Welcome to the Startup 360 product launch! We hope you like our MVP with cohosts Kayla Medica and Simon Thomsen. We want to have founder fun and find out what makes people tick – it’s not about GTM strategies and the next raise, it’s all about staying human. In our first show, Kayla and Simon… Read more »
Humour me with a little thought experiment. Go ask someone, anyone, to name one love story in film, literature and music. They may stumble on one of the three, but I’d wager they wouldn’t do too badly. Now ask them for a love story in a video game. If they don’t game, I’d reckon they’d… Read more »
Atlassian will join the likes of Red Bull and biotech company BWT as team sponsor in Formula 1 in a long-term deal with British team Williams Racing. Atlassian Williams Racing will debut in Australia in mid-March with the first race of the 24 round 2025 season. Under the partnership, Atlassian is title partner, technology partner… Read more »
Sleep tracking, oxygen saturation, fall detection, mindfulness: today’s smartwatches and fitness trackers are jacks-of-all-trades – but experts believe we’re just getting started, with new sensors and AI-driven analysis soon set to diagnose more disease than doctors do. It’s a big prediction for a device category that only hit the mainstream in 2007, when Fitbit gamified the working… Read more »
To this day, my friends and I still aren’t sure what killed our online Smash Night. We usually play in person, but for one reason or another, we decided to play online. It had worked before, why wouldn’t it work again? We started a lobby, shared the code, and then… it froze on the loading… Read more »
The tech and innovation ecosystems are dynamic and interconnected networks fuelled by startups, investors, institutions, corporates, individuals and other entities. Startup Genome suggests that ecosystems are often defined within a 100km radius from a central city, providing governments with data-driven insights to benchmark success and focus their efforts. But what really happens inside an ecosystem?… Read more »
“Call it, 2.16pm on 3 February 2025” – the words from the Administrator sitting in a bleak Melbourne boardroom, ringing out the date and time that the company that sat in my head 8 years ago was pronounced dead. Not dead in literal terms, as a deal to bring the company out of voluntary administration… Read more »
We’re just a few weeks into 2025 and its already shaping up to be significantly more eventful than the past year. We’re set to see a brand new console launch, a major games developer aim to steer itself out of hot water, and a console-maker realise its goal to become hub for cloud gaming. It… Read more »
You could call it slow TV. For the last 8 days, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney have been live streaming an Indonesian lily famed as the largest and stinkiest flower-spike in the world. They’ve been taking temperature checks – much like you’d do to check for ovulation – to see when it Amorphophallus titanum would… Read more »
Sad, anxious or lacking in motivation? Chances are you have just returned to work after a summer break. January is the month when people are most likely to quit their jobs after having had time off. And even though most people experience the return to work blues, the good news is there are ways to… Read more »
CES 2025 wrapped up on Friday, concluding a whirlwind week of groundbreaking technology. From futuristic vehicles to AI-powered gadgets, this year’s event showcased innovations that pushed the boundaries of what’s possible. As the world’s largest tech conference and the ultimate launchpad for consumer technology, CES never fails to inspire. While there was an overwhelming volume… Read more »
Sydney cultivated meat startup Vow, creator of the “woolly mammoth meatball“, has been forced to slash staffing by nearly a third, with 25 jobs being made redundant as it seeks a new round of investment. Vow has been developing lab-grown cell-based animal products being served in high-end restaurants in Asia. It is still awaiting regulatory approval… Read more »
With a new year, ripe with possibilities, underway, Swinburne entrepreneurship expert Bridgette Engeler is urging small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to think beyond 2025 to set themselves up for future success. “Everyone is probably thinking about the coming 12 months,” she says. “But what’s on the radar beyond that? Is your business future-fit? You should… Read more »
CES, the annual trade show packing some of the latest – and often strangest – new technologies, returned to Las Vegas this week for its 2025 iteration. Dominated by the continued rise of artificial intelligence and some interesting visions for consumer electronics, the event offered a glimpse of what we can expect to see on… Read more »
Entrepreneur, mother and billionaire Melanie Perkins has been taking stock of her working life and goals for the year ahead, admitting that she got it wrong when she “used to work seven days a week, barely pausing to breathe, thinking it was the only way to succeed”. Perkins revealed the lessons she’d learned to maintain… Read more »
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