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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Frances Goh |Warwick Donaldson |Tom Williams
The Greens party, which received one in every eight primary votes (12.25%) at the last federal election, want a slice of the fortunes of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, proposing a “big tech tax” as Australia gears up to head to the polls in the coming months. Greens communications spokesperson senator Sarah Hanson-Young said that under the plan revenue in excess of $20 million earned from digital services in Australia will be taxed at a rate of 3%.
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Harrison Polites |Simon Thomsen |Frances Goh |Warwick Donaldson
If you read the script, the game starts to fall apart pretty quickly. The effort put into the visuals does enough to maintain the illusion of a new game. But anyone playing a Pokémon game for the plot is bound to be disappointed regardless. It’s all about the gameplay with these titles, and in this regard Pokémon Black Moon 2 delivers in spades. The creator has edited the game to replace many of the gym trainers and Elite Four with their Alolan counterparts, with new pixel art.
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Frances Goh |Simon Thomsen |Warwick Donaldson |Tom Williams
Welcome to the Startup 360 with Kayla Medica and guest cohost Cat Long from climatetech startup Trace. Tomorrow is International Women’s Day, and this year’s theme is “For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment. This week’s episode explores the challenges women face as founders, from funding to parenting and the self-doubt you can feel as a female founder (and even if you want to be referred to as a female founder).
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Frances Goh |Warwick Donaldson |Tom Williams |Simon Thomsen
International Women’s Day (IWD) is fast approaching, and with it comes the flood of well-intentioned but often superficial corporate gestures. Think pink logos, vague social media statements, and one-off panel discussions that barely scratch the surface of gender inequality. While organisations may be eager to show their support, many fall into the trap of performative activism rather than driving real change.
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |Frances Goh |Warwick Donaldson |Tom Williams
The federal government will adopt all 11 recommendations of the 2024 Diversity in STEM review, industry and science minister Ed Husic has confirmed. Husic surprised the crowd at Southstart in South Australia in announcing the government’s long-awaited response to the Pathway to Diversity in STEM Review, chaired by Cicada Innovations CEO Sally-Ann Williams, who was present for the news, praising her and the panel’s work as a landmark.
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Warwick Donaldson |Simon Thomsen |Elaine Stead |Cec Busby
The truth is, a lot of the startups undertaking a capital raise don’t meet the minimum investor expectations for their chosen funding pathway. Rather than reflecting on their readiness or taking responsibility for this, many founders blame investors instead (I wrote an article on it here). But here’s the reality: raising capital is a process, and skipping steps or rushing it often leads to frustration and failure. You as the founder and only you are responsible for this.
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1 month ago | 
startupdaily.net | Tom Williams |Warwick Donaldson |Simon Thomsen |Elaine Stead
Apple says it plans to introduce age assurance technologies which can tell social media platforms if a user is underage, before Australia implements a ban of under-16s from such platforms in late 2025. The tech giant’s announcement pushes back against companies such as Snap and Meta, which have called for device manufacturers like Apple and Google to be responsible for verifying users’ ages at the app store or operating system level, instead of by social media apps.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |John Hawkins |Tom Williams |Warwick Donaldson
Personalised advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research and services developmentStore and/or access information on a deviceYou can choose how your personal data is used.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
startupdaily.net | John Hawkins |Tom Williams |Simon Thomsen |Warwick Donaldson
Freshly elected US president Donald Trump has exercised his usual degree of modesty and named his newly launched cryptocurrency or memecoin, $Trump. And like the man himself, the coin’s price is extraordinarily volatile. The price ran up to US$75, fell below $60, went back to $75, fell below $40, then rose back to $60 and had fallen to $31 at the time of writing. And this was just in two days. It has now been joined by a $Melania coin, promoted by his wife.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
startupdaily.net | Tom Williams |Simon Thomsen |Warwick Donaldson
Apple is temporarily pausing its artificial intelligence software’s ability to summarise notifications from news and entertainment apps, after concerns were raised over inaccuracies. Apple Intelligence’s notification summaries feature was designed to “help users prioritise and stay in the moment” by using AI technology to summarise large numbers of notifications for things such as messages, emails, and news alerts, the company said.
