Lorna Brett

Local online business management solution Deputy.com is celebrating being named the only Asia-Pacific finalist in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-Up Challenge.

As the dust continues to settle from the grounding of the Qantas fleet, businesses have revealed when it comes to managing business travel, they want service that’s responsive, provides options and is easily accessible.

DesignCrowd has nabbed a $3 million investment from local venture capital firm Starfish Ventures, which it plans to use to grow its client base in markets outside Australia.

Missed what’s been happening in the business world this week? Don’t stress, we’ve wrapped up the most important headlines of the week for you.

The three founders of gaming start-up Rovio, responsible for creating the Angry Birds smartphone game, have announced their product has been downloaded half a billion times, making it one of the most downloaded games in history.

Your Friday Entrepreneur Fix this week features the namesake of the Lorna Jane activewear retailer, Lorna Jane Clarkson. She tells Dynamic Business how she’s managed to build a solid retail chain when many others can’t seem to keep their heads above water.

With Christmas less than eight weeks away, retailers have received a much-need confidence boost with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reporting retail turnover rose 0.4 percent last month.

Australia has placed a close second to Norway in the United Nations 2011 Human Development Index (HDI), with the Scandinavian country pipping us at the post by 0.1 of an index point.

The title of the biggest Ikea in the Southern Hemisphere has been stripped from the Springvale outlet and claimed by the new Sydney store, which officially opened for business today.

Qantas has been warned by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to better its response to consumers impacted by the grounding of the fleet last weekend.