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The Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen MP, has today released draft legislation cracking down on market offences, such as insider trading.

The Export Market Development Grant (EMDG) Scheme has been fundamental to the success of Australian SMEs export performance and funding needs to be reconsidered critics claim.

Telstra, COSBOA and Workforce Guardian have delivered on a Federal Government initiative to help businesses comply with the new Fair Work Act with a free online employee calculator.

This week end we had a family party. A niece’s birthday combined with a father-in-laws birthday meant a one –sided family gathering.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users of the service who are upset with the company over privacy issues and threatened to delete their accounts on May 31st.

Joe Hockey insists that Labor’s Resource Super Profits Tax has caused the AU$ to collapse despite Kevin Rudd instead blaming the Liberal Party’s negative talk for the fall.

Global economic growth is returning after the GFC, but full recovery will not occur until December 2010, according to the latest edition of the bi-annual Regus BusinessTracker survey.

Small businesses in regional Victoria will be serviced by a new Mobile Business Centre, built inside a bus it was announced by the Victorian Government today.

If one negative customer review using social media can cost your business 30 customers, why aren’t you there yet? Not participating in the conversation with your customers online doesn’t mean it won’t happen, just that your voice won’t be heard at all.

Australia’s Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) yesterday did not recommend a new code of conduct for directors in its report on Guidance for directors, however does urge director to take guidance from Chartered Secretaries Australia (CSA) and other professional associations.

The ACCC has rejected a NSW Government proposal that would require the State owned electricity Generators and the future acquirers of Gentrader bundles to co-insure against outages.

David Campbell has resigned from the NSW Labor Party’s front bench as Minister for Transport and Roads after being exposed visiting a gay sex club in Kensington by Channel 7 news.

Kristina Keneally will defend jobs in regional NSW threatened by the Kevin Rudd’s proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) the Premier claimed yesterday.

Australia Unlimited – the brand, has been launched today by Federal Trade Minister Simon Crean in the Australia Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.

The majority of Australian organisations give employees mobile phones for work purposes, but only two thirds track if calls and data downloads are personal, a new survey has found.

Elcom today announced the launch of CommunityManager.NET Version 7, the company’s web content management system for businesses of all sizes.

UTS:Business is taking the university’s 50 year old brand, positioning themselves as ‘innovation activists’ with their sponsorship of TEDxSydney.

Superannuation funds were slightly down in April, by a negligible 0.1 percent, following the mixed performance of global share markets due to the Greek sovereign debt crisis.

Vividwireless users are reporting download speeds of up to 36Mbps in the first six weeks of the network being live, making it the fastest ISP in Perth.

Clive Peeters directors have been forced to call in administrator McGrath Nicol due to a mounting debt burden and collapsing sales.