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Symantec Corp today announced new software to help businesses maximize efficiencies and save on IT costs.

Business analytics firm SAS has launched new software to help businesses fight fraud and uncover hidden relationships between consumers and social media data.

A leading professor from the University of NSW has told the Senate the ACCC should force Commonwealth Bank and Westpac to sell their respective arms BankWest and St George to increase competition in the sector.

Things are starting to look up according to the latest Dun & Bradstreet National Business Expectations Survey, with sales and profit expectations recording the greatest increase since the survey began.

‘See it and say it’ is one of the most powerful lessons I have learnt throughout my management career when it comes to managing staff performance.

For those of you who aren’t aware, there has been a bit of a debate this week between PRs and journalists which has highlighted what can go wrong when offering a journalist an exclusive.

Victoria’s small business festival Energise Enterprise is well under way, with over 400 events held across Victoria throughout the month of August, designed to help small businesses manage through difficult times, gain insights from business leaders, build networks and exchange new ideas.

The Federal Government has warned taxpayers to be wary of a tax scam involving people posing as officials from the Australian Tax Office.

The International Monetary Fund has upgraded its forecast for growth in Australia, citing an aggressive response by the Federal Government and Reserve Bank to the financial crisis.

Official ABS housing finance figures released today, have revealed the number of first-home buyers entering the market fell in June.

With the Federal Government’s controversial Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) expected to be put to a vote in the Senate later this week, Sydney residents are being invited to hear the latest climate change updates as they are being presented.

The future is digital and traditional media revenue will continue to shrink in the years to come. That is the message coming out of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Entertainment Media Outlook 2009-2013 report.

Official data on mortgages expected to be released today is set to test the nerves of homeowners across the country.

The pay of Australia’s chief executive officers has fallen for the first time in ten years, a new report shows.

Four retail companies named as state winners in the 17th annual Telstra Business Awards have won high praise from Telstra Business Group managing director, Deena Shiff, for their productive use of technology in their operations.

Three financial services’ firms have been named as state winners in the 17th annual Telstra Business Awards.

The recently released National Seniors report, Experience Works – The Mature Age Employment Challenge has found Australia loses almost $11 billion each year by not utilising the experience of older Australians in the workforce.

The Reserve Bank has signaled an economic recovery may come sooner rather than later, as it moves to increase its growth forecasts.

Construction activity declined in July, despite a pick up in house building activity, according to a survey.

Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook are back online after they became victims of a cyber attack over night.