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Data61 confronts next big challenge

There is a lot to like about Data61 and the unmatched ambition of its strategic plan, announced to the media a week ago. And there is a lot to...

Location talks on landing pads start

Consultations are underway to identify the final three locations for the global ‘landing pads’ that will support entrepreneurial Australians, announced as part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA)....

DataStart may take startup equity

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...

Turnbull, Obama lift cyber alliance

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...

Atlassian shrugs off market woes

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...

Bye-bye services: Feds look offshore

The Commonwealth will start considering proposals to offshore chunks of its corporate services operations to lower-cost providers overseas in two weeks. The Department of Finance has sought responses to...

Hail the chief: The PM in America

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...

Super investing will disappoint VCs

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...

The grim reality of women in tech

Consulting giant Deloitte did something slightly strange with its 2016 Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions by including a front-end section about ‘Women in IT Jobs.’ Deloitte’s TMT Predictions is an...

Asia cranks up startup engine

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...

An Aussie voice at the heart of Intel

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,...

China jitters holds a silver lining

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...

Former Sherpa takes Comms role

The senior public servant who coordinated the delivery of the Malcolm Turnbull whole of government innovation strategy, Heather Smith, has been appointed as the new secretary of the Department...

Farewell 2015, you were good to us

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...