BIG business is being targeted by cyber-criminals in "ransomware" attacks, threatening deletion or freezing of crucial business files unless money is paid. A new national survey of Australian big business reports that in September last ...
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The AWEX Regional Indicators finished 0.5% lower, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne, and Fremantle this week when the US exchange rate rose by 0.3%. It was a mixed sale this week with a good start on Tuesday, an easing on ...
Tags: Aussie Wool, Prices, US exchange rate
OfficeMax Australia has made the first move to extend its business model beyond the confines of a traditional office products supplier with the acquisition of private print management businesses Complete Print Solutions (CPS) and Foxprint ...
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But passing the half-way mark of this interim profit season, we now have proof that his real error was putting a super-profits tax on the wrong industry. While profits were sliding at Rio Tinto, OZ Minerals and Wesfarmers' coal division, ...
Tags: Stocks, investment, Australia
"We're probably seeing three times the volume of applications compared with this time last year," said Adrian Hanley, head of equity lending at NAB. "We have had a significant lift in new client activity in the fourth quarter of 2012." ...
Tags: Margin Lending, Stocks, Australia
Science Warehouse, one of the top 10 fastest growing companies in the UK e-business sector, has agreed a partnership with Purchasing Index, a leader in enterprise-wide performance analytics, spend analysis and profiling. Purchasing Index ...
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Real Racing addicts will be able to spin around the streets of Melbourne's CBD and past locations such as Flinders Street Station, Federation Square and the Crown Casino in the app's latest update. Global gaming distributor, Electronic ...
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A sharp rise in consumer confidence in February fuelled a strong bounce by the dollar yesterday. At 5pm AEDT, the currency was trading at $1.0339, up US0.84c, after touching an intraday high of $US1.0361. A survey published by Westpac ...
Investors are betting the Australian market index can continue to push decisively beyond the 5000 mark for the first time in seven years as results from some of the blue-chip stocks and a rise in consumer confidence lent support to another ...
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The Australian dollar was higher after rising to a two-week high, helped by a lift in metals prices and better local consumer sentiment data. At 6.30am AEDT the local unit was trading at 103.45 US cents, up from 103.39 cents at ...
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Australia - Following a two-year, $136m inside-out redevelopment, Australia's Arts Centre Melbourne reopened its Hamer Hall with one of the Southern Hemisphere's largest and most sophisticated Meyer Sound systems. Featuring the advanced ...
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WHSmith has opened its first Zoodle stores in the UK which are aimed at children. The first opened on the weekend and is joined by another today (Thursday, February 7th), reports Airport World. Both are located in Manchester Airport. ...
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For the second year running, Victorian Opera staged a pantomime for children at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. Their 2013 production of Sleeping Beauty saw the return of the creative team behind Victorian Opera's first pantomime ...
Tags: Victorian Opera, Her Majesty's Theatre, Martin MAC Vipers, LEDS
A boat company in Somerton, Victoria, has been found guilty and fined $275,000 over the death of a worker in December 2011. Monst Pty Ltd (formerly Lloyd Brewer Marine Pty Ltd) was convicted on charges relating to the death of an ...
Tags: boat company, death, worker
Lockton, a privately held insurance broker, has completed acquisition of Colin Smith's broker unit Strategic Insurance & Risk Solutions. Following the completion of the acquisition, Lockton's new Melbourne insurance and risk management ...
Tags: Lockton, insurance broker, Strategic Insurance&Risk Solutions