Technology, Innovation & Science

Family Zone has launched a $146 million capital raising to fund its acquisition of UK-based digital safety company Smoothwall.

Few startups will tick all investors’ boxes, but there are some simple criteria to be aware of.

Swoop has secured a more than $5 million, five-year contract with Orro Group to provide NBN enterprise ethernet services to its Western Australian users.

A new online platform aims to deliver ‘adulting 101’ to students.

Telstra is allowing Australians to make free calls to landline numbers and mobiles from any one of its 15,000 payphones.

A sense of unified purpose is needed to protect critical infrastructure.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined the board of a Perth-created tech business with clients including NASA and Tesla, Advanced Navigation.

The board of Cirrus Networks has rejected what is calls an inadequate takeover bid from Webcentral Group that valued the Perth-based IT services business at about $30 million.

Cirrus Networks has become the second Perth-based IT services firm to receive a takeover offer in recent weeks, after Victoria's Webcentral Group made an on-market bid.

Christian Porter says he’s taking the long view in his new portfolio, sharpening the focus of industry policy and hoping to improve research commercialisation.

Perth software company Track’em has had a win over former consultants Steve McNally and Keyt Atkinson after a Supreme Court judge described their claims as embarrassing.

WA’s richest man and one of the state’s keenest telco investors are taking on the NBN.

From Pilbara driverless trains to rapid virus testing, WA minds have created innovative technology.

Avicena Systems, Vix Technology and East Metropolitan Health Service were among the winners at the annual Incite Awards for WA tech.

The funds may not be overflowing for the tech sector, but it’s not all doom and gloom.

Construction has begun approved for the SKA-Low telescope in the Mid West.

Perth company Zella DC has secured federal government funding for half the cost of developing its next generation of micro data centres.

Perth-based IT business Empired has been contracted by the Victorian government to provide services to the state’s environmental authority.

ASX-listed Empired is being acquired by Capgemini Australia, which has offered to pay $1.35 in cash for every share held in the IT firm.

Four companies, including Downer EDI and Fulton Hogan, have won new contracts from NBN Co as part of the provider’s move to update the network.

Swoop’s acquisition frenzy has shown no sign of slowing down following its $6.7 million purchase of SA-based Beam Internet.

Perth-based Velrada has been selected as Microsoft’s Australian growth partner of the year while Melbourne-based Engage Squared was the overall Australian partner of the year.

A local company hoping to roll out mass screening COVID-19 tests in airports has been picked for a $3 million federal manufacturing grant.

Perth-based mining technology company Kinetic Logging Services has been sold for a bumper price of more than $150 million, with local investor Viburnum a big winner.

A local startup is taking a fresh approach to mental health in the workplace.

Knowing your audience and bringing your best self are key to online engagement.

Scalable startups need money, naturally, but also healthy dose of wisdom and advice.

ASX-listed MOQ is building its Western Australian presence through the acquisition of local IT business Dienst Consulting.

Western Australian researchers have been awarded a modest 4.3 per cent share of funding under the latest round of national medical research grants.

Former reality TV stars and competitive surfers Eliza and Mikaela Greene have entered the food ordering technology market with the launch of their phone application MyTab.

Swoop Holdings has made its second major acquisition in under a month, picking up Community Communications and more than a dozen of its fixed-wireless towers for an undisclosed sum.

Family Zone, a cyber security technology specialist based in West Perth, is set to purchase a classroom management business using proceeds from an equity raising.