AVG (AU/NZ) has continued its tradition of fund raising for special disaster charitable appeals with its latest website donation button for the Australian Red Cross’ Haiti Earthquake Appeal 2010 (right). As well as encouraging everyone to donate, AVG is asking other organisations to use their own websites to also promote the appeal. The Australian Red […]
Business coach guru and founder of ActionCOACH, Brad Sugars, will be returning to Australia in February to provide business owners with the strategies they need to take their business to the next level. The seven-cities-tour entitled “Business is Booming”, is designed to provide business owners with proven successful business strategies along with the five most […]
Google’s possible pull-out from China over censorship issues has forced the issue of censorship locally, according to an Australian internet rights group.
Business experts are claiming the best way to build business and establish relationships in business is to battle is out on the cricket pitch.
One of Australia’s biggest toy retailers, Toys R Us, has come under fire from the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly underpaying more than 700 workers across the country. The retailer has been accused of underpaying 700 staff members, most of them casual employees and under the age of 18. The company is now facing more […]
Cyber-scammers are using the latest Haitian earthquake to prey on unsuspecting consumers, by setting up fake charities and urging people to donate money to the victims, according to Symantec. Symantec security experts have uncovered a number of spam e-mails soliciting donations and poisoning search results that can infect computers with malware. One such scam involves […]
A new report has found that major telecomunnications companies Telstra, Optus and AAPT improved their connection services in the 2008-09 financial year, but were still forced to hand over more than $1 million in compensation to customers for some slow services. The ACMA’s Telecommunications Performance Bulletin 2008-09 found that Telstra, Optus and AAPT all made […]
Employers must do more to hold on to good staff this year as the economy continues to improve and workers look for better opportunities, analysts warn. With latest ABS figures revealing the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent, and the latest ANZ jobs survey pointing to a six percent growth in jobs advertised in December, […]
The latest ABS jobs data released this week, highlight the resilience of the Australian economy, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said. Figures reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday, showed the economy added 35,200 jobs in December, with the unemployment rate dropping to 5.5 percent. Gillard told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday […]
The Australian Industry Group is urging employers to hire more apprentices to avoid a skilled labour shortage. “While skill shortages were less evident during the global economic and financial crisis, as we start to see a return to growth it’s clear that the shortages were just below the surface,” Ai Group chief executive Heather Ridout […]
