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Put yourself in the shoes of a platform innovation director or apps development honcho at a small to mid-sized company. You figure you can carve out a scorching-hot niche for yourself by being first-to-market with a platform-agnostic mobile app letting OSX or Android users immerse themselves in 360 degree virtual
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A further 100 tech jobs will be created in Melbourne as two fast-growing startups look to expand locally rather abroad.
Cloud-based mobile payment and loyalty platform LOKE and peer-to-peer lending service Timelio will each by creating 50 new jobs as the Victorian government invests to keep these high-growth, high-potential companies in
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Organisers behind next year’s above all human conference hope bringing the event back to Melbourne will keep fuelling the city’s red-hot startup sector.
Conference co-founder Bronwen Clune describes Melbourne as the “epicentre” of Australia’s innovation scene, saying momentum has shifted away from Sydney in the last five or six years.
“Slack, Etsy,
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Founders need to make full use of the networks and contacts that investors bring with them rather than just taking the money and running, Sherpa’s Ben Nolan says.
The on-demand peer-to-peer delivery platform (http://ift.tt/1xBvD15) has closed a $1.2 million funding round from private investors including Hotels Combined co-founder Michael Doubinski, and
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Malcolm Turnbull’s first “signature” policy statement is clever politics, not least because many of the initiatives have been previously announced. Whether the ensemble of measures gets any closer to the heart of the Australian innovation issue is another matter.
The agenda (http://ift.tt/17poino) is remarkably thin on detail, and even thinner on
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In 2008, someone calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto posted a paper (http://ift.tt/1d4HkH2) describing the workings of what would become the world’s most important digital cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (http://ift.tt/1lSTD0k). Two months later, he posted the code (http://ift.tt/JKdr3f) for the first version of the software that would allow people to create and exchange the
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Entrepreneurs, innovators and inventors have come together to transform Melbourne into a “smart city”.
The week-long hackathon-style innovation challenge was the latest effort by the city’s council to encourage digital innovation in Victoria.
A joint venture between the City of Melbourne and Telstra, the Internet of Things-focused challenge asked teams to create
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Tech startup PlanDo has secured more than $900,000 in an oversubscribed funding round to help roll out its career-tracking platform across Australia.
Founder and CEO Anne Moore says the nature of employment is changing, with employees expected to hold several positions over the course of their working life.
The product allows
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It just keeps getting better for Australia’s greatest startup success story.
Cloud-based workplace collaboration software provider Atlassian has won the largest ever valuation for a publicly-listed Australian tech company after locking in a higher than expected share price.
The homegrown startup has sold $US462 million-worth of shares to trade through the listing,
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A few months ago, fast-growing Australian startup Vinomofo embarked on a “weird” experiment.
For the last four years, co-founders Justin Dry and Andre Eikmeier have measured their success the same way most companies do – through revenue and profits.
But the online wine retailer prides itself on its core values of
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