Entrepreneurs

Australian hospitality technology group Liven has acquired four tech companies worth a combined $152 million, in a bid to fuel international expansion.

Billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk launched a long-teased website X.com on Sunday, redirecting the domain to Twitter, and said he will relabel the social media platform’s iconic blue bird logo as the letter “X,” the latest step in a massive rebranding effort toward what Musk has described as an all-in-one “everything app.”

With millions of patients under its belt, digital health startup K Health is looking to scale its artificial intelligence technology in hospitals, starting with new strategic investor Cedars-Sinai.

Arrive Recommerce hopes to help retailers resell returned products, helping them save money and keep merchandise out of the dump.

Elon Musk said early Saturday that advertising revenue for Twitter has dropped 50% amid a “heavy debt load,” just as competition between the platform—which recently started to pay creators for advertisements—and Mark Zuckerberg’s rival Threads continues to intensify.

Falling stocks, wounded unicorns and rising interest rates translated into a down year for the world’s wealthiest people.

‘Founder’, produced by SafetyCulture’s Luke Anear, is an upcoming docuseries delving into the lives of some of Australia’s most successful start-up founders, including Canva co-founder Mel Perkins.

A new biotech incubator in Melbourne, the Jumar Bioincubator, operated by Cicada Innovations, has put a call-out to early stage start-ups looking to scale their ventures.

ChatGPT founder Sam Altman is full of hope (and fear) about the future of artificial intelligence. Finishing off a five-week world tour at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre he spoke to audiences about the importance of incentives, harnessing the power of capitalism, and the potential of AI to destroy the world.

In a Q&A with Forbes Australia editor-in-chief Sarah O’Carroll, the founder & CEO of Wisetech Global, Australia’s 7th richest person with a net worth of $10 billion, shares what brings him happiness and his love of Sydney.