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Australia’s unemployment rate is likely to remain at 5.1 percent according to ANZ Head of Australian Economics Ivan Colhoun, with the ANZ Job Advertisements Series for October showing only a modest 0.6 percent increase in job ads.
Talon Technology, based in Brookvale has developed ‘Arondight’ a world-first computerised oar that allows rowing coaches to scientifically analyse the performance of their rowing squads, Treasurer and Minister for State and Regional Development Eric Roozendaal said.
Groupon clone ‘OurDeal’ has been bought into by Network Ten today, with the broadcast network looking to leverage its mass consumer reach to promote OurDeal’s discounts and offers.
The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) has come out and labeled the current debate on banking regulation in Australia spearheaded by Labor’s Wayne Swan and the Liberal’s Joe Hockey as “long on rhetoric but short on facts”.
Executive peer support network The Executive Connection (TEC) is celebrating the success of its program with five of the ten categories in the 2010 Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Business Awards being won by local companies led by TEC members.
Tall Emu is not in the business of putting people out of work, but it is claimed that its affordable new CRM system is so good it will actually replace staff – or give businesses the chance to move them on to tasks that better utilise their talents.
With the first anniversary of Corporations Amendment Act (2009) just around the corner, employers are being encouraged to review their executive employment contracts.
Skype 5.0 for Mac beta has been released, bringing the same group chat functionality enjoyed by Skype 5.0 for Windows users for several months to Apple’s Mac OSX.
Singapore Airlines A380 flights will resume to Melbourne and Sydney after earlier grounding the aircraft for precautionary checks following the explosion of a Qantas A380 engine on a flight from Singapore yesterday.
There are three main factors that differentiate Business-to-Business (B2B) sales from Business-to-Consumer (B2C).
Restaurants charging illegal holiday surcharges have been ordered to pay a penalty of $13,200 each for breaching the all-inclusive pricing lay on their menus by the Federal Court.
Vodafone has reduced international roaming rates in New Zealand and Singapore when calling Australia, but mobile data rates while roaming on Vodafone in New Zealand still remain unacceptably high.
The Aussie dollar has surged past parity with the US dollar, reaching as high as US1.0062 after the US Federal Reserve announced that it would buy $600 billion in treasury bonds in an additional round of ‘quantitative easing’ to prevent deflation.
I’m in the midst of planning for 2011 and I know many of you will also be updating your business plans for the new year. So I thought I’d share a few insights that may help – in the form of a bit of a do’s and don’ts list. This isn’t a ‘how to’ list, it’s some key points that I wanted to highlight to get you thinking.
Optus engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct when advertising Optus Broadband’s “Thing Bigger” and “Supersonic” internet plans, the Federal Court Sydney has found.
Australians receiving tax advice from their financial planner should be aware that they will continue to remain unprotected for a further three months with delays in the recently introduced Tax Agent Services Regime, warns the National Institute of Accountants (NIA).
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has increased interest rates its range of home loan products by 0.45 percent, almost double the official interest rate rise from the Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday.
LinkedIn today announced the launch of Company Pages to help businesses of all sizes attract new customers using trusted, professional product and service recommendations.
The Melbourne Cup yesterday cost the Australian economy up to $1.239 billion in lost productivity, with over half of workers taking a half day off to watch the race.
None of us would fly on a plane that didn’t have any emergency procedures or oxygen masks in place. Yet when you are the owner of a small business it is easy to put-off installing ‘in-case-of-emergency’ measures.
