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April’s MYOB Business Monitor has found many businesses are upset over the level of Federal Government support for their businesses, as well as confused over legislative changes being made.
While over half of Australia’s small to medium sized business owners expect to see economic recovery in the next twelve months, the level of confidence in the recovery has fallen since November.
Malaysian Airlines is in court after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission instituted proceedings over price fixing in the Federal against Malaysian Airline System Berhad and its wholly-owned cargo subsidiary Malaysia Airlines Cargo Sdn Bhd.
Penfolds Wines have unveiled The Rewards of Patience wine reference bible, launching an iPhone App, as well as Mac and Windows apps and widgets.
Employee theft is a big issue for small business owners, with 49.4 percent of small business owners saying that employees had stolen from them in the past.
Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics has announced today the company is growing their cosmetic empire in Australia by adopting a franchise business model. The company aims to add an additional 60 concept stores over the next 3 years to its existing 57 successful stores.
Australians prefer using other methods of payment over credit cards, with RBA statistics showing only 41.88% of card transactions involve credit cards, compared to 50.34% five years ago.
Australia Post has proposed an increase in the basic postage rate from 55 to 60 cents as well as increases in costs for its other services, with the ACCC reviewing the proposal.
The Federal Government will spend $27 million to attract the “best and brightest” to complete 100 ‘Super Science Fellowships’ to prevent Australia’s brain drain.
Opera Software today announced its popular mobile browser, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch and is now available in the App Store.
Microsoft has unveiled KIN, a family of Windows Phone devices that puts your social networks in your pocket at all times, aimed squarely at the Facebook generation.
Failed fund manager MFS, previously known as Octaviar is under the microscope in the NSW supreme court, with former chief operating officer David Kennedy sacked after he raised concerns over the company.
ANZ today launched ANZ Business Insights an online tool that uses aggregated data from merchant EFTPOS transactions to illustrate sector or local sales patterns, market share, turnover and provide insights into customer behaviour.
Red Lizard Software has announced global simultaneous shipment of its Goanna testing and debugging software for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
The German born chef behind Brisbane-based King of Cakes is planning to expand his growing empire into the first franchise chain of its kind in Queensland.
Australian women now have access to online mentoring and networking with the launch of new web-based services by the Australian Women’s Mentoring Network.
LogMeIn’s iPad app lets owners of Apple’s new iPad tablet access both Windows and OS X based computers remotely anywhere with a Wi-Fi or 3G internet connection.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has signalled that its policy of aggressive interest rate changes over the past six months is nearing its end, with interest rates approaching ‘normal’ levels.
Facebook users spend 3.26 times longer on the Internet than non-Facebook users, signaling an important behavioural shift according to new research from Nielsen Online.
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