SYDNEY - Redback Technologies, a start-up specialising in electricity storage systems for solar power installations, has teamed up with UniQuest, the University of Queensland's commercialisation arm, to research and develop solar power technologies.
SYDNEY - Fresh from startling the crowds queuing for iPhones at a suburban Brisbane Apple store, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak bobbed up in Sydney yesterday to spruik the virtues of his new employer, server-flash memory specialist Fusion-io.
TOKYO - Struggling electronics vendor Sharp is looking to sell its stake in another consumer electronics company, Pioneer, as it seeks pay off $2.14 billion in debt.
The IT sector has largely welcomed Malcolm Turnbull's decision to reinstate innovation into the industry-and-science portfolio and offer better access to the start-up community. As reported (CDN yesterday), Turnbull has appointed Christopher Pyne, formerly Education Minister under Tony Abbott, to the role of Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science. Victorian Liberal Senator Mitch Fifield has become the country's new Communications Minister.
Telstra yesterday announced it had signed a $1.6 billion contract with NBN Co to provide services for its hybrid fibre coax (HFC) rollout - and has found itself the subject of serious concerns by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
The Australian Securities Commission has proposed slamming the door shut on ASX listings by start-up companies that have little in the way of turnover or profits. A major target appears to be a number of dubious technology start-ups - some of them based offshore - with little in the way of either.
Samsung Electronics and Apple are reportedly building patent portfolios involving 4G mobile-network technology, as they prepare for the next instalment of their continuing battle over intellectual property.
In a move that has the potential to derail the Federal Government's $36 billion National Broadband Network timetable, Telstra has been forced to postpone its self-imposed deadline for shareholders to vote on its $11 billion deal with NBN Co.