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Canva launches The Design School; sets up pilot partnerships with Skillshare,...
Last night, design software startup Canva, launched its first 'support' product for the platform, announcing The Design School. The company is describing Design School as a 'new platform, workshop...
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ZipTel raises $5 million to accelerate subscriber acquisition for ZipT service
This morning, ZipTel Limited (ASX:ZIP) announced that it has raised $5 million, that will be used to accelerate the acquisition and marketing activities around its ZipT product, a mobile based VOIP...
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Promise or Pay reveals new user interface, as the ‘goal’ market begins to...
Since graduating from last season's INCUBATE class, it seems that 'goal achievement' startup, Promise or Pay, has undergone a bit of a face-lift. This is hardly uncommon for a startup going through an...
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Four Australian startups selected to pitch at the Challenge Festival in...
Last night, The 1776 Challenge Cup event was held at ATP Innovations in Sydney. The Challenge Cup is a global competition that takes place across 16 different cities, over 11 countries with the aim of...
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That Startup Show may be a key ingredient in the media industry thirst for...
The Startup Show, which announced its launch and six-episode schedule in July this year, revealed yesterday that it had secured additional sponsorship to complete the remainder of Season One of the...
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Online publishers across the web went into panic mode when Google DFP crashed...
Last night, as most of us in Australia slept, a slight crisis was happening for thousands of publishers and online entities that rely upon display advertising as a source of revenue for their...
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Has UBER really been evicted from its Australian premises?
Last month, I wrote a piece on the situation between transport platform UBER and the movement calling itself 'Arresting Uber'. The leader of the ‘Arresting Uber’ movement is Russell Howarth, who at the...
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Channel Ten reveals who will be the sharks of Shark Tank Australia
Last night Channel Ten announced its new line-up of programming for the coming year at the "Ten Upfront" event in Sydney. Amongst the new line-up of reality programming was the much talked about...
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My Mate Your Date is using equity crowdfunding to raise seed funding, and...
Australian entrepreneurs Dan Joyce and Jared Mooring have turned to UK-based equity crowdfunding platform CrowdCube to raise seed funds for their new venture, My Mate Your Date. The aim of the business...
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Leigh Pember appointed Perth City Manager as Elance-oDesk expands Australian...
It was announced this morning that Perth based marketing consultant and travel technology entrepreneur Leigh Pember would be the new city manager of Elance-oDesk for Perth. Although a quick search has...
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As Netflix shuts down its API, startup A Better Queue is taken down with it
Building a startup based around and wholly dependant on another business' API is a risky journey, and one that should be tread carefully as depending on a sole supplier in order for you to be able to...
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What does Artesian Venture’s new strategic partnership with KPMG mean for...
It was announced this morning that a new, exclusive strategic partnership between Artesian Venture Partners and KPMG Australia, will allow up to 1,000 high-growth startup founders to benefit from a new...
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Scott Farquhar leads SafetyCulture’s latest $2 million funding round
In 2011, Luke Anear began the journey of transforming his business - a workplace health and safety consultancy into a tech company. As a new software developer Anear's company SafetyCulture, released a...
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Campaign Monitor’s acquisition of GetFeedback may have just changed the email...
Campaign Monitor has announced today that it has acquired San Francisco based survey startup, GetFeedback. The startup, based out of beachside suburb Cronulla, has become a global leader in the email...
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SitePoint just made it pretty damn easy for startups to advertise on its...
This week Australian company SitePoint, one of the world's top resources for web developers, and one of the top ranked websites in the world, just made it a hell of a lot more accessible for startups...
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QualityTrade has clocked up 12,000 members, taking aim at Alibaba’s...
With a market value of around USD$250 billion, you would think that trying to take on the e-commerce giant that is Alibaba.com would be a stupid, if not a nearly impossible task. The beauty is, when a...
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‘If you’re not mobile first you’re losing revenue’ says Braintree’s Aunkur Arya
A couple of weeks ago I sat down with Aunkur Arya, the General Manager of Mobile for payments company Braintree, to discuss the findings of a recent survey and analysis conducted by the company powered...
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iEatClean isn’t just a lifestyle app, its plans are a hell of a lot bigger...
Written by Mat Beeche When Michelle Casey gave birth, she became interested in the 'clean eating lifestyle' - spending a lot of time researching and experimenting with foods and recipes in an effort to...
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Yik Yak may have just raised $US62 million, but behind the scenes there is...
The app Yik Yak has been labelled 'controversial' by many, a lot of people were surprised when it raised two earlier rounds this year totalling to US$11.2 million. Today, announced less than ten hours...
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Um, why the hell did China host the World Internet Conference??
Usually when people protest about something outside a world conference its about climate change or human rights - however last week in China, obviously hidden away where pretty much nobody could see...
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