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Anyone who has been in the workforce over the last ten years is likely to have heard the word ‘coaching’ being used to describe the skills managers use to support staff.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission welcomes the announcement by eBay that it will change the ebay.com.au website and payment policies to remove the requirement that sellers offer PayPal as a payment option.

Networking in the post GFC world is a tricky beast…

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a draft decision proposing to authorise Santos QNT Pty Ltd and ten other oil producers to jointly market their oil produced in the Surat Basin and Denison Trough in Queensland.

Skype has launched Skype Manager which replaces Skype’s Business Control Panel and permits real time analysis and reporting along with centralised payments and deployment.

To boost the spirits of small businesses, WOMOW.com.au (Word Of Mouth On the Web) is encouraging consumers to “Hug a Business”.

MYOB today unveiled MYOB LiveAccounts, an online accounting solution for Australian businesses that need to raise invoices, track expenses and manage income – online.

Australia’s acute skills shortage received a significant boost, with $661 million in funds allocated in the Federal Budget to address training, apprenticeship and adult literacy issues.

Digital free-to-air TV signals will be broadcast to those in remote and regional Australia from a satellite to cost taxpayers $375.4 million over the next 12 years.

The National Broadband Network (NBN) received a funding boost in last night’s Federal Budget, with the Rudd Government allocating additional funding to implement the NBN through to 2014.

CSR has posted a net loss for 2010 of $111.7 million, an improvement on the $326.5 million loss in 2009, a 66 percent improvement for the company.

Small business owners have received the predictable federal budget they needed to continue to climb out of the wake of the global financial crisis.

The $500 standard tax deduction announced in the Federal Budget tonight is a fraction of the average currently claimed by taxpayers.

Small business is crying out for much needed tax reform that was missing from last night’s Federal Budget, with small business overwhelmed with regulatory burden.

Amongst the Budget announcements last night was the unveiling of the most significant changes to GST since its introduction by former PM John Howard in 2000.

Senator Stephen Conroy has been appointed by the United Nations as a founding member of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Telstra will release a ‘Royal Purple’ version of Research in Motion’s BlackBerry Pearl 3G to Australia exclusively later this month, with BlackBerry seeking to liven up it’s staid corporate image.

Matthew Tukaki, the former head of Drake Australia, has said that employers needed to start acting in January to retain key talent, with the latest survey showing employees leaving in droves.

Telstra on the back of announcing prepaid iPad data plans and revisions to their NextG Consumer Mobile Cap and Ultimate plans have also overhauled their business mobile cap plans.

Optus has used its second mover advantage to trump Telstra’s iPad plans, offering a range of prepaid and postpaid iPad plans that offer up to twice the value as Telstra.