The sharemarket ended the year on a sour note, falling for the first time in four days as the continuing US fiscal policy impasse weighed on market sentiment. However, the sell-off was limited by improved manufacturing data from China and ...
Tags: Local Stocks, Fears, US, Fiscal Impasse
Market watchers predict the local sharemarket will forge further ahead this year after surging almost 15 per cent last year, the result of a second-half recovery that defied concerns about sovereign debt in Europe and the US and a Chinese ...
Tags: shares, 2013, non resource sectors, sharemarket
Research in Motion (RIM) has sold its cloud services company NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies at a considerable loss, just a little more than a year after purchasing it. RIM's purchase of Irish software company NewBay for $100m in ...
Tags: RIM, Cloud Firm, cloud services, Synchronoss Technologies
Telstra's rivals have made an 11th-hour plea to the competition regulator to halt the telco giant's proposed acquisition of budget broadband provider Adam Internet. Senior executives from iiNet, Vodafone and Macquarie Telecom yesterday ...
Tags: Telstra, Adam, competition regulator, Adam Internet
AUSTRALIAN telcos are ramping up plans to enable customers to pay for goods by swiping their mobile phones or tablets at the checkout. The move, which may eventually render credit cards obsolete, has been mooted for several years and the ...
Tags: Phone Payments, customers, checkout, Electronics
This year’s program features more than 100 leading industry speakers across 10 conference tracks: Leading-edge technology – IT, e-business & Lean; Operations planning; Global supply chain – agile models; Human factors; ...
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LOCAL shares rose for the third straight day today, hitting a fresh 17-month high as investors sought defensive and higher-yielding stocks as concern grew over the fate of US negotiations on the so-called fiscal cliff. The benchmark ...
THE sharemarket continued its climb yesterday, reaching a 17-month high on positive news from Europe as US politicians inched closer to a deal on the fiscal cliff crisis. Utilities, energy, industrials, telecommunications, materials and ...
Tags: Positive, News Fuels, politicians inched
Cambridge, England, 14 December 2012--MP Real Estate, acting on behalf of Ignis Asset Management, have secured a sale of The Platinum Building on St John’s Innovation Park, Cambridge, to St John’s College, Cambridge for ...
Tags: MP, Real Estate, Platinum Building, Construction Decoration
THE Australian sharemarket hit a fresh 17-month high today as US lawmakers inched closer to a deal on the fiscal cliff problem. Utilities, energy, industrials, telecommunications, materials and financial stocks mostly rose despite some ...
Tags: Investor Sentiment, fiscal, cliff problem
AUSTRALIAN stocks are expected to start the last full trading week before Christmas on a cautious note amid ongoing negotiations over the looming US budget deadline. Futures trading was pointing to a weak start on the local market today, ...
Tags: Markets Struggle, Fiscal Cliff, US budget
Fleet optimisation vendor, Navman Wireless, has partnered with?Telstra?to bring its next generation tracking solution, Qube 4 GPS fleet tracking unit, to the Australian market. According to Navman Wireless, the partnership has enabled ...
Tags: Wireless partners, Wireless, GPS fleet tracking unit, vehicle
Telstra has opened four new data centres as part of an ongoing$800 million investment in cloud technologies that the telco is hoping will net it more lucrative government and enterprise telecommunication contracts. The new data centres ...
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this weekend at the final round of the 2012 championship at the Sydney Olympic Park street circuit. The Sydney Telstra 500 will provide the platform for Nissan Motorsport driver Rick Kelly to get behind the wheel of his 2013 Nissan Altima ...
Tags: Nissan Altima V8 Supercar, Sydney Olympic Park street circuit
Image courtesy of The Australian. Australia Post’s managing director and CEO Ahmed Fahour has welcomed the appointment of John Stanhope as the new chairman of Australia Post. Mr Stanhope’s appointment was announced by ...
Tags: Australia Post, Ahmed Fahour, John Stanhope, chairman