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A new report detailing Uber’s impact in Australia has placed further pressure on state governments to act now or risk falling behind on innovation, the ride-sharing giant’s regional head David Rohrsheim says.
The report by Deloitte (http://ift.tt/1POLms5), commissioned by Uber, was released on Monday and examines the impact of the platform
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For the organisers of Melbourne tech conference Above All Human, getting an equal gender split in its speakers wasn’t a great achievement.
Taking place on Friday, the conference brought a range of local and international speakers on tech and startups, half being women.
But during the opening address (#.28xox4q2a), organisers Susan Wu
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Three Sydney doctors have teamed up to create an app aiming to simplify the lives of people with cancer by providing personalised care information.
CancerAid was developed by Melbourne product development studio Paper Cloud (http://ift.tt/1P73IPx) and founded by Sydney’s Dr Nikhil Pooviah of Chris O’Brien Lifehouse (http://ift.tt/1SlqjxP), Dr Raghav Murali-Ganesh and
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When people think about great technology companies they often focus on the product the piece of hardware, the app, or the software that the company makes. But companies of all stripes rely very heavily on their people and technology companies are no different.
Australia excels in producing high calibre
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A sports media company that received more than $70 million from high-profile investors including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has collapsed into liquidation.
PlayUp specialised in monetising content from sporting clubs and athletes around the world, but showed signs of distress last year when a number of directors left its board,
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Researchers at the London School of Economics have for many years been tracking the performance of managers (http://ift.tt/SVBPh0), as rated by the people they manage. And the results are poor (http://ift.tt/1NbOoir), particularly for managers in the UK, France and Australia.
Perhaps this is why bad management is such a comedic goldmine.
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Founders and entrepreneurs need to consider humanitarian issues and social change so they create startups that matter, design guru Mike Monteiro says.
Speaking at the Above All Human conference in Melbourne on Friday, the founder of leading San Francisco studio Mule Design implored those in attendance to harness their skills towards
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Slack, one of the world’s fastest growing startups, was created by accident and from the failure of a computer game.
Speaking at the Above All Human tech conference (http://ift.tt/10qytfW), Slack director of customer experience Ali Rayl says though failure can seem like the end of the world it offers a wealth
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A new innovation challenge with a $100,000 prize is looking for entrepreneurs who’ve taken the first step towards turning their idea into reality.
Run by creative agency Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, the challenge will involve a pitch competition at this year’s Pause Fest (http://ift.tt/1PC7d5U), with the winner receiving $100,000 worth of services
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Everybody wants to be a founder these days they dominate the conversation. They’re the heroes and the rock stars, and we’re even seeing policy-makers start to drive the innovation agenda and call for a nation of founders.
But founding a startup isn’t the only way to innovate or make a
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