Category: Business
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Ooh Media to purchase HT&E’s Adshel for $570 million
Originally posted on Mumbrella Australia’s largest outdoor player, Ooh Media, has won the bidding war for Here, There & Everywhere’s (HT&E) outdoor street furniture business, Adshel, agreeing to pay $570 million. The figure is a 21% increase on Ooh Media’s first bid of $470 million, and $30 million higher than rival APN Outdoor’s bid of $540…
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The First Woman To Lead The New York Stock Exchange
Over 200 years ago, 24 stockbrokers signed the Buttonwood Agreement on Wall Street in New York City and created the New York Stock Exchange on May 17 in 1792. The same year British writer Mary Wollstonecraft published one of the first overtly feminist texts, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In America, women did…
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Genius Beauty Hack Lands Iris Smit A $300K Shark Tank Deal
Iris Smit was a university student studying interior architecture in Perth when she had an innovative idea that impressed the judges of Shark Tank and earned her a $300 000 deal. Smit identified the time-consuming and finicky ordeal of applying winged eyeliner as the inspiration for her idea. Seeking to remedy this problem, Smit created…
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The New Google Assistant
This week’s 2018 Google I/O event showcased the new Google Assistant technology that is more natural and personal than ever. The technology has been apart of a two year vision to provide progressive technology for people all over the world. The assistive device features voice technology that aims to alleviate errors in computerised conversation that…
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Eddie McGuire Vows to Go After Facebook
Eddie McGuire has vowed to undergo a legal battle with Facebook after a spoof ad promoting erectile dysfunction medication circulated social media. A fake advertisement created by Tryvexan, an erectile dysfunction treatment available to purchase online, crafted this spoof campaign attempting to appear as an online article by well known publication GQ. The article featured…
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Why it’s Important to Offer Mental Health “Off Days”
In the past a stigma surrounding mental health made it difficult for people to turn up to work knowing the state of their mental health was given little consideration. However, as research and awareness continues to grow, so to has the supportive culture around mental health in the workplace. Andrew Dempster, director of Health, Ageing…
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Tech Giant IBM Needs Giant Turn Around
This month’s quarterly financial results reveal the slow decline of IBM under current CEO Ginni Rometti. What was once one of America’s leading companies and most powerful corporations, is now seeing a flatlining failed attempt to increase revenue since peaking in 2011 at £107bn. The good news is that revenues grew for the second quarter…
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Jordan Peterson asks “Why should you wear makeup in the workplace”
Jordan Peterson came under significant fire for what was eventually revealed to be a heavily edited video by Vice in which he proposes a thought experiment regarding the use of makeup in the workplace. Jordan Peterson has become one of the most influential and recognized intellectuals in the media at the moment after his best…
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Manly Council urged to rename suburb “Womanly” for international Women’s day
Today a group of Sydney Business women and two local councillors gathered at Manly beach in preparation for International women’s day. Their request was a simple yet gentle message for the hierarchy, for just 24 hours, to rename Manly to “WoManly” The gathering was organised by architect Luisa Manfredini, who also founded the WoManly Community…
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Optus Business signs partnership with NICE inContact
Optus Business has partnered with NICE inContact to deliver NICE inContact CXone™, the company’s cloud-based, customer experience software throughout Australia. NICE inContact CXone™ improves a company’s ability to capture real-time information across the channels which customers use to contact a business, including online, instore and mobile. This enables a business to interact with customers seamlessly…