The secret to ‘UNSW Founders’ success
The Sydney-based program is Australia’s best incubator/accelerator according to the 2024 Startup Muster report. Here’s what makes it so impactful.
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.
The key areas being targeted in government’s ‘Australia-first AI plan’
The Minister for Industry and Science released an overview of the ‘Australian-first AI Plan’ that aims to boost capability, expand investment in technology, and grow the economy.
‘Just getting started’: Airwallex APAC revenue soars 83%
Lucy Liu, COO of Australian-founded payments unicorn Airwallex, tells Forbes Australia global revenue grew by 73 per cent year-over-year, and transaction volume increased 60 per cent.
Australia’s top 10 trending Google searches for 2024
Four of the top 10 Google search terms relate to sporting events. The number one most searched item relates to a competition of a different kind – that has far-reaching consequences across the globe.
Five Australians made Forbes list of World’s 100 Most Powerful Women
Forbes released its list of the world’s most powerful women, which includes two Australian bankers, a mining magnate, and a unicorn founder.
The federal government is investing in diamonds. Quantum diamonds.
Australia’s National Reconstruction Fund announced a $13 million investment into Quantum Brilliance to build Australia’s first quantum diamond foundry.
Revealed: the public figures Googled most in 2024
In Australia, 8 out of the 10 most Googled people are US-based. They range from politicians to musicians, to athletes. Here are the 10 people that piqued our interest the most this year.
Revealed: 2024’s most Googled Australians
Six (female) Olympians, a political prisoner, and a Brisbane-born movie star were the most Googled public figures this year. The number one spot, however, is held by an octogenarian Australian entrepreneur.
Five workplace trends to expect in 2025
From understanding the industries that are expanding to the changing needs of the millennial and Gen Z workforce, here is how to prepare for the work year ahead.
Homegrown Gilmour Space launching first rocket from Aus in 50 years
Eris TestFlight1 will lift off from Abbott Point in Queensland mid-January, marking the first orbital launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket since the 1970s.