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In the past few weeks, you’ve probably seen a torrent of news stories about fast-growing, sexy startups suddenly being fired. For many young talent who have started their careers after the GFC, this is the first time we have navigated the world of work in a significant market downturn (and [...]
you’ve been brushed away your Keynote skills, you’re giddy that you can finally start paying yourself a living wage, and you’re eager to pitch your startup’s next round of funding to your investors. These are tumultuous times, sure, but just hit the other pedal there, buddy – you might be [...]
One of the world’s largest tech, innovation, music, film and gaming festivals, South by Southwest (SXSW), is coming to Sydney next year. In a major coup for the capital of NSW, the first international version of the famous annual event from Austin, Texas will take place October 15-22, 2023 in [...]
This week’s Supreme The court’s decision to curtail the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions may not have been unexpected, but it was still a bomb. Not only has it hurt the prospect of prompt executive action on the matter, it may have cut off some regulatory [...]
As great as your startup idea is, if you can’t fund it, you can’t build it. With that in mind, we asked three startup founders about their most groundbreaking move to increase revenue. Whether you’re bootstrapped or looking to raise capital, you need to hit certain cash milestones to successfully [...]
Getting hacked sucks. It’s even worse if you’re a digital creator whose social media accounts are literally paying your bills. When creators get hacked, it can mean they can’t post sponsored content, earn badge payments, or manage their Instagram stores — it’s grueling, like a chef broke his arm and [...]
For two years now, fatigue in online meetings has been a major concern as people spend a large part of their day on the screen in meetings. But now that we’re going back to the office, many employees are starting to realize that online isn’t the problem, it’s often just [...]
June brought another wave of tech layoffs, with cuts affecting roughly the same number of workers as May: 16,000 workers, according to tracker fired.fyi. Another aggregator for layoffs from TrueUp paints a bleaker picture, with 26,000 workers affected this month, up from about 20,000 last month. Either way, the data [...]
Animoca Brands, the digital entertainment, cryptocurrency metaverse and blockchain company that was thrown off the ASX in 2020, has been fined $50,000 after legal action by company regulator ASIC after failing to provide annual and semi-annual financial statements between 2019 and 2021. reports submitted. The company failed to appear in [...]