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Australian businesses spend more than 20 hours per week on average looking for lost documents, a new survey has found.

St. George Bank has joined the ranks of companies looking to capitalise on the power of the iPhone by launching a home loan calculator app for prospective home buyers.

After months of unsuccessful negotiations, US food giant Kraft has finally tasted victory, successfully winning its takeover bid of British chocolate bar maker Cadbury.

More than 50,000 small businesses are set to benefit from Federal Government funding which is designed to help them go online or upgrade their business website. The funding is being provided from the Rudd Government’s $10 million Small Business Online program which has been boosted by another $4 million to extend it to more tourism small business [...]

Improving maternity leave arrangements will play a key role in lifting workplace productivity and encouraging more women to participate in the workforce, according the head of the Australian Industry Group, Heather Ridout. Speaking on ABC Radio this morning, Ridout said more needs to be done if we are to meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s target [...]

Residents in Australia’s eastern states are doing their bit for climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report has found.

A new survey has revealed a jump in support for lenders from their business clients, with 77 percent of Australian private businesses claiming they feel supported by their lender. The Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR) – a survey which compares business expectations regarding access to finance, with how supportive they feel their lenders are [...]

Australian firms face the prospect of renewed cash flow pressures in the months ahead, according to the latest business-to-business trade payments figures released today by credit reporting agency Dun & Bradstreet (D&B). The findings – which examine the more than nine million current accounts receivable records contained on the D&B database – reveal that a [...]

Many Australians believe the rich don’t pay enough tax, according to a survey conducted by think tank Per Capita. As the Federal Government considers the recommendations of a comprehensive review of the tax system by the Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, the survey findings suggest the tax system favours the wealthy. The survey found 53 percent [...]

Analysts are predicting official interest rates may hit six percent by the end of 2010 as the economy continues to grow. TD Securities senior strategist Annette Beacher said the latest unemployment figures show the economy is speeding up, putting upwards pressure on inflation and therefore on interest rates. “As data like (the jobs report) starts [...]

AVG (AU/NZ) has continued its tradition of fund raising for special disaster charitable appeals with its latest website donation button for the Australian Red Cross’ Haiti Earthquake Appeal 2010 (right). As well as encouraging everyone to donate, AVG is asking other organisations to use their own websites to also promote the appeal. The Australian Red [...]

Business coach guru and founder of ActionCOACH, Brad Sugars, will be returning to Australia in February to provide business owners with the strategies they need to take their business to the next level. The seven-cities-tour entitled “Business is Booming”, is designed to provide business owners with proven successful business strategies along with the five most [...]

Google’s possible pull-out from China over censorship issues has forced the issue of censorship locally, according to an Australian internet rights group.

Business experts are claiming the best way to build business and establish relationships in business is to battle is out on the cricket pitch.

One of Australia’s biggest toy retailers, Toys R Us, has come under fire from the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly underpaying more than 700 workers across the country. The retailer has been accused of underpaying 700 staff members, most of them casual employees and under the age of 18. The company is now facing more [...]

Cyber-scammers are using the latest Haitian earthquake to prey on unsuspecting consumers, by setting up fake charities and urging people to donate money to the victims, according to Symantec. Symantec security experts have uncovered a number of spam e-mails soliciting donations and poisoning search results that can infect computers with malware. One such scam involves [...]

A new report has found that major telecomunnications companies Telstra, Optus and AAPT improved their connection services in the 2008-09 financial year, but were still forced to hand over more than $1 million in compensation to customers for some slow services. The ACMA’s Telecommunications Performance Bulletin 2008-09 found that Telstra, Optus and AAPT all made [...]

Employers must do more to hold on to good staff this year as the economy continues to improve and workers look for better opportunities, analysts warn. With latest ABS figures revealing the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent, and the latest ANZ jobs survey pointing to a six percent growth in jobs advertised in December, [...]

The latest ABS jobs data released this week, highlight the resilience of the Australian economy, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said. Figures reported by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday, showed the economy added 35,200 jobs in December, with the unemployment rate dropping to 5.5 percent. Gillard told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday [...]

The Australian Industry Group is urging employers to hire more apprentices to avoid a skilled labour shortage. “While skill shortages were less evident during the global economic and financial crisis, as we start to see a return to growth it’s clear that the shortages were just below the surface,” Ai Group chief executive Heather Ridout [...]