Canva takes the fight to Microsoft and Google for enterprise subscribers
As it reshapes its core creativity products around AI, Canva is also hoping more prosaic productivity features can drive subscriptions.
Workplace
Xero board bumps CEO’s pay to $25.8 million – but mandates skin in the game
Xero is bumping CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s remuneration to US$18.5 million ($25.8 million), a jump of 22 per cent, arguing this places her in the median of US tech CEOs.
Canva founder says AI costs down 90% after skyrocketing bills delayed product rollout
Canva had to delay its Canva AI 2.0 rollout after the booming costs of compute made the products uneconomical. The company has cut its AI costs and is ready to scale back up, founder Cliff Obrecht says.
When a company’s reputation is damaged, employees pay the price
Opinion: Corporate scandals may start in the boardroom, but their impact can spread throughout an organisation, eroding employee trust, damaging morale and making it harder to attract and retain talent, argues Karlie Cremin We often see most corporate scandals following a familiar script. The headlines focus on executives. Boards commission reviews. Regulators investigate. Share prices wobble. […]
Beyond the burn: How a trans-Pacific leap built Glasshouse Fragrances
Nicole Eckels turned a personal setback into an impromptu move to Australia and then a home fragrance and candle empire spanning eleven countries.
SafetyCulture has a new name – and an insurance bet to match
Luke Anear has wanted to change the name of the company he founded for years. Now SafetyCulture has become Mittle as the $2.4 billion startup reshapes itself for the AI era.
Indigenous edtech platform championed at TechDiversity 2026 Awards
A free app to help Australians quit smoking and “flight simulator for healthcare” were among other award winners at the 2026 TechDiversity Awards in Sydney. An AI-powered edtech platform that helps corporations build inclusive workplaces for First Nations cultures has been awarded the TechDiversity Champion title, the highest honour bestowed at the annual Tech Diversity […]
Four versions of the truth and no owner: AI’s ‘deployment debt’
Opinion: As companies rush to deploy AI, a new kind of organisational debt is building: capability without clear ownership, workflow or accountability, argues Lucio Ribeiro Last year in South Australia, ambulances spent close to 49,000 hours parked outside hospitals with patients still inside. Six years earlier, the figure was around 15,000. Paramedics kept monitoring patients […]
Why Wollongong is the proving ground for Canva’s Global Goals platform
Canva’s new initiative, Global Goals, aims to crowdsource humanity’s aspirations. A coastal city south of Sydney – with long-established roots in Australia’s most successful consumer platform – is key to pulling it off.
The electric shift: why Australia’s EV market has hit warp speed
More EVs have been sold so far this year than in the entirety of 2025. With a wider array of affordable models now flooding the market, alongside an expanding list of locations to get an electric top-up, petroleum and diesel dominance is under the pump.