Retail giants’ use of ‘flash sales’ to improve their online offers and clear slow-moving stock looks set to pose a threat to smaller online operators.... Read More

The marketing battle between the major banks is set to intensify, with Commonwealth Bank making a major push for NAB's business customers. Read More

Google and Facebook are both reportedly considering an approach for Twitter, with the micro-blogging site valued at $US10 billion. Read More

Small retailers are being invited to attend a Federal Government online retail forum later this month, designed to encourage Australian retailers to e... Read More

Australian online retail sales will almost double from $16.9 billion in 2009 to $33.3 billion in 2015, according to new figures from Forrester Researc... Read More

The backlash against the National Broadband Network’s business plan has already begun, with claims that the scheme’s profit margins will not be sustai... Read More

The National Broadband Network will take more than nine years to construct and will have $5.8 billion revenue by 2021, the long-awaited business plan ... Read More

The Federal Government is continuing to push the benefits of its National Broadband Network to SMEs with the launch of a new business website, digital... Read More

More than 50% of SMEs believe the Federal Government’s National Broadband Network will enhance business opportunities, according to a new report. Read More

Ted Baillieu is wasting no time as Victoria’s newly-appointed Premier, with plans to recall State Parliament before Christmas and challenge the Federa... Read More

Dr Rowan Gilmore is the CEO of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation, which works with entrepreneurs to develop intellectual property into th... Read More

The progress of the National Broadband Network has effectively been confirmed, with two bills introduced into Parliament today setting out the regulat... Read More

Lachlan Murdoch has completed a deal by which he will buy half of James Packer’s 19% stake in Ten Network. The deal, which will see Murdoch join Packe... Read More

The wrangling over the National Broadband Network has stepped up a notch, with communications minister Stephen Conroy hailing a new report that backed... Read More

Small businesses may have been reprieved from an interest rate rise at the Reserve Bank’s last meeting, but analysts are expecting a rate hike on Melb... Read More

The National Broadband Network (NBN) project has received a timely boost, with Optus in talks to transfer its 500,000 broadband customers to the netwo... Read More

The Government is keen on promoting the benefits of fixed-line broadband with the National Broadband Network, but wireless can be a good alternative. ... Read More

Australia is on course to retain its status as one of the best-performing economies in the world, a panel of economists has predicted. Read More

In the wake of a much anticipated election result and minority Labour government coming into power, small business is left wondering where are the pro... Read More

Employers are pushing for changes to the Gillard government’s election pledge to not alter workplace relations. Read More