Technology, Innovation & Science

The Perth Wildcats have brought on local internet company Pentanet as its major sponsor for the 2018-19 National Basketball League season.

A deal between manufacturing business Best Bar and tech hopeful Buildsort serves to highlight recent activity in Perth’s blockchain space.

One of Cisco’s earliest employees in WA has risen through the ranks to play a major role in the group’s California headquarters.

Effective coders and developers are in such high demand in Perth that one local entrepreneur has inverted the conventional hiring process.

Fooduction is an online marketplace app where users can buy takeaway food items from nearby local restaurants and other establishments (with a licensed home kitchen).

Perth-based Quantify Technology Holdings has announced a $4 million capital raising to progress the commercialisation of the company’s flagship device.

While many are still struggling to get their heads around blockchain as the mysterious force behind bitcoin, the technology is rapidly evolving.

SPECIAL REPORT: New technology now available in WA uses an algorithm to match appropriate builders to specific blocks of land.

Carnegie Clean Energy’s long-serving managing director Michael Ottaviano has resigned, with the company also announcing major updates on three projects and plans to renegotiate its asset sale deal with Tag Pacific.

Shares in cryptocurrency-focused DigitalX have fallen nearly 12 per cent today after the company revealed it has been served with a $US1.8 million claim in the Federal Court of Australia.

An engineering alliance comprising BMD Constructions, CIMIC Group's Ventia and Arup has secured a $47 million contract for the ‘smart freeways’ project on the Kwinana Freeway.

Tech Mpire has announced a $2.4 million capital raising to market its TrafficGuard advertising fraud prevention technology.

Perth company Quantify Technology Holdings has today announced a restructuring of its board of directors, the same day it announced the first commercial sale of its flagship device.

BubDesk has recently evolved its model from a physical co-working space with a creche to become an online platform.

Perth tech company iCetana, which has raised $11 million over the past 18 months to support its global expansion, has terminated the employment of its chief executive after identifying an alleged fraud.

Datacom has secured a $4.5 million contract as part of the state government’s GovNext ICT program.

Perth-based tech company DTI Group has finalised a $19.1 million contract with manufacturing joint venture Alstom Ubunye to supply passenger information systems for nearly 600 trains in South Africa.

The six-month Plus Eight accelerator program reached its 2018 culmination last night, as seven startups pitched their growth and expansion plans to a sold-out audience.

Medical tech company ResApp Health has announced a $7.5 million capital raising as it moves to commercialise its smartphone app, which aims to diagnose and manage respiratory diseases.

WA organisations as varied as Landgate, RAC and Bankwest are becoming case studies for corporate innovation.

Shares in 3D printing firm Aurora Labs were up nearly 30 per cent today after the company said it had printed complex parts well above market average speeds using its large format technology.

A recent world first by WA researchers provides a glimpse of what to expect when the Square Kilometre Array is operational.

TPG Telecom has reported a 4.6 per cent drop in full-year profit to $396.9 million after the NBN hit broadband margins and home phone revenue.

Western Australian startups and ‘young’ tech companies raised $295 million last financial year, which was 8.3 per cent of the amount raised nationally, a new report has found.

Kewdale-based RCT has installed its latest technology at AngloGold Ashanti’s Sunrise Dam gold mine, which gives an operator control of numerous machines from a singular station.

Subiaco-based marketing business OpenDNA has completed a $2.5 million placement and announced it will acquire Perth-based Choose Digital and Chinese-focused RooLife.

Startup businesses in Perth have access to a new source of funding after the Royal Automobile Club of WA launched a $3 million investment fund last night, while also disclosing it is a substantial shareholder in fast growing blockchain business Power Ledger.

Reiwa has recently launched the reiwa.com app, which allows users to search for properties, find and compare local Reiwa agents, view home opens and shortlist their favourite properties and searches.

Shares in biomedical technology business Phylogica were up 13 per cent today after the company announced it had completed a $9.1 million recapitalisation.

NBN Co will have to pay internet providers a $25 rebate for every late connection, fault repair or missed appointment under a new requirement enforced by the consumer watchdog.

Games and associated technologies are increasingly finding a place in retail and public spaces, as the boundaries between play and work fall away.

Empired subsidiary Intergen has won a $9 million-plus contract to develop a digital transformation program for New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs.