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Westpac has announced a change in policy for credit card owners and will now charge interest on interest and as well as on fees paid by customers for items such as late payments.

Here are tips that will help businesses both increase productivity with a mobile workforce and minimise the associated risk of information loss.

The NSW Government will tomorrow host a seminar to educate business owners on strategies to achieve sustainable growth, Minister for State and Regional Development Ian Macdonald said.

Job site Monster.com.au has returned to Australia almost 7 years after shutting down their Australian operations, teaming up with CareerOne.com.au to power their site.

So on Saturday, I was heading to a lunch date when I was cleaned up on the driver’s side by a bloke coming out of a car park into traffic. He just didn’t see me. But I saw him. Oh man did I see him. In what seemed like a split second before he cleaned me, up I saw him coming and there was nothing I could do to stop it.

Everyone has extreme motivation when they first arrive and join a gym. Their foot is well and truly on the accelerator in the car of life.

But then something changes and they appear to slow. Why all of a sudden does the other foot slide onto the brake?

Martin Ferguson, the federal Minister for Resources, Energy and Tourism has held Australians to ransom with threats of electricity network failures unless almost $100 billion is spent on the ailing infrastructure.

Hot Cross Buns will be all that much sweeter as bakers across Australia bake over 870,000 buns to raise money for sick children at hospitals across the country on Saturday March 20.

Small business owners are at risk of having to pay thousands of dollars in retrospective taxes as a result of the ATO’s recent draft ruling regarding trust income and gains that are allocated to, but not paid to, private company beneficiaries of the trust.

Skype will enable free WiFi access at over 100,000 hotspots worldwide this weekemnd. The free WiFi access is valid from 0:00:00 GMT on Saturday 20 March to 23.59 GMT on Sunday 21 March, 2010.

One of Australia’s largest industry superannuation funds Cbus has agreed to merge with Connect, and will have almost $15 billion in assets under management.

On Tuesday, 30th March at Sydney’s GPO, A List (of) Entrepreneurs is honoured to exclusively present the first public presentation of Twitter’s professional social media professional practitioner, @Iconic88.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), New South Wales pricing regulator has confirmed a 64 percent increase in electricity prices for NSW.

Telstra has selected suppliers for a technology trial of new high bandwidth Long-Term-Evolution (LTE) mobile network technology.

Australian retail sales remained relatively flat over the month of February, according to the latest Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI).

Facebook users in Australia and New Zealand have been targeted by an email scam containing an attachment that installs a password stealer on their computer.

According to a study conducted at Australian National University (ANU) children of older mothers perform best at school and develop advanced social skills.

The ACTU has embarked on a campaign to increase wages, asking for $27 extra of 5 percent more per week, but employers argue that an increase of that size will place jobs at risk.

University of New South Wales Associate Professor Frank Zumbo has come out swinging at proposed national consumer laws that water down existing legislation in Victoria.

Last week I had the privilege of judging a StartUp business competition at Planet2010. The LaunchPad concept was to find the very best business ideas and give 6 finalists 5 minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges – Dragon’s Den style.