Technology, Innovation & Science

A dozen of Australia’s top scientists recently faced off in national competition to determine the effectiveness of their ‘elevator pitches’ for commercial support.

Telstra customers will share access to their home wi-fi networks in a plan to create one of the world's largest networks of public hotspots.

AnaeCo director Ian Campbell has lost control of his 6.5 per cent stake in the waste treatment company after the shares were used as security for separate loans.

Shares in Perth-based rubber recycling and manufacturing company Reclaim Industries have soared on the ASX on the back of its $3.8 million all-scrip takeover of cloud-based recruitment business Skills Connect.

IT services provider Empired has signed a deal to purchase Sydney-based customer relationship management firm eSavvy for $2.2 million.

IT services provider ASG Group has secured contracts worth $21 million for the delivery of its cloud-based services, and says it has a further $80 million worth of additional agreements in the pipeline.

Nextgen Group has signed a deal with oil and gas giants Shell and Inpex under which the communications company will build a fibre optic cable to service operators in the state’s north-west.

Perth information and communications technology company ASG Group has reshuffled its board as it builds on its strategic shift.

Telecommunications firm ZipTel has signed a marketing deal with Zhenya Tsvetnenko’s Mpire Media to promote the former’s ZipT smartphone application in more than 120 countries.

Amcom Telecommunications has inked a deal which opens the door to it selling cloud-based services to the potentially lucrative higher education market.

Social entertainment firm mig33, which is in the middle of a reverse takeover of Latin Gold, has secured more than $10 million in investment from Hong Kong-listed handset manufacturer FIH Mobile.

Western Australian-based company WBHO Civil has won a contract to continue construction of the National Broadband Network around Geraldton.

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

iiNet has appointed an experienced online business executive and a digital marketing expert to its board, following the recent departure of two directors and the retirement of chief executive Michael Malone.

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.

The increasingly competitive and evolving information technology market has resulted in the demise of a locally-founded player.

Roy Hill Holdings has selected construction project management software firm Aconex to provide its services to the company’s iron ore mining project in the Pilbara.

A Perth technology entrepreneur has bowed out of a booming company in attempts to achieve his dream.

Advocates of Australia's tech start-up sector have called on governments to do more to support the fledging industry.

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

Trident Subsea Cable has targeted June as the crucial point for a decision on the future of a second submarine cable linking Perth with Asia.

Point of sale financing group ThinkSmart has put a plan to return capital to shareholders on the backburner just months after proposing the scheme.

The Abbott government has complained that a Senate inquiry into the national broadband network was stacked in favour of their opponents and didn't reflect the evidence heard.

Internet provider TPG has lifted its half year profit by 15 per cent thanks to solid growth in the number of customers taking up its bundled packages.

Virax Holdings has completed a $3 million equity placement to sophisticated investors to support its acquisition last week of Pathway Oncology.

iiNet founder Michael Malone has resigned as chief executive of the internet service provider, saying he wishes to dedicate his time to other passions.

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

SPECIAL REPORT: Plans for a second data centre in the Mid West are behind schedule after personnel changes at the company behind the development.

SPECIAL REPORT: Cloud computing is changing the game for providers and those businesses that use the service.

A partnership between oil and gas heavyweights Woodside Petroleum and Chevron, and the University of Western Australia is changing the design of offshore pipelines and cutting construction costs for the expensive infrastructure.