Startups

You’ve probably heard the term fintech. Well, there’s also a thing called femtech. And as the name implies, it’s all about female entrepreneurs using technology to find solutions to female problems, mainly in the area of healthcare.

What would it take for you to put the same level of trust in AI as you would extend to a human? To chat with your child? To drive your taxi? To read your brain scan? To scan your face at a concert, at work, or in a supermarket?

Facebook is gearing up to enter the blockchain space, with the creation of a new group that will focus on exploring use cases of the technology within the social media platform.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has taken a dig at Amazon and Google, accusing them of effectively rigging their systems to the detriment of retailers. Nadella attacked the rivals to his Microsoft Azure cloud platform, saying: “Amazon and Google both are fantastic at being able to rig transactions.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has confessed that his ecommerce, cloud and publishing enterprises come second to — and fund — his “most important work”: space tourism and reusable rockets.

Two large-scale Australian brands have been enlisted by Chinese tech and retail giant Alibaba for a pilot run of the company's new blockchain traceability system called the Food Trust Network.

The Australian eSports fan base has more than doubled in the past two years, and the vast majority (66%) of those fans are between the ages of 18 and 34, and mostly male.

By Mohamed Abdelrazek, Deakin University

The biggest mobile showcase of the year – the Mobile World Congress (MWC) – wrapped up in Ba…

By Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology

The race to market for widespread driverless cars may be on, but that doesn’t …

Digital payments and fraud detection firm ThreatMetrix, which was co-founded by Australian entrepreneur David Jones, will be acquired by Bri…

Businesses are being warned to trash emails purporting to be from the “revenue collection agency”, with a new scam impersonating the Austral…

By Faye Miller, University of Canberra

Facebook last week announced a redesign of its news feed to prioritise posts from friends and fami…