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Meeker bullish on mobile Asia

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...

China’s surprising FinTech boom

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...

Tech women: The difficult reality

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....

Software patents a tricky business

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...

Xi plots China’s innovation future

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stepped up his rhetoric on the country’s digital and innovation future, setting out a clear timetable for the world’s most populous nation to seize...

Indonesia FTA a service sector boost

With Free Trade Agreements signed with Japan, South Korea and China during this term in government, the Trade Department has pushed the accelerator on talks with Indonesia to secure...

Innovation threat to mid-sized firms

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...

HealthTech is the new startup black

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...

Ziggy’s unwanted election entrance

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...

Privatisation via Telstra Health?

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...

Telstra CTO’s exit a familiar story

Proving that lightning does strike twice, Telstra has again lost a technology lead over an allegedly fudged CV. A report in The Australian newspaper on Friday noted that Telstra chief technology...

Can the FinTech bubble save us all?

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...

Property a top issue for TechSydney

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...

Innovation policy missing in action

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...