Tag: Australia

Creating business value through innovation is a key factor in the success of many businesses. But what happens when your idea or product has been stolen?

Dell has launched the Australian Take Your Own Path (TYOP) campaign, which features Australian and international entrepreneurs and showcases howing using Dell technology helped make their business a success.

The Kochie’s Business Builders Live series will broadcast live to cinemas across regional and rural Australia, including Tamworth, Wangaratta and Ballarat.

Hays Recruitment is warning Australian businesses of the growing list of skills now in short supply in Australia’s available labour market as the company releases its October-December Hays Quarterly Report.

Australians are placing themselves at risk of identity theft, with a recent Newspoll survey finding 75 percent of Australians regularly throw away highly sensitive information such as utility bills, bank statements, expired credit cards and application forms, without shredding or disposing of them safely.

Employees in Ballarat have through the Fair Work Ombudsman been back-paid over $53,000 after an FWO ombudsman investigation found they had been underpaid.

Australia’s construction industry continues to contract, with September marking the fourth consecutive month that construction activity has fallen.

Following a number of viral and successful YouTube parody videos, Theodore Saidden, creator of “Superwog”, decided to take things to the next level and capitalise on his success – by selling t-shirts.

Australian businesses expect a strong December quarter, with Christmas trading to bring the growth many businesses have been waiting for, according to the latest Dun and Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey.

Optus have released their Business Social Media Index in conjunction with the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) has found similarly poor uptake of social media among business (28%) to MYOB’s business monitor report released Tuesday (18%).