Australia has strengthened ties with the US on cyber security, another sign that analyst and vendor predictions citing cyber security as a big ticket item to watch in 2016, is on...
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Australia’s software darling Atlassian has been caught up in the New Year’s stock rout, losing more than 20 per cent of its value over the past two days. The...
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There is a certain order of things that need to happen on the international front when a new Prime Minister takes charge in Australia. When Mr Turnbull took over...
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If there was any doubt that the billions of dollars that has been pouring into the Asian technology sector was in danger of drying up in the face of...
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The world’s economic jitters – and particularly Asia’s – are finally being felt in the technology sector, which has been more immune than most in recent years. Those jitters...
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Anyone working in the information technology and innovation sectors in Australia should be able to look back on 2015 as the year when everything began to change. At least...
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Quite unexpectedly, Malcolm Turnbull made a quick dash to Tokyo last week for a one day visit to see his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe: his first visit to North Asia....
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With the much anticipated announcement of the Innovation Statement in Canberra on Monday, it’s clear Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants to drive Australia into unprecedented innovation territory, now popularly...
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With the launch of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the Prime Minister has put his shoulder to wheel in steering a new cultural direction for the nation’s economic...
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For the cool $1.1 billion promised by Team Turnbull for its rather breathlessly awaited Innovation Statement – after all it’s been front and centre of his economic utterances since...
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Malcolm Turnbull’s Coalition government hopes to light a fire under Australia’s startup community with new incentives ranging from investor tax breaks to more liberal treatment of insolvency. But the...
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No sooner had the Government introduced the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding) Bill than the critics were out in force. Sometimes you wonder if commercial interests have any idea whatsoever...
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The 2015 Startup Muster Report launched today highlights a healthy and booming ecosystem in Australia and is both surprising and clarifying in its findings. More than 1000 Australian startup...
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The Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will offer a $2 million ‘prize’ for the most innovative ideas and programs for responding to future natural disasters in the Pacific. Launching...