Tess Bennett

Uber users in Sydney and Melbourne can now get regular taxis on the app. Cabbies see the benefit, but it is an uneasy truce between the transport arch enemies.

Silicon Valley hedge fund SQN Investors said its investment in Bigtincan was its worst after the ASX-listed sales software firm accepted a private equity buyout proposal valuing it at just $183 million.

Under-the-radar research company Askable has closed its first capital raising, banking $22 million from VC royalty.

Betashares, one of the largest local providers of exchange-traded funds, is shutting down nine of its products, including one that invests in a metaverse theme, despite returns of almost 40 per cent this year.

News publishers have successfully campaigned to have TikTok-owner ByteDance included in the government’s revised media bargaining rules.

Facebook-owner Meta will appoint an independent administrator to distribute $50 million to thousands of Australians who were indirectly caught up in the 2018 data harvesting scandal.

The asset manager showed dozens of institutional investors and analysts around its major Sydney site, pointing to optimistic research to back up its plan.

The post-Trump election crypto rally, which sparked a surge in bitcoin prices to record levels and a boom in meme coins, seems to be leaving one crypto boom fad – NFTs – in the slow lane.

The chief executive of Humanforce says its $17.2 million acquisition will complete its suite of human resources software.

Australian human resources software unicorn Employment Hero paid $43.4 million to acquire a professional services company owned by its co-founder Ben Thompson earlier this year, a new regulatory filing has revealed.