The Commonwealth is considering a significant expansion of its DataStart program as an ongoing mechanism for finding data solutions to government challenges, and to help fund new companies, Innovation...
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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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Super funds will invest less in venture capital this year than has recently been anticipated but their investments in private equity will increase significantly. Private Equity Media’s 2015 survey...
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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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Genevieve Bell should probably be cast in bronze at some point. She is a genuine hero among the many successful expat Australian executives working big jobs across the world,...
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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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The $75 million in additional spending for the Data61 unit of the CSIRO, announced by the Prime Minister this month, is not a re-instatement of the original NICTA funding,...
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The Turnbull Government has taken its first cautious steps toward an overdue reformation of tech procurement practices, with opportunities creaking open for local SME’s and a new model for...
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The ever-flourishing Fintech scene is beginning to see a shift away from predominantly disruptive technology companies, to more enabling technology companies – those who act as service providers to...
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InnovationAus.com recently posed the question “Does innovation need connectivity?” Leigh Sales on ABC TVs 7:30 program had a crack at asking Prime Minister Turnbull a version of that same...