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Sweet by Nature, a Melbourne-based gourmet cake supplier, has won a $20,000 business grant from MYOB as part of MYOB’s “Love Your Work” initiative.

Atlassian, the Sydney headquartered software start-up has taken home the Fairfax Employment Marketing Award for best Onsite HR Team for their Atlassian 32 recruitment campaign this year.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry released results of a national survey of over 1,000 Australian business owners showing that 75 percent currently oppose the unilateral adoption of an emissions training scheme or carbon tax

Superannuation provider REST Superannuation conducted an online snap poll of 600 of its members and found that one in five have lost track of their superannuation and no idea how many super funds they currently have.

Anyone who has read Michael Gerber’s emyth revisited understands the importance of systems within your business. Systems and processes that give you the ability to duplicate and replicate what you do, time after time after time in precisely the same way. Ray Croc, founder of McDonald’s, built a global empire based on this idea, and […]

Snap printing has launched Snap Promote, allowing business owners to create their own marketing material with free software, through Snap’s new online service Snap Promote.

DHL Express, and airline partner Tasman Cargo Airlines (TCA) have increased Trans-Tasman capacity with a new Boeing 757 offering Trans-Tasman customers increased capacity and ‘greener’ features.

RightNow CX has been deployed by 4G wireless Internet network, vividwireless, a Seven Group Holdings Limited company to coordinate its customer service, RightNow supports vividwireless across multiple interaction channels including phone, web, email and chat.

Brisbane-based Equator Alliance is taking the lead in resource sector environmental assessment by bringing a world-leading climate change researcher from The University of Queensland face-to-face with industry innovators.

In today’s day and age of credit card fraud, hackers and identity theft, the need for credit card data protection and customer payment security has never been so great.

Australian business can now take advantage of Skype technology, with the launch of its enterprise solution Skype Connect

The majority (84%) of Aussie business owners are currently happy or very happy with their business according to the first MYOB Business Happiness Index. In the belief that happy business owners who are passionate about and love their work are committed to their business and will push forward through thick and thin, MYOB has, for […]

The NSW Government today announced a targeted consultation process to investigate ways to increase the number of women on NSW Government boards and committees. The consultation process will involve key stakeholders and experts, including: • Ms Elizabeth Broderick, Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner; • Women on Boards; • The Australian Institute of Company Directors; • The […]

Businesses are favouring alternative financing strategies such as debtor finance to fund growth, with new figures released by the Institute of Factors and Discounters (IFD) revealing total factoring and discounting turnover for the June 2010 quarter reached $14.1 billion, an increase of $716 million or 5.3% on the March 2010 quarter. Factoring turnover was $844 […]

A Government grant has enabled Australian company Magnetica and Queensland University to conduct research and development on the next generation of MRI magnets

This year has seen more SMBs attempt to combine business and entertainment, with a rise in the number of corporate lunches, a new survey has found

More often than not, it is a combination of five key fear factors that frightens people into balking at the notion of a small enterprise or franchise business, according to one of the country’s leading franchise authorities.

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, reports it is recognised as the number two provider in revenue market share, in the worldwide web conferencing market in a new report by Frost & Sullivan.

Financial safety nets like bank overdrafts and spot factoring can assist Australian businesses in avoiding cashflow shortages.

HTC launched the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z in London today, with Vodafone and Three announcing they will be the exclusive launch partner for the HTC Desire HD in Australia, breaking the stranglehold of Telstra on HTC’s high end devices in Australia.