The Australian sharmarket is slightly lower, with the S&P/ASX 200 down 24.7 points to 4872, or 0.5% at 2pm, after the Dow Jones los…

Myriam Robin is a reporter for SmartCompany and its sister site LeadingCompany. She has degrees in economics, international studies and journalism. She likes writing about businesses taking risks and doing new things.
The Australian sharmarket is slightly lower, with the S&P/ASX 200 down 24.7 points to 4872, or 0.5% at 2pm, after the Dow Jones los…
Australians are more optimistic than most nations about their country’s innovation potential, according to a GE report which reveals the c…
A month into 2013, and the economic indicators aren’t good. Australia’s leading economics wonks forecast unemployment to rise to 6%, gro…
Since its founding in 1991, Mind Your Own Business, or as it’s more commonly known, MYOB, has become one of Australia’s biggest tech suc…
After years of delays, Research in Motion is set to launch its new BlackBerry 10 smartphone. The launch will take place overnight, Australia…
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As Western nations decline in relative economic importance, Western multinationals increasingly look to the emerging middle-classes of the d…
Chris Cuffe, the highly respected former Colonial First State CEO and current UniSuper chair, will launch his own publishing venture on Febr…
Do you know a hobbyhorse jockey? Someone who won’t shut up about their little area of expertise, and who thinks it relates to everything y…
“I graduated from Harvard University in 2003,” begins Randi Zuckerberg. It’s a fact she says she only mentions because her famous youn…
David Fields knows what kind of consulting gigs he hates the most: those where an outside expert is bought in for political cover – to cem…