‘Google Schmoogle’ was a phrase famously coined by former Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo as he batted away concerns that the search engine giant, back in 2005 as a...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...