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Wishbook’s wishful thinking – powered by kindness
Forget about throwing virtual barnyard animals or smooshing your thoughts into 140 characters, Australian online community Wishbook has loftier ambitions.
Facebook IPO: To buy or not to buy!
Not too long ago, the existentialist question in the time of Facebook was: To join or not to join. Now, after the social networking site — the third largest grouping in the world, behind only the countries of China and India in population — filed for an initial public offering, the question is, well: To buy or not to buy Facebook stock.
Tropfest releases iPhone app for 20th anniversary of short film festival
Tropfest, Australia’s most prestigious short film festival and iconic cultural event, has for the first time released an iPhone app on its 20th anniversary. The app has been produced by Captiv8, a Bondi Beach broadcast and digital studio that has produced motion graphics for Tropfest for the past three years.
Could the mobile phone market be stagnating? (The next billion is gonna be a stretch.)
The first billion was easy. So were the next few. But the next is going to take some doing, it seems. That is the outlook for the cellphone industry, which has quickly grown from a nimble startup and, today, has nearly five billion users. Still, the industry resembles a frustrated teen in a hurry for further growth.
Crowdsource your financial modelling? New Aussie online marketplace launches for lovers of spreadsheets.
Just because your CV says you’re a spreadsheet maestro, doesn’t make it true. Before you flub your company’s finances, check out new Melbourne-based online marketplace Vumero.
Another blow to Australian online retail. For shoppers without borders, the U.K. beckons.
Ever since the Australian dollar attained parity with its American equivalent 16 months ago, the market dynamic has transformed. Besides its fundamental impact on the broader Australian economy, it has led to changes in consumer behavior as foreign goods became cheaper. It opened up the floodgates for imports, giving rise to specialised sites such as Online Shopping USA that help Australians navigate the tricky global online shopping market.
Should we be encouraging teenagers to bootleg homebrew in their lunch breaks?
The only time I was ever grounded by my parents was in high school – my mother had discovered a wad of hundreds of dollars in cold hard cash in my top draw and had assumed what all mothers fear most: that I was developing an expensive heroin addiction in my spare time. Of course, my mother didn’t believe my excuse – that I was providing financial backing for my friend’s start-up ebay business; because everyone knows 15-year-old high-school students could not possibly start their own business. Right?
Successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and more marketing. (Three tips and traps)
If property investment is all about location, location and location, successful business management is all about marketing, marketing and marketing. One of the most common causes of business failures is a failure to understand all there is to know about the market and the potential customer. Entrepreneurs need to gain this knowledge even before developing a product or service. Here are three marketing questions you should ask yourself and answer to succeed in business.
Australia is one of few OECD countries to reduce its overall debt since the GFC
Four years after the Global Financial Crisis, global economies continue to suffer from its overhang. In fact, most nations that tried to spend their way through the turmoil have accumulated more debt, threatening their economies and, in cases like the Eurozone, raising dire possibilities for the global economy as well. Not Australia, however, which late [...]
Interface Innovation and Inovia join forces to launch online patent filing service
Interface Innovation and Inovia have given hands to launch a new online patent filing platform which will allow Australian innovators to file patents overseas. According to Dr. Kiki Tanousis, a director of Interface innovation, the new online service aims to drop the prices of filing patents overseas, which is one of the most costly processes in the patenting process.
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