Gallery: Telstra Labs
Telstra’s new CTO, Hakan Eriksson, yesterday took journalists on a tour of Telstra Labs
The City of Sydney is seeking an operator for a planned ‘innovation space’ for startups that will be located in the under-construction skyscraper at 180 George Street in Circular Quay.
NAB has launched a team focused on high-growth technology companies, with the bank today revealing it aims to help facilitate emerging Australian tech-enabled firms access $2 billion in financing through loans or access to capital markets over the next half decade.
US accounting firm H&R Block will acquire fintech Wave Financial in an A$583 million all-cash deal, the company announced yesterday.
Every year around 3500 Australian men die of prostate cancer, according to the Prostate Cancer foundation of Australia. It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and by the age of 75, one in seven men will develop prostate cancer; by the age of 85, that increases to one in five, according to PCFA.
The chief executive of StartupAUS has said Sydney’s slide in a ranking of international startup ecosystems is disappointing but not a surprise.
The eagerly anticipated innovation tax incentives released recently by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are designed to “enable the transition of our economy” but experts say they unfairly benefit investors over the start-ups and businesses doing the heavy lifting.
Amidst all the venture investments this year in startups that generate gobs of data -- from those focused on everything from apps to drones to the Internet of Things to Big Data -- are a batch of newcomers aiming to help organizations store and access all that information. Yes, storage companies are pulling in big bucks in 2015, as they did in 2014, and a couple have even double-dipped this year and announced two rounds of funding.
Social networks are dead, and smart VC money is pouring into enterprise startups like Shoutlet, Asana, Narrative Science, and Delphix
The semi-annual DEMO conference is all about finding the next big thing, a company that can wow the technology world while raking in boatloads of cash.