Technology, Innovation & Science

A handful of Perth-based tech companies have sought to quell speculation of their exposure to prominent tech lender Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse at the weekend.

The state government has struck a partnership deal to utilise one of the world’s "most powerful and greenest” supercomputers to make climate change projections for WA.

The City of Perth will host a conference bringing together global representatives focused on creating a sustainable energy future.

Kensington-based Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has added two new recruits to its board as well as a strategic adviser in a bid to propel the scale of the business.

Approaching creative challenges from outside a human perspective can deliver some unexpectedly good results.

Perth-based cloud gaming platform provider Pentanet has struck a deal to deliver a service to Optus customers in 2023.

Resources demand has driven growth in WA’s regtech sector.

Western Australia’s state-of-the-art agrifood and beverage precinct, tipped to deliver up to $330 million into the economy, has officially opened.

Ian Campbell has backed startup that offers a new level of customer insights.

Information technology company GetSwift has been slapped with a $15 million fine, the largest penalty ordered against a company for breaching continuous disclosure laws.

BP’s $1 billion renewable fuels project in Kwinana will convert used vegetable oil and oilseed crops grown in the US into biofuel once online in 2026.

U Group is building momentum in its bid to become Perth’s next unicorn.

We’re only a couple of years away from starting the decade during which it’s expected AI will take 40 per cent of Australian jobs.

Perth-founded tech company Nearmap has implemented big staff cuts shortly after global investor Thomas Bravo completed a $1 billion takeover.

West Perth-based Surefire Resources and I Synergy Group have announced the appointment of new chief executives.

Perth-based biotechnology company Argenica Therapeutics has secured a $1.2 million grant from the Federal Government.

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.