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It's not just Amazon that is threatening Australia's e-commerce scene.
It's not just Amazon that is threatening Australia's e-commerce scene.
The billionaires have joined other business giants backing a start-up that makes meat from self-producing animal cells.
Amazon, the $US500 billion ($630 billion) gorilla stalking Australian retail, took a giant step towards establishing a bona fide e-commerce presence in this country last week.
Tesla is burning through cash with gleeful abandon. But for its long-term believers, it doesn't seem to matter.
A different kind of tax is powering Apple's profits
A dispute between two of the most ambitious new entrants to Australia's $2 trillion superannuation industry is on the radar of regulators and has enthralled the fintech community.
"A year from now, if he hits the goal and is selling half-a-million cars to overwhelmingly satisfied customers, even the skeptics might dub him Iron Man." is how one analyst puts it.
As Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos jockey for the designation of world's wealthiest man, the two billionaires are united behind at least one local venture - an Uber for trucking.
It wasn't that long ago - in the scheme of things - that technology, in a business context, to many (misguided people) meant 'IT department'. Now tech permeates everything.
It's not the first time the two tech moguls have clashed publicly.
The challenge is convincing investors smitten with Amazon that e-commerce isn't a winner-take-all game.
With a tweet and very little else by way of detail, entrepreneur Elon Musk has raised the prospect of building the world's longest tunnel for an ultra-high-speed train line to connect New York to Washington.
Billionaire Elon Musk says there is a lot of risk associated with Falcon Heavy, his company's rocket designed to carry private citizens into space.
There was something else aside from Anne Ward's decades of commercial law and financial services experience that helped her land a spot on the board of accounting software company MYOB.
The public is getting its first look at Tesla's completed Model 3, more than a year after the electric car was first announced by chief executive Elon Musk.
When analysts at Morgan Stanley were trying to handicap the driverless car race, their thoughts kept turning to chicken wings. And the Disney film "Frozen." And beer. All the things you can do when you're not spending your time locked behind the steering wheel anymore.
Almost fifty years ago, science fiction author John Brunner wrote about a world filled with electric cars... rising investment, as evidenced by Volvo's landmark decision this week, suggests that may well be about to happen.
Your suitcase has taken on a life of its own. It can now tell you if it has strayed too far, or if you've packed too much, and it may soon be able to call you an Uber car.
One measure of the power of Amazon 's vision is how quickly its rivals are racing to copy it; both Apple and Google have their own takes on the Echo Show. But Amazon's device is well on the way to becoming the operating system for suburbia.
German regulators are asking whether Facebook takes advantage of its popularity to bully users into agreeing to T+C's they don't understand.
The world's leading drug companies are turning to artificial intelligence to improve the hit-and-miss business of finding new medicines, with GlaxoSmithKline as part of a new $US43 million ($55.9 million) deal.
One-third of drivers involved with ride-sharing services such as Uber are yet to register for GST or to fully declare their income.
Australians should soon be able to tip Uber drivers as part of a suit of measures the ride sharing giant is rolling out to appease disgruntled drivers.
Atomo taps backers for more funds as it seeks to build global growth
Regulatory changes in Europe has helped boost the sale value of local diagnostic test outfit SpeeDx
Scissors, paper, rock: Japanese entrepreneur Nobuyoshi Yamasaki now plans to make paper out of stone to build "a company that will last for hundreds of years".
Australia's poor recycling track record has an upside.
When visiting a Stockland shopping centre, customers can not only say "charge it", they can also keep the car at full voltage.
Uber is a technology company. It is also a transportation company. That may seem like a trivial distinction, but a lot is riding on it.
The project is the latest example of Silicon Valley attempting to reshape how goods and people are moved. Some say it also underscores a penchant for tech moguls to colour their projects with seemingly virtuous ambition.