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Matt Kean appointed NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation in...
Just a few short weeks after the appointment of a new Federal Minister for Innovation, newly-appointed NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has named Hornsby MP Matt Kean the state’s new Minister for...
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CSIRO to open San Francisco office to help push commercialisation in US market
The Federal Government has announced it is set to open a new office for the CSIRO in San Francisco in order to boost the organisation’s engagement with the US. The news follows the launch of the...
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Australian tech leaders speak out against Trump’s immigration restrictions
Tech leaders across the US have spoken out against Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, put in place over the weekend to temporarily bar citizens of seven majority-Muslim nations from...
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Dropbox will share its recipe for internal innovation at Pause 2017
We are constantly being told that innovation is the future, and that companies must innovate and embrace disruption or they will die. Beyond the buzzwords, however, we are not often given the...
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MYOB wraps up first run of DevelopHER program by giving the three...
Over the last year or two, the mainstream conversation about women in tech has shifted. Perhaps the biggest shift, in fact, is the very fact that it has become a mainstream conversation in the first...
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We need to talk about startup lust
Startup lust is everywhere and in the same vein as bathroom mould, it can’t just be ignored forever. In the interest of sustaining a metaphor – insipid, green greed is growing, packaged as an...
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GetSwift appoints former Qantas chief information officer Jamila Gordon as...
Fresh from its debut on the ASX last month, logistics software company GetSwift has announced the appointment of Jamila Gordon, a non-executive director, to the role of Global Chief Information...
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Wellington’s Creative HQ launches accelerator program focused on electricity...
New Zealand startup agency Creative HQ is set to add to its portfolio of accelerator programs, today announcing the launch of Lightning Lab Electric, an accelerator program focused on businesses...
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Melbourne startup Influx provides clients with online customer support on-demand
Along with drones and VR, bots have been the talk of the tech world for the last couple of years, with startups eager to automate everything from how you pick the next thing to watch on Netflix through...
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Snapchat’s parent company Snap, Inc has filed for an IPO
After much anticipation, Snap Inc, the parent company of social media app Snapchat, has filed its paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange through which it will...
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Alibaba opens Australia and New Zealand headquarters in Melbourne
After months of expanding its dealings in Australia, Alibaba Group this weekend officially opened its Australian and New Zealand headquarters in Melbourne, with the local office to be headed up by...
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Online platform Where’s the Card helps users wrangle colleagues to sign an...
Anyone who’s somehow become the designated coordinator for pulling together office cakes, cards, and gifts for birthdays, farewells, and other occasions – you know it’s usually the same person every...
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Pause 2017 will show how NASA prepares astronauts for life in space through...
For many, the term ‘virtual reality’ will conjure up visions of newfangled headsets and how it’s being used in fields like gaming, but the technology in fact goes back decades, and an organisation that...
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Agriculture innovation hub SproutX opens Melbourne coworking space
SproutX, the innovation hub launched late last year by Findex and the National Farmers’ Federation to focus on encouraging innovation in the agricultural sector, has today announced the official...
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Sydney platform Sportsyear Engine helps sports fans plan their viewing itinerary
For the dedicated sports fan, activities are often planned around matches. Friends want to go out on Saturday night? Sorry, no can do – Liverpool’s playing a midday game so I have to be home to watch...
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Wagga Wagga program Incubate @ 35 announces second cohort of regional startups
Wagga Wagga coworking space Working Spaces HQ has announced the second cohort taking part in Incubate @ 35 degrees, its regional incubator program. Spreading across a range of different industries, the...
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Innovation and Science Australia releases performance review of Australia’s...
Australia is good at creating knowledge but not good enough at transferring or applying it, according to a performance review on Australia’s innovation presented to the government by federal advisory...
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Startup Muster 2016 highlights need to develop culture of entrepreneurship...
The results of the 2016 Startup Muster survey are now in and make for compelling reading once more, providing a snapshot of who is starting startups in Australia, how, and why. This year captured...
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[WATCH] What is the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre?
Over the last few years, universities around Australia have begun to see the value in investing in spaces and programs aimed at pushing innovation, both internally and outside the universities...
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Jobs for NSW and UTS launch renewable energy accelerator EnergyLab
Record-high temperatures were seen in NSW over the weekend, creating conditions described as “catastrophic” for firefighters as over 90 bushfires raged around the state. All this came just a few days...
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