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Microsoft Australia has launched a nationwide competition to search for University and TAFE students who love to share for their chance to win the ultimate student house to share with their friends.

When was the last time your business thought about a telecommunications strategy? For most businesses, it’s too often treated as a basic utility. But data from research firm IDC indicates that telco expenses are often a company’s second largest indirect cost.

Something very foreign happened to me today. I appeared in a magazine and the interview was not by me, it was about me. Any journos out there will know we make the worst interviewees. Thanks to the efforts of our agency Red PR, I’ve been getting used to doing radio interviews over the last few […]

The Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) has released a new survey on small business access to finance today and it seeking your input.

Griffith University’s Dr Dennis Grube, a Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy has offered his analysis on the Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott health debate that was broadcast live this afternoon:

This month marks one year from the depth of the financial crisis, and demonstrates the value of taking a long-term view of investment markets. After another positive month in February, the median superannuation growth fund has returned a satisfying 20.4% for the past year.

Upon profiling its 2009 franchise start-ups, Mortgage Choice found a diverse collection of owners with widely varied career backgrounds.

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.