Technology, Innovation & Science

Telecom Corp has sold its Australian AAPT unit for $450 million to ASX-listed internet service provider, TPG Telecom, beating initial expectations of what the unit would go for.

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

Shares in Perth-based IT service provider ASG Group have risen nearly 18 per cent after chairman Ronald Baxter released upgraded earnings guidance today.

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.

NBN Co chief Ziggy Switkowski admits it will be "tough" to meet the federal government's 2016 delivery deadline for the national broadband network.

A Perth company believes its technology offers a solution for surfers dealing with shark attacks.

FEATURE: The state's biotechnology sector is heating up as investors look for the next wave of investment opportunities amid waning resources investment.

Dalton Gooding has agreed to stand down as chairman of biotech company Avita Medical but shareholders today supported the re-elect

Bob Browning has embraced the challenge of revitalising financial services firm Emerchants.

Amcom chairman Tony Grist told the company's annual meeting today it was well placed to deliver another year of double digit percentage growth in underlying net profit after tax.

Everyone's talking about it, but pinpointing exactly what defines ‘big data' is considered almost as challenging as putting it to use.

iiNet managing director Michael Malone will hand over control to chief financial officer David Buckingham for a three to six month period while he takes a break from duties, he announced at the company's annual general meeting today.

Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten is under pressure to authorise the release of confidential cabinet documents on the national broadband network's costings Labor received while in government.

Researchers have begun making use of supercomputing power at the new Pawsey Centre, which is expected to cost stakeholders $140 million by 2017.

Optus is looking to improve its standing among customers by abolishing breakage fees and reducing bill shock, as it deals with lower revenues.

Bhagwan Marine has entered a new partnership with an eastern states-based software group to streamline management and maintenance of the oil and gas industry services company's fleet of 100 boats.

ThinkSmart announced today that Keith Jones will be appointed as chief executive officer, effective as of February 2014.

Sometimes it can be better to go as far as you can before using other people's money.

Osborne Park-based technology firm Stochastic Simulation has launched new software which it claims will enable oil and gas companies to achieve overnight a level of subsurface analysis which would have previously taken years.

More than three quarters of Western Australians are planning to shop online this Christmas, according to a new survey released today.

The City of Perth has launched a free wireless internet service in the central business district - but it comes a year after a local technology company did the same.

Western Australia's International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research is amongst the global research institutions to secure detailed design work on the $2 billion Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project, though the lion's share of the pre-construction work is set to be conducted overseas.

Perth is well behind world-leading cities when it comes to supporting tech start-ups.

LinkedIn says it has surpassed five million Australian members as more people apparently try online networking for a career boost.

Perth company Empired has been award a $46 million contract to provide and operate the core IT infrastructure for Main Roads Western Australia's traffic control and corporate business systems.

Telco giant Telstra is suing the National Broadband Network Company over a commercial dispute that could be worth more than $100 million.

Subiaco-based biofuels developer Algae.Tec has signed an agreement to provide its technology for Phoenix Energy Australia's proposed waste to energy plant in Kwinana.

A Perth start-up has developed an app to aid in decision making.

Point-of-sale financing solutions group ThinkSmart has entered into a trading agreement with a division of Europe's largest home improvement retail group, Kingfisher, for an innovative gas boiler product.

A Perth start-up was taken by surprise when Google appropriated its name to launch a new business venture.

Being essentially nerdy, I have always loved those lateral thinking puzzles, whose answers seem obvious when explained, but frustratingly hard otherwise.

Payment solutions provider Emerchants has signed a three-month trial agreement with Perth-based Cash Converters International for the distribution of prepaid debit cards at the second-hand dealer's network of stores.