Tech & Innovation
News, opinions and advice on technology development and the state of innovation.
From Australia to Afghanistan: how this eLearning tech startup made it to the Business...
Ms Mateljan brought the CourseGenius learning platform to Afghanistan in 2014 to help an international NGO facilitate localised training. Ms Mateljan used the platform to roll out an eLearning pilot program for the NGO’s Leadership School in Kabul during a particularly unstable political period.
These six leading Australian SAAS startups have been selected by KPMG and Advance for...
It is targeted at later stage B2B startups, who have ideally secured seed funding, turnover of at least AU$500,000, and have proven traction in local or overseas markets.
Virtual reality training for front line staff is the future and Victorian paramedics are...
Better preparation through immersive VR Training allows trainees to understanding escalating situations and work out in complete safety strategies to avoid violence.
Taking charge of our future: How self-employed women champion mobile tech
Intuit Australia recently published the results of our What Women Want research, which shows that more than 80 per cent of self-employed women across the nation are using mobile devices to run their business.
Why does this longtime entrepreneur believe websites will be history by 2020?
"If you want to test the theory, give yourself the Google test and search for your name. You’ll most likely see your social profiles listed one after another, before any website content.”
More Australians are embracing micro-entrepreneurship, social media and digital pathways to success
One in four Aussies are now self-employed in their own business, and many more have indicated their intentions to launch a start-up in the future.
Aussie startups more quickly becoming global scale-ups thanks to this startup stack
Startups today are no longer reinventing the wheel. Given that they’re often nimble innovators themselves, startups are trusting other startups with handling some of the most fundamental parts of their business.
This tech startup is Australia’s first online marketplace for property management
Rent360 is uniquely positioned to disrupt the slow moving property management industry by offering both property investors and ambitious property managers a better deal.
Ever considered crowdfunding? [FREE REPORT]
Liz Wald is Vice President of International for Indiegogo.com. She has been terrifically successful raising funds through the crowd model. One of her successes...
This is how Scooter Tutor is revolutionising the Australian tutoring landscape
Unlike other tutoring providers, a rating system is also in place where users can give a score to their respective tutor, ensuring a high standard is maintained.
Australian business owners are turning immersive tech into a (virtual) reality [VIDEO]
Over the next decade, Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies will create opportunities for small and medium size businesses to interact with their customers in new immersive ways.
What’s in your Rack? This new app changing how Australians shop is backed by...
Partnering with Buzinga App Development, two Australian entrepreneurs, Ben Morris and Danijel Jefic, have made the switch from Virgin Australia baggage handling to launching disruptive item-sharing app, Rack.
This 17-year-old high school student is Australia’s most sought after growth hacker
In 2015, employing some impressively creative growth hacking, Tamir received 43,000 hits in 20 hours for start up mortgage disrupter HashChing, which has since converted into $70 million in 2 months of home loan applications requests.
Digital disruptor Careseekers makes it much easier to find affordable in-home aged care
Private in-home care was expensive and government options were rigid and impersonal. We knew there had to be a better way for people to find care workers and realised we needed to bring technology to aged care.
What you need to know on how to detect and stop a non-malware (fileless)...
A non-malware attack is one in which an attacker uses existing software, allowed applications and authorised protocols to carry out malicious activities. Non-malware attacks are capable of gaining control of computers without downloading any malicious files, hence the name.
Spacer acquires space sharing pioneer Roost, to take on the $28 billlion U.S. self...
Valued at $28 billion, the U.S represents the largest self-storage market internationally, approximately 33 times the size of the Australian market. This follows Spacer’s success since launch in October 2015.
MGI has a new online tool that lets you see in real-time how your...
Users get real-time feedback and on-the-spot comparisons to other businesses of a similar size but they also get a downloadable “traffic light”report with suggestions on how to improve.
The five creative startups at the forefront of fashion at Creative Enterprise Australia
With Australia’s fashion industry now worth $28.5 billion, QUT Creative Enterprise Australia’s Fashion Accelerator covers a hole in the industry when it comes to fashion tech.
QLD govt bringing in Slingshot for tourism, travel and entertainment accelerator
The accelerator program provides our startup entrepreneurs and business innovators with first-class mentoring assistance while connecting them with investors and potential business partners.
What you need to know about how the Internet of Things impact businesses in...
According to a report from Business Insider, the prevalence of the Internet of Things is set to explode within businesses by 2020, with $3 billion estimated to be spent between 2015 – 2020.
