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Not-for-profit organisation SBE Australia has opened applications for its Springboard Enterprises accelerator programme which provides up to 10 emerging, high-growth companies — with a woman or women in senior leadership positions — the opportunity to tap into a global suite of world-class entrepreneurs, investors and top-tier business development experts.

Led by fitness-focused women, Australians are investing in fit-tech to track their fitness, with one fifth — or 20% — purchasing a fitness tracker in the last 12 months.

Aussie shoppers are expected to splurge $11 billion on Christmas spending this year — with shopping online proving more popular than last year — and with Saturday, 16 December, likely to see six million Australians do most of their shopping, according to a new report.

An increasing number of women joining the workforce in Australia has led to larger gains for women across overall employment, full-time employment and also part-time employment, according to a newly published study.

Women play a prominent role in the Australian Cyber Security Centre, making up 50% of the organisation's leadership group, according to the ACSC's annual threat report released today.

Industry association FinTech Australia has elected a new board to bring the association in line with constitutional changes ensuring gender diversity and representation from a broad number of states.

The University of Technology Sydney has developed STEAMpunk Girls, an educational programme that introduces young women aged 12 to 16 to the science, technology, engineering, arts and maths (STEAM) industries.

Wage inequality compared to male colleagues, workplace gender bias and a shortage of female role models are among the main barriers faced by women working in the technology field, according to a new survey by global technology association ISACA.

Laptops are being put aside in favour of mobile phones by Australian self-employed women to run their businesses, according to a new study that reveals faster and more reliable Internet speeds are also on top of womens' lists of technology they want to make doing business easier.

The lack of diversity in data and analytics roles is still a major challenge for most organisations, with a recent study on women in technology highlighting the gender gap amongst executive roles.

Women are the most prolific posters of selfies on Instagram, way ahead of any other group, but a new research report has knocked on the head the idea that posting selfies is just a form of vanity.

CompTIA’s Advancing Women in IT Community group has launched its Dream IT world initiative in Australia and New Zealand in an endeavour to focus attention on the need for more women to take up IT careers.

Australia’s IT industry is one of the worst business sectors when it comes to employing women, particularly at executive management level, with just 14% of women in the top positions.

If you are avoiding milk and dairy foods in your diet without a medical diagnosis advising you to steer away from them, you might want to think again, if a study by the CSIRO and the University of Adelaide is anything to go by.

The Telstra Business Women’s Awards for this year have opened and now include a category for business women in Asia for the first time.

Global entrepreneurial hub ‘Rare Birds’ has announced a full roster of 48 speakers headlining the largest entrepreneurial event of its kind to ever take place in Australia.

The Women in Technology QLD (WiT) organisation and Diverse City Careers (DCC), a job site for women, have joined forces to combine their efforts on the advancement of women in technology industries.

Online dating site Zoosk has conducted a survey to uncover how Star Wars can impact your love life - is a lack of faith disturbing or is there a new hope?

A worldwide study of both male and female CIOs shows that females are more risk-aware than their male counterparts and are more concerned about under-investment in risk initiatives than the men.

A community-driven initiative for high-growth companies led by women, dubbed ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence’, has launched in Australia, after first launching July 2014 in the US.