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Delays and cancellations to Jetstar flights in and out of Brisbane on Saturday appear to be the legacy of Friday’s worldwide IT glitch.

Brisbane Jetstar flights cancelled, delayed after IT glitch

Passengers should brace for delays and cancellations following Friday’s IT outage, while some Brisbane supermarkets also remain offline.

  • Tony Moore

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Have women been shortchanged when it comes to shaving? These founders think so.

Nearly every beauty product has had a ‘glow-up’. Now, it’s shaving’s turn

A $50 razor and one that slides into the palm of your hand are two of the new products invented by women seeking to challenge a male-dominated industry.

  • Melissa Singer
Forget the daily delivery

Why even grandparents don’t care about the death of daily mail delivery

Australia Post has until now been an entity that time forgot, a legacy organisation with imposed letter delivery service obligations that most Australians don’t use.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins, and Cameron Adams - the founding team of Canva at their conference in Sydney this week.

Canva v Adobe: Let the games begin

Graphic-design heavyweight Adobe and Australian design software maker Canva both hope to harness artificial intelligence to sharpen up their wares.

  • Nick Bonyhady and Colin Kruger
Smartest guys in the room, David Sacks and Elon Musk in 2006.

‘Stop this crisis now’: Silicon Valley creates the risk while US taxpayers pay the price

In the US, if you’re poor and struggling, that’s your own problem. But if you make enough money that a significant swath of the economy depends on you, preventing your collapse becomes a matter of public interest.

  • Will Oremus
New York City yellow cabs.

Uber puts NYC taxis on its app after years of rivalry

Uber and New York City yellow cabs have announced a partnership that until recently would have been unthinkable with both camps fighting ferociously for the same customers.

  • Michelle Chapman
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Victoria’s Big Battery is an example of new technology brought into the economy. Treasury research suggests Australian businesses are behind their global peers when it comes to new tech.

Australian business falling behind global peers on ‘productivity frontier’

Treasury analysis shows local firms are failing to embrace new technology, hitting productivity growth and adding to wages stagnation.

  • Shane Wright
Many investors have been flummoxed by the market rebound.

Facebook’s implosion a wake-up call for investors

The wild gyrations in markets late last week are delivering investors a brutal truth - many of the world’s tech giants are more vulnerable than they thought.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Drone Delivery Company Wing will now operate drones off the roof of Grand Plaza shopping centre in Logan in what the company hopes is a new model for its operations.

Drones deliver from roof of Queensland shopping centre in world first

Drone delivery company Wing is now operating out of a major shopping centre in Logan City, in a step the company hopes will expand the types of items it offers.

  • Stuart Layt
Anthony Baum, founder and chief executive of Tic:Toc

Clock ticking on ‘broken’ mortgage market: Tic:Toc boss warns

If the founder of Tic:Toc Anthony Baum is right, the biggest source of Australian bank profits is on the cusp of a major shake-up.

  • Clancy Yeates

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