Yesterday
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
No one can buy Canva now. Other start-ups beware
Any start-up boss hoping to get rich selling their company to a tech giant should learn from Adobe’s failed $US20 billion attempt to buy design app Figma.
This Month
The ABC’s new chair faces a big audience problem
For the first time in its measured history, fewer than two in three Australians interact with the ABC each week.
Home-deposit-lending start-up digitally altered news article in ads
OwnHome has wiped CBA, its own backer, from ads it is running on Facebook and Instagram, which feature a digitally manipulated version of a Financial Review story.
Nine publishing boss James Chessell to depart
The executive oversaw a period of hard-hitting investigative journalism across the company’s mastheads.
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- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Start-up to sell ‘unapproved’ replica Ozempic, upending market
Eucalyptus is challenging the monopoly over the diabetes and weight-loss drug, sparking a sharp rebuke from the $505 billion drugmaker Novo Nordisk.
Potentia promises cash before Christmas to up pressure on Whispir deal
Rival suitor Pendula is expected to reveal its binding offer within days as the private equity firm offers shareholders a speedy deal.
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Social media is dead, long live messaging
Facebook has announced major upgrades to its messaging apps, which could help it avoid having to moderate content and reduce some of social media’s negative impacts.
Afterpay’s bad debts climb, just like its costs
Accounts filed by the Block-owned buy now, pay later company for the 18 months to December 2022 show scale eluded the Australian business.
- Exclusive
- AI
Australian AI image champion raises $47m
Leonardo Ai is staring down doubts about whether its business is truly unique, or just a layer atop open-source tools, as it races to stay ahead of US rivals.
- Exclusive
- Venture capital
‘Australian Tiger Global’: VCs firms split over investment strategy
Blackbird Ventures is using its size to pay more for stakes in early-stage start-ups than many of its rivals, who say it could eventually hurt founders.
November
Ousted Australian OpenAI director breaks silence on Altman chaos
Helen Toner said board members who sacked Altman weren’t trying to slow down AI development and hinted more would come out about what had happened.
- Exclusive
- Cybersecurity
Minister lashes DP World hack failure
“A known problem, with a known patch – Australia needs to do better than this,” said Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil after an update from DP World.
How the tech crowd track their health to live longer
‘Quantified self’ is a movement where the health conscious are trying to leave nothing to chance, using the latest in technology to monitor their bodies and fitness.
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
‘Large swaths’ of staff cut at heavily backed start-up
Education tech start-up Edrolo is in an industry threatened by disruption from the rise of generative artificial intelligence, big money backers have cause for concern.
Optus chairman says next chief executive should have telco experience
Paul O’Sullivan broke his silence to argue that Australians’ desire for “scalps” after corporate crises could deprive the country of good executives.
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Aussie altruist at the heart of the OpenAI imbroglio
One of the directors who ousted OpenAI boss Sam Altman is Helen Toner, a researcher from Melbourne.
Hackers stole DP World data, patch lapse blamed
The stevedore said its data had been “exfiltrated” during a cybersecurity breach that probably stemmed from failure to patch a widely known security flaw.
Why two ports in New York cost radically different amounts
Infraclear collates infrastructure project and financial documents to help parties seek a fair deal and save time negotiating.
- Updated
- Telecommunications
Optus reveals what caused last week’s outage
The company said its routers received incorrect settings from overseas as part of a software upgrade, triggering a cascading failure.
Christine Holgate revives quest to access AusPost’s infrastructure
The former Australia Post boss said she still believed in the proposal, despite negotiations taking longer than she would like.
