Westpac banks on bitcoins with Coinbase deal

[1] Westpac’s venture capital fund has unveiled its second investment in a US bitcoin start-up Coinbase in order to gain insights into digital currencies and associated tech­nologies. [2] Westpacâ€...

Aussie banks preparing Apple Watch apps

[1] Australian bank Westpac and subsidiary St George are preparing for the Australian launch of Apple’s new watch by developing apps that will have some banking functions to Apple Watch. [2] The ban...

The app that predicts property prices

[1] If house hunting has always been a problem due to underquoted sales prices, Josh Rowe and RealAs, a website and app, solves the problem. [2] RealAs conquered the Westpac Innovation Challenge in N...

Westpac IT workers in Sydney siege

[1] The IT services company and Westpac partner Infosys have confirmed that there employees were among the hostages in the Sydney siege. [2] They did not provide more information about their workers f...

Westpac, Seven fund Australian social network Nabo

[1] Westpac’s Reinventure Group and Seven West Media will be spending $2.25 million in the newest social network called Nabo. [2] Nabo will be launching on Monday and targets a million users bef...

The human side of cyber security

[1] The Australian Financial Review and KPMG organized the recently held Cyber Security round table and the human aspects of cyber security were mostly tackled in the discussions. [2] The human side o...