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Buzzy.buzz lets organisations create custom apps hosted on its central platform
Providing businesses the ability to design their own platform with a strong focus on enabling communication, is Sydney startup Buzzy.buzz.
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US coworking community RocketSpace to open three Australian campuses with Dexus Property Group
Dexus Property Group has today announced a partnership with RocketSpace that will see the launch of a series of campuses across Australia.
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Stratejos aims to revolutionise project management through artificial intelligence
Pushing the scope of project management and AI predictions, Stratejos is an AI smart assistant that rapidly processes data in project management softwares.
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Government launches $500 million Biomedical Translation Fund to commercialise medical discoveries
The government has launched the Biomedical Translation Fund, a $500 million fund that will help commercialise biomedical discoveries.
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Social media marketing startup Stackla raises $4 million to further develop its tech platform
Stackla has raised $4 million in a fresh funding round, with backing coming from existing investors Bailador Technology Investments.
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Wellington’s ProjectR to expand the New Zealand VR industry through a state of the art complex
Ready to support the growth of the virtual reality industry is ProjectR, a business looking to open a centre for VR startups.
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Localised is an online discovery platform helping regional businesses find procurement opportunities
Localised is a business-to-business discovery platform that provides a space for companies to find procurement opportunities.
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MyDisabilityMatters is a social media platform offering the disabled community a private version of Facebook
MyDisabilityMatters looks to tackle the problems facing people with disabilities on mainstream social media platforms by providing an exclusive space.
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Sports Where I Am helps travelling sports fans get the local’s game day experience
Looking to capitalise on the growth of the sports travel market is Australian startup Sports Where I Am, which has created an online community for sports fans, by sports fans.
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Pause is cross-pollinating ideas across creative, tech and business industries
Pause Festival 2017 looks to ignite conversations across creative, tech and businesses industries and has divided the three-day event into each theme. While each day is focused on a specific theme, Pause is all about sharing and cross-pollinating ideas and showing its attendees how industries come together and push one another to innovate.
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Regional-focused and telco advocacy groups launch coalition to end the ‘data drought’ in country Australia
Over a dozen advocacy groups have come together to launch a coalition focused on ending the ‘data drought’ and championing better communications services for consumers and small businesses in rural, remote, or regional areas around Australia.
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Government launches ICT Procurement Taskforce to explore how to better do business with startups
The Federal Government has launched an ICT Procurement Taskforce to garner feedback from startups on how government ICT contracts can be made more accessible to small innovators.
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Urge is an app allowing consumers to connect and transact with businesses through text
Urge wants to up the convenience factor, allowing consumers to connect and transact with businesses through text rather than calls.
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Can we all just calm down with the ridiculous job titles in the ecommerce space?
The other day I met someone who introduced themselves as a creative technologist. After 13 years working in the online world, I’ve been witness to the evolution of the online job title and it’s come a long way from it’s humble ‘e-business manager’ beginnings.
After doing a bit of research I came to the conclusion that there are nearly as many online job titles as there are salad dressing varieties and it’s starting to get confusing.
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Top 50 Social Crusaders and Change Makers 2014
The changes these people are trying to make in the world are wide and varied, from cleaning up pollution of our waterways to continuing the fight for the status of women in our workforce. Each cause is important and each person is a true crusader giving a voice to many that are not fortunate enough to be in position to voice theirs.
