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Sirtex bear still wary despite share price dive
The warning signs were there for all to see ahead of a trading update last week that slashed hundreds of millions of dollars off the market worth of biotech outfit Sirtex.
The warning signs were there for all to see ahead of a trading update last week that slashed hundreds of millions of dollars off the market worth of biotech outfit Sirtex.
Hate doing laundry? This Laundroid doesn't only wash and dry garments, but also sort, fold and neatly arrange them. Now its Japanese inventor has won $71 million from investors including Panasonic, and is preparing to take the business public.
At 26, John Collison, the co-founder of online payments service Stripe, has become the world's youngest self-made billionaire, according to Forbes.
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More than 85 per cent of Tesla shareholders have voted in favour of its controversial SolarCity deal.
The float of messaging phenomenon Snapchat is likely to make its chief executive Evan Spiegel and his fiancee Miranda Kerr one of the world's richest young couples.
Excitement and a century-old industrial company don't usually mix in the minds of Silicon Valley talent.
It is working in one of the hottest areas of biotechnology research -Â antibiotic resistance -Â and after $20 million and years of development work, SpeeDX, is launching sales in Europe
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Uber is under the ATO's watch on its tax affairs.
Public service departments "too nervous" to innovate, say start-ups.
Forget singing or acting your way to riches. Tech entrepreneurs dominate the list of Australia's young and wealthy.
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To keep the US government at arm's length, it helps to get close to it first. No wonder tech giants like Facebook, Google and Uber have embedded themselves in Washington.
Australia's telecommunications sector finally got back what it does best this week -  sledging each other in public over  Â
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Feel free to check your email while driving this car. Or maybe you'd prefer to make a video call, or just relax and take in the scenery.
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The new world of innovation runs on the belief that 'if it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly'.
When I first heard Elon Musk had asked his audience if they were willing to die in a great endeavour, I assumed he was speaking to shareholders.
Samsung's disastrous launch of its latest smartphone is a symptom the family controlled company's structure, according to a leading figuring in South Korea's start-up scene.
SpaceX is developing an interplanetary rocket and capsule to transport large numbers of people and cargo to Mars with the ultimate goal of colonising the planet, company chief and tech billionaire Elon Musk said.
Musk's keynote address, entitled 'Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species,' will tackle the technical challenges and "potential architectures for colonizing the Red Planet,"
During eight years on the share market, TPG has been the reliable goose that laid the golden egg. But this week, TPG's share price started tumbling.
Airbnb has raised at least $US555 million in new funds, valuing the company at some $US30 billion.
Idea theft is happening even when confidentiality agreements, design registrations and patents are in place.
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