Innovation
Goodbye, banking password
Michael Corkery The banking password may be about to expire forever as banks opt to scan fingers and faces instead.
Elon Musk's move full of red flags
Steven Davidoff Solomon The market hates the idea of Tesla Motors acquiring SolarCity.
Tesla bids $3.75b for SolarCity panel maker
Russ Mitchell and Ivan Penn The electric carmaker makes a bid for the biggest US solar panel maker to become a force in sustainable energy.
Who actually wants a self-driving car?
John R. Quain The technology to make autonomous cars a reality may be ready. Drivers are not.
Opinion
Goodbye to LinkedIn, Twitter and (almost) everyone else
Dante Ramos It has something 320 million people can't do without, but Twitter's recent efforts to keep up with the Big Five are "all sad, and too late".
19 costly LinkedIn mistakes you're making
With Microsoft buying LinkedIn for $35 billion, now's as good a time as any to revise your profile.
Vodafone makes ground on Telstra
Patrick Hatch Telstra has the fastest mobile data network in Australia but the once-ridiculed Vodafone now matches the dominant telco for wireless coverage.
LinkedIn winners reap millions from Microsoft deal
Marco della Cava Many people might not like Mondays, but LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is probably not one of them.
Opinion
Unspoken reason behind the LinkedIn sale
Andrew Ross Sorkin The company’s struggling share price, and its reliance on stock-based compensation, may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft.
Opinion
What the $35b LinkedIn buy says about bubbles
Conor Sen Microsoft's LinkedIn buy is bringing out predictable talk of irrationality. It shouldn't be.
Elizabeth Knight
NBN gets hospital pass from Shorten
Elizabeth Knight So Labor is going to rework both the technology and rollout of the NBN if it wins. Is this a threat or a promise?
Apple seeks to sell excess solar power
Allana Akhtar Apple could start selling consumers another desired product - green energy.
Suburban car yard at heart of Uber dream
Georgia Wilkins The suburb of Maidstone in Melbourne's inner west is a far cry from the busy streets of San Francisco, home to Silicon Valley and some of the world's biggest companies.
Big-Brother Pizza: Domino's is watching you
Angus Whitley Checking the progress online of your takeaway pizza is so 2006. Now you're being tracked, too.
Tenants booted over Airbnb stoush
Patrick Hatch Court ruling in favour of the landlord will send a shiver through the so-called sharing economy.
How one tweet wiped out $777m
The market value of a Samsung affiliate nosedived this week after a single tweet by billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk.
We've hit peak human and an algorithm wants your job
Hugh Son Banks are racing to remake themselves as digital companies.
Telstra's muru-D pushes start-ups to go global
Max Mason Telstra's start-up accelerator muru-D is teaching Australian businesses to go global from day one.
Batteries storage key to tapping power of renewable energy for Victorian consumers
Brian Robins Victoria needs investment for upgrades to transfer renewable power to state transmission lines.
Innovation
Start-up co-ops take on the Uber economy
Georgia Wilkins Start-up 'co-ops' are challenging the Uber-style business model that has come to define the so-called sharing economy
Zillow ends legal brawl with Murdoch's Move
Colin Kruger, CBD James Packer and Rupert Murdoch may have a cosy media relationship at the Ten Network, but they have been involved in the mother of all legals battles on the property front - until now.
Seven West snaps up 15% Airtasker stake
Four-year-old start-up Airtasker has raised $22 million, with Seven West Media picking up a 15 per cent stake in the online job outsourcing group.
Nasdaq's Aussie tech hunts insider traders
Vesna Poljak Sydney, almost unknowingly, is at the centre of the world's fight to protect market integrity.
Elizabeth Knight
ASX walks tightrope between innovation and dot.com-style disasters
Elizabeth Knight The ASX's memory of the dot.com bubble is recent enough that it doesn't want to allow a repeat.
Apps
'What you going to do faggot?'
Hannah Francis Uber driver's homophobic tirade at passenger caught on tape.
Atlassian founder 'terrified' by $1.3b Guvera float
Perry Williams Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says he was 'terrified' by the Guvera prospectus after receiving a pitch to invest in the company.
Wall Street's robot army crunches the numbers
Jessica Sier Big data companies have developed software-based 'robots', programmed to make decisions and direct investors.
Silicon Valley too thin-skinned, says Gawker's Denton
Jefferson Graham They're very rich, very powerful and very, very sensitive to scrutiny and criticism, says controversial publisher.
Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence
Liana B. Baker Computers will be so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant "neural laces" in their brains to keep up, Tesla boss Elon Musk says.
