Super boss reveals whether becoming PM is on the cards
Sam Mostyn is one of the most respected and accomplished executives in Australia. Parliament is not in her future, but continuing to have impact is.
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.
Women became millionaires at twice the rate of men over the past decade: JBWere
JBWere estimates that women will become custodians of more than 65% of the $4.9 trillion intergenerational wealth transfer. The number of female millionaires grew at a rate of 5.7% in 2023, almost double that of male millionaires.
Eyes on the prize: Inside the Australian Grand Prix control room
It takes three days to assemble the Event Technical Centre at each F1 racetrack. The ETC is the heart of the broadcast operation, feeding 500 terabytes of audio and video data to F1 headquarters in England each race weekend.
Startmate launches Ladymates to address pipeline of female founders
60% of founders in Startmate’s latest accelerator cohort are women, and 45% of cohorts have been female in the last 5 years. The company is now launching a new initiative it is calling Ladymates.
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.
‘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.