Joseph Lam

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 21: Pedestrians walk past an Optus store in the CBD on November 21, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. Optus' CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin stepped down on Monday after an extended outage last week caused millions of Australians to be disconnected from the network, with no access to emergency numbers for hours. The outage followed a hack that saw millions of customers' data shared online last year. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Almost 200 Optus staff axed

Optus is understood to be making deep cuts into its smart home installation business, a venture it started less than three years ago.

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marketsTechnology

Phone scammers are being targeted in a federal trial that may bring some peace to Noosa residents..

Superloop rejects ‘opportunistic’ Aussie Broadband bid

Superloop shares hit a two-year high after ABB picked up a near 20 per cent stake and offered a $466m takeover bid.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 14 OCT 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Opening of the Canva Austin office in Texas. Supplied

Canva shifts showcase to US ahead of potential IPO

Australia’s $39bn tech darling is shifting its largest tech event to the US this year, in a bid to pick up more enterprise customers ahead of a potential IPO.

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PropertyProperty

Canva's new Campus, set to rise beside News Corp in Sydney's Surry Hills. Picture: Supplied

Inside Canva’s $39bn office of the future

The big, bold plans behind the design darling’s new Tech Central office include ice baths and fishing ponds, as it announced hitting $2bn in revenue.

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Meet the AI gurusTechnology

Why AI will create virtual teammates in your office

Meet your new colleague, an AI-powered virtual teammate. By the end of this year Australian AI gurus predict most companies will have one such worker in their office or at least their own version of ChatGPT.

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cybersecurityTechnology

Veritas Australia and New Zealand managing director Pete Murray. Picture: Ben Williams

One quarter of employees admit they give sensitive data to AI

The alarming finding comes as more than two thirds of employees say they use AI at work.

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Tech reviewGadgets

Apple's Watch Series 9 supports click gestures.

The watch that tells you you’re a couch potato

What did the watch say to the wearer? Get up, you’ve been sitting too long. You won’t be disappointed with the latest Apple Watch, but you could probably live without it.

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adoptionTechnology

Property industry lagging in adoption of AI

About a third of businesses in the property sector are yet to implement the technology at all, while others have gone as far as to ban workers using ChatGPT.

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ExecutiveCompanies

Canva unveils a series of new features, including several AI-powered tools

Shaken by scandal, Canva speeds up CFO hunt

Canva’s search for a new chief financial officer will cross borders as it deals with an internal investigation into an incident which sparked an early departure by its CFO.

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CFO of tech unicorn Canva, Damien Singh at his office in Surry Hills, Sydney Friday, September 28, 2018.The company is a real home-grown tech success story and just posted its maiden profit.(NEWS CORP/Simon Bullard)

Sudden exit of Canva CFO amid ‘inappropriate behaviour’

Canva’s award-winning chief financial officer Damien Singh has abruptly left the tech unicorn amid an investigation into ‘inappropriate behaviour’ raised online.

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