Staff Reporters

MEDIA Release Productions and Highway 1 have formed an alliance to offer live video streaming on the Internet, allowing special events in Perth to be seen live around the world.

A membership-based company offering stock market trading support has opened in Subiaco.Home Trader managing director John Day said the company offered extensive training for people wanting to embark on medium-term trading.

South African diamond mining giant De Beers is to extend its dominance of the international diamond market with a C$167 million hostile bid to acquire a majority shareholding in the Snap Lake diamond project, in the Canadian North West Territories.

A PERTH business has launched an Internet-based pet advice service.Perfect Paws is an online pet accessory supply company that also offers users the ability to communicate pet-related health concerns to qualified vets.

I respond to the letter, Different Heritage at Stake: FPA, by Fremantle Port Authority chairman Ron Aitkenhead (Business News, June 29-July 12).

WA-based copper producer Matrix Metals Limited has formally listed on the bourse after successfully raising $7 million with the issue of 28 million shares at 25 cents each.

PERTH-based tax effective funds management company E-Shares Corporation Ltd is distributing its prospectus by CD-ROM.The company offers the services of an online investment bank and share trading company.

UNLISTED company Western Areas NL will launch a big drilling program on potential sulphide nickel targets once it achieves its goal of raising $5 million from a float which closed on July 7.

If it wasn’t for a group of doctors celebrating a pre-GST last supper (huh?) – we would not have dined at the Mount Street Café.

Ward Holt closed the books on its 21st financial year on June 30.

EFTPOS solutions provider EftNet has won a major supply, installation and support contract for the recently announced Australian Newsagents Federation BankWest bill payment service.The service is expected to attract at least 1,000 of ANF’s 3,800 new...

FOLLOWING the course of its peers in the resource sector, Cobra Resources Ltd has agreed with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cob.Web Solutions, to take options to purchase an Internet-based mining information and service portal business established by Minin

A NEW telephone system release from NEC is set to give small business users the same features and facilities as many large PABX users, at a fraction of the cost. The Xen Alpha is designed for the small to medium business needing up to six lines and 16...

WESTERN Australian business will reap the benefits of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre with four major conventions already booked for the proposed facility.

INSURANCE giant HBF and information technology consulting firm AeM Consulting Group have formed an alliance.Under the partnership, HBF has taken a minority shareholding in AeM Consulting Group.AeM specialises in electronic business design, project ..

AFTER being subjected to various backyard makeover programs and stranded-on-a-desert island scenarios, brace yourselves for a new beast – the home renovation show.Channel Nine debuts two new concept shows this month: Renovation Rescue and Dreamhome, in

BODY Sculpt Personal Training Studios – where the focus is ‘you’ – your well being, your fitness, your needs and your timetable.

COFFEE doyenne Patria Jafferies has been named the Telstra WA Business Woman of the Year.

Having bedded down the GST with few early problems, Government attention has turned very markedly to the issue of superannuation.

ADVERTISING professionals who missed AdSchool’s restructured training program for 2000 can catch most modules when they are repeated in early 2001.Advanced modules Account Management and Media Planning and Buying will be offered.Other courses plann

FOLLOWING last year’s sellout success of the extra-value Olympic Edition Vectra, Astra and Barina models, Holden has released another competitive Olympic Edition four cylinder line-up.

INVESTMENT of more than $200 million in exploration during the next few years by Santos Ltd in Queensland has already started to pay off for the Adelaide-based hydrocarbon producer.

SEVEN Network and Telstra have announced they will provide the most closed captioning ever seen on Australian television during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

NEW, tougher consumer standards would spur telecommunications companies to offer better service, according to Minister for Communi-cations Richard Alston.Senator Alston said, while Telstra had steadily improved its quality of service since the custo...

JUNIOR gold explorer Dioro Exploration NL, which concentrated in recent years on promising diamond prospects at the Ellendale project in the Kimberley, has finally struck paydirt after searching for some years for the illusive orebody.

MITSUBISHI’S Pajero has taken the next step in four-wheel driving with the release of its NM series.The stylish new Pajero is available as a 5-door long wheelbase model with four price classes – GL, GLX, GLS and Exceed. All price classes have petrol...

UNION membership has continued to decrease as more employees find its relevance in the commercial world declining, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics report Australian Social Trends 2000.

#CHROME Global Malaysia has been established following a heads of agreement between Malaysia-based Amtech Solutions and Chrome Global.The company is set to pursue health, court management and information technology opportunities in Malaysia.Chrome ..

Perth-based Kanowna Lights NL, an intrepid junior explorer in the eastern Goldfields, has shifted its attention to the Gascoyne region of WA.

THE Brother MFC-9600 high performance multi-function centre is out now from Printcom.

AFTER being on the cusp of global success, swimwear designer Annette Stivaletta has called it quits.

PERTH-BASED Optum Group has launched an online medical directory for general practitioners and specialist doctors in WA.Web-Doctor is a secure service that allows doctors to access information on specialists to ensure patients are referred to the be...