Articles for Business and Finance Category

What Steve Jobs is thinking: Google’s ‘Don’t be Evil’ mantra is “Bullsh*t” and Adobe Is “Lazy”

Posted on February 1, 2010 by valeri - 0 comments

After the huge public announcement of the Apple Ipad last week, CEO Steve Jobs had [...]

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Canberra baby shop beats the stocktake sale crowds with Facebook

Posted on January 25, 2010 by emd - 9 comments

If you went to the Boxing Day clearance sales this year, you probably noticed that [...]

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Free financial literacy course for Gungahlin residents

Posted on January 12, 2010 by emd - 0 comments

I saw this flyer and thought it might be useful for anyone in Gungahlin who [...]

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All your Kellogg’s Corn Flakes (laser etched) are belong to us

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 1 comment

Both the Guardian (UK) and the Telegraph (UK) are reporting that the multinational breakfast cereal [...]

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KRAFT’s Epic VegeFAIL – iSnack 2.0 / Cheesybite – naming competition debacle

KRAFT’s Epic VegeFAIL – iSnack 2.0 / Cheesybite – naming competition debacle

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 1 comment

What would you have expected had you been the winner of the recent KRAFT promotion [...]

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The G Spot (Gungahlin) returns!

The G Spot (Gungahlin) returns!

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 0 comments

The original Gungahlin gourmet take-away food establishment “The G Spot” reopened on [...]

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Startup Camp Canberra

Posted on September 3, 2009 by canberralighthouse - 2 comments

Looking  for an opportunity to re-live the heady days of the late 1990s when geeks [...]

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Open forum for small and micro businesses in Canberra

Posted on August 17, 2009 by valeri - 2 comments

The ACT Government wants to know what small and micro businesses have to say on [...]

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Teenager beaten to death at a Chinese Internet Rehab Clinic

Posted on August 5, 2009 by valeri - 5 comments

Chinese newspaper Xinhuanet has a report of a teenager allegedly beaten to death by counsellors [...]

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Australia Post bans sending lithium batteries by air

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 1 comment

CNET Australia is reporting that Australia Post has banned the shipment of Lithium Batteries by [...]

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US Federal Reserve Chairman unable to account for over 0.5 trillion dollars

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 1 comment

During his questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Shalom Bernanke before the House Financial Services [...]

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Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st century – But Australia won’t see it

Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st century – But Australia won’t see it

Posted on July 22, 2009 by valeri - 1 comment

“On Wednesday, 2009 July 22, a total eclipse of the Sun is visible from within [...]

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RapidShare to pay $34 million for copyright Infringement

RapidShare to pay $34 million for copyright Infringement

Posted on June 25, 2009 by valeri - 0 comments

The Regional Court of Hamburg “Germany” has ruled in favor of German collecting oranisation GEMA [...]

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Canberra Airport master plan, mixed bag with no real industry support

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 2 comments

In November 2008, the Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese rejected Canberra International Airport’s draft master [...]

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Best Tools for Stock Market Analysis

Posted on May 30, 2009 by ausbusiness - 2 comments

The best tools for stock analysis and share trading come from the most obvious place [...]

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Obama: Change you can believe in – Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act

Posted on May 23, 2009 by Jonathon Reynolds - 2 comments

President Obama has signed the US Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act making [...]

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What do Australians think of the Federal Budget?

Posted on May 13, 2009 by scoop - 18 comments

So the Federal Government Budget was delivered yesterday and we are now listening to experts [...]

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Does anyone know any good technical types for a project?

Posted on May 11, 2009 by peterh - 9 comments

I have a client with a project. they won’t tell me what it is (surprise, [...]

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News Corp will charge for newspapers “online”

Posted on May 8, 2009 by valeri - 11 comments

There are news about another American newspaper possibly shutting down “Boston Globe“, which would leave [...]

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Google and Microsoft to help US President

Posted on April 28, 2009 by valeri - 0 comments

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, and Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, have been [...]

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