Technology

Zip Co jumped about 8 per cent (at the time of writing on 31 July 2026), outperforming the broader market and continuing its reputation as one of the more volatile names in Australian fintech. The move extended the stock's recovery journey, as investors reassessed …

Calix rose sharply, outperforming the broader market as investors revisited green-technology and clean-energy names. The move placed Calix among the session's stronger performers and highlighted the leverage that speculative, theme-driven stocks offer when sentiment turns supportive. After a period in which higher interest rates …

Megaport jumped about 10.4 per cent (at the time of writing on 31 July 2026), ranking among the market's strongest performers and comfortably outpacing the broader index. The move coincided with intensifying investor interest in data-centre and AI-infrastructure names, a theme that has driven …

Energy One is a rare thing among smaller ASX technology names: a profitable, growing, recurring-revenue software business — and now, an acknowledged takeover target. On 31 July 2026 its shares jumped about 30.4% to around A$14.15 after the company disclosed and rejected a A$17.00-a-share …

Altech Batteries occupies an intriguing but precarious position. It is developing genuinely differentiated technology — a sodium-chloride solid-state 'salt' battery for grid-scale storage, built with Germany's respected Fraunhofer institute — yet its share price has collapsed to around one cent and its market value …

The communication services sector declined as the market's buying concentrated in resources. On a session when materials led the market higher, the more defensively inclined communication names lagged, with the sector's telecommunications, media and digital-platform constituents failing to attract the capital rushing toward the …

The IT index finished modestly higher, supported by strength across a range of smaller technology names even as WiseTech slid sharply. The company's more-than-6 per cent drop was conspicuous given its heavy weighting in the sector, and it was enough to steal attention from …