Tech & Innovation

Whenever we are creating a new account somewhere online, most of us would rather set a simple password; one we can type even absent-mindedly,...

CUA, Australia’s largest credit union, and technology startup hub River City Labs, have welcomed four new startup teams to the CUA Sponsored Entrepreneur Program (SEP).

The Anthill Masterclass has already helped hundreds of Australian business owners, marketing professionals and web developers embrace the future of marketing and get real results from their websites and social media.

Workible has announced that their partnership with WiC Group has seen them roll out 45 regional job sites aimed at the major regional centres in Australia

Westpac’s new corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, Reinventure, is less than a week old and already has made an investment. SocietyOne raises $8.5 million SocietyOne is...

In late February, YouTube unveiled more of what it describes as "one of the biggest redesigns in YouTube history". While most attention was directed to the reworked playlist and comments organisation, also notable was the thumbs-up/thumbs-down rating system, in place of the old five-star system.

The latest in Geoff McDonald's Book Rapper series, this distillation offers a bite sized overview of Twitter for those with an interest in its social side and those keen to exploit its potential as a business tool.

The wide area network (WAN) that companies have today is likely be the last they ever use. The race to move applications and services to the cloud, and the availability of high performance broadband, are fuelling the greatest networking revolution in a generation.

Retailers now have a much lower cost way to engage with and acquire the customers they want. At the same time, customers love receiving sponsored and group gift cards from their friends to spend on items they actually want. Put the two together and you get some thing interesting.

Entrepreneurs and leaders touting how Australia has all the talent, the creativity, the ambition, the intelligence, yet somehow we’ve been slow to rise

It's right to think that if your organisation is not being innovative it will not be able to retain its position and will soon be overtaken by smarter competitors. But, unfortunately, the other side of this reality is that if the innovation initiative is not delivering quantifiable value then clearly it should not be funded and, therefore, should not exist.

We've all heard that sitting is the new smoking; in terms of what it is doing to our health. We all sit too much, often...

Wherever there is intelligence in the universe, there is also going to be conflict, and in EVE that couldn’t be any different. By taking a career in the military of your chosen empire you are sure to see a ton of action throughout the galaxy.

While I am more than happy to be proven wrong, I don't know if society is ready for Google Glass. The rapid advance of wearable...

Jeremy Reid’s PinchMe rings truer than most. The startup – which seeks to build a business out of handing out free packaged goodies to members – considered Australia the beta market, and the U.S. the real thing. Reid says the plan — always — was to take PinchMe to the U.S. within a year of the Australian launch.

Our 'secret-squirrels' have revealed to Anthill that the seven board positions, appointed to analyse and approve Commercialisation Australia funding applications, have been filled and that an announcement is imminent. No-one knows who will be among this 'magnicifent seven' other than those appointed or involved in the decision. In fact, it is a complete mystery to external observers how these important functionaries were selected. Was there some sort of process behind closed doors? Were they vetted? Were the decisions political? Or vaguely political, chosen in the same fashion as a US High Court Judge, to perform the role yet still be 'on-side' with the powers that be?

Possibly the least sexy aspect of running your own business, backup and data security are nonetheless fundamental to the operation of any enterprise. Think about it: what would happen if you lost all your files and contacts? Catastrophe, for sure – but this won’t ever happen to you, right?

Since launching last year in the US, the Chobani Food Incubator program has helped entrepreneurs with big hearts and ideas break into the food industry. The program is targeted at start-ups who share Chobani’s vision for making delicious food

If you're a sucker for mobile phone technologies, prepare to be wowed. In fact, if this amazing concept phone ever becomes a reality, it's likely that every device you own right now will suddenly look and feel like the single-purpose brick you carried around circa 1990.

It's been five years since Anthill's inaugural Cool Company Awards. Initially launched as a 'piss-take' to poke fun at a plethora of magazine award programs at the time, the 'cools' were quickly (and unexpectedly) embraced by Anthill readers... with the force and finesse of Arthur Fonzarilli's fist on a dukebox. (Ehhhhh!) But, unfortunately, five years on, our logo is beginning to look... well... not-so-cool. Could it be time for a crowdsourced makeover?