Technology, Innovation & Science

Perth-based tech company Velpic has struck a deal to sell its primary business to Damstra Technology for about $3.8 million, weeks after most of its staff were made redundant.

Perth-based IT company Cirrus Networks has been awarded a $2 million service contract with the University of Western Australia.

A deal between Adelaide-based Silentium Defence and Curtin University astronomers to develop technology tracking space junk is an example of WA’s growing capability in matters extraterrestrial.

My Wellbeing Mate app brings together a network of mental health resources by offering a gateway to helplines, websites, guides, videos, talks, apps, self-checks and more.

Minderoo Foundation has today announced a $100 million research initiative designed to study and protect global marine life and its chairman Andrew Forrest has used the occasion to attack the federal government’s new marine parks plan.

Technology has enabled workers of all ages to challenge the workplace orthodoxy.

Bentley-based Spookfish has struck a takeover deal with its largest shareholder, US-based EagleView Technologies, which values the local tech company at $121.6 million.

A Perth expo has showcased the technology innovations local and national companies are bringing to WA's health sector, but nothing like Mercy Virtual, a four-storey hospital in the US with 700 doctors and nurses and no patients.

Three Perth entrepreneurs in the fields of solar energy, defence technology and engineering services are heading to the EY national finals.

Nedlands-based NeuroScientific Biopharmaceuticals, which has been bankrolled by the Clough family, is set to begin trading on the ASX tomorrow, after raising $6 million via an initial public offering.

Mining and technology entrepreneur Charlie Bass has flagged six industries, including medicine, agriculture and the arts, that offer Western Australia the opportunity to forge a more sustainable economy.

ASX-listed 1-Page, which reached a market capitalisation in excess of $500 million in 2015, has requested a delisting from the local stock exchange following the acquisition of a German medicinal cannabis company.

Perth tech startup Appbot, which counts 35 per cent of the world’s top charting app developers as customers, has turned to artificial intelligence to develop a new service that helps organisations manage large volumes of feedback.

Marine technology company VEEM has announced successful sea trials of its gyrostabilisers by Netherlands-based shipbuilder Damen Shipyards.

Bentley-based communications company Swift Networks Group has announced a number of new contracts, including infrastructure works at Iluka Resources' Cataby project and a 12-month extension at AngloGold Ashanti's Tropicana facility in Kalgoorlie.

A bid to launch a battery focused cooperative research centre in Perth has so far received more than $26 million in commitments from supporters, and will build on existing research programs at institutions such as Murdoch University.

Shares in telco provider Swift Networks enjoyed solid gains today after the company revealed a strong earnings result for the 2018 financial year.

An avocado farm near Pemberton, deep in the state’s South West, may not be the obvious location for an award-winning energy technology application.

Rio Tinto’s autonomous train program delivered its first cargo of iron ore in the Pilbara earlier this week.

Perth Property Lawyers offers a defined range of legal documents and services on a fixed-fee basis, with a menu-pricing structure aimed at undercutting most traditional property law practices.

Shares in local tech firm Orbital Corporation soared today after the company’s preliminary financial year results showed net profit of $1.8 million.

Georesources company Qteq has secured a borehole data contract in the Northern Territory following the recent acquisition of Western Australian companies Surtech and WellServ.

The WA games industry has welcomed recently announced support from the McGowan government.

West Perth-based Amristar Solutions has secured a $4.5 million state government contract for ICT services, while ASX-listed Cirrus Networks has been awarded a $2.5 million contract to manage data services for Crown Resorts.

SPECIAL REPORT: AusCann has benefited from a wave of interest in medicinal cannabis for pain relief to be the BN30’s top performer in shareholder returns for the year to June 30.

A joint venture between Chinese group Huawei and UGL has been awarded a $205 million state government contract to build and maintain radio systems for Perth’s rail network.

The Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation in Nedlands recorded two notable achievements last week, winning a state government grant and graduating its second cohort of budding entrepreneurs.

Tech company Family Zone Cyber Safety has raised $5 million via an equity investment from UK-based advisory firm Tellus Matrix.

Opinion: Businesses that fail to change when the market demands are playing with fire.

Opinion: Large business organisations are tentatively opening up to the benefits of employing an agile approach to management.

A public independent school in Armadale has become the first school in the state to trial a program that partners industry with education to encourage greater adoption of science, technology, engineering and maths subjects (Stem).

A federally operated life sciences hub aimed at commercialising local research opened in Nedlands yesterday, backed by the University of Western Australia, the state government, and Commonwealth entity MTPConnect.