Technology, Innovation & Science

Technology is helping to empower Indigenous communities.

Two WA organisations have received grants to boost their STEM programs for women, as part of a $15.9 million federal funding pool.

Generation Z employees were among the least aware of cyber security threats despite having grown up in the digital age, a report finds.

Perth has secured Amazon Web Services' cloud technology service targeting corporations such as Woodside Energy, HBF and Curtin University.

Perth-based veterinary technology company Vedi has secured $3 million to expand its digital medical record platform for pets.

National music and entertainment retailer Sanity will close all of its 50 stores across the country, including four in Western Australia.

Limitless: ResApp co-founder Brian Leedman talks about the challenges of commercialising tech in Perth after the company was acquired by Pfizer for $179 million.

Limitless: Business News visits the warehouse where Fortescue hopes to reshape the future of energy.

Limitless: For more than a century, scientists believed the western swamp tortoise was extinct.

Limitless: Kliti Grice was named Western Australia’s Scientist of the Year for 2022.

Limitless: When HealthEngine co-founder Marcus Tan had a chance encounter with two doctors in 2009, he feared history would repeat.

The state government has committed an additional $84 million into a $1.6 billion fund to support health and medical research over the next four years.

Limitless: Having taken its AI technology to an IPO, Artrya is working to overcome regulatory hurdles.

Limitless: WA could become a globally significant supercomputing hub on the back of the $3 billion Square Kilometre Array development.

Several Perth-based startups are supporting young people on their way to employment.

When Kent Egerton-Warburton started writing software in the early 1980s, little did he know that the language he was using was far more readily understood in the bush than the BASIC code he used.

Half a million dollars committed to West Tech Fest as state government outlines a new innovation strategy.

West Perth startup Neurotologix has been awarded WA’s top innovation prize for a device for remote patient monitoring of neurological disorders associated with dizziness and vertigo.

Agribusiness giant Craig Mostyn has backed Fremantle-based location and sensing data company Xsights, a finalist in tonight's Innovator of the Year Awards.

VeinTech, and researchers at Telethon Kids Institute, are among the medical researchers who will tomorrow win $2.2 million of grants through the state’s health future fund.

Underwater technology company Blue Ocean Monitoring has cited success in a recent seismic testing trial at its joint venture with major petroleum players as a big step towards an IPO next year.

Shareholders in Perth-founded aerial mapping company Nearmap have narrowly approved a takeover by US private equity group Thomas Bravo.

Perth tech business Adveritas has confirmed a $51.7 million takeover approach by NASDAQ-listed Integral Ad Science, sending shares in the target up 26 per cent.

A research centre launched by Andrew and Nicola Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation will use advance DNA sequencing technology to find major breakthroughs in ocean conservation.

Perth-based seafood player Austral Fisheries is to take its provenance-focused technology drive onto the shelves of major supermarket Woolworths this year.

Qatar's world cup should be helping the profile of Perth-founded sports technology business HITIQ.

Buildkite has become the third tech company with strong Perth connections to announce a major capital raising this week following ULUU and Advanced Navigation.

A Perth-linked tech company that has worked with Boeing and Google, and counts Malcolm Turnbull as a backer, has secured $108 million from investors including KKR.

Perth-based tech startup ULUU has raised $8.6 million to develop and distribute its plastic alternative made from seaweed.

Birds of a different feather may flock together if Elon Musk changes Twitter’s content rules.

Near-Earth satellites will be a game changer for internet access in the bush.

Bibra Lake maritime cleantech company CleanSubSea has been selected by Rotterdam-based business accelerator PortXL, which aims to deliver contracts to startups.