How RØDE beat off an attack by a Chinese drone company and how a lack of workers sent another high-tech manufacturer offshore Peter Freedman, founder and owner of RØDE Microphones, was worried. DJI, a Chinese government-backed drone company, was diversifying into video and sound and had come out with a new wireless microphone early this […]
Sydney’s Luna Park is set to open the city’s first permanent immersive experience when it premieres its $15-million Dream Circus Key Takeaways Dream Circus and the Immersive Big Top is the brainchild of the 88-year-old amusement park’s 38-year-old CEO, John Hughes, and his leadership team. For Hughes, it all started when he got the […]
The adaptive home gym – like arm wrestling a Tesla – is bulking up to take on the world, and getting into the hands of some crucial influencers. Vitruvian started taking first orders for its adaptive, portable weight training apparatus in mid-2020, mid-Covid lockdowns. Gym equipment was as hot as toilet paper. “We could’ve […]
Grant Petty, co-founder and disruptor-in-chief of Blackmagic Design, says artificial intelligence is at its peak right now. And it’s all downhill from here. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and all articles today Subscribe Already a subscriber? Sign In
If you had to pick a point where Side Stage Ventures began, it would be backstage at the Splendour in the Grass music festival in 2018. Jaddan Comerford, founder of Unified Music, was there feeling chuffed with himself. Despite never having had to raise money for his own bootstrapped agency, he’d just dabbled in a […]
The Cosmic Crisp, a fruit more than 20 years in the making, will hit Australian shops in mid-2024. Its owners are hoping for a blockbuster. We put it to the test. The Cosmic Crisp had everyone in the apple world talking even before it was released to US consumers with a US$10 million marketing budget […]
Even before generative AI, Pendula was doing freaky things upselling everything from insurance to phone plans. Now it’s even more personal.
Radio-pharma biotech Telix is building on the success – and the cashflow – from its nuclear-guided prostate cancer tool to aim for new cancers, and new treatments. Subscribe to Forbes Australia for full access to this and all articles today Subscribe Already a subscriber? Sign In
Here’s how most of the team that brought the world the Barbie movie came to make a gin in Byron Bay. Not a week goes by that someone doesn’t contact Brian Restall, saying they’re some bigshot wanting to collaborate with his Lord Byron Distillery on a spirit. So here he is with American Charlie Maas […]
Peter Freedman, 100% owner of Rode Microphones, is promising to catapult the company started by his dad and which was almost destroyed by his youthful exuberance – to the top of the pro audio league. He’s just closed the biggest deal of his life to buy US audio company Mackie for $200m – and he’s […]