Charlie Gunningham

A website that enables the user to digitally create a personalised story book as a gift for a child based on the child's specific interests.

A WA computer manufacturing business has been shortlisted in an international energy saving competition.

Mobile app for women to find quality providers of beauty, health and wellness services via their private “girlfriend network”.

A 3-D marketing tool. An architectural plan or model of a development ‘jumps’ off the printed page when viewed through the Virtualiis app.

After losing a $500,000 development grant, a local entrepreneur has launched another app instead.

Online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers or oil and gas exploration and production properties. It has 12,000 active buyers and sellers. Free to browse basic information. Commissions are paid if asset is sold through contact made from the site.

Several local startups have broadened their horizons in the search for funds.

Saberr is a web app that allows organisations to use data to make better decisions about their staff. By analysing employees in advance, organisations can understand the impact of combining people in teams.

Sustainability monitoring and reporting software.

Online technology allowing organisations to organise secret ballots.

Tap Into Safety offers "interactive safety training tools".

Triplify claims to be "what's on guide for the world".

RAC of WA and Spacecubed have become the first organizations in Perth to fund a ‘tech accelerator’, which should come as welcome relief to the cash-starved start-up sector.

A Perth blogger, who has spent time developing his skills in the US, reveals his winning formula.

The City of Joondalup is opening a new co-working space and providing fresh investment funds for start-ups.

The head of a Perth-based start-up has led a team to victory in the first-ever global ‘hackathon’ in Seoul, South Korea.

It's a case of 'where to now?' for the start-up sector after funding cuts in this month's federal budget.

Can a ‘hackathon’ help innovation in the mining industry? Perth is about to find out.

SPECIAL REPORT: Marrying wine with technology was always going to gain someone’s attention and Ben Thomas, armed with a PhD in marketing and tourism has taken on that challenge with a new website.

SPECIAL REPORT: The Springboard program nurtures selected WA start-up leaders to think of their concepts and potential earnings in global terms.

SPECIAL REPORT: Falling government support and fewer funding deals are having a pincer effect on Perth’s emerging start-up sector.

Research undertaken in Perth may help to solve the growing problem of multi-screen inattention.

With stock options being taxed immediately, start-ups are being held back.

Perth is well placed to become an IT hub, but the people involved in the start-up community may need to collaborate to make it happen.

Perth is a hotbed of IT and business talent, and there’s no shortage of courses and events to connect ideas with outcomes.

Welcome to the new look Business Alerts.

Mobile technology is providing businesses with an inexpensive but significant marketing tool, but many fail to recognise it.

Local app developers have been busy in 2013, developing in-demand products and taking the sector far from its cottage industry roots.

A new service developed in Perth aims to bring bands and fans together.

Case studies from WA businesses show the power of social commerce.

Undeterred by the high level of competition in the space, a Perth entrepreneur has launched an app which allows users to skip the queues and get onto guest lists at bars and clubs.