LOCAL software systems and services company Empired Limited is poised to export its human resource management tool BigRedSky to overseas tertiary education markets.
MILLION dollar views they might have but it seems even Perth's riverside restaurants are susceptible to the effects of a decline in tourist numbers with two prominent restaurateurs falling to economic pressure.
INTERNATIONAL coffee giant Starbucks says Western Australia is part of its growth strategy, however, plans to open its first WA store are still in the “long-term” basket.
THE role of chief information officer has become increasingly important to large organisations as technology becomes essential to maintaining a competitive edge.
IT was the drought of the early 1990s that convinced wheat and sheep farmers Mary and Michael Nenke to try and make a living from what until then had been a hobby.
FERAL Brewery Company has tamed the opposition, or the judges at least, to win several prestigious awards at the recent Australian International Beer Awards.
SOLAR Energy Systems managing director Anthony Maslin headed to the Maldives this week on the back of a funding allocation to investigate the potential for sales in the region.
MARGARET River wine industry pioneer David Hohnen is on the hunt for a chief executive officer to take over the operations of Cape Mentelle Vineyards the company he co-founded in 1970.
INDUSTRY speculation has it that the name McCusker is at, or near, the top of the list to head the State Government's proposed Crime and Corruption Commission.
MILLEPEDE International Limited, the local designer and manufacturer of plastic cable fasteners, has increased its stake in international subsidiary firms in a move to cash in on wh
DOME Coffee Australia has entered the growth phase of its coffee shop expansion with a new Cino to Go cafe opening in the city next week and offshore sites firmly on the agenda
The team at Fraser's in Kings Park have decided that having one of the city's best views isn't enough ... there's a new look inside too, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
LOCAL ASX-listed biomedical company Xcell Diagnostics hopes to operate a US subsidiary by the end of the year to open up the American market for its revolutionary skin cancer detect
LOCAL water technology company Optum ES may move its proposed wastewater treatment facility to the eastern seaboard after receiving a lucrative offer from the Queensland Government.
Healthy and fast are two words that don't often appear in the same sentence when descibing food, but as Julie-anne Sprague reports, that's not always the case.
WESTERN Australia is clawing its way back up the Cooperative Research Centre funding ladder with a new CRC centre that was originally to be based in Victoria now moving to this State.
A YAWNING chasm between the State's research sector and its development counterpart appears to be the principal barrier to Western Australia securing a larger share of the national funding allotment.
ONCE considered by those outside the loop as little more than the latest ‘must have' for mobile phone-attached teens, short message service (SMS) technology has evolved to embrace a vast new world of information.
PERTH-BASED design duo Tanya Sim and Mark Braddock may not be among the big names in Perth's advertising circles, but that's just the way they like it. They'd far prefer to make a splash overseas.
FUND managers believe universities are too focused on basic research and do not have a strong commercial outlook. For their part the universities say that a failure to back pure research stifles ‘chance' commercially viable opportunities.
