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Blackbird, New York fund back start-up to count supply chain emissions
The Funded blog is the home for news on the tech deals that are done in Australia, as soon as we hear about them.
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- Paul Smith
AI to create 150,000 jobs, claim the academics who study it
A new economic analysis by a consortium of top Australian professors has found AI should add 150,000 jobs to the economy by 2030 and boost GDP by $200b a year.
- John Davidson
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- Start-ups
‘We’re not lemmings’: What happens when Blackbird drops a start-up
The fund is seen as the purest expression in Australia of the venture capital playbook of doubling down on best bets. What happens to the rest?
- Nick Bonyhady
Does everything still look better in black and white?
Kobo’s first foray into colour e-book readers would be perfect if it wasn’t for one, small flaw.
- John Davidson
Apple exec’s secret to success: don’t take notes
In his first day of cross-examination, Apple Fellow Phil Schiller lays out its casual but obviously effective approach to decision-making.
- John Davidson
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- Consulting
Consulting giant builds $300m Aussie cyber group with acquisitions
Following a string of acquisitions, Fujitsu has created a 300-strong team of cyber professionals to take on IBM, Accenture and CyberCX in Australia and New Zealand.
- Tess Bennett
Opinion & Analysis
A router that will (eventually) make your home Wi-Fi fly
Can you save money and improve download speeds, both at the same time? With WiFi 7, we think you can.
Columnist
Forrest v Facebook’s impunity and audacity
World-first litigation sees Australia again become ‘ground zero’ for a showdown between public interest regulation and one of big tech’s worst online offenders.
Tech executive
NextDC feeds the ducks while they’re hungry
The data centre owner has played the capital markets game superbly to be on the cusp of the top-50 stocks. To stay there, it has to deliver.
Columnist
I used to love Gmail. Here’s why I just quit it
The once-revolutionary email service, which started 20 years ago, has become as cluttered as the rest of the internet.
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Technology reviews
Does everything still look better in black and white?
Kobo’s first foray into colour e-book readers would be perfect if it wasn’t for one, small flaw.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Digital Life
A router that will (eventually) make your home Wi-Fi fly
Can you save money and improve download speeds, both at the same time? With WiFi 7, we think you can.
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- John Davidson
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- Opinion
- Digital Life
A router that will (eventually) make your home Wi-Fi fly
Can you save money and improve download speeds, both at the same time? With WiFi 7, we think you can.
- John Davidson
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
Made in Australia ‘over-due’ as Sydney VC forms $US150m fund in Singapore
Sydney-based VC fund Investible has secured Indonesia’s biggest bank as an investor, its CEO says Australia has ground to make up on regional peers.
- Paul Smith
Payment provider Findi lands licence for branded ATMs in India
Findi is backed by Wilson Asset Management and the Flannery family. The company expects to rebrand about 4000 ATMs which it already operates for the State Bank of India.
- Primrose Riordan
This Month
How soon will machines outsmart us? Biggest brains in AI can’t agree
Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will surpass human experts by 2025 sets him apart from rivals at OpenAI, Google and Meta.
- George Hammond
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- Cybersecurity
Suncorp’s bank suffers breach, customer funds stolen
The bank said it had restricted a “small number” of accounts that had been accessed and returned money to affected customers.
- Nick Bonyhady
Can AI help you get more laughs than The New Yorker’s cartoonists?
Researchers from the University of Sydney have measured whether AI can help beginners master the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest.
- Tess Bennett
Apple plans to overhaul entire Mac line with AI-focused M4 chips
The tech titan is harnessing the hunger for artificial intelligence to boost sluggish computer sales.
- Mark Gurman
- Updated
- Cloud
NextDC boss says nuclear should be on table as AI sucks up energy
The country’s largest listed developer and operator of data centres is raising $1.3 billion to expand its operations amid a boom in demand for computing power.
- Tess Bennett
Speed of development making it hard for firms to invest wisely in AI
Whether assessing safety, performance or efficiency, the groups tasked with stress-testing AI systems are rushing to keep up with the state of the art.
- George Hammond
- Opinion
- Social media
Forrest v Facebook’s impunity and audacity
World-first litigation sees Australia again become ‘ground zero’ for a showdown between public interest regulation and one of big tech’s worst online offenders.
- Alice Dawkins
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
NextDC feeds the ducks while they’re hungry
The data centre owner has played the capital markets game superbly to be on the cusp of the top-50 stocks. To stay there, it has to deliver.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Web culture
I used to love Gmail. Here’s why I just quit it
The once-revolutionary email service, which started 20 years ago, has become as cluttered as the rest of the internet.
- Ezra Klein
NextDC in $1.3b capital raise; MS, RBC on the ticket
The offer will be priced at a modest discount to its last trade price of $16.71 a share.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Melbourne firm seeks backers to convert ocean waves to electricity
The Melbourne-based start-up is seeking $4 million to fund its go-to-market efforts.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Updated
- Software
Dubber CEO sacked as company turns to emergency raising
Steve McGovern, one of the call recording software group’s founders, has been fired following an internal investigation into the disappearance of $30 million.
- Tess Bennett
Canva agrees to settle unfair dismissal case from senior engineer
The company initially refused to make any settlement payment to the employee, who had been earning $221,000 a year when he was sacked in January.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- AI
Google’s Gemini AI can now write your emails and create spreadsheets
It turns out Google’s new AI isn’t only good for generating images of black Nazis. Soon you’ll be able to generate spreadsheets and emails with it, too.
- John Davidson
Is your company turning inspiration into innovation?
It’s time to be recognised in the 2024 Most Innovative Companies list. Nominations close Thursday, May 30.
- Opinion
- AI
AI’s advances will echo the internet, not the steam engine
The metaphor has not only become a cliché; it paints an oversimplified and too-rosy picture of how this technology will reshape our lives.
- Parmy Olson
Merger shake-up threatens to ‘kill off the start-up sector’
Tech leaders have warned that proposed merger laws will kill deals before they close, starving the sector of the capital it needs to continue to grow.
- Tess Bennett and Paul Smith