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Jonathan Cotton
Boards insist on ruining the fintech revolution
With bitcoin prices surging and fintech the fastest growing start up sector in Australia, it’s a brave new fintech world – but not everyone’s on board… read more...
Uber not above dodgy dealings
It may be a year old hacking scandal but as Uber starts to come clean it just gets worse and worse… read more...
Amazon, Alibaba and indomitable AU retail
Could it be that the death of Australian retail has been greatly exaggerated?… read more...
Transformation, social and big, fat profits
Microsoft rouses the troops, pointing to potential for the AU economy, public sector disruption and huge opportunities available to partners… read more...
Your complaints here: Fed Govt sets up ICT complaints email
Got a grievance re: ICT procurement? Now you can vent your spleen directly via the new complaints email address… read more...
Hollywood’s eyes wander down under
MPAA has come out swinging against Australian copyright laws, Kiwi piracy… read more...
From Russia with Like
What to do when your platform is loved by users and Russian propagandists alike? read more...
Aussies want robot minions, not work-mates
It’s a brave new robot-powered world – for better or worse… read more...
How eye-AI can revolutionise autism testing
Smartphone could provide everything necessary for remote assessments… read more...
Beyond the banner: Is display advertising about to go bust?
Online ad spend across Asia/Pacific continues its upward trajectory but that may be about to change… read more...
Goodbye Holden, hello ‘Advanced Manufacturing’
Can the Australian manufacturing industry reinvent itself for the new era?… read more...
What will it take to transform Australia’s public sector?
The public appetite is there, but it’s ours to lose… read more...
Not so fast, Amazon: AU retailers prepare to spend big on tech
With Amazon AU imminent, retailers beginning to ‘wise-up’ to new tech strategies… read more...
NBN CEO: ‘Stop comparing Australia to NZ’
Bill Morrow leaps into print to defend NBN rollout from Kiwi comparisons (but fails to nail the landing)… read more...
Business transformation driving new SaaS and PaaS appetite
Huge opportunities for vendors as enterprises look to modernise legacy systems (and have the budgets to match)… read more...
The new best job in the world: Data Scientist?
Why the data guy just might be your company’s most valuable asset… read more...
AU’s govt ICT failures: Is outsourcing to blame?
CPSU points finger at external vendors, contractors and excessive cost cutting… read more...
Resistance is futile: Here comes Amazon
“You can’t stop progress,” career politician Bill Heslop once said, and he was right… read more...
Alternative lending finally comes of age in Australia
It’s taken its sweet time getting here, but Australia’s ‘alternative finance industry’ (read peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding and the like) is kicking into high gear… read more...
Bitcoin 2017: A Guide for the Slightly Baffled
Bit what? Coin who? What you need to know about the state of bitcoin, here and now… read more...
