Jackie Vullinghs is a Principal at Airtree Ventures who invests in areas such as health, fintech, cybersecurity and AI. She studied history at Cambridge University and then had a diverse and fascinating career in investment banking and start-ups. She moved to Australia in 2017, bringing a wealth of knowledge in fintech, leadership and personal publishing. […]
The brainchild of Nicholas Reid and Davide De Vincentiis, Konvo was conceived by the Queensland publishing and marketing duo as a unique social media and ecommerce hybrid. Currently in beta testing but with an official launch set for mid-January, the app-driven start-up is, Nicholas told Dynamic Business, “the next generation of social commerce (SoCom)”. “For […]
More, faster and cheaper – these three words could be used to describe our modern day media consumption habits, and the ever-increasingly accessible internet is here to feed them. With the average daily media consumption via the internet increasing by 105 per cent over the last five years, it’s no surprise that newspapers and magazines […]
If you’re already finding it hard to jump off Facebook, the company’s new service will have you well and truly stuck.
Dymocks has launched a new web-based book publishing service, designed to enable authors to take control of the professional creation, publishing and distribution of books and eBooks, without the need for previous experience or expertise.
Hip Media, contract publishers of the Drinks stable of publications on behalf of the Liquor Merchants Association of Australia (LMAA), has taken out the coveted ‘Small Publisher of the Year’ award at the Publishers Australia Excellence Awards 2010.
Adobe has launched the software that helped create WIRED magazine’s June issue for the iPad as a tool any publisher can use to publish content to the iPad.
Australia’s publishing industry received a significant boost today as the Federal Government established a new Book Industry Strategy Group. This group will help Australia’s $1.5 billion book industry meet the challenges of increased online book sales and grasp the opportunities presented by the emerging ebook market. The strategy group will bring together representatives from across […]
Lonely Planet’s Maureen and Tony Wheeler Travel junkies Maureen and Tony Wheeler turned their passion into an international publishing phenomenon that started 35 years ago when they turned their travel diaries into a book. Lonely Planet is now the world’s largest independent travel publishing company, with some 650 titles under its belt.
Travelling the world to write about it sounds like a dream job, but Tony and Maureen Wheeler insist it is hard work. After printing more than sixty million Lonely Planet Guides, the Wheelers reveal their brand building secrets. Few serious travellers would set out for an overseas adventure without a Lonely Planet visitor guide. But […]
