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  • Tech dominates young rich list

    ​This year’s BRW Young Rich List is dominated by players in the technology sector with the 27 of the 100 richest Australian’s under 40 involved in the industry.

    Written by George Nott28 Oct. 16 09:00
  • PayPal predicts imminent demise for NFC, but analysts are split

    The end is nigh for near field communications (NFC) mobile payments, if PayPal president, David Marcus, is correct in his predictions. However, Australian industry analysts we contacted had differing views on the fate of NFC.

    Written by Adam Bender18 Dec. 12 13:57
  • Monday Grok: Groupon is a crock

    For the record, and so you can hold him to account in future, long after others have stopped caring, Grok thinks Groupon is a crock.

    Written by Andrew Birmingham07 Nov. 11 10:17
  • Tuesday Grok: Is Facebook already more profitable than Amazon?

    Relentlessly, and from far away it seems effortlessly - Facebook marches on. The future belongs to Mark Zuckerburg, or at least a few fleeting years of it, as it once belonged to the Tom Watsons at IBM, and Bill Gates at Microsoft and Steve Jobs at Apple.

    Written by Andrew Birmingham25 Oct. 11 10:23
  • Google releases open source Bitcoin client

    A Google engineer has released an open source Java client for the Bitcoin peer-to-peer currency system, simply called BitcoinJ.

    Written by Rodney Gedda21 March 11 14:42
  • Apple exec stashed $150,000 in shoe boxes

    Federal agents found more than US$150,000 in cash when they searched the house of Apple manager Paul Devine earlier this month, prosecutors said in court Monday.

    Written by Robert McMillan25 Aug. 10 04:05
  • Two sentenced to prison for online money laundering

    Two Bulgarians have been sentenced for their roles in an online money-laundering scheme that collected about US$1.2 million from U.S. residents and sent it to a criminal group in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

    Written by Grant Gross04 Dec. 09 08:01
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