Emma Koehn

For years the Booktopia story read like an Australian e-commerce fairytale but events this week have threatened an abrupt ending for the online bookseller. 

Small businesses want to see two key things from Treasurer Jim Chalmers on budget night: long-term thinking and incentives to spend on future growth. 

Finding a kindred spirit in the business world has the power to turn strong ideas into wild success stories.

Around 50 franchised stores of chocolate cafe Oliver Brown face uncertain futures.

Recruitment platform PageUp has informed its millions of job-seeker users that a malware infection has potentially allowed an unauthorised user to access personal data relating to job applications. 

When ideas man Crag Carrick came up with the concept of a doughnut-chicken nugget hybrid, his mates said he’d finally developed a concept th…

Six-year-old small business lender Prospa has led the charge on opening Australian fintech lenders up to shareholders, and is slated to list on the ASX this week via a $146 million initial public offering.

The second round of hearings from the royal commission into financial services confirmed what many have previously told SmartCompany: once a…

ISR Training co-founder Jack Corbett went into the Shark Tank this week with a calculated plan, but he didn’t anticipate his more “colourful past” would be what really caught the interest of the sharks.

Mortgage Choice has told the Australian Securities Exchange it will review its remuneration structures for franchisees in the wake of a Fairfax and 7:30 investigation into the company's franchise model

Network Ten is continuing to warn Shark Tank viewers about fake online advertisements claiming the sharks have endorsed cryptocurrency trading platforms like Bitcoin Trader.

A digital marketing agency in Sydney has been ordered to pay a former employee $23,882 after it dismissed her when she refused to sign a new…