Technology, Innovation & Science

Local tech company DTI Group has announced a host of board changes, while Pancontinental Oil & Gas chief executive is set to resign due to personal reasons.

Optus could face a $10 million penalty after the consumer watchdog commenced court proceedings against the mobile firm for misleading customers over subscriptions to expensive and unwanted content.

Increased state and federal funding and support are helping new and existing businesses in country WA.

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australia is a place best known for what it does below ground level, but entrepreneur Chris Hill believes we should look to the stars for the state's next big opportunity.

SPECIAL REPORT: A group of companies offering a faster alternative fixed-wireless internet service has dialled into a niche market.

SPECIAL REPORT: Four state government contracts have delivered extra work for six information and communications technology contractors in Perth.

Shares in Orbital Corporation jumped 16 per cent today, after the local tech company announced a contract extension with multinational The Boeing Company and provided revenue guidance of $24 million for the 2019 financial year.

Bunbury-based CipherTel has won the latest round of state government grants to deliver high-speed broadband to areas not adequately covered by the National Broadband Network.

A Curtin University team has developed an improved, cleaner, technique to turn the sun's energy into hydrogen, amid increasing industry interest in the opportunities.

The Perth Wildcats have brought on local internet company Pentanet as its major sponsor for the 2018-19 National Basketball League season.

A deal between manufacturing business Best Bar and tech hopeful Buildsort serves to highlight recent activity in Perth's blockchain space.

One of Cisco's earliest employees in WA has risen through the ranks to play a major role in the group's California headquarters.

Effective coders and developers are in such high demand in Perth that one local entrepreneur has inverted the conventional hiring process.

Fooduction is an online marketplace app where users can buy takeaway food items from nearby local restaurants and other establishments (with a licensed home kitchen).

Perth-based Quantify Technology Holdings has announced a $4 million capital raising to progress the commercialisation of the company's flagship device.

While many are still struggling to get their heads around blockchain as the mysterious force behind bitcoin, the technology is rapidly evolving.

SPECIAL REPORT: New technology now available in WA uses an algorithm to match appropriate builders to specific blocks of land.

Carnegie Clean Energy's long-serving managing director Michael Ottaviano has resigned, with the company also announcing major updates on three projects and plans to renegotiate its asset sale deal with Tag Pacific.

Shares in cryptocurrency-focused DigitalX have fallen nearly 12 per cent today after the company revealed it has been served with a $US1.8 million claim in the Federal Court of Australia.

An engineering alliance comprising BMD Constructions, CIMIC Group's Ventia and Arup has secured a $47 million contract for the ‘smart freeways' project on the Kwinana Freeway.

Tech Mpire has announced a $2.4 million capital raising to market its TrafficGuard advertising fraud prevention technology.

Perth company Quantify Technology Holdings has today announced a restructuring of its board of directors, the same day it announced the first commercial sale of its flagship device.

BubDesk has recently evolved its model from a physical co-working space with a creche to become an online platform.

Perth tech company iCetana, which has raised $11 million over the past 18 months to support its global expansion, has terminated the employment of its chief executive after identifying an alleged fraud.

Datacom has secured a $4.5 million contract as part of the state government's GovNext ICT program.

Perth-based tech company DTI Group has finalised a $19.1 million contract with manufacturing joint venture Alstom Ubunye to supply passenger information systems for nearly 600 trains in South Africa.

The six-month Plus Eight accelerator program reached its 2018 culmination last night, as seven startups pitched their growth and expansion plans to a sold-out audience.

Medical tech company ResApp Health has announced a $7.5 million capital raising as it moves to commercialise its smartphone app, which aims to diagnose and manage respiratory diseases.

WA organisations as varied as Landgate, RAC and Bankwest are becoming case studies for corporate innovation.

Shares in 3D printing firm Aurora Labs were up nearly 30 per cent today after the company said it had printed complex parts well above market average speeds using its large format technology.

A recent world first by WA researchers provides a glimpse of what to expect when the Square Kilometre Array is operational.

TPG Telecom has reported a 4.6 per cent drop in full-year profit to $396.9 million after the NBN hit broadband margins and home phone revenue.