BindiMaps: The Aussie app to help you find your way indoors
Entrepreneur Anna Wright started BindiMaps in 2017. The app provides indoor maps for airports, shopping centres, hospitals, office buildings, libraries, sports grounds, and events.
Shivaune Field
Shivaune Field is a business journalist with Forbes Australia reporting on tech and innovation. She has reported extensively in the U.S. and Australia across print, digital, television and podcast platforms. She regularly interviews founders, C-suite executives, leaders, entrepreneurs, and company builders. Before Forbes, Field was a journalist with Bloomberg Media based in Los Angeles covering innovation and the business of media and entertainment. She spent 16 years living in California and recently returned from Arizona where she reported on the 2024 US election. Field writes for the bi-monthly Forbes Australia magazine and Forbes.com.au. She covers Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and Netflix among many other companies. She is the editorial lead for Forbes Women in Australia.
‘Mass human experiment’: Inside Japan’s futuristic $15 billion smart city
Toyota announced its Woven City project in 2020. In 2021, it broke ground on construction at a site close to the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji. Three years later, Woven City says Phase 1 of the development will be complete by the end of the year and trials will start in 2025.
Australian cabbies drive home with $272 million in landmark Uber payout
The 8,000 class action participants are from the hire car, taxi, charter vehicle, and limousine industries in Victoria, NSW, Queensland, and WA. The Uber payout is the fifth-highest class action resolution in Australian history.
From a Netflix prison to the Australian coal coast: Meet Yael Stone
Sydney-born Yael Stone spent 7-years starring in Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. When she returned home in 2019, Stone settled on the NSW Coal Coast and began a new role – training Aussies for the jobs of the future.
TikTok is facing a ban in the US. What does it mean for Australia?
They say that when the US sneezes, Australia catches a cold. But when it comes to ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok, Australia is blazing its own trail.
‘This industry needs to change’: Volvo, TGE roll out Australia’s largest logistics EV fleet
TGE purchased 60 medium-duty electric trucks, the largest order Volvo has received to date anywhere in the world. The green trucks replace one-third of TGE’s fleet and will be used to deliver packages to customers around Sydney.
Meet Katherine Bennell-Pegg: Soon to be Australia’s first astronaut
From flying lessons at the Bankstown, Sydney airport, to astronaut training in Germany, to the moon. 39-year-old Bennel-Pegg is a champion of girls and women in STEM and reaching for both the International Space Station, and the stars
What net worth do you need to be a part of Australia’s 1%?
Knight Frank released the 2024 list of minimum net worth for 1-percenters across the globe. The threshold in Australia fell almost a million dollars from last year.
Why is pay disparity so bad at the largest market cap companies in Australia?
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) published new data relating to the gender pay gap this week. How did the organisations with the largest market capitalisation in Australia fare? Of the 10 largest, only two came close to the target. The highly profitable companies in the banking sector missed the mark completely.
Sustainable aviation vision takes flight as Jet Zero strikes new fuel deal
By 2027, Australians may be able to take flight powered in part by sugarcane and wheat grown right here at home. We talk to JetZero CEO Ed Mason about sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and what needs to be done to bring his alcohol-to-jet fuel vision to fruition.