Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has joined the board of a Perth-created tech business with clients including NASA and Tesla, Advanced Navigation.
The board of Cirrus Networks has rejected what is calls an inadequate takeover bid from Webcentral Group that valued the Perth-based IT services business at about $30 million.
Cirrus Networks has become the second Perth-based IT services firm to receive a takeover offer in recent weeks, after Victoria's Webcentral Group made an on-market bid.
Christian Porter says he’s taking the long view in his new portfolio, sharpening the focus of industry policy and hoping to improve research commercialisation.
Perth software company Track’em has had a win over former consultants Steve McNally and Keyt Atkinson after a Supreme Court judge described their claims as embarrassing.
Perth-based Velrada has been selected as Microsoft’s Australian growth partner of the year while Melbourne-based Engage Squared was the overall Australian partner of the year.
Perth-based mining technology company Kinetic Logging Services has been sold for a bumper price of more than $150 million, with local investor Viburnum a big winner.
