Mike Mrkic

After seeing how salt therapy helped his father overcome chronic respiratory illness, Irishman David Lindsay decided to bring the therapy back to his adopted homeland.

The Facebook juggernaut celebrated another milestone today when it launched Graph Search – a new multi-functional search engine that aims to replace Google. And then some.

Money can’t buy you love but you can make a lot of cash helping other people find it. Trudy Gilbert has made a career bringing people together but her new start-up takes online dating to the next level.

Customers are increasingly using their mobile phones to pay bills instead of reaching for their credit card. Mark Reiken’s booming start-up Text2Pay hopes to make the transaction safe, quick and easy for both customer and merchant.

Two young Australian entrepreneurs are taking on the big guns in the multi-billion dollar beverage market with an ice tea blend inspired by a year abroad.

The stars weren’t exactly aligned when Craig Somerville decided to turn online marketing upside down in 2008. For starters, he was a 19-year-old uni student and the world had just plunged into a bitter recession.

Need a new pair of running shoes? Broke your water bottle? You can now order these items – and many, many more – online thanks to Matt Brodie and Andrew Kidd.

Thinking big comes easy to Gen George. The 22-year-old noticed a gap in the employment market for odd jobs and shift work while travelling and promptly set up a business to fill it when she got home.

A shared passion for property prompted Mitch Fraser and John Allen to create Tomorrow Finance – a website that offers prospective home-buyers and investors a new way of getting the ideal loan without paying brokerage fees or suffering through endless meetings with bank managers.