This is the most glaring and under-appreciated fact of internet-age capitalism: We are, all of us, in inescapable thrall to the handful of American companies that now dominate much of the global economy.
A Canberra business has carved a niche as one of Australia's leading producers of promotional drink bottles and is now taking on the world.
Google Australia has confirmed for the first time ever that it has been hit with an amended tax bill by the ATO following audits of its affairs and that "the company will lodge an objection".
After months of speculation that the company is developing automotive technology, Apple has officially leapt into the war for self-driving cars.
Women are lamentably unrepresented in the innovation ecosystem at the heart of the Prime Minister's ideas boom.
Tesla has ascended into a rarefied realm of so-called story stocks - companies that have so bewitched investors that their share prices are impervious to any traditional valuation measures because their stories are simply too good not to be true.
The Amazon founder hopes big windows will give space tourism a boost as he spends up big to fund his private space exploration project, Blue Origin.
Westpac believes the competition watchdog is suppressing innovation by backing Apple's block on banks' contactless payment apps on iPhones.
Tesla's Elon Musk has poked fun at short sellers as his electric-car maker's stock surged to a record, vaulting its market value past century-old rival Ford.
Sir Richard Branson on why he is still aiming for space, not retirement.
What has Stockholm ever done for us? When the Sydney School of Entrepreneurship gets its first students in the second half of this year, there will be a new answer to the question (aside from IKEA).
In the sixth grade, Austin Russell turned a Nintendo gaming handset into a mobile phone. At 15, he built a holographic keyboard. By 17, he'd filed for a patent. Now at 22, he's running a startup at the heart of Silicon Valley's latest technology mania.
Australia's big banks will have to go it alone in their wrangle with tech giant Apple over the introduction of iPhone payments in this country.
Tesla billionaire founder Elon Musk has just reached a significant milestone in his mission to make space travel cheaper.
Tesla chief Elon Musk just gained a massive and well-connected confidant to help him better crack China's auto market: Tencent Holdings.
Jochen Haab is confident his team's car could beat Lewis Hamilton at this weekend's Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix.
What if you're putting yourself out there as a thought leader advising companies how to build brands on social media, but you tweet a lewd suggestion to a reporter whose story you don't like? Nothing much good, as Ryan Holmes knows.
Adidas has been testing a store where shoppers can design a jumper, have a body scan to determine fit and get it knitted by a state-of-the-art machine within hours.
The Wi-Fi icon - a dot with radio waves radiating outward - glows on nearly every internet-connected device, from the iPhone to thermostats to TVs. But it's starting to fade from the limelight.
Policymakers should stop sticking their heads in the sand and ignore the fact that "there are going to be a massive amount of jobs destroyed" from the digital revolution, says Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Australia's most successful tech company, Atlassian.
Australian self-storage start-up Spacer has put its planned expansion into Asia on ice to jump into the world's largest economy first.
A backyard scientist is hoping witchetty grubs in his garage will make him rich, and that they'll perhaps produce an ingredient to cure erectile dysfunction.
It's more than a lifestyle outfit.
In 2013, Anthony Levandowski was the star of Google's self-driving car project. The tall, swaggering engineer was featured in a long New Yorker story about the search engine willing the impossible technology into reality.
Macquarie Park in Sydney is the first suburb getting access to Optus' new 4.5G network, which is capable of 1.03Gbps maximum theoretical download speeds.
We brought the world wi-fi, black box flight recorders, cochlear implants and dual-flush toilets, but a new report shows Australia isn't tracking well against other nations.
Small and medium sized businesses need to think global from the start to fulfil their promise of jobs growth acceleration, according to the NSW government.
Despite a 99 per cent failure rate and a recent setback, Alzheimer's researchers are plowing ahead with hundreds of experiments - and a boost in US federal money - to try to crack a deadly disease that has flummoxed them for decades.
Snap, maker of Snapchat, has file documents for its sharemarket float, the first social media IPO since Twitter three years ago. It could turn its boss Evan Spiegel and supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr into one of the world's richest young couples.
Small shopfront accountants nationwide are worried about the end of the traditional tax return.
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