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Lonely Planet this week unveiled its new Compass Guides to Google Android users in Australia, providing travellers with mobile access to its city guide content

Stewarts Transport & Logistics Pty Ltd is facing court for allegedly underpaying one of its workers over $3200.

Queensland Solar Systems and State Solar Services have amended their marketing campaigns after the ACCC said their ads were likely to mislead consumers

The ACCC is proposing to authorise changes to the Generic Medicines Industry Association’s Code of Practice, to improve transparency between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals

Veritech Corporation is sending its regional NSW staff to Italy to complete a training and development course with Endian SrL

Antonette Golikidis, founder of Little Innoscents, was announced as the AusMumpreneur of the Year at the 2010 AusMumpreneur Awards in Brisbane last week

Eloqua this week announced the appointment of Australian-based cloud computing company Sqware Peg as its exclusive master distributor in Australia and New Zealand

A promised advisory board to shape Australian Tax Office corporate governance has some positives but was peripheral to the real business of reform, the country’s leading taxation professional body said today.

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