Joseph Lam

1 week ago | realcommercial.com.au | Joseph Lam

Australia has become the second hottest data centre investment market in the world, with the global industry projected to reach $US4 trillion ($6.7 trillion) in value by 2030. The bullish outlook comes despite the derating of data centre stocks on the back of concerns about the slower pace of leasing in new complexes by companies ranging from Microsoft to Amazon around the world.

2 weeks ago | realcommercial.com.au | Joseph Lam

Gold Coast apartment projects are making a comeback as a series of developers bet that rising property prices will outweigh soaring building costs, with a series of new towers getting under way. In one of the latest plays, Monaco Property is snapping up a 1970s holiday resort on the Gold Coast for $70m in one of this year’s largest deals in the beachfront town. The off-market deal arrives as demand for the tightly held apartment market in Queensland’s second-largest city continues to rise.

3 weeks ago | stockhead.com.au | Joseph Lam

Goodman Group (ASX:GMG) has poached Microsoft’s data centre general manager as the industrial landlord doubles down on its plans to become a global digital infrastructure powerhouse. The company has brought on US-based Kraig Knight to lead its global expansion plans and Goodman’s international data centres developments. Mr Knight joins from Microsoft where he was responsible for tech giant’s data centre operations in America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the Asia Pacific.

4 weeks ago | realcommercial.com.au | Joseph Lam

Goodman Group has poached Microsoft’s data centre general manager as the industrial landlord doubles down on its plans to become a global digital infrastructure powerhouse. The company has brought on US-based Kraig Knight to lead its global expansion plans and Goodman’s international data centres developments. Mr Knight joins from Microsoft where he was responsible for tech giant’s data centre operations in America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the Asia Pacific.

1 month ago | stockhead.com.au | Joseph Lam

Credit card providers are abusing and “manipulating” payment surcharges for commercial gain, exacerbating the cost of living crisis for Australians, the Czech Republic-born, Canberra-raised founder of one of the country’s hottest fintech start-ups says. Pred Dragila — who founded payments company Fat Zebra in 2012 — said card surcharges were becoming an additional revenue stream for payment providers, short-changing customers for no good reason.