Hello and welcome to tech on Tuesday. Let’s do this. 1. Prospa had a really bad day When the small business lender floated on the ASX in June at $3.78 a share, Prospa was seen as a startup success story. Yesterday the company told the ASX it was downgrading its revenue expectations for… Read more »
Just remember Sylvia and Gerry Anderson had a woman based on the moon by 1999 back in the mid-70s. Image: Space 1999. Got that Friday feeling? Remember it’s just 39 sleeps to Christmas. 1. WeWork’s death predicted WeWork’s rapid expansion included how much money it’s losing, with The New York Times reporting the company’s losses were… Read more »
Welcome to Wednesday. Hope you’re feeling well. If not, try shouting “Hey Google, what’s wrong with me” and if they know. 1. Google is collecting US health data The search giant is using the data of up to 50 million Americans from US non-profit health company Ascension as part of what it calls “Project Nightingale.” The… Read more »
Hello Tuesday. Thoughts and fingers crossed. 1. The climate change startup accelerator Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes is among those who’ve thrown their support behind a new Startmate accelerator for startups tackling climate change. They’re looking for 10 ventures and offering up to $75,000 for a 7.5% stake in each one. A bunch of VC… Read more »
It’s Friday and major stuff’s happening. Like. 1. Airbnb will audit houses after Vice exposed a massive scam After 11 years in business, a US$35 valuation and hopes for an IPO, the normally aloof house sharing platform Airbnb is actually going to take more than a casual glance at what’s going on with the… Read more »
An artist’s impression of the good ship Zuckerburg right now. It’s only Thursday and we’ve just read NBC and with one more sleep to TGIF, right now we’re OMFG. But not surprised. 1. Facebook leaks and it’s not pretty Mark Zuckerberg tied to leverage Facebook user data as a bargaining chip leaked company documents… Read more »
The HealthMatch team. Welcome to Wednesday. Here are the latest tech tales. 1. Blockchain buff John McAfee is heading to StartCon The fecund US entrepreneur, who founded the cybersecurity software company that still bears his name (he parted ways with it 25 years ago) is heading to Sydney for StartCon, Nov 22-23, to talk… Read more »
Hello and happy Tuesday. Behave if you’re at Flemington. 1. The race that stops the nation’s conversation Startup Daily has been to the Melbourne Cup. It should be on everyone’s bucket list, like the Boxing Day test, feeding the fish on Lord Howe Island, spending $100 a week on Sydney toll roads and not… Read more »
Hello and happy Monday! Only one more sleep until the Reserve Bank decision that stops the nation. 1. Jodie Fox talks about the Shoes of Prey collapse Jodie Fox has written a book about her experience in the wake of the failure of her high profile startup, Shoes of Prey. Reboot: Probably More Than You… Read more »
Startup founders at CEBIT Happy Halloween! If you’re looking to scare investors, apparently an Adam Neumann costume is Silicon Valley’s go to for 2019. 1. A social media watershed moment? https://twitter.com/jack/status/1189634360472829952 Twitter’s boss, Jack Dorsey, just errr, trumped Mark Zuckerberg. More on that here. 2. North Korean hackers put malware on a PC… Read more »
Sydney’s Central railway station as Atlassianstan. Artist’s impression: Urban Growth NSW. Happy Wednesday everybody. Hello from the startup pitch fest at CEBIT Australia in Sydney. We’ll bring you the results tomorrow 1. Who wants to spend $17 a month on Apple AirPods? To paraphrase Robin Williams, Apple products are god’s way of saying… Read more »
Hello and welcome to Monday. Here’s how the week starts. 1. Behind the Faraday Grid implosion Faraday Grid, a Scottish energy tech startup led by former ACCI board member and Australian economist Andrew Scobie, blew up in August, just months after WeWork’s ousted founder, Adam Neumann, put US$30 million (AU$44m) into it, valuing the… Read more »
Thursday time. And The Neumann Show episode CLXXVI. 1. WeWork set to cut 4000 staff A day after details of SoftBank’s whopping US$9.5 billion WeWork bailout, which includes a $1.7bn golden parachute to the pilot who crashed the co-working plane, founder Adam Neumann, it looks like 4000 staff, around 30% of the 14,000 employees… Read more »
Katy Barfield, CEO of tech-based social enterprise Yume. Hello and happy Wednesday. Here’s what’s going down. 1. Softbank bails out WeWork, giving its founder a $1.7bn golden parachute to go away Remember Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street? Who’ll play Adam Neumann in the movie about the WeWork clusterf*&%? After investing more… Read more »
Hello Tuesday. It’s like the Matrix, but slower. 1. The great NBN speed wars Whose side were you on during the great NBN speed wars, Daddy? Well son, it all began when the government-owned $50 billion broadband project commissioned AlphaBeta to tell the world how good it was, and they declared Australia’s speed was… Read more »
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