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The Montague vs Capulet relationship between online and bricks and mortar retail may soon be no more.

The Australian National Retailers Association is lobbying the federal government to deliver unrestricted trading every day except Good Friday, Anzac Day and Christmas Day.

The recruitment, training and retention of staff in today’s highly mobile workplace has been identified by medium sized Australian businesses as a key factor in meeting future challenges. A new report by Bankwest shows that medium sized businesses consider the effective management of staff members, implementation of motivational strategies and the bridging of the generational […]

Businesses including startups need not waste their time waiting for tax changes to employee share plans given there are alternatives, which can be implemented now.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued recalls for a number of clothing and bed sheet products containing the carcinogenic ‘azo dye’.

Former Prime Minister John Howard has hailed the first Abbott budget as “right for the times” and urged Labor to support its tough savings measures.

If there was any doubt that crowdfunding campaigns can be equally as successful for social entrepreneurs as commercial businesses, a new Australian record proves the naysayers wrong.

With one month to go until the end of financial year, around one third of SMEs are making inroads into their financial reporting obligations – the majority will leave it to the last minute.

Surveys consistently show business leaders can also see the management of flexible working arrangements as a negative, and are reluctant to employ mature workers and mothers returning to the workforce.

Internet giant Google has purchased New York based startup Divide, a cloud-based mobile device management platform that has been touted to solve BYOD dilemmas for android users.

Government Senate leader Eric Abetz says unemployed young Tasmanians should not be subsidised by working Australians and instead take up work as fruit pickers.

A worryingly high section of the workforce don’t don’t feel as if they have enough energy to go to work each day.

The government is seeking feedback from small businesses on new protections guarding them against “unfair contract terms” imposed by larger players.

The first National Broadband Network (NBN) connections have now gone live in sections of rural Australia – yet some two thirds of the population have no idea the transition is compulsory.

The fortunes of one Tasmanian business have risen to international prominence on the growing popularity of a small purple bear, popularised in China and Hong Kong, thanks to a unique marketing strategy.

Most people dislike meetings for two reasons: they can go for too long and no decisions ever get made. Here’s how to make sure the next meeting you hold fall under this category.

At a time when even major fashion labels are struggling, Sandradee Makejev has taken her burgeoning retail business – St Frock – to enviable heights, with turnover growing by 2400 per cent between February and December 2013.

As the end of financial year approaches, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is expected to data-match over 640 million transactions to tax returns this year.

eBay has today admitted that its database of millions of users has been compromised in a cyber attack.

Successful health food chain Sumo Salad will refurbish its stores across Australia over the next three years on the heels of the Tulla Group’s purchase of a 60 per cent stake in the business.