Australia’s competition and consumer watchdog will use its compulsory information gathering powers to obtain data from tech giants including Google and Facebook as part of its wide-ranging “world-first” inquiry...
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Legislation paving the way for trials of driverless cars on public roads in Victoria has been passed as competition grows between states to become the hub for the emerging...
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ANZ bank has hopped aboard Data Republic’s information sharing platform, joining earlier entrants Westpac and NAB as Australia’s move to an open banking regime speeds up. Data Republic scores...
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Melbourne’s entrepreneur advocacy body Startup Victoria is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer after Georgie Beattie left the organisation to start a new role as executive...
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Melbourne’s entrepreneur advocacy body Startup Victoria is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer after Georgie Beattie left the organisation to start a new role as executive...
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Long-time Google Australia director of engineering Alan Noble is to leave the company after more than a decade, and plans to focus on the expansion of his Adelaide-based ocean...
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It was the annual Science Meets Parliament confab in Canberra last week. Cool … If you like that sort of thing. It was also the week Australia’s Prime Minister...
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A Greens motion to revoke planning amendments for Apple’s highly controversial store at Federation Square has been resoundingly defeated in the Victorian Parliament. The motion was brought forward by...
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Bank of Queensland (BOQ) has signed a two-year corporate partnership with Brisbane’s River City Labs (RCL) which it says is part of next steps to prepare for the federal...
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Barely a week after presiding over the official opening of the $35 million Sydney Startup Hub, the inaugural Jobs for NSW chief executive officer Karen Borg has left the...
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Big investment decisions don’t get made in a vacuum. They are the end-point of targeted work by powerful interests over a period of time. Very often there is an...
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The 500 Startups scandal in Victoria appears to have jolted the country’s venture capital community into acknowledging the need for more female involvement in the tech and innovation ecosystem....
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South Australian startup Fleet Space Technologies has won a Dutch government grant to fast-track its “world-first” Internet of Things network for farms around the world, while Queensland rocket company...
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The NSW government has announced it will establish its own Productivity Commission to spearhead policy reforms to make it easier to do business in the state, including a review...