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Trade in services deal still distant

Companies looking to sell innovative services on the world stage will remain heavily reliant on bilateral trade deals for the foreseeable future with international agreements on trade in services...

Startups must get privacy in order

Australia’s privacy czar has emerged from a near death experience imposed by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott to launch Privacy Awareness Week and warn tech startups of coming scrutiny,...

Nuix trawls the heart of deception

Digital investigation software from Nuix has a habit of turning up in the guts of many of the most juicy investigations of modern times and that gumshoe trail is...

Victoria outlines five-year ICT plan

The Victorian Government has released a new ICT strategy, the first comprehensive statement on information technology since the Andrews Labor government was elected in November 2014. The new strategy...

Kay Koplovitz on gender diversity

Legendary US entrepreneur Kay Koplovitz describes the 2016 presidential primaries’ season in the US as “very disheartening, very dispiriting,” and the “craziest election cycle I have ever seen.” “It’s...

WA finds religion in new digital God

Western Australia has unveiled a four-year $20 million innovation program, appointed its first innovation minister, and pledged to leverage digital technology to broaden the State’s economy. State Development and...

Labor’s fight to highlight tech plan

The war over who has the best policies to support innovation has yet to be fought tooth and claw by either side in this marathon election campaign, although Labor...

The Science Party’s election mission

Most entrepreneurs are happy with a single startup dominating their life around the clock. I decided that sleep was overrated and did two simultaneously. The first of my startups...

WiseTech, the old-school Unicorn

Richard White, Australia’s newest member of the Unicorn club, has a problem with minimal viable products – he thinks they’re oxymoronic for enterprise software companies. “People often produce something...

Aussie consumers’ privacy issues

The Deloitte Australian Privacy Index released this week produced some surprising results, not the least of which was that nearly three quarters of consumers don’t trust a brand any...

Will Frankenstein NBN turn on PM?

Malcolm Turnbull’s singular achievement on the Abbott frontbench was the pulling apart of the National Broadband Network, and like Dr Frankenstein, putting together various bits and pieces to create...

Stop the ride, I want to get off now

So here’s what has happened so far. On Sunday morning the Prime Minister called for an election to be held on July 2. It’s now Tuesday evening and I...

Malcolm winning the early tech love

The Labor party will need to dramatically reforge its rhetoric around fostering innovation if it wants to snag votes from the tech sector at the July 2 double dissolution...

Climate change and sins of omission

Now that Malcolm Turnbull has called a July 2 double dissolution election, the Budget is last week’s news. The phoney war is over and Australia is in election mode....