September 2021
Canva set to be Australia’s ‘most successful tech company ever’
Less than a decade ago, Melanie Perkins was learning to kite surf to try and impress a potential investor. Now her company has grown so big, so fast that it can count its money and put off the need for an IPO.
- Paul Smith
- Analysis
- Investing
When is a market bubble not a bubble?
Working out how much speculative excess there is in a market, whether housing or stocks, is tough.
- Robin Harding
July 2021
- Analysis
- Tokyo Olympics
Osaka defeat ignites harsh online comments by Japanese critics
The tennis champion took a drubbing on Japanese social media, with some questioning her identity or right to represent the country at all.
- Motoko Rich
June 2021
- Opinion
- Mergers & acquisitions
Did Waddle founders leave a fortune on the table?
Three schoolmates made up to $10 million when Xero bought their start-up last year, but a deal with CBA last week could have them wincing at how much more they could have made.
- Adir Shiffman
Meet the lawyers driving Australia’s tech deals boom
It started with Atlassian in 2010, and now lawyers such as Peter Dunne, Jill McKnight and Joel Cox are well-known in the scene, driving big contracts.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Analysis
- Private equity
Private equity groups on diverging paths with post-pandemic bets
Blackstone, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group built up sharply different portfolios before and during the pandemic. Some have wagered on resumption of normal life while others see lasting change.
- Mark Vandevelde
May 2021
AT&T prepares to merge media assets with Discovery
The deal could give the combined company enough programming to compete with Netflix and other streaming services in a global battle over the future of entertainment.
- Ed Hammond
Yahoo and AOL sold – again – for $US5 billion
Two of the original internet behemoths have been sold, this time to a private equity firm.
- Michelle Chapman
February 2021
- Exclusive
- Media bargaining code
Study finds Google shot itself in the foot with threat to exit Australia
Australians want more regulation of Big Tech, and they are more likely to support regulation when Big Tech makes threats, a study finds.
- John Davidson
January 2021
- Analysis
- Disruption
‘This is the way’: the Reddit traders who took on Wall Street’s elite
Millions of ordinary people have plunged into markets over the past year, gatecrashing the world of big asset managers, pension funds and hedge funds.
- Updated
- Eric Platt, Colby Smith, Madison Darbyshire, Alice Kantor and Robin Wigglesworth
Google’s solution would allow it to control arbitration: ACCC boss
The boss of the competition watchdog has labelled Google’s solution to the proposed news media bargaining code, its News Showcase product, another example of its empire-building take it or leave it proposition.
- Miranda Ward
September 2020
- Opinion
- Start-ups
Naming rights and wrongs for start-ups
No more creative misspellings, dropped vowels or superfluous suffixes. The latest trend in tech start-ups is functional names.
- The Lex Column
November 2019
SoftBank to create $US30b tech giant with Yahoo Japan, Line Corp
The merger deal is the latest example of consolidation in Japan's technology industry.
- Sam Nussey
June 2017
Verizon plans 2,000 Yahoo, AOL jobs cut
Verizon is expected to cut about 2000 jobs when it completes the $US4.48 billion ($5.9 billion) acquisition of Yahoo's core assets.
- Updated
How did Marissa Mayer get paid $US900,000 a week by Yahoo?
'The company was not run well under her tenure," says an analyst who has studied Yahoo for years. So why did Marissa Mayer get paid so much?
- Updated
- Vindu Goel
April 2017
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer set to rake in $US186m after sale to Verizon
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer didn't turn the company around, but she still stands to take home $US186m when it's sold to Verizon.
- Updated
- Vindu Goel
March 2017
US indicts Russian spies, hackers over hack of 500m Yahoo accounts
The US government has unsealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014,
- Updated
- Dustin Volz
Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer in line for $US23m golden parachute
Marissa Mayer will tap a $US23m golden parachute when Yahoo is sold to Verizon; her successor will get double her base pay.
- Updated
- Ethan Baron
Yahoo CEO Mayer loses bonus, lawyer resigns, on probe of theft of 500m accounts
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer lost her bonus and the company's top lawyer has resigned after a probe of the theft of 500 million accounts.
- Updated
- Vindu Goel
January 2017
Is Yahoo's Marissa Mayer a failure?
Only someone with the temperament and intuition of Steve Jobs could have turned round Yahoo.
- Updated
- Marco della Cava and Elizabeth Weise