Yesterday
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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.
- Nick Bonyhady
This Month
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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.
- Nick Bonyhady
November
- Analysis
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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.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Analysis
Has Uber finally solved its ‘employee’ problem?
A settlement in New York shows the preconditions necessary for the rideshare company to settle its fight with the government over pay rules.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Analysis
Google is paying someone else $40b to make sure you keep using it
The US government has made its case to prove Google is a monopolist. The Breakdown explains why some of the tech giant’s excuses are tortured.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Apple
As Albanese travels to China, Apple’s results offer a warning
The company has navigated China better than any other Western big tech firm, but its sales there still fell short of expectations last quarter.
- Nick Bonyhady
October
Amazon’s one big problem
Huge job cuts have boosted profits across the big technology companies, but there’s a limit to how deep they can go. Amazon’s results show its longer-term problem.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
The boring software that’s saving a moribund Facebook
Facebook has been written off as a network for the elderly and out of touch, but it is learning from its arch-rival TikTok.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
Why Microsoft jumped and Google slumped when both beat expectations
A modest gap in cloud computing performance pushed the tech giants’ share prices billions in different directions, showing investors care about one thing: AI.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Analysis
- Analysis
What Musk’s high-stakes plan to charge for tweeting really means
X, formerly known as Twitter, is charging $US1 a month for New Zealand and Philippines users to post in an experiment that could go global. So what’s Elon thinking now?
- Nick Bonyhady
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- Analysis
When Atlassian buying your start-up for $1.5b is a mixed bag
The Aussie software giant paid a fortune for a video-messaging tech firm on Friday. But what was behind the deal, and was it a good idea?
- Nick Bonyhady
