AI/Machine Learning

Atlassian’s AI shopping spree continues with $1.5 billion bid for US developer platform DX

- September 19, 2025 2 MIN READ

Atlassian has made a second major acquisition this month, handing over US$1 billion (A$1.5bn) for developer intelligence platform DX. The deal comes just a fortnight after the Australian software giant spent US$610 million (A$935m) in cash on AI browser startup The Browser Company. US-based DX, founded in 2020, helps engineering organisations measure, understand, and improve… Read more »

Diversity

Is gender parity in tech still worth the effort?

- September 18, 2025 4 MIN READ

When tech trailblazer Ann Moffatt first joined the IT industry in 1959, there wasn’t a gender divide to speak of. “There were as many women programmers as men,” she recalled. However, things changed rapidly when men started to see technology as a real career. “They sort of pushed the women down, so that the women… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

The confidence gap: why AI’s next frontier is trust

- September 18, 2025 3 MIN READ

In 2023, the phrase ‘System of Action’ entered the tech lexicon, popularized by David Yuan as the next evolution beyond Geoffrey Moore’s ‘Systems of Engagement’ and the earlier ‘Systems of Record’ that defined the SaaS era. Systems of Action don’t just record or inform decisions — they execute them. Real-time. Dynamic. Embedded. But beneath every… Read more »

ASX

Dom Pym’s fintech fund, Triple Bubble, pairs up with CommBank’s VC arm, x15ventures

- September 18, 2025 2 MIN READ

Fintech entrepreneur and investor Dom Pym and his fintech-focused venture fund Triple Bubble have forged a strategic partnership Commonwealth Bank’s venture-scaling arm x15ventures to support and scale Australia’s financial technology ecosystem. The partnership includes an investment, exploration of new fintech opportunities using x15’s bank-safe venture stack, and the development of a mutual mentorship and talent exchange program… Read more »

Business strategy

Venture capital is not the answer for women founders – they need funding that fits

- September 17, 2025 4 MIN READ

For too long venture capital has dominated the conversation around women and funding. Every headline, every pitch competition, every “success story” seems to point to VC as the only path to scale. And yet, VC is not only a poor fit for most women-owned businesses, it has warped the collective understanding of what finance should… Read more »

Business

GAMING: Inside one of the world’s longest-running studies into the ‘average gamer’

- September 17, 2025 4 MIN READ

Operating for 20 years, Australia Plays has become a globally influential gaming survey authority. But it now faces new challenges as its data matures. Bond University’s Professor Jeffrey Brand is calm, collected and ready to go. There’s no sense of nervousness or trepidation on a media call discussing his research into Australia’s gaming population. He… Read more »

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Business

The Australian government’s guidance on the social media ban for under-16s is out – here’s what it says

- September 17, 2025 3 MIN READ

The Australian government today released regulatory guidance on the social media minimum age law, which comes into effect on December 10. The law will restrict individuals under 16 from holding accounts on many social media platforms. Reasonable steps for tech companies This guidance follows a self-assessment guide for technology companies recently released by the eSafety… Read more »

Events

Fintech is now worth $22 billion to the Australian economy

- September 17, 2025 2 MIN READ

What makes fintech unique is that it operates both as a vertical and a horizontal sector. As a vertical, it is an industry with its own ecosystem, capital flows, and innovation pipeline. As a horizontal, it spans across and reshapes multiple sectors, from financial services to retail, real estate, health, and government, embedding financial technology… Read more »

AI/Machine Learning

Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! AI! AI! AI!: Innovation minister Tim Ayres on the national potential of artificial intelligence

- September 16, 2025 5 MIN READ

Australia could bury its head in the sand while AI disrupts education and existing human capital – or Australia can enhance AI’s potential benefits by lifting the skills and preparedness of Australian workers and students. Australia could squander the enormous benefits of adopting early – or it can embrace AI to help advance the government’s… Read more »