Opinion

The Tax Commissioner believes bitcoin is not money or foreign currency and bitcoin transactions should be treated like barter trades, with similar tax results.

Being the emotion-driven person that I am, it’s always more fun to debate the big issues of politics and economics with someone who brings a different perspective, and so my brother makes a perfect sparring partner.

In a world that is so firmly entrenched in turmoil, violence, and hatred – Australia is not called the lucky country for no reason.

Do you, like most other people trying to run a business, feel like you are trying to schedule in a hundred different things a day?

Entrepreneurs and business owners get into the game for many reasons. Money, power, to change the world, help people, leave a legacy or just as an alternate to working for someone else.

In the last couple of months discussion of the ransomware computer threat has catapulted out of the computer pages into mainstream news, and for good reasons.

There are a dozen cafes within one block of the office and I’ve tried them all. So what drives my customer loyalty? What is it about this one place that has won me over?

Always slacking off. Not meeting deadlines. Producing low quality work. These are all triggers for you to have ‘that’ conversation – the one addressing poor performance. However it’s a conversation many fear immensely.

When CR Digital’s General Manager Stuart Woods arrives at work in Sydney’s Crows Nest, he turns on his computer and says good morning to two-thirds of his staff.

Over the last several years, the little old sheepskin boot has been the centre of a very un-Australian brand name battle between a large American company and small Aussie manufacturers.

For the uninitiated, each and every morning since 1945, the Sydney Fish Market in inner-city Pyrmont, has been home to the biggest daily seafood auction in the southern hemisphere.

Unfortunately some business writers confuse business professionalism with business clichés and this can be detrimental if you want to be taken seriously.

It’s well known that a happy workplace is more productive, but it’s far easier said than done.

City folk are seen as total aliens to those in the country, and vice versa. But I suspect change is afoot, and it’s happening the only way we city-folk understand: it’s becoming cool.

Heads up Aussie retailers: beginning 1 August 2014, the PIN will be the main form of card payment authorisation in Australia.

Formatting a drive remains one of the most common ways organisations try to erase data from drives, even though it doesn’t work.

While I wouldn’t call The Internship a modern day classic, there is a particular scene that absolutely encapsulates the fears of so many small business owners when it comes to migrating online.

If you are found to be contravening anti-spam laws in Australia your business could face hefty fines and a damaged reputation.

Investing in startups used to be something only millionaires and the über wealthy could afford or even think about. But times have changed.

Don’t give your corporate data away along with your old hardware.