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Prospects for small businesses appear to be looking up post-GFC in Australia, yet the attitudes held by business owners towards banks has not recovered.

After the decades of participating in training, it has been drilled into me that women usually have greater empathy than men. Females will outstrip men’s ability in putting themselves in a prospects or employees shoes – especially when talking about family issues and challenges.

Well Mr Trainer I now beg to differ, as does one of my friends.

It is the corporate version of the tortoise and the hare, but with the backing of its multi-million dollar mother company Australian sports drink icon Staminade plans to regain ground in the race for national sports drink supremacy.

Australian retail sales were flat over the month of May, with retailers half-yearly sales failing to attract shoppers, according to the latest Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI).

Telstra will come on board for the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN), after signing a non-binding Financial Heads of Agreement with NBN Co.

I was having a tidy out of my wallet last night and kept coming across customer loyalty card after customer loyalty card. Some of them were for places I frequent often and have given me a lot back over the years but it got me thinking, do I feel loyal to a business just because of its reward programme?

Bunnings Warehouse has fired the first salvo in its war against soon to be rival Woolworths in a joint venture with Lowe’s, accusing it of circumventing planning and zoning laws.

Last night almost 700 CEOs and business leaders raised over two million dollars taking part in St Vincent de Paul’s CEO Sleepout.

The Federal Government’s Paid Parental Leave bill that passed the Senate yesterday has received mostly bipartisan support, as well as its fair share of criticism.

Despite a steady increase in the number of small businesses operating in Australia, potential clients are still prioritising relationships with larger companies.

Fitness industry customers want no-fixed contract memberships, and more communication on Facebook, according to a recent 2010 Australian Fitness Industry Survey.

Telstra is using its Innovation Challenge to search for new research and development projects to support in 2010.

While the Federal Government’s Paid Parental Leave scheme passing through the Senate yesterday marked a historic day for women in Australia, critics say the Paid Parental Scheme doesn’t go far enough.

Fewer Australians are experiencing unemployment and job placements are on the rise, according data released today by one of Australia’s largest employment services providers, PVS Workfind.

Kevin Rudd’s Paid Parental Leave bill passed the Senate yesterday, bringing 18 weeks paid maternity leave to mothers beginning January 1st next year.

Vertex, a UK IT giant will set up Australian operations in Ballarat Victoria after John Brumby’s Government reportedly paid the company an undisclosed sum to set up there.

Emerging Australian entrepreneurs are invited to enter Enterprize 2010, one of the nation’s richest business competitions offering the winner $100,000 in seed capital.

Over half (53 percent) of Australian workers become stressed and believe they have to work harder when co-workers are on holidays because of poor planning by managers.

Microsoft will pull the plug on support for both Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2000 on the 13th of July, with businesses urged to upgrade to avoid potential support problems after this date.

The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) has launched a new Financial Services Professional credential (FSP), a world first that will increase the standard of financial professionals.