AGL Energy has announced a new $3.02 billion offer for telco Vocus less than a week after Swedish private equity firm EQT Infrastructure scrapped its own takeover bid for the Sydney-based company.
Unocart has launched Uno-Insights to provide real-world analytics for fast-moving consumer goods companies by leveraging mobile technology to capture purchase behaviour in the offline world.
Machine learning is being used to develop a range of medical research advancements in WA, with diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder one example.
Telstra will reduce the number of contractors it employees by about 10,000 over the next two years as it tries to cut costs, chief executive Andrew Penn says.
Telstra has announced it will record $500 million in impairments in its 2019 financial year results on ageing data-storage assets and forecast higher restructuring costs this year as it expedites a plan to slash jobs.
The state government has introduced a science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills strategy, which aims to have 85 per cent of year 12 students completing two or more STEM courses.
Rehabilitation of mine sites in Western Australia may be improved after Perth researchers identified several species of native plants well suited to tolerating conditions at the old sites.
The state government says it will fix a planning loophole that enabled small housing subdivisions in WA to be built without connection to telecommunications infrastructure.
Plaak utilises its proprietary Phaeton Blockchain technology to function as a secure digital wallet and facilitate instantaneous peer to peer transactions of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Verge and other popular digital currencies.
Botanix Pharmaceuticals has appointed Vince Ippolito as its president in the US, and subject to shareholder approval, he will also assume the role of executive chairman for the company.
Perth software business Practice Insight, led by patent attorney Thomas Haines, has sold its document management system product suite to a German company.
Bentley-based Quantify Technology has entered into a three-year agreement with Harvey Norman's commercial division, which will see the franchise become the company's exclusive distributor in the eastern states.
WA BUDGET: Medical research has received a substantial boost in the state budget, with the government allocating a further $52 million to its Future Health Research and Innovation Fund over three years.
TPG Telecom shares have crashed along with those of Vodafone's local joint venture partner after the competition watchdog blocked the communications giants' $15 billion merger.
Shares in Perth biotech Orthocell more than quadrupled in value today after the company released positive results from a trial of its nerve regeneration product.
Shares in Empired fell as much as 20.5 per cent today, after the company announced it would not have its contract extended for the provision of ICT services for Main Roads Western Australia.
Stirling-based technology education provider Fire Tech Australia recently launched STEM unitED, a school program aimed at promoting careers in STEM by introducing WA students to robotics and drones, and the software used to operate and maintain this tech.
FBR, formerly known as Fastbrick Robotics, has commenced a 50/50 joint venture with Brickworks, called Fastbrick Australia, to provide a ‘Wall as a Service' offering to the Australian market.
Shares in WhiteHawk soared from 6.4 cents to 12 cents, in three days of trading, after the Perth-based cyber security announced it had secured two contracts in the United States.
