Nine newspaper The Australian Financial Review celebrates a bunch of people in its annual “Power” issue of the AFR Magazine tomorrow. Among them is Matildas captain Sam Kerr as the top of the ladder when it comes to people “who made the biggest mark on culture this year” as “arguably Australia’s most successful sportsperson on… Read more »
As lists go, LinkedIn’s annual compilation of Australia’s top 20 startups is certainly a conversation starter. The find-a-job social media site has trawled through its own data, looking at four key parameters, including employee growth, jobseeker interest and how well startups lured talent away from LinkedIn’s own “Top Companies” list, to select crypto-based online gaming marketplace… Read more »
Australian households are doing it tough. Raging inflation, spiralling interest rates and a significant economic downturn are impacting Australians’ wallets. It’s putting enormous pressure on many people’s finances. Couple this with a generation of Australians who have never dealt with an economic downturn let alone a recession, and you have the perfect storm for financial… Read more »
As Victorian premier Daniel Andrews heads to the exit door this afternoon after nine years, one mess his successor will need to clean up is the government’s road-user charge for electric and hybrid vehicles, which has been branded unreasonable by state’s Ombudsman Deborah Glass. The government introduced the Zero and Low Emission Vehicles (ZLEV) Act… Read more »
ChatGPT can now speak and have a live conversation with you as part of a suite of updates to the generative artificial intelligence tool that also lets it analyse images. In a blog post, ChatGPT owner OpenAI announced that voice and image capabilities will soon be introduced to the tool for paying users around the world.… Read more »
Scams ads are now a $3 billion problem in Australia and research from consumer lobby group CHOICE has found that 2 out of 3 people (66%) think digital platforms, such as Google and Meta, aren’t doing enough to protect people from them. Even more alarmingly, we don’t have a lot of faith in those around… Read more »
The founders of online design platform Canva, as well as the Tech Council of Australia and several prominent tech founders and VC investors have thrown their support behind a “Yes” vote for Indigenous recognition in the Constitution at October 14’s national referendum on the issue. Canva cofounders Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams have… Read more »
Applications have opened for the 2024 evokeAG. Startup Program to help boost our nation’s best agrifood tech innovators. Centred around the two-day event in February 2024, the program gives applicants a unique chance to connect with potential investors, corporates and customers. Startup Daily spoke to an exciting success story from the 2023 program. Indoor vertical farming… Read more »
In 2018-19, identity crime directly and indirectly cost Australia an estimated A$3.1 billion. To address such costs, the federal government is proposing a national digital identity scheme that will let people prove their identity without having to share documents such as their passport, drivers licence or Medicare card. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher opened consultations for the… Read more »
Global technology companies boast some of the best employment conditions in the world, but the journey there is often peppered with late nights burning the midnight oil for founders and their employees. Founders need to be aware of their legal obligations to staff because the regulations around how much overtime is “too much” are murky… Read more »
A new agricultural innovation program for is setting up in Toowoomba, 125km west of Queensland, to support startups focused on enhancing plant health. The Agtech and Logistics Hub in Toowoomba is delivering the open innovation initiative in conjunction with industry body Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA). The OpenGround program will bring together scaleups and innovation… Read more »
While most of us suspect we waste too much of our working day in meetings and dealing with emails, employee communications startup Traffyk.AI has had a look at the size of the problem – it’s a day a week – and done something about it. The enterprise software startup has raised $1.8 million in a… Read more »
Newly created Sydney climate tech platform Greenhouse has been enlisted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) to drive a new program to help the planet’s ‘hardest-to-abate’ sectors, such as aviation, shipping, trucking, and steel, increase their drive towards net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Greenhouse was developed as a subsidiary of the Investible group, and… Read more »
Human laughter as we know it likely developed between ten and 16 million years ago. For context, the stone tools our distant human ancestors made in the Early Stone Age date back around 2.6 million years. These are vast time spans, but it was perhaps good that our Palaeolithic ancestors had a sense of humour… Read more »
Microsoft has been its own worst enemy this week as the tech giant suffered two unrelated data leak incidents where masses of internal documents, trade secrets, and backups of employee computers were released on the internet. On Tuesday, researchers at security company Wiz went public about a 38TB trove of data that Microsoft’s AI team had accidentally… Read more »
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