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‘I fire people just as quickly as my male co-founders’
High-profile female entrepreneurs including Airwallex’s Lucy Liu have hit out at sexist attitudes, and male-led venture capital investors.
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- Tess Bennett
‘What if a cruise ship got in the way?’ Rocket wrapped in red tape
Australia’s first home-grown rocket launch has been slowed down by a nervous regulator, says Gilmour Space Technologies CEO.
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- John Davidson
Top VC admits Aussie funds will struggle to raise capital
New venture capital funds will be the next casualties of the tough capital raising environment, even if they’re performing well, a Square Peg partner says.
- Yolanda Redrup
‘Nonsense’: Founder slams idea wealth can be created while ‘sitting on the beach’
Honey Insurance boss Richard Joffe says despite funding issues, Australia can be an attractive market for founders, but people have to work like Olympians.
- Maxim Shanahan
Super funds ‘should be forced’ to back start-ups
Employment Hero chief executive Ben Thompson has proposed a novel aid for the flagging start-up sector: reserving 1 per cent of superannuation money for it.
- Nick Bonyhady
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Back from the dead, the Windows laptop is better than ever
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 11 marks the beginning of a new era in portable computers, where Windows computers are at least as good as their MacBook rivals, and in many ways better.
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With the new Surface Laptop, Microsoft catches the MacBook
Microsoft has finally done it. It has broken free from Intel and produced a laptop right up there with Apple’s hitherto incomparable MacBook Air.
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It’s bubbles like AI that make the tech world go around
From telegraph fever to the first internet bust, irrational over-investment creates profitable technology businesses that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
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Why Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar are down $15b in just two months
Concerns about Atlassian’s cloud growth rate have triggered a share sell-off, which has wiped a combined $15.4 billion off the valuations of its co-founders.
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Back from the dead, the Windows laptop is better than ever
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 11 marks the beginning of a new era in portable computers, where Windows computers are at least as good as their MacBook rivals, and in many ways better.
- John Davidson
- Opinion
- Digital Life
With the new Surface Laptop, Microsoft catches the MacBook
Microsoft has finally done it. It has broken free from Intel and produced a laptop right up there with Apple’s hitherto incomparable MacBook Air.
- John Davidson
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‘Merger of equals’ as two Aussie tech services firms become one
The combined business will compete in a growing but crowded field as firms scramble to up their cybersecurity and add AI to their services.
- Nick Bonyhady
Telstra looks to cash out of venture capital investments
Telstra Ventures has changed its name to Titanium Ventures, as the telco mulls selling its venture capital investments.
- Tess Bennett
Back from the dead, the Windows laptop is better than ever
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 11 marks the beginning of a new era in portable computers, where Windows computers are at least as good as their MacBook rivals, and in many ways better.
- John Davidson
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Cashed-up Diraq says it can win the quantum computing race
It hasn’t got as much money as government-backed PsiQuantum, but the UNSW start-up says it makes up for that in qubit size, as it banks a big funding round.
- John Davidson
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Start-up funding bounces back, as two-speed sector emerges
New data shows early signs that the tech funding winter is thawing, with Aussie tech deals up 30 per cent on this time last year.
- Tess Bennett
‘What she’s doing is shaping not just Telstra, but Australia’
Cybersecurity boss Narelle Devine, the winner of the Tech & Telco category, uses lessons from a decade in the Navy to fight off international hacking attacks.
- Tess Bennett
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Robotic friend company raises $3 million to build Abi
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- Paul Smith
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With the new Surface Laptop, Microsoft catches the MacBook
Microsoft has finally done it. It has broken free from Intel and produced a laptop right up there with Apple’s hitherto incomparable MacBook Air.
- John Davidson
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- AI
It’s bubbles like AI that make the tech world go around
From telegraph fever to the first internet bust, irrational over-investment creates profitable technology businesses that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
- Rohan Silva
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Aussie brothers’ AI firm worth $120m as big name backers invest
Melbourne-based Affinda has built AI-based software used by numerous big companies around the world, it has doubled its valuation in 18 months with well-known investors.
- Paul Smith
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Tenacious Ventures lives up to its name with $18m raise in hard market
Members of the Schwartz, Denholm and Murdoch families have committed money to the agricultural technology investor that has overcome hurdle after hurdle.
- Nick Bonyhady
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EQT locks in debt for $700m PageUp buy; CBA, Taiwanese lenders in
The $220 million, six-year loan was taken up by seven lenders, including Commonwealth Bank and Barclays.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
OpenAI co-founder’s new company promises safe ‘superintelligence’
Last year, Ilya Sutskever tried to force out OpenAI boss Sam Altman. Now he has a new company, aiming to build a machine that is more intelligent than humans – safely.
- Cade Metz
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Grong Grong (population 150) does its bit to solve the energy crisis
Small-scale solar farms like that at Grong Grong can fly below the radar but represent a large opportunity to plug renewable power into the system.
- Nick Lenaghan
How China became a scientific superpower
From plant biology to superconductor physics, the country is at the cutting edge.
- The Economist
How the tech elite went from disruptors to disrupted
Some of the world’s most powerful business executives allowed themselves to be seduced by Donald Trump.
- Kara Swisher
DesignCrowd brings in RBC to draw up plans for equity raising
Sources say the raising is being driven by DesignCrowd’s need to provide liquidity to early pre-IPO investors.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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- Rich List
Why Cannon-Brookes, Farquhar are down $15b in just two months
Concerns about Atlassian’s cloud growth rate have triggered a share sell-off, which has wiped a combined $15.4 billion off the valuations of its co-founders.
- Yolanda Redrup
