Last week saw the launch of a new Sydney based tech startup group called, rather imaginatively, TechSydney. It is a worthwhile exercise and should be a success, if the...
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The message we have been hearing from the Coalition government for almost three years is about the unbridled opportunities available in China. The apotheosis of this was the signing...
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At the annual Broadcast Asia expo in Singapore last week, one of the big buzzes was about online video streaming, the so-called over the top services that are laying...
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s regulatory sandbox proposals have been hailed as a game changer in the global FinTech scene but may need some tweaking to accommodate ideas...
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Regardless of what you think about the government dropping a further $15 million into incubator support a week ago, it seems a strange way to announce policy. This is...
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Last week was OECD week; but in Australia about the only coverage was the OECD concern about our housing prices. Despite Australia being the 23rd member of the OECD...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...