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Business are invited to participate in a free seminar and consultation sessions run by the NSW innovation Advisory Service at the Powerhouse Museum next Tuesday and Wednesday.

National Australia Bank’s MLC will run a series of ‘fee for advice’ transition workshops nationwide after the success of their earlier events in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Job vacancies nationwide surged 13.9 percent in July, marking a turnaround in the new financial year after job vacancies fell for the three months previous.

Foursquare swarm world records were in Angela Vithoulkas sights as her team at the VIVO Café flagship store, 388 George Street, Sydney, attempted to break a Foursquare swarming world record.

Small businesses wanting to get the most out of their website and online marketing can learn how to use Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer in a series of seminars presented by Mangold Sengers.

The Federal Government’s Building the Education Revolution Projects may have run over time and budget, but now can meet apprentice labour requirements with the Ten Percent Compliance Wizard.

New vehicle sales were up 9.3 percent in July on the back of a 29 percent increase in sales of SUVs and strong private buyer demand according to the latest VFACTS data.

Australia’s services sector continues to contract as the Federal Government’s fiscal stimulus dries up and the Reserve Bank’s interest rate increases impact the services sector.

Retail trade in Australia has improved, but only by 0.2 percent in June, repeating the 0.2 percent growth in retail sales recorded by the ABS in May this year.

Hills Industries, best known for manufacturing the Australian icon the Hills Hoist has announced a net profit of $40.2 million for the year ended June 30 up 43.3 percent.

Australian and Chinese climate change and tourism experts will meet at the Shanghai World Expo next week to discuss economic development in the Asia Pacific. The meeting, part of the Australia-China Futures Dialogues held between Griffith Asia Institute and Peking University and supported by the Queensland Government, will discuss the transnational challenges facing Asia in […]

Australia’s regional and online-based banks are winning over consumers with an emphasis on customer experience, value and price competitiveness, finds a survey released today

Heinz, who already possessed a strong retail distribution channel, found itself able to leverage the Golden Circle franchise distribution network after purchasing Golden Circle in December 2008.

Australian employees have lost their passion for the job as well as their belief in themselves and their leaders, a new survey has found

The Reserve Bank of Australia has held interest rates at unchanged at 4.5 percent for the third month running, with the RBA signaling its plans to hold rates unchanged until 2011.

Stratsec will tomorrow sign an agreement with CyberSecurity Malaysia to test 14 Malaysian IT products for security flaws, under Malaysia’s MyCC Scheme.

Australia’s best online service providers across the banking, travel and retail industries will be recognised in the inaugural 2010 AMBER Awards

Australian companies ProjectCentre and Grocon are combining forces to build new homes throughout Australia, under The Government’s Common Ground initiative

New Zealand company Jucy Rentals is expanding into the hotel industry, with the opening of its first hotel in Auckland this month.

Queensland Rugby has announced two senior appointments in its Commercial Sales team, in an effort to boost corporate sponsorship with the Queensland Reds