In early November, the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure invited public comment on proposed Australia-wide “drone delivery guidelines” it is quietly developing with industry stakeholders. A slick new website – drones.gov.au – brags about the supposed benefits of delivery drones. It claims they will create jobs, provide cost efficiency and be [...]
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscriptions have become an integral part of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use more than 150 SaaS apps on average, according to to BetterCloud. Fully managed apps are often a lighter burden for IT teams because they are completely cloud-based. But organizations are under [...]
Hello and welcome back to Equitya podcast about the business of startups, where we unravel the numbers and nuances behind the headlines. For the last time in 2022, the whole Friday gang came together to chat about the latest and greatest in the world of technology and startup news. From [...]
Carousela Singaporean consumer-to-consumer (C2C) service platform operating in Southeast Asia lays off about 110 employees, or 10% of its total workforce, in a bid to reduce costs in a challenging market environment for the technology industry . The announcement came from the company’s blog on Thursday, posted by Carousell co-founder [...]
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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced look at this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox. To close out the year, let’s go back to the columns I wrote that are, well, interestingly out of date. [...]
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GoStudent — the Austria-based marketplace for late-stage tutors that has raised $686.3 million to date (reaching a valuation of €3 billion) — the Germany-based Study trip, a traditional tutoring company founded in 1974, focusing on the German-speaking “DACH” region. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Studienkreis was [...]
A few years ago I was driving in a rural area on the coast north of San Francisco and found myself running low on gas. In fact, the fuel light flashed urgently. My cell phone couldn’t pick up a signal to direct me to the nearest gas station, so I [...]
To get a roundup of australiabusinessblog.com’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3PM PDT, register here. Heyy! Today was a fun, rich and varied day of news on your favorite tech news site. Haje got the unfortunate news that he will be attending his [...]