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Over two million Australian small businesses are positioned to benefit from growing global trade with online sales to foreign buyers forecast to triple to $16.1bn by 2018.

Not-for-profit StartupAUS today announced the return of the Startup Spring Festival, a festival of events and activities that aim to celebrate, promote and encourage the startup community.

The IMF has assumed Australia’s unemployment rate to be the second highest in the Asia Pacific region over the next two years as it cut growth forecasts and raised the likelihood of global recession from 20 to 33 per cent.

Australians downloaded approximately one exabyte (one million terabytes) of data via broadband in the three months leading to June, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The government has retreated from its proposal that unemployed people apply for 40 jobs per month in order to receive the dole following widespread concern small businesses would suffer under the additional administrative burden.

New findings have revealed that two in five small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will not employ someone with a mental illness.

Melbourne has become one of the world’s first cities to acquire its own domain address.

Supermarket giant Coles has agreed to fork-out more than $200,000 in back-pay for ten trolley collectors, conceding its employment practices were vulnerable to exploitation and underpayment.

The Senate’s Economic References Committee, chaired by NSW Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, will launch an inquiry into cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

Not-for-profit organisation the Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) has today launched the Workplace Safety Alliance, a new initiative designed to highlight the importance of safety in the workplace.

New figures released have revealed that 43 per cent of Australians will immediately leave a website if it loads slowly.

A unique camp will aim to ignite interest in entrepreneurship in young people aged 15-18.

Google has announced the finalists of this year’s Google Impact Challenge Australia, a competition that sees not-for-profits competing for a $500,000 grant.

The banking industry is set to face new competitive disruption as it scrambles to preserve its stake in the growing mobile payments market. New figures show that worldwide mobile payments are expected to increase by nearly 61 per cent to 47 billion transactions by 2015.

Bill Gates has expressed his excitement over Eyenaemia, an Australian medical startup that won Microsoft’s 2014 Imagine Cup.

The Australian dollar has dropped on the back of a lower than expected increase in retail sales, with purchases taking a dive for department stores and household good retailers.

The nation’s competition tsar has highlighted shortcomings with the proposed grocery industry code intended to limit unfair practices and establish clear conduct guidelines in the sector.

The National Roads & Motorists’ Association (NRMA) have partnered with Slingshot Accelerator to launch Jumpstart, a program offering 14 businesses a chance to earn $30,000 in seed funding.

Sydney startup ingogo has raised an impressive $9.1 million in a pre-IPO funding round, including $1.2 million via a crowdfunding platform.

More than 3000 chief executives who have not conducted a gender pay gap analysis will be sent a bottle of special water to help them have daughters.