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Global accelerator program Startupbootcamp has announced it is expanding its extensive global FinTech presence to Melbourne, and will launch its FinTech Accelerator program in Victoria, backed by global leaders in the banking and insurance sectors.

Leading US venture capital firm Greycroft has co-led an AUD $5 million funding round in cloud based Australian HR-technology business Enboarder with Australian VC Our Innovation Fund.

  You’ve seen and read about the benefits digitisation can deliver to your business, but your initial research has shown that you can’t simply install...

The Sharing Hub will be helping to drive the sharing economy in Australia by showing its value financially alongside other value exchanges to the environment and community. The Hub’s vision is to grow collaborative consumption in Australia by 20X by 2025.

However, in order for businesses to make strategic decisions, HR departments are increasingly required to not only understand an organisation’s workforce analytics, more importantly, they need to apply data intelligence company-wide.

If you look back to the pre-millennial time before 1980’s, there were as many dreams and talents as now. Since then, technology, the Internet and smartphones democratised opportunities and brought them closer to those with the dream to do more, especially the youth.

As businesses know very well, non-engagement leads to resignations, which leads to unnecessary cost and delays. When staff leave, a whole lot of talent and opportunity leaves with them.

Social Change Central is Australia’s first dedicated online social enterprise opportunities portal, and is the brainchild of social entrepreneur and Myer Foundation Fellow, Jay Boolkin, and corporate lawyer turned social entrepreneur, Anne Lennon.

Buying a car with Approval Buddy can be done from a smart phone or PC – cutting out having to deal with sales teams and finance departments. Customers fill out an application form, attach an ad of a car they’re interested in.

Most companies and individuals understand the power & value of giving and receiving feedback yet we still avoid it, says communication expert Georgia Murch

Deloitte has found that 50% of Millennials plan to move jobs within two years, only 20% intend to stay with their current employer more than five years

SME owners all over Australia are heading back to work but many of the challenges they faced last year are still obstacles for them to overcome this year

Tech start-up PlanDo, a new career management platform which encourages individuals to ‘self-direct’ their careers, has secured an investment of $916,000

IntelligenceBank, a business process software company based in Mebourne, recently announced the launch of its new office in Los Angeles.

Leadership theory is no longer enough. In this volatile environment, it’s not what you know that matters, it’s what you do with what you know.

Aussie consumer health tech start-up, CliniCloud has closed a $US5m seed funding ahead of the global launch of its first product, a connected medical kit

Creative HQ is hosting LEAN 15, a conference on Lean Startup Methodology, coined by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries, October 5th - 7th in Wellington

Australia’s rapidly growing digital economy has ballooned to $79 billion. That means it now represents 5.1% of GDP – bigger than traditional industry sectors...

Online retail, it would seem, has come a long way. But consider this: retail e-commerce is estimated to be $16 billion this year, a mere 6.3%, of the traditional brick-and-mortar business in Australia. Clearly, the biggest opportunities lie ahead.

While that may sound a little disheartening, bear this in mind. If you're in Silicon Valley you've got an 8% chance, or a 6.7% chance if you're in Silicon Alley (New York). But how is the Australian startup ecosystem compared to the rest of the world, and, of course, Silicon Valley?