Food for thought: Our 2023 entrepreneurship picks for your holiday reading

Food for thought: Our 2023 entrepreneurship picks for your holiday reading

Amidst an end-of-year surge in merger and acquisition activity, and what seems anecdotally to have been a strong December for startup funding rounds in a year of tighter ca...

Transport giant ComfortDelGro lobs $182m takeover bid for taxi operator A2B, shares soar by 25pc

Transport giant ComfortDelGro lobs $182m takeover bid for taxi operator A2B, shares soar by 25pc

The board behind leading taxi operator A2B Australia (ASX: A2B), wh...

Southern Cross Media renews Network 10 affiliation agreement amid takeover battle

Southern Cross Media renews Network 10 affiliation agreement amid takeover battle

Takeover target Southern Cross Media Group (ASX: SXL) has secured a...

Hemp Farms Australia booming as seed IP gains from new market channels

Hemp Farms Australia booming as seed IP gains from new market channels

From hempcrete in construction to animal bedding, carbon seque...

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Cyclone Jasper hits 90 per cent of Cairns businesses as some set to close for months

Cyclone Jasper hits 90 per cent of Cairns businesses as some set to close for months

The impact of Cyclone Jasper on businesses in Far North Queensland ...

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group (ASX: VNL), the ASX-listed music company formerly known...

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

In early-stage investment, staying ahead of trends and building tru...

Stralis Aircraft plans maiden flight in 2024 for aircraft retrofitted with hydrogen system

Stralis Aircraft plans maiden flight in 2024 for aircraft retrofitted with hydrogen system

Brisbane-based Stralis Aircraft is gearing up for a maiden flight i...

Court orders Airbnb to pay up to $30m for exchange-rate hit to Aussie travellers

Court orders Airbnb to pay up to $30m for exchange-rate hit to Aussie travellers

Airbnb has been ordered to pay up to $30 million for misleading Aus...

AFP helps Aussie businesses decrypt systems hacked by BlackCat ransomware

AFP helps Aussie businesses decrypt systems hacked by BlackCat ransomware

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is providing decryption tools t...

Flood-hit FNQ businesses to receive disaster assistance and working capital loans

Flood-hit FNQ businesses to receive disaster assistance and working capital loans

Farmers, small businesses and not-for-profits affected by ex-Tropic...

Brisbane's Convergence Medical on fast-track to commercialisation with FDA ‘breakthrough’ listing

Brisbane's Convergence Medical on fast-track to commercialisation with FDA ‘breakthrough’ listing

Brisbane-based medical technology startup Convergence Medical is ta...

Australia Post and StarTrack to pay out $2.9m for lost or damaged packages

Australia Post and StarTrack to pay out $2.9m for lost or damaged packages

Australia Post and its StarTrack subsidiary will repay about 11,000...

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Food for thought: Our 2023 entrepreneurship picks for your holiday reading

Food for thought: Our 2023 entrepreneurship picks for your holiday reading

Amidst an end-of-year surge in merger and acquisition activity, and what seems anecdotally to have been a strong December for startup funding rounds in a year of tighter ca...

Council payments software startup Payble raises $3.5m

Council payments software startup Payble raises $3.5m

A Sydney-headquartered startup that makes payment solutions easier ...

Mist secures $1.6m to roll out banking and telco services app for international students, migrants

Mist secures $1.6m to roll out banking and telco services app for international students, migrants

A banking and telecommunication services app aimed at making reloca...

Report finds deep tech talent coming from "unexpected places"

Report finds deep tech talent coming from "unexpected places"

A report compiled by incubator Cicada Innovations has challenged pr...

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

Transport giant ComfortDelGro lobs $182m takeover bid for taxi operator A2B, shares soar by 25pc

Transport giant ComfortDelGro lobs $182m takeover bid for taxi operator A2B, shares soar by 25pc

The board behind leading taxi operator A2B Australia (ASX: A2B), wh...

US-based Allure Bridals ties knot with Sydney’s Portia & Scarlet after five-month courtship

US-based Allure Bridals ties knot with Sydney’s Portia & Scarlet after five-month courtship

US-based formalwear manufacturer and retailer Allure Bridals has ti...

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group (ASX: VNL), the ASX-listed music company formerly known...

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Retail

JB Hi-Fi faces class action over allegedly "worthless" warranties

JB Hi-Fi faces class action over allegedly "worthless" warranties

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers is seeking refunds for consumers who purc...

DealsDirect founder backs $1m raise for digital wholesale platform Andisor

DealsDirect founder backs $1m raise for digital wholesale platform Andisor

A Melbourne-founded digital startup offering a 'fresh take on c...

The worst may be over for the retail recession, says Deloitte Access Economics

The worst may be over for the retail recession, says Deloitte Access Economics

The worst may be over for the retail sector after suffering a reces...

Black Friday no "be all and end all" for sales as marketing costs bite

Black Friday no "be all and end all" for sales as marketing costs bite

November is often dubbed the new December of retail sales with Blac...

 

Opinion

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

In early-stage investment, staying ahead of trends and building tru...

Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators

Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators

Imagine this. You need an image of a balloon for a work presentatio...

The AI industry is on the verge of becoming a boys’ club. We’re all going to lose out if it does

The AI industry is on the verge of becoming a boys’ club. We’re all going to lose out if it does

A recent New York Times article released a list of people “be...

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CAPITAL RAISING & FINANCE

Female-founded sun protection brand Solbari secures $10m from Australian Business Growth Fund

Female-founded sun protection brand Solbari secures $10m from Australian Business Growth Fund

A Melbourne-based company looking to combat the risk of skin cancer...

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group (ASX: VNL), the ASX-listed music company formerly known...

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

What will 2024 hold for VC and startups?

In early-stage investment, staying ahead of trends and building tru...

Council payments software startup Payble raises $3.5m

Council payments software startup Payble raises $3.5m

A Sydney-headquartered startup that makes payment solutions easier ...

Leadership

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group backed by tech billionaire in $10m deal to acquire The Brag Media

Vinyl Group (ASX: VNL), the ASX-listed music company formerly known...

Brand platform Collabosaurus founder in rare female-led tech exit to Cali Social founder

Brand platform Collabosaurus founder in rare female-led tech exit to Cali Social founder

In a rarity for Australian businesses, Collabosaurus founder Jessic...

Gurner appoints former Australia Post, Latitude boss Fahour as new CEO

Gurner appoints former Australia Post, Latitude boss Fahour as new CEO

In a year when the Gurner Group has added $1.9 billion worth of tot...

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Property

Aniko Group gains approval to proceed with $2b four-tower project at Mermaid Beach

Aniko Group gains approval to proceed with $2b four-tower project at Mermaid Beach

Gold Coast developer Aniko Group has been granted development appro...

Lendlease offloads $1b worth of communities projects to Stockland, Supalai

Lendlease offloads $1b worth of communities projects to Stockland, Supalai

Stockland's (ASX: SGP) rapidly-growing residential development ...

Fawkner Property purchases Cairns Central from Lendlease for $390m

Fawkner Property purchases Cairns Central from Lendlease for $390m

One of the largest shopping centres in Far North Queensland has bee...

Charter Hall Retail offloads two retail centres for $225m following unsolicited offers

Charter Hall Retail offloads two retail centres for $225m following unsolicited offers

Charter Hall Retail REIT (ASX: CQR) is poised to bank $225.5 millio...

Health

Brisbane's Convergence Medical on fast-track to commercialisation with FDA ‘breakthrough’ listing

Brisbane's Convergence Medical on fast-track to commercialisation with FDA ‘breakthrough’ listing

Brisbane-based medical technology startup Convergence Medical is ta...

AdAlta reveals world-first breakthrough in the battle against the scourge of malaria

AdAlta reveals world-first breakthrough in the battle against the scourge of malaria

Melbourne-based medtech AdAlta (ASX: 1AD) has announced a breakthro...

Watchdog sees red in $1.58 billion ACL-Healius merger

Watchdog sees red in $1.58 billion ACL-Healius merger

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has oppos...

Respiratory tech group 4DMedical to acquire US-based Imbio for up to $68m

Respiratory tech group 4DMedical to acquire US-based Imbio for up to $68m

Respiratory imaging technology company 4DMedical (ASX: 4DX) is acqu...

Technology

Geospatial tech company Aerometrex lands $1m contract to monitor Great Barrier Reef

Geospatial tech company Aerometrex lands $1m contract to monitor Great Barrier Reef

Adelaide-based geospatial data company Aerometrex has secured a $1 ...

Hemp Farms Australia booming as seed IP gains from new market channels

Hemp Farms Australia booming as seed IP gains from new market channels

From hempcrete in construction to animal bedding, carbon seque...

Stralis Aircraft plans maiden flight in 2024 for aircraft retrofitted with hydrogen system

Stralis Aircraft plans maiden flight in 2024 for aircraft retrofitted with hydrogen system

Brisbane-based Stralis Aircraft is gearing up for a maiden flight i...

Potentia Capital-backed Soprano Design lifts takeover bid for Whispir

Potentia Capital-backed Soprano Design lifts takeover bid for Whispir

Soprano Design has yielded to the pressure of a competing offer for...

Legal

‘Pressure cooker’: Shine Lawyers turns up the heat on KFC with employee class action

‘Pressure cooker’: Shine Lawyers turns up the heat on KFC with employee class action

The heat is on KFC after it was slapped with a class action over cl...

ASIC takes former Creso Pharma chairman to court over alleged market rigging, duty breaches

ASIC takes former Creso Pharma chairman to court over alleged market rigging, duty breaches

Announced today by the nation’s corporate watchdog, a former ...

Morrow Sodali buys two Aussie companies in a week with Designate, Domestique acquisitions

Morrow Sodali buys two Aussie companies in a week with Designate, Domestique acquisitions

Global shareholder engagement and governance company Morrow Sodali ...

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