Mark Whittaker

Global travel amenities company Buzz has bought cult Australian sustainable personal-care brand Single Use Ain’t Sexy, for an undisclosed sum.

Kelly Slater and Mick Fanning, once great rivals on the water, have teamed up to share the lessons they’ve learned in entrepreneurship.

Paypal Australia and Hyperwallet director Simon Banks talks about the leadership lessons he’s learnt at the surf club and on stage for a hard-rockin’ band. You must be good at delegating. Yes and no. You might have heard of a philosophy called ‘servant leadership’ – that you are there to help your team achieve their […]

Casino operator Star Entertainment will cancel all executive bonusses, freeze salaries and axe 500 jobs after “experiencing a significant and rapid deterioration in operating conditions” particularly at its Sydney and Gold Coast casinos.  

The Women’s Football World Cup, kicking off in Australia and New Zealand in July, is challenging the Winter Olympics to be the third most watched sporting event in the world. FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 CEO David Beeche forecast 2 billion viewers would watch the tournament – a 90 per cent increase in eyeballs on […]

Palmer Luckey, 30-years-old and worth US$1.8 billion, could be building video games and virtual reality systems, or cruising in his private submarine – but has instead chosen a job that’s “depressing” and “corrosive of the spirit”.

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services will invest $13.2 billion in Australia over the next four years, the company announced yesterday.

Global digital engineering giant Cognizant has teamed up with Formula 1’s 2023 surprise packets.  One of the things about Formula 1 racing that’s a “little bit bonkers”, says Cognizant’s Rob Walker, is the rule limiting how much testing a team can do on the track before a race.  “Can you imagine any other sport, where […]

The woes of troubled Australian gym franchise F45 continue to mount as lawyers and liquidators circle. Forty-eight Australian F45 gyms – about one in ten – are reportedly on the market. Since July, nine F45 gyms have gone into liquidation. By comparison, only one other gym had suffered the same fate, according to the public registry, […]

The investment-pitching show Shark Tank is coming back to Australian screens, announcing a new panel of judges and confronting a mixed bag of successes and ones that got away.