dropshipping luxury: A financial teardown of Cettire | Source: SBO Financial. article-article-body
How does ASX-listed company Cettire manage to dominate the luxury e-commerce scene? Despite some fierce competition, Cettire is keeping its profits intact. In this latest financial teardown, finan... |
| 19.03.2024 | Who is Martin Moshal? The gambling mogul betting big on SA | Meet Martin Moshal, the reclusive online gambling mogul betting big on change in South Africa. Image: SA Jewish Report/File/Fotor
According to a list released by the Electoral Commission of South Africa, one man, Durban-born billionaire Mar... |
| 19.03.2024 | IT Industry Consolidation in Australia an Opportunity for Skills Development | “Transact to transform” will be a key theme across Australia for the next year, according to PwC. CEOs consider technological change to be the single most significant source of change, and 59% of CEOs are planning to execute a deal within t... |
| 18.03.2024 | Trust in Brands: The Fragile Balance | Trust in brands is a delicate dance, easily swayed by customer perceptions and experiences. In Australia, the recent shift in trust rankings from Woolworths to Bunnings highlights the importance of delivering on promises and maintaining str... |
| 18.03.2024 | Prophet raises $5 million for its cookie-free martech platform | L-R: Prophet co-founders Jordan Taylor-Bartels (CEO), Sean Taylor (executive chairman) and Paul Veltman (CCO). Source: Supplied. article-article-body
Marketing tech startup Prophet has secured $5 million in seed funding from top-tier Austra... |
| 18.03.2024 | Bunnings topples Woolworths as the most ‘trusted’ brand in Australia | Source: RealEstate article-article-body
Think of some of the world’s biggest brands: Nike, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Apple. With what do you associate them? Are they positive associations? Now consider, do you trust them?
Brand trust is a meas... |
| 13.03.2024 | Opinion: Airtree the victim in Hostplus and Employment Hero battle for the truth | Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
Yes, I know. Hell has frozen over and it appears a land bridge has formed between the moral high ground and venture capital island.
Yes, I know. It’s surprising to see me riding across it on my high... |
| 10.03.2024 | Reddit IPO Excludes Australian Moderators, Raises Questions of Fairness | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 10 March 2024, 06:03 pm
Australian Reddit moderators will not have access to discounted shares in the impending initial public offering (IPO) of the widely used social platform, Reddit. The company has opted to limit ... |
| 08.03.2024 | Legal AI Is Taking Off in Australia and Could Shake Up the Private Practice Legal Market | Australia’s private practice legal market is diving headlong into providing AI-assisted legal services. Leading brands such as Clayton Utz, Minter Ellison and Holding Redlich are signalling their first steps into the use of AI and their des... |
| 07.03.2024 | Second collapse in four years for Australian swimwear label Tigerlily | A model in a Tigerlily campaign. Source: Facebook/ Tigerlily article-article-body
Australian fashion brand Tigerlily has called in voluntary administrators for the second time in four years, putting new question marks over the beachy-chic b... |
| 04.03.2024 | Why Australia's National Rugby League could help curb China's Pacific influence | Economy Why Australia's National Rugby League could help curb China's Pacific influence
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| 28.02.2024 | Price gouging by banks? There’s a simple solution | (Clockwise from top left) The logos of NAB, ANZ, Westpac, and Commonwealth Bank. Source: Joel Carrett / AAP Image article-article-body
Does it feel like you’re being charged more for all sorts of things these days, from groceries to banking... |
| 28.02.2024 | Seafolly among women-centric brands to stand out in gender pay gap data | A Seafolly advertisement. Source: Facebook/ Seafolly article-article-body
The Seafolly brand is synonymous with women’s swimwear, but new data shows the Australian-born label has one of the most significant gender pay gaps in the local fash... |
| 27.02.2024 | CSIRO Collaboration Aims to Boost Flagging AI Investment in Australia via Competition | The CSIRO’s National AI Centre, in collaboration with Google Cloud and co-working space Stone & Chalk, has launched a new AI competition in the hope of supporting Australian entrepreneurship around AI. Competitions like this are sorely ... |
| 27.02.2024 | Hidden Lessons from China’s Coercion Campaign against Australia | Common consensus holds that China’s recent trade coercion campaign against Australia failed. Yet the consensus view misses important political effects and economic costs of coercion.
In late 2023, Canberra and Beijing stabilised bilateral r... |
| 26.02.2024 | Nickel Nationalism: Resource Downstreaming and the Attainment of Golden Indonesia 2045 | 2024 marks a transitionary year for Indonesian politics, following the country’s presidential election on 14 February. Focus will now be directed to how Indonesia’s newly elected leaders will harness the country’s growing mining sector to f... |
| 26.02.2024 | Atlassian commits to Australian IP retention in landmark $92 million settlement with ATO | Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Source: supplied. article-article-body
In a landmark agreement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Atlassian has agreed to a $92 million tax settlement after a three-year aud... |
| 23.02.2024 | ‘Robotax’ highlights the gaps in Australia’s taxation system. But there’s a fix | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Imagine believing you owed nothing to the Australian Tax Office (ATO), and then suddenly finding out decades later that you did, and that the tax office had been accruing interest and penalties on it... |
| 21.02.2024 | Cash no longer king? Aus Post, ACCC, RBA feel the squeeze | Source: Canva article-article-body
The Reserve Bank of Australia prints pallets of the stuff, Australia Post is flying it to the furthest parts of the country at huge expense, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is report... |
| 20.02.2024 | Meet Cyrille Vigneron, the CEO of luxury jeweler Cartier who personally approves all of its designs | Retail Meet Cyrille Vigneron, the CEO of luxury jeweler Cartier who personally approves all of its designs
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| 15.02.2024 | Indonesia’s Nickel Supremacy: China’s Backing and Australia’s Decline | Australia is no longer competitive in the nickel market, largely due to Indonesia’s recent domination in the sector. This domination strategy has been carefully planned by Indonesia as it looks to boost its downstream industrial policy in c... |
| 09.02.2024 | Neural Notes: Apple enters the AI chat, RIP Google Bard | Source: SmartCompany via Canva/Adobe Stock article-article-body
Welcome back to Neural Notes: A weekly column where I condense some of the most interesting and important AI news of the week. In the latest edition, we have ChatPwC, RIP Googl... |
| 08.02.2024 | Businesses resorting to dodgy practices and confusing pricing: ACCC boss | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Australians have been hit by large rises in grocery, energy, transport, child and aged care prices, only adding to other cost of living pressures.
While extreme weather and supply delays have contrib... |
| 30.01.2024 | Vacuum powerhouse Godfreys enters administration after 93 years, closes 54 stores | A Godfreys store is pictured in Brisbane, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. Source: AAP Image/ Dan Peled article-article-body
Australian vacuum cleaner retailer Godfreys has called in the administrators, who plan to close 54 stores and cease the em... |
| 30.01.2024 | Controversial yet resilient, Eucalyptus eyes $8 million employee share sale | Eucalyptus co-founders Benny Kleist, Charlie Gearside, Tim Doyle and Alexey Mitko. Source: supplied. article-article-body
Digital health startup Eucalyptus is on the eve of an $8 million share sale that is set to benefit long-serving employ... |
| 26.01.2024 | How Woolworths, Peter Dutton, and January 26 combined for 2024’s first culture war | Source: Lukas Coch, AAP Image article-article-body
In the relative quiet of January 2023, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was able to seize the reins of the debate around that year’s coming vote on a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous adv... |
| 25.01.2024 | Three Aussie startups that raised $36 million this week | L-R: VAPAR CO-FOUNDERS AMANDA SIQUEIRA (CEO) AND MICHELLE AGUILAR (CTO). Source: SUPPLIED article-article-body
Another week, another round of funding deals for Australian startups.
As we discussed last week, we’ve seen a strong start to the... |
| 25.01.2024 | FWC awards $26,000 in compensation to employee dismissed over working from home | Source: Getty. article-article-body
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has ordered an Australian company to pay a former employee more than $26,000 in compensation after the Commissioner found he was unfairly dismissed for working from home ful... |
| 23.01.2024 | Australian Organisations Struggling to Resolve Tensions Between Personalisation, Privacy | Organisations in Australia face a significant challenge with data. On the one hand, there is a demand for personalised services. Consumers are willing to share their data if it means better personalisation.
On the other hand, there is a rea... |
| 19.01.2024 | Startup luminaries sign petition against new sophisticated investor asset limits | M8 Ventures general partner Alan Jones. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Angel investors and startup founders are signing a new petition urging the federal government not to increase the asset limit test for ‘sophisticated investors’, ... |
| 19.01.2024 | Nacho typical QSR: A look at the financials of Guzman Y Gomez | Guzman y Gomez co-founder Steven Marks. Source: Supplied article-article-body
I rarely had ‘takeaway’ food as a kid.
For us, it was a luxury.
You see, a cornerstone of Chinese migrant culture is refusing to eat out because “we have food at ... |
| 02.01.2024 | Canva reportedly planning $1B+ secondary sale at $26B valuation
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| 22.12.2023 | Venture capital not doomed, local investors tell Labor MP Ed Husic | article-article-body
Local investors largely disagree with Labor MP Ed Husic’s characterisation of Australia as risk-adverse and a country where venture capital funding may not exist in five years.
However, they agree more needs to be done ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Abercrombie & Fitch to exit Australia due to disappointing local results | article-article-body
Abercrombie & Fitch will close its Australian stores in coming months, following disappointing local results and competition from the likes of H&M and Topshop.
The international retail giant – renowned for its s... |
| 22.12.2023 | Eight Aussie startups that raised $55.2 million this week | L-R: Clove co-Founders Sam Killin and Anna Guerrero. Source: Blackbird article-article-body
Funding has continued to flow to Australian startups in December, with more than $55 million raised this week alone.
The eight startups in this week... |
| 22.12.2023 | Mighty Kingdom investors called to vote on boardroom clear-out | Source: Mighty Kingdom article-article-body
Mighty Kingdom’s journey from a celebrated Australian gaming success story to a company mired in controversy and boardroom power struggles presents a dramatic case study in corporate governance an... |
| 22.12.2023 | Aussie SMEs get direct line to China with Australia’s new Alibaba deal: Three things you need to know | Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with Alibaba Group’s executive chairman Jack Ma during his first visit to the company’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Australian SMEs will get a direc... |
| 22.12.2023 | Chemist Warehouse merger a potential boon for Aussie body wash, lolly brands | A Chemist Warehouse location in Liverpool, Sydney, in 2021. Source: AAP Image/ Bianca De Marchi article-article-body
Growing Australian businesses with products stocked in Chemist Warehouse are excited by its proposed merger with pharmacy t... |
| 22.12.2023 | Tax recap: The 23 updates, reforms, and crackdowns that defined 2023 | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
It was a year of transition for the Australian Taxation Office: after an extended period of leniency shown to small business taxpayers struggling through pandemic lockdowns, 2023 marked a reversion t... |
| 22.12.2023 | Hotel avoids high online commissions by getting returning guests to book directly | article-article-body
A small boutique hotel based in Melbourne says it has a policy of trying to ensure no returning guest has to book through a third party site as a way of combatting high commissions charged by online booking sites.
The r... |
| 22.12.2023 | What can ‘innovation spaces’ do for your SME? | article-article-body
The past two months has seen a range of business innovation centres enter the market. Announcements from National Australia Bank, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank and Hills, along with the government’s Centres for Industry Gr... |
| 22.12.2023 | Fast Lane: “Open the kimono” and other phrases which should be banned in business | article-article-body
There’s not much entrepreneur Jodie Fox can’t do.
Whether it’s co-founding successful online retailer Shoes of Prey, brokering a deal with David Jones or running between Bondi and Bronte wearing a pair of gladiator heel... |
| 22.12.2023 | Why CoinJar really relocated to the UK | article-article-body
Everyone loves to talk about bitcoin, so it was no surprise eyebrows were raised when Australian bitcoin exchange startup CoinJar confirmed it had shifted its headquarters to the UK.
CoinJar is now incorporated as CoinJ... |
| 22.12.2023 | The Aussie businesses making the most of China’s $20 billion Singles’ Day | article-article-body
The growing appetite for Australian products among Chinese consumers was on display last week as millions of shoppers took part in Singles’ Day.
Singles’ Day is a Chinese celebration held on November 11 every year and i... |
| 22.12.2023 | Lorna Jane gets active in its search for a $500 million buyer | article-article-body
Active wear retailer Lorna Jane is reportedly looking for a buyer, after choosing not to pursue an initial public offering.
Fairfax reports founders Lorna Jane and Bill Clarkson and private equity firm CHAMP Ventures ha... |
| 22.12.2023 | Godfreys launches $78 million IPO in bid to continue cleaning up vacuum cleaner market | article-article-body
Godfreys is hoping the mums and dads who have purchased vacuum cleaners from its stores for the past 80 years will also pick up shares in the iconic retailer when it debuts on the Australian Securities Exchange next mon... |
| 22.12.2023 | Rich Listers back app to the tune of $5 million to take on taxi industry | article-article-body
A taxi booking app backed by the likes of Paul Bassat and James Packer has raised around $5 million over the weekend in a bid to further disrupt Australia’s $5.4 billion taxi industry.
The goCatch app allows users to bo... |
| 22.12.2023 | US furniture giant to open first Australian store in December | article-article-body
The local home furniture market is set for a shake-up, with US furniture manufacturer Ashley Furniture reportedly set to open its first Australian store next month.
While Australian consumers can currently purchase Ashl... |
| 22.12.2023 | Bellamy’s Organic in plum spot to list as $95 million public company this month | article-article-body
Investors are lining up to take a bite of Tasmanian organic baby food maker Bellamy’s Organic, which will list on the Australian Stock Exchange later this month.
According to Fairfax, the wholesaler will initially offer... |
| 22.12.2023 | Two-tier mail system to become a reality as government fights to save Australia Post | article-article-body
The federal government is expected to reveal a plan to stem the losses at Australia Post within weeks, although a decision is yet to be made about how much Australians will have to pay to send a letter.
According to Fai... |
| 22.12.2023 | Packer’s profits soar as he snaps up Betfair in full for $10 million | article-article-body
James Packer’s Crown Resorts has bought 50% of Betfair Australasia for $10 million as the gambling business announces surging profits.
Crown already owns the remainder of Betfair Australasia, so the deal, which was anno... |
| 22.12.2023 | Fashion retailer raises $120 million ahead of ASX debut | article-article-body
The parent company of Australian fashion brands Metalicus and Review has this week raised $120 million as it prepares to go public.
The PAS Group, which also includes brands such as Yarra Trail, Black Pepper and Marco P... |
| 22.12.2023 | Wearable tech comes of age: Catapult Sports to spring onto ASX in $12 million float | article-article-body
Home-grown sports technology company Catapult Sports is set to debut on the Australian Securities Exchange before the end of the year via an initial public offering that is expected to raise $12 million.
Despite hosing ... |
| 22.12.2023 | More employers are using AI for recruitment and that’s a problem | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Imagine being the most qualified person for a job and not getting a call-back or not being selected for an interview.
As recruitment decisions shift from being based on assessing applicants’ traditio... |
| 22.12.2023 | Bye-bye big box: IKEA reveals Aussie expansion plans and move to small stores | article-article-body
IKEA is ramping up its business across Australia, revealing plans to double its presence here over the next few years.
The Swedish furniture giant wants to more than double its sales in the next five years, growing from... |
| 22.12.2023 | Baby Bunting eyes off ASX float as its 27-store chain grows up | article-article-body
Australian mums and dads will be able to own a piece of the country’s largest specialist retailer of baby products when Baby Bunting floats on the Australian Securities Exchange later this year.
With early signs of anot... |
| 22.12.2023 | Fears of post office closures, as government stalls on AusPost plan | article-article-body
Post offices may be forced to close their doors as the government takes its time to decide on the future of Australia Post, according to a group of AusPost franchisees.
Angela Cramp from the Licensed Post Offices Group ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Louis Vuitton testing the waters with Seafolly acquisition | article-article-body
Australian swimwear label Seafolly is reportedly in acquisition talks with private equity firm L Capital, the Asian-based arm of major fashion powerhouse Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH).
The swimwear brand – still ow... |
| 22.12.2023 | “What can a little guy do?”: Small business pushed out of shopping centre by Bunnings | article-article-body
A small business owner says he has been left in “shock” after plans to expand his bathroom retail business into a major shopping centre in the Melbourne suburb of Mentone were blocked by Bunnings.
Vince Luong, owner of ... |
| 22.12.2023 | China seeks to “accelerate” free trade agreement with Australia | article-article-body
A free trade agreement between Australia and China appears to be a step closer, after Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said his government would seek to “accelerate” an agreement with the Australian government.
Li made the co... |
| 22.12.2023 | Young businesses and start-ups create and keep more jobs | article-article-body
Larger and more mature companies may employ more people, but new startups and small businesses are the ones to keep them around.
Glenys Beauchamp from the Federal Department of Industry, Innovation and Science revealed ... |
| 22.12.2023 | A $500 million Silicon Valley startup giant is coming to Australia | article-article-body
A Silicon Valley darling valued at over $500 million ($US400 million) has officially launched in Australia and will be setting up an office in Sydney.
Tilt, a platform allowing users to chip in to pay for group activiti... |
| 22.12.2023 | R&D tax concessions prove alluring, as Silicon Valley company becomes first US tech startup to list on ASX | article-article-body
Silicon Valley technology company 1-Page has become the first US tech startup to list on the Australian Securities and Stock Exchange, joining a growing list of American tech businesses entering the Australian market.
T... |
| 22.12.2023 | Zoë Foster Blake’s $21.8 million Go-To deal is the latest BWX skincare buy-back | Zoë Foster Blake at a 2022 Go-To Skincare event. Source: Facebook/ Go-To Skincare article-article-body
Go-To Skincare co-founder Zoë Foster Blake, who sold a majority stake in the cult-favourite brand for $89 million just two years ago, has... |
| 22.12.2023 | RBA member claims “bountiful” export surge: Is it true? | article-article-body
Reserve Bank of Australia board member John Edwards has claimed the biggest surge in export volumes on record may be holding up the dollar despite falling commodity prices.
Edwards says Australia was in the grip of a “b... |
| 22.12.2023 | Sephora to open first Australian store in December: Three things you didn’t know about the cosmetics giant | article-article-body
International cosmetics retailer Sephora will arrive in Australia in time for Christmas, with the retailer confirming on Thursday that it will open a stand-alone store in Sydney’s CBD in December.
After reports earlier ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Gerry Harvey slams Australia Post for “aiding and abetting” GST avoidance | article-article-body
Retail magnate Gerry Harvey has taken aim at Australia Post for encouraging Australian shoppers to avoid paying GST via its ShopMate goods-forwarding service – and he is not the only Australian retailer upset about the ... |
| 21.12.2023 | Third-Party Supply Chain Risk a Challenge for Cyber Security Professionals in Australia | Third-party supply chain risk is a key concern from Australian cyber security professionals. With enterprises typically relying on an expanding network of interconnected systems — often suppliers of suppliers — it is becoming difficult to m... |
| 20.12.2023 | Cyber Security Trends to Watch in Australia in 2024 | The year 2023 was a big year for cyber security professionals in Australia. While IT teams continued to deal with the fallout of some big Australian data breaches, the new 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy was released to boost d... |
| 14.12.2023 | Playground Global closes Fund III with $410M for early-stage deep tech investments | Playground Global, the storied early-stage venture capital firm, brought in $410 million in capital commitments for its Fund III to invest in early-stage deep tech and science companies. The new fund gives Palo Alto–based Playground over $1... |
| 10.12.2023 | AI Showdown: Can Gemini Outpace GPT-4? Google's Bold Claim Facing Scrutiny | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 10 December 2023, 10:12 am |
| 08.12.2023 | Does Remote Work Still Have a Role to Play in the Future of Australia’s Technology Workforce? | Image: Adobe/ChayTee
Remote work has been a top desire for tech workers in Australia and New Zealand since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having experienced more flexibility and autonomy working from home, few tech professionals have e... |
| 07.12.2023 | Happy birthday AUD: A timeline of how the Australian dollar was floated 40 years ago | Source: Canva article-article-body
These days, we take for granted that the value of the Australian dollar fluctuates against other currencies, changing thousands of times a day and at times jumping or falling quite a lot in the space of a ... |
| 04.12.2023 | IT Professionals in ASEAN Confronting Rising Cyber Security Risks | In July 2023, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations officially opened a joint cyber security information sharing and research centre, or Cybersecurity and Information Centre of Excellence, in a bid to increase the region’s shared cyber... |
| 01.12.2023 | ArtificiaI Intelligence and Cybersecurity: The Bad and the Good | Yesterday
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| 30.11.2023 | Eleven Aussie startups that raised $61.5 million this week | The Revsu team. Source: Supplied article-article-body
The startup funding announcements are coming thick and fast as the calendar year quickly draws to a close, with AI startups, fintechs, property management platforms and even a company bu... |
| 29.11.2023 | 25 promising sports startups to watch, according to VCs and other top investors | WSC Sports cofounders from left to right: Aviv Arnon, Hy Gal, Daniel Shichman, and Shmulik Yoffe. WSC Sports This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 29.11.2023 | Robinhood brings its stock-trading platform to the UK, its first international market | We knew it was coming, but stock-trading platform Robinhood is finally open for business in the U.K. — its first international market since debuting in the U.S. more than a decade ago.
Robinhood is granting early access to the app starting ... |
| 28.11.2023 | Australian B2B BNPL provider BizPay collapses into administration | BizPay promotional materials from 2021. Source: BizPay / Facebook article-article-body
BizPay, the Australian fintech offering buy now, pay later (BNPL) services for business-to-business invoices, has fallen into voluntary administration.
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