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Australia loves unicorns, so why are we taxing go-getters like me, Mr Chalmers?

The removal of capital gains tax concessions is seismic for the founders of daring new businesses. It will hurt Australian enterprise.

  • Shivani Gopal

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Canva staff took a week off normal work to learn about AI tools.
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Aussie tech giant pauses work, devotes entire week to AI

While Australian tech sheds jobs amid AI productivity claims, Canva is making the opposite bet – paying 5300 people to stop working.

  • David Swan
Canva co-founders Cliff Obrecht and Melanie Perkins, pictured with fellow co-founder Cameron Adams.

Canva embarks on buying spree as AI wave batters rivals

With rivals cratering and Google encroaching, Canva is betting a string of AI acquisitions can cement its place before the IPO window opens.

  • David Swan
Atlassian’s billionaire co-founder, Scott Farquhar.

For every $100 in data centres, $80 leaves Australia almost immediately

Data centres are the infrastructure boom of the decade. But how much of the investment actually stays in the country?

  • David Swan
Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht.

Canva unveils world-first AI model as it gears for blockbuster listing

The Sydney-based tech firm has made its biggest product launch yet as it eyes a sharemarket float within the next two years.

  • David Swan
An AWS outage has crippled the global internet.

Why one company’s glitch just broke half the internet

When Amazon sneezes, the world catches a cold. It’s time we stopped accepting that as normal.

  • David Swan
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An AWS outage has affected websites globally.

Internet still struggling after mammoth Amazon outage

Millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

  • David Swan and Daniel Lo Surdo
Billionaire Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht made a donation of at least $500,000 to Climate 200.

Canva co-founder and Greens donor add to Climate 200 fundraising heft

The fundraising vehicle tripled its number of donors to 33,000 people, and received $5 million between seven key contributors, as it expanded to back 35 candidates.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Clove founder and former Canva head of content Anna Guerrero.

A WA journalism graduate’s journey from radio to Canva, then pasta – and back to tech

Anna Guerrero’s serpentine career path is a testament to the power of going with the flow.

  • Hamish Hastie
UNSW computer science student Jayden Nguyen has secured a graduate role at a big tech firm. He says students will have to start building their industry experience earlier as AI eliminates “grunt coders”.

Learn to code? Maybe not any more

Politicians preached it, universities packaged it and teenagers took up Python and JavaScript. Now, amid an AI boom, graduates are facing a world of anxiety.

  • David Swan and Bronte Gossling