Why aren’t we talking about Spanish and Portuguese tech startups? Growing in the Iberian Peninsula Aside from the obvious attraction — excellent quality of life, good weather all year round, and delicious food (!) — there are many reasons why the Iberian Peninsula is open for business. Ok yes, I’ll be the first to admit that scaling a tech company in Portugal and Spain comes with its own set of unique challenges....
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had a significantwinagainst Google. The Federal Court found Google misled some Android users about how to disablepersonal location tracking. Will this decision actually change the behavior of the big tech companies? The answer will depend on the size of the penalty awarded in response to the misconduct. Read more:ACCC ‘world first’: Australia’s Federal Court found Google misled users about personal location data In theory, the penalty isA$1....
Australia’s trucking industry is making moves to go electric. Thelatest development— a system for using swappable batteries instead of time-consuming recharge stations for long-haul trucks between Sydney and Brisbane — shows how this transition is gathering momentum. There will be clear socio-economic, environmental and health-related benefits from the switch to electric trucks — for the broader community as well as for the trucking industry and truckies themselves. As electric vehicle researchers, we think swappable batteries could work well for trucking, but are perhaps less suitable for everyday electric cars....
You may have noticed and pondered the absence of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer at the Obamatechnology titans dinner. The explanation is rather simple, Ballmer isn’t based in Silicon Valley. But given that the dinner is reported as being a discussion of the president’s efforts to promote innovation, surely you would still extend an invite to the CEO of an industry giant when virtually every significant player in the industry is in attendance?...
While digital transformation has been on the agenda for legacy institutions for over a decade, tech adoption has now become a do or die situation for traditional banks. The fintech revolution has brought about worthy adversaries in the form of neobanks and fintech apps that address the needs of a younger, digitally savvy generation. This coupled with the pandemic, which put the transition to digital banking services into warp-speed, has meant banks need to offer something new today or risk losing customers....
