The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s regulatory sandbox proposals have been hailed as a game changer in the global FinTech scene but may need some tweaking to accommodate ideas...
Policy
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Regardless of what you think about the government dropping a further $15 million into incubator support a week ago, it seems a strange way to announce policy. This is...
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Last week was OECD week; but in Australia about the only coverage was the OECD concern about our housing prices. Despite Australia being the 23rd member of the OECD...
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The Asia Pacific region – Australia’s backyard – is now home to more than half of the world’s 2.5 billion plus smartphone users, a share that grew from 35 per...
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For all the Chinese government’s grand plans to bring the country charging into the 21st Century as a powerhouse of science and technology the truth is, like its North...
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The great lie being sold to young women professionals in the tech sector is that they can have it all. Not yet they can’t, and Ruslan Kogan knows why....
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A controversial High Court decision not to allow a patent applicant to appeal an adverse finding in the Full Federal Court has caused an outbreak of the crankies in...
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More than half of Australia’s mid-size companies don’t believe they are evolving as quickly as they should, and 40 per cent admit they have failed to bring a new...
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Singapore is carving out one of its suite of technology niches as a regional hub for technology-driven healthcare and the related field of biotechnology. These sectors were very much...
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NBN chairman Ziggy Switkowski’s entry, in the middle of an election campaign, into the growing furor around the company’s decision to call in the Australian Federal Police to investigate...
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Telstra Health has been awarded a major contract to manage the Australian National Cancer Screening Register, which involves the health records of millions of Australians. The contract has been...
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It is a question that is doing the rounds. “Are we in a fin-tech bubble, I think we are.” At least that was the message from among a phalanx of...
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It’s hard to know what to make of the latest tech industry lobby group to be set up – Tech Sydney – but the fact that the group will...
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We know Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition has a clue about nurturing the innovation sector, but so far in this election Labor seems oblivious to the nation building potential of startups...