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Grocery delivery startup Voly slashes operations as tech sector slumps
The instant grocery delivery startup has cut staff, jettisoned its promise of 15-minute grocery deliveries, and closed half its stores amid questions about the business model.
- by Nick Bonyhady
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‘Totally the underdog’: Inside Mr Yum’s $100m global expansion plans
Flush with a $100 million cash injection, Mr Yum CEO Kim Teo outlines what the start-up plans to do with the funding – and what she thinks of the company’s competitor me&u.
- by Jessica Yun
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Income tax
‘Not worth the risk’: ATO warns on home offices, COVID payments and ‘side hustles’
Small businesses and sole traders have been put on notice ahead of the end of the financial year as the ATO resumes collection activities after a near two-year light-touch approach during the pandemic.
- by Sarah Danckert
Single flu and COVID test coming, but not in time for this flu season
Rapid at-home influenza tests won’t be widely available until next year at the earliest.
- by Emma Koehn
Ticking crypto time bomb could spark another financial crisis
Decentralised finance, also known as DeFi, is being touted as a better option to existing stuffy financial services. But it’s rife with unregulated middlemen.
- by Dominic Powell
‘Orphaned inventions’: Life-saving AI discoveries trapped in legal black hole
The law insists inventors have to be human. But that means we’re missing out on groundbreaking medicine and technology developed by AI.
- by Angus Dalton
‘Our country can’t go on like this’: The Chinese entrepreneur not afraid to speak out
China’s entrepreneur class is grappling with the worst economic slump in decades but they can’t seem to agree how loudly they should complain. But Zhou Hang is different.
- by Li Yuan
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Pharmaceuticals
Aussie tech in postnatal depression pill breakthrough
Researchers at Monash University are hoping a technology they have invented will enable women who have to undergo lengthy intravenous infusion treatments for postnatal depression to take a simple pill instead.
- by Emma Koehn
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Global economy
Elon Musk’s Mars dream needs to be bigger
Elon Musk has been thinking about zooming off to establish a colony on Mars for years. But he needs more people there than he thinks, or there is no point going at all.
- by Paul Krugman
‘Just suck it up and start looking into NFTs’: Crypto through the lens of a marketer
In a space filled with strange terminology, dubious technology and valuable non-fungibilty, how do you convince companies and their customers to dive into the world of Web3?
- by Dominic Powell
How Tony Blair’s son built a $587m fortune
The unique selling point of Euan Blair’s start-up is directly opposed to his father’s flagship education policy when he was in Downing Street.
- by Gareth Corfield