FinTech Australia is calling on the Federal Government to address the challenging capital raising environment for startups and renew its support for Austrade’s effort to promote our local sector abroad.



Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, is inviting small to medium enterprises (SMEs) working on advanced manufacturing solutions to apply for a self-paced, 10-week, online program that can help them turn an idea into an R&D opportunity.

ASUS has released a new set of WiFi routers, which includes a dedicated unit for business. If you thought all WiFi routers and access points are the same, think again. ASUS has combined power and security along with a lot of clever, thoughtful touches that business owners will really appreciate.

SK hynix has released an SSD - in a USB stick. Yes, it's literally a blazing fast SSD in a fast, modern USB 3.2 stick format.

Storage heavyweight Western Digital says it will launch a 4TB SD card next year under its SanDisk brand and demonstrate the hardware during the coming week at its NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Google has made its opposition clear to a California bill aimed at making the company pay for using news snippets, threatening to delete links to news sites in what it calls "a short-term test for a small percentage of California users".

And as always there's plenty more today, so for all the news please visit www.itwire.com.

Josh Martinez, newsletter editor, iTWire

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