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Advent calls in bankers to assess options for Compass Education
Sources said Compass is making about $15 million to $20 million in annual EBITDA on the back of circa $50 million revenue.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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- Funding
Blackbird nets $800m payday from Canva share sale
“I hate selling even one Canva share … but it’s time for some of our earlier funds to take some profits off the table.”
- Tess Bennett
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- Funding
Start-up deals fall to six-year low as tech winter persists
Just 66 Australian companies raised funds from venture capital investors in the first quarter of this year, and total funding has dropped 45 per cent year-on-year.
- Tess Bennett
Woolworths partners with Tesco on $190m start-up investment fund
The global fund will be run from Sydney and counts retailer chains from Europe, Canada and South Africa among its investors.
- Nick Bonyhady
IPO hopeful Lime avoids share bike graveyard
The company says Sydney and Melbourne are among its most profitable cities as it eyes resurrecting its aborted plans to go public.
- Nick Bonyhady
Life360 shares soar on 5 million new tracking app users
The company has launched an ad business, making the number of users more important – even if they don’t pay.
- Nick Bonyhady and Joanne Tran
Opinion & Analysis
At last, a gadget worthy of a bucket list
Imagine what you could do with a portable, 300-inch screen and Hisense’s new C1 projector.
Columnist
Change your doorbell, change your life
Amazon’s latest battery-operated Ring doorbell has a new feature that can change the way you think about doorbells.
Columnist
The new Surface computers Microsoft won’t let anyone review
There are many firsts around the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 coming out next week, and not letting journalists do reviews is only one of them.
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‘AI honeymoon is over’, Canva co-founder declares
Just two years after the last technology bubble burst, investors shouldn’t mistake AI tools that look like magic for a business model that is.
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Technology reviews
At last, a gadget worthy of a bucket list
Imagine what you could do with a portable, 300-inch screen and Hisense’s new C1 projector.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Change your doorbell, change your life
Amazon’s latest battery-operated Ring doorbell has a new feature that can change the way you think about doorbells.
- John Davidson
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At last, a gadget worthy of a bucket list
Imagine what you could do with a portable, 300-inch screen and Hisense’s new C1 projector.
- John Davidson
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Sydney start-up Honey Insurance lands blockbuster $108m US investment
After 305 meetings Honey has closed a huge series A funding round, but it had to head offshore to find the right investors.
- Paul Smith
GoCatch was shedding passengers before UberX arrived, court told
Ned Moorfield, the co-founder of failed start-up GoCatch, has been grilled under cross-examination during the second week of a damages case against Uber.
- Gus McCubbing
Insufficient evidence to charge Nuix boss with insider trading: ASIC
The regulator has closed its probe into chief executive Jonathan Rubinsztein, whose share purchase coincided with a US company’s approach about an asset sale.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- Digital Life
Change your doorbell, change your life
Amazon’s latest battery-operated Ring doorbell has a new feature that can change the way you think about doorbells.
- John Davidson
Aussie MMA start-up quietly lists in the US after $9.9m raise
Manly-based Alta Group, which runs a mixed-martial-arts training platform, has debuted on the New York Stock Exchange after raising $US6.5 million.
- Tess Bennett
Qoria brings in RBC Capital Markets as US bidder comes calling
Listed cyber safety group Qoria (née Family Zone) has tapped RBC Capital Markets as its defence adviser.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Why companies are refusing to pay cyber ransoms
Fewer companies are giving in to cybercriminal demands, with around half suffering no adverse impacts.
- Max Mason
This Month
US private equity firm K1 builds stake in Qoria; MS on the scene
It is believed K1 now has a call option over 15 per cent of the shares on issue, and the support of the company’s two largest shareholders.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
How tech giants cut corners to harvest data for AI
The race to lead AI has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain it, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law.
- Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson and Nico Grant
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Becoming increasingly vital: Microservices are compact, specialised components of a larger software application.
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Uber and GoCatch stagger out for round two of court case
Nobody expected a clean fight when GoCatch called out Uber for huge damages, but startling details in the first week of the trial have left both sides wounded.
- Paul Smith
- Opinion
- Digital Life
The new Surface computers Microsoft won’t let anyone review
There are many firsts around the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 coming out next week, and not letting journalists do reviews is only one of them.
- John Davidson
Canva millionaires made as $US1.6b share sale completes
The design software giant has finalised the first tranche of a share sale it has signalled will reach $3.6 billion, with rich rewards for early staff and investors.
- Nick Bonyhady and Tess Bennett
Potentia Capital mulls exit at booking software group NewBook
Sources said the mid-market software and technology specialist is talking to bankers ahead of an exit later this year.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Founder fights and investor fury exposed as Uber makes its case
Investors in fallen transport app GoCatch were alarmed by its lack of progress and wanted to sack its co-founders around the time UberX launched in Australia, private emails show.
- Paul Smith
Spotify is increasing its prices again – and you can blame audiobooks
By the end of this month, the streaming giant will raise fees for the second time in a year in five markets, including the UK, Australia and Pakistan.
- Lucas Shaw and Ashley Carman
Google mulls charging for AI-powered search in major shift
The proposals would mark the first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall.
- Madhumita Murgia and Richard Waters
‘Not honourable, but lawful’: Uber justifies using spyware on rival
Uber’s lawyers said taking private data from its rival GoCatch was not like burglary, and compared its lawbreaking to publishers selling Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
- Paul Smith
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- Weight loss
Trish lost 25kg on replica Ozempic. She fears for patients like her
Patients like Trish Miller are afraid their weight loss will come to a halt as the regulator mulls a ban on replica anti-obesity drugs made by pharmacists.
- Nick Bonyhady
