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CBA outlines a blockchain future

While Australian regulators grapple with how to best manage the legalities surrounding blockchain tech, financial services giant Commonwealth Bank of Australia is preparing to launch what it claims will...

David Thodey on our digital future

David Thodey uses the word ‘wonderful’ often – to describe Australia’s research, opportunities, education, skills and assets. The fact he doesn’t use the word to describe the NBN is...

Chaos Monkeys and Russian trolls

The political power building inside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook is probably already too difficult to constrain says the man who led the adtech team...

This govt ignores its own success

The federal government is weirdly reluctant to embrace its own success in relation to the rude health of the Australian startup sector. The collective momentum of young entrepreneurs in...

Vic funded tech conferences MIA

A large tech conference due to take place in Melbourne this year has been postponed, despite the Victorian government paying for the rights to hold it exclusively in the...

Australia leads in R&D support

Total Australian government support for research and development increased by 9 per cent during 2008-2016, according to the latest OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard, making Australia among the...

Benchmarks a key to innovation

Simply spending corporate funds on traditional research and development programs is not the best path towards business innovation, said PwC Partner Aaron LePoidevin. Instead, organisations need to embark on...

ACCC targets tech platforms

Australia’s competition watchdog has launched an inquiry into the impact digital platforms like Facebook and Google are having on media and advertising disruption. The federal government has formally instructed...

SA’s radical tech law on hold

The South Australia government has retreated from its attempt to pass legislation that would have allowed startups and tech companies to bypass state laws in the name of innovation...

The importance of being Canva

It took Guy Kawasaki 30 years to find another company as interesting as Apple and when he did it was based in Australia. Mr Kawasaki was Apple’s chief evangelist...

At a Crossroads: StartupAus report

The government must step up and implement policies that focus on innovation and startups for the benefit of the country even if the general public isn’t supportive of the...

Marcus Segal is the gasoline

Silicon Valley acceleration heavyweight Marcus Segal is in Sydney this week talking to entrepreneurs and scouting possible startups to invest in. He is here as part of the City...

The Crossroads state of play

The Australian startup ecosystem has enjoyed rapid growth and development in the last year, but is still “young and relatively immature” on the world stage, according to the StartupAus...

LaunchVic loses another director

The board member who served as acting chair of LaunchVic for most of this year has quietly resigned from the $60 million government body, the ninth director to depart...