• It was a broad group of business solving a broad group of problems that won the Anthill Cool Company awards at the end of November. The winners included a solution to keep dolphins out of fishing nets, the first company to commence human swine flu vaccine trials, a better type of caulking gun and a way to keep advertisers from bugging you. The eight categories awarded businesses in areas like global growth, innovation and social capital. The evenings top winner was Vaxine who have developed novel forms of vaccine technology.
• Keeping its promise to launch by the end of November, online payroll startup Paycycle has launches and opened beta testing to the public. The Victorian business is inviting users to come on and try the site free for 120 days through their basic system and try out new services as they are added. After the trial time a low monthly fee will be added.
• If you were walking down George street in Sydney last week and heard the chime of little bings, it was probably the Silicon Beach crew using their bing bottle opens to pop open a brew with US Bing representative Betsy Aoki. The senior program manager with the new search engine decided to take a day out of her vacation down under to bring Bing love to the Sydney startup scene. You can read more about her visit on her blog and see photos of her with the Tjoos team and other Silicon Beach fans.
• Emantra, a private cloud computing internet service provider, who had record revenue growth of 1756.3% over the last year, is the winner of the 2009 Deloitte Technology Fast 50. The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 program, now in its ninth year, ranks the 50 fastest growing public or private technology companies, based on percentage revenue growth over three years. Other tech startups among the winners inluded mobile marketing company TigerSpike, Tech23 participant IPscape and software company Atlassian.
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