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Wendy McCarthy’s quiet campaign to fund next-gen rebel women

Bypassing traditional tax-effective frameworks, the trailblazing advocate is deploying her private wealth to fund a new breed of cultural architects.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

The UK’s $100 billion fintech disruptor takes aim at Australia’s big four banks

Revolut, a UK fintech last valued at US$75 billion ($104 billion), has been approved to operate banking services in Australia. It plans to spend “nearly” $400 million to win over the local market.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

Xero executive quietly departs amid SaaSpocalypse slump

Xero’s chief people officer, charged with driving the company’s “performance-driven culture”, departed the ASX accounting giant earlier this month.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist
Sharon AI co-founder and chief executive James Manning. Image: Supplied

Australia doesn’t need copyright change to win data centre billions, AI boss says

Copyright law has become the central flashpoint of Australia’s AI and data centre policy. Sharon AI chief executive James Manning says no changes are needed.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

Why building a bison mentality is key to accelerating workforce productivity

Stalled decision-making, perfectionism, withheld innovation, and wasted cognitive energy are quietly tanking corporate productivity. Dr. Shade Zohrai outlines a framework to help teams build the internal authority required to face disruption head-on.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

Xero gives ‘low performers’ 30-day ultimatum amid CEO pay push

Xero has amped up performance management of staff, offering underperformers the option for immediate severance, amid AI’s disruption of the SaaS market.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

Australia is the world’s biggest Claude user. Now Anthropic wants more

Claude is being used in Australia six times more than Daniela and Dario Amodei expected it to be. Now, the sibling co-founders want the “values overlap” to extend to physical infrastructure.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist

Samsara Eco kicks off $100m raise to recycle critical minerals

After forging deals with Lululemon and LSKD for its recycled fabrics, Samsara Eco is looking to develop a means of extracting and reusing rare earth metals.

  • By Daniel Van Boom
  • Business Journalist

How Bending Spoons built a $18.4 billion empire by buying internet has-beens like AOL

Buying busted apps made Bending Spoons’s four cofounders billionaires. Now their stakes have collectively jumped to $8.9 billion after the Milan-based startup scrap yard listed on Nasdaq at an $18.4 billion valuation.

  • By Iain Martin

Mako shark-inspired startup hunts down $28m to make aviation more efficient

Armed with microchip-printing tech, Henry Bilinsky is deploying nature’s fastest blueprint to rip through global aviation emissions and leave legacy aerospace giants in his wake.

  • By Shivaune Field
  • Business Journalist
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