Rocket company Gilmour Space says space flights possible within 10 years
Gold Coast space rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies says flying to space will be possible 10 years from now without leaving the state. The Australian space company said this after a 45-second ‘hot fire’ test of their upper-stage hybrid rocket engine was successfully carried out...
Services Australia loses its CISO Narelle Devine to Telstra
Narelle Devine, Chief Information Security Officer of Services Australia, has decided to step away from her role to join telco giant Telstra. She will take over the role of CISO for Asia Pacific region July 27th onwards replacing Berin Lautenbach who left earlier in June. ...
Australian cyber startup Kasada raises $10 million to expand in the US
Kasada, an Australian cyber security company, has bagged funding of $10 million to expand its operations in the United States. Ten Eleven Ventures, a cybersecurity venture capital specialist, led the Series B round of funding, in addition to existing investors Reinventure (Westpac’s venture capital arm)...
NSW Govt plans Australia’s largest tech hub in Sydney
The NSW Government has announced Australia’s largest tech hub along with home-grown technology giant Atlassian pitching in as an anchor tenant. The tech hub will be in Sydney and will be known as ‘Tech Central’. The NSW Government will be investing an amount of $48.2...
TPG-Vodafone Australia $15 billion merger gets shareholders approval
Australian telecommunications and IT company TPG Telecom’s shareholders have approved the proposed merger worth of $15 billion with Vodafone Hutchinson Australia. VHA said that 99 percent of the TPG shareholders present at the meeting on Wednesday voted in favour of the merger. The shareholders also...
CSIRO’s Data61 develops ‘Void’ to prevent voice spoofing attacks
CSIRO’s digital strategy arm, Data61 has come up with a new technique to prevent voice spoofing attacks – Voice liveness detection (Void). Void has been developed in association with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung Research. Voice spoofing is a malicious technique used by scammers...
KPMG Australia News: Launches Cyber security solution with CyberHat – Cyrebro
Financial audit firm KPMG Australia and cybersecurity solutions company CyberHat have announced a partnership to create a cyber threat detecting solution, Cyrebro. The detection solution is specially designed to protect small and medium enterprises from cyber threat targeted at customers. As found in a survey...
The Digital Transformation Agency Appoints Scott Cass-Dunbar as its new Chief Strategy Officer
The Digital Transformation Agency Australia (DTA) has appointed Scott Cass-Dunbar, KPMG Australia’s tech and government advisory partner, as its Chief Strategy Officer. Putting an end to a 4-month search for a role vacated by Anthony Vlasic, Cass-Dunbar joined the Australian government IT agency as CSO...
Apple WWDC Keynote 2020: Major Updates Unveiled
The long-awaited Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2020 began yesterday and unveiled a lot of jaw-dropping updates. Commenced on 22nd June, the conference will go on till 26th June. As COVID-19 continues to rage all over the world, the Apple WWDC Keynote had to be streamed...
Australian design software company Canva raises $60 million, plans U.S. expansion
Australian online graphic design software company Canva Inc. has raised $60 million in a fresh round of funding, bringing its valuation to $6 billion. This funding round was led by Blackbird and Sequoia Capital China along with participation from General Catalyst Partners, Felicis Ventures and...
