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Chris Pash, Business Insider Australia

Australia is a magnet for billionaires – their numbers here are set to double

Australia’s capacity to create wealthy people is growing. The number of US dollar billionaires in Australia will double to 80…

Digital bank wannabe Xinja tries equity crowdfunding again, hopes to hit $5m this time

Fintech startup Xinja, Australia’s first equity crowdfunding offer, is launching a second round to raise funds to build a digital…

Kogan adds credit cards to its line-up of financial products

Pure-play portfolio retailer Kogan.com just closed a deal with Citi to create a Kogan Money Credit Card. Details about the…

Miners are smashing the ASX200 thanks to electric cars and gold

Australia’s mid-tier miners have increased their profits and market cap over the last year as commodities prices rise and costs…

WATCH: The first video of FBR’s one-armed bricklaying robot building a house

The creator of Australia’s one-armed robot bricklayer has released a video clip showing the robot building a three-bedroom house during…

One-armed robot bricklayer FastBrick just built its first house – in 3 days

Australia’s one-armed robot bricklayer has just built its first house in under three days -- a milestone described by its…

Freedom Insurance shares jump 16pc after boss exits amid Royal Commission fallout

Freedom Insurance, savaged in the financial services royal commission for its telephone sales tactics, is getting a new chairman and…

Kogan.com takes a tilt at superannuation as shares sit at 16-month low

Kogan.com, the pure-play online retailer with a portfolio of goods and services, is taking on the superannuation industry with what…

The tunnel-mapping drones in ‘Prometheus’ are now real thanks to Aussie scientists

In Ridley Scott's 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus, scientists of the future launch tunnel-mapping drones to explore a mysterious alien structure.…

Fintechs led by Afterpay got beaten up on news of a Senate inquiry

Shares in Afterpay, the buy-now-pay-later ASX-listed fintech, bombed on Wednesday afternoon after it was swept up in a Senate inquiry…

Orbital just signed a deal to sell drone engines to Boeing

Orbital Corporation, a Perth technology company that grew from Ralph Sarich’s orbital engine, has signed a deal with a Boeing…

The former CEO of Sirtex Medical has been charged with insider trading

Gilman Edwin Wong, the former CEO of Australian cancer therapy biotech Sirtex Medical Limited, has been charged with insider trading.…

Kathmandu is at a four-year high after defying the retail crunch with record sales and profit

Kathmandu shares jumped 11 per cent to a four-year high today after the clothing retailer shrugged off a weak retail…

Fintech payments startup Zip just closed a deal with Target; shares gain 8pc

Shares in Zip Co, the owner of zipPay, zipMoney and Pocketbook brands, jumped after the fintech announced a deal with…

Freedom Insurance apologises again as its shares get hammered

Freedom Insurance, criticised in the financial services royal commission for selling accident and funeral insurance to an intellectually disabled man, has…

Profit halves for small cap retailer Myer as sales continue to fall

Retailer Myer posted a 52 per cent fall in full-year profit to to $32.5 million as the department’s store’s strategy to…

People who manage their own superannuation funds are picking more small cap stocks

People who manage their own superannuation funds are more frequently looking beyond the ASX20 for opportunities -- and many are…