Richard Henderson

Anthropic's initial public offering may give Commonwealth Bank of Australia an opportunity to cash in on a stake it purchased in the artificial intelligence startup more than a year ago and whose valuation has ballooned.

Australian banks are loosening mortgage requirements and giving away tokens for phone bills and travel as they compete for a dwindling pool of customers during the fastest housing slump in a generation.

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Warburg Pincus improved its takeover offer for Australian retirement living operator Ingenia Communities Group, the latest in a slew of bids that now value the firm at around A$2.2 billion ($1.6 billion).

It usually starts with a few boxes in a spare room and a roll of tape on the kitchen table. For a while, packing your own orders feels like a small price to pay to stay in control. Then the boxes reach the hallway, Sunday turns into packing day, and you realise you haven’t worked on the business itself in weeks. There’s no magic order count that tells you when to outsource. What matters is whether specific problems keep coming back, and the signs below can help you spot them.

Many early SaaS teams spend months building, launch to a burst of signups, then watch most of those users vanish. You can avoid most of that by changing the order of the work. Choose one buyer with one expensive problem and ship the smallest product that solves it. Then build the website and channels that reach that buyer.

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Australia’s corporate regulator is seeking information from investment banks on the failed Firmus Grid Ltd. initial public offering earlier this month, stopping short of opening a formal investigation into the matter.

The corporate regulator is seeking information from investment banks on the failed Firmus initial public offering earlier this month, stopping short of opening a formal investigation into the matter.

Australia’s corporate regulator has not received a single application from a prediction market provider to operate in the country, where such platforms would likely face gambling rather than financial regulations.