Michelle Hammond
Aussie tech start-ups invited to become million pound poms
Australian start-ups are being encouraged to enter a global competition called the Million Pound Startup, which will award £1 million ($1…
Business concern mounts as apprenticeship numbers fall
An industry body has expressed its concern over figures from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, which shows a drop in …
Pocketbook looks to raise $700k ahead of Dubai pitch competition
Personal finance app Pocketbook is hoping to raise up to $700,000 from local and foreign investors before heading to Dubai in September fo…
77% of Aussie entrepreneurs would do it all again: Report
Almost 80% of Australian entrepreneurs would start up again if given the chance, new research shows, despite almost as many citing lack of…
Kickfolio flags name change after raising $1.075 million
Melbourne-based start-up Kickfolio has revealed how it raised more than $1 million from US investors after being accepted into 500 Startups,…
YouTube turns eight – Five ways it has helped entrepreneurs
Video-sharing website YouTube has celebrated its eighth birthday by revealing more than 100 hours of video are uploaded to the website eve…
Tumblr faces user backlash following $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo!
US-based microblogging platform Tumblr is remaining tight-lipped about its $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo!, but is already facing user ba…
Dimmi cooks up a storm with MasterChef partnership
Sydney-based restaurant booking website Dimmi has signed a three-year deal with much-loved reality cooking show MasterChef Australia, just…
Aussie Twitter users motivated by “insider information”, not freebies: Report
Nearly half of Australia’s Twitter users follow a business on the social network in order to keep up to date with its products, rather tha…
Gillard throws $7.8 million extra at business names register – but will it fix the problems?
A small business group is confident the additional $7.8 million allocated to the National Business Names Register in the 2013 federal budg…
