Tess Bennett

Companies are increasingly buying or selling assets to become “businesses of tomorrow.” According to new research from Deloitte, Australia’s public companies are increasingly turning to mergers & acquisitions in their pursuit of growth or to manage disruptive technologies. Deloitte’s M&A Index 2017 report highlighted M&A spend on disruptive innovation-related sectors

The number of junior lawyers, and the kinds of tasks they perform, will look vastly different as artifical intelligence makes its away into the data-rich legal industry. That’s a key finding a report released last week from international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills which argues AI is set to shake

As Amazon edges closer to launching its retail offering in Australia, the majority of local retailers don’t have a clear strategy to fend off competition from the Seattle-based ecommerce giant. According to new research from CommBank most Australian retailers (78 per cent) don’t have a strategy in place to combat

Shopping centre landlord QIC says it has increased the value of its property portfolio following a three year digital transformation project to improve customer experience and business operations. A total of 14 of QIC’s shopping centres, including Melbourne’s Eastland, are now equipped with digital and IoT assets designed to deliver

The job titles and structure of marketing departments haven’t kept up with the pace of change in that is reshaping the industry. A new article from McKinsey and Company suggests that marketing departments are stuck in the 1980s and are in need of a massive overhaul to adapt to changes

The strategies put in place now by digital publishers will determine the winners and losers over the next few years. That’s the view of Adam Singolda, founder and CEO of Taboola, who is overall optimistic about publishers’ futures even as Facebook and Google hoover up most of the new digital

Alibaba’s profit nearly doubled for the quarter ended June 30, bolstered by the strength of its core commerce division. During the period net income was US$2.1 billion, up 96 per cent compared to the corresponding period a year earlier. Revenue was $7.4 billion for the quarter an increase of 56

Emerging online lender and local fintech Tic:Toc, which says it offers a full home loan approval online in just 22 minutes, wants to bust the myth that consumers still need bank branches to apply for a mortgage. And its model, which includes sharing both the margin and the risk of

It’s ok to scrape data from public profiles on LinkedIn, a US court has ruled. Microsoft, which acquired LinkedIn last year for $26.2 billion, was seeking to prevent a startup called HiQ Labs collecting LinkedIn profile data which it uses to create algorithms to predict employee behaviour, like when they

Optimizely, which enables businesses to test different versions of their digital channels, has today opened an Australian office to grow its local customer base. Previously Optimizely’s Australian customers, including Atlassian, Optus, AGL Energy, Chemist Warehouse and Fox Sports, were serviced by a team based in the company’s San Francisco headquarters.