Staff Reporters

INVESTOR confidence in Western Australia has been reinforced again with the announcement of the $1 billion West Angelas iron ore project in the Pilbara.

FORMER WA manager of Austrade Terry Goss has been appointed to head up the commission's Olympic-oriented Business Club Australia program.

More straws in the wind for a market correction. Two Perth ‘money' families have made belated entries into the dot.com world.

AFTER eighteen years of writing, producing, directing and filming more than 5,000 commercials for Channel 7, Ron Reddingius has formed his own production company, Dingo Is Talent.

WESTEL subsidiary Concentrix has completed the construction of its telephone number portability platform on schedule.

CARBON trading could damage WA industrial expansion plans, investors have been warned.

FOLLOWING rock-breaking technology trials in South Africa, Brandrill Limited has entered into partnership with Impala Platinum Holdings Limited to develop a continuous mining system using penetrating cone fracture technology.

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Marketing tips for Australian companies targeting the world's largest market have been released on audiotape.

FARGO-based Great Plains Soft-ware has launched its Siebel Front Office product in WA through Applecross-based company Sequel Technology.

OIL producer Apache Energy Ltd is one of several WA organisations sponsoring a trade mission of twenty local delegates to the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas in May.

The benefits of working from home far outweigh any negatives, says Draw Card Design Group partners Ken and Dixie Cawthorne.

Saving time is the number one priority of customer relationship management, says GartnerGroup research director Neil McMurchy.

TECHNOLOGY doesn't have to be pitted against privacy, says Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton.

Hydrocarbon junior explorer Hardman Resources NL has enjoyed a healthy spike in its share price since giving the green light to its Colombo gas drilling project near Rome.

SANFORD Securities has begun to upgrade its service bandwidth from fourteen megabits per second to 114 megabits per second.

COMPANIES doing business in Japan need to specifically tailor their products and business

THE jewel in the Business Club Australia crown, its state-of-the-art Club venue located at Darling Harbour in Sydney is on schedule for its 1 August opening.

If the crash comes, what do we do? Well, Briefcase has found the perfect getaway – go back to school. Not just any school, but the unimaginably perfect school – the Florence campus of New York University.

STRONG resurgence in the Asian steel market has been the catalyst for expansion of Robe River Iron Associates' Pilbara iron ore mining operations with the $1 billion development of West Angelas.

BUSINESS communication systems may not be as secure as thought, says Global Vision Technologies western region manager Bob Randall.

WA communications group BinCom Satellite Systems is about to fill the gap created by declining communications services to regional Australia with new technology.

SLIPRAIL creative director Pauline Emili-ani has shunned the gloss of the commercial fashion circuit in order to retain the ethos of her custom-made label.

If the word ‘crash' causes unexpected sweating and a queasy feeling in your stomach, read no further, because the business world as we have known it for the past few years is about to undergo a rapid change.

As the rush for stock exchange listings continues unabated, a WA public relations consultant has spotted a gap in the market.

PERTH-based Medi-tech Research Limited may be on the brink of a major advance in cancer therapy with its hyaluronic acid technology for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Grimwood Davies Limited CEO Eddy Lee said the D-fone was the first true decentralised Internet phone that did not rely on a PC for its Internet interface.

OIL junior First Australian Resources NL, which has focused on searching for oil in Texas and Louisiana, has turned to the Internet with a US$3 million investment in electronic technology.

A PERTH company is offering small businesses two bites at the Internet cherry.

ANOTHER former minerals explorer has entered the dot.com game – as an online casino operator.

A sharp 9.3 per cent rise in Australian job vacancies during February is further evidence of a strong labour market.

PERTH-based gold and base metal explorer Fimiston Mining NL has invested $3.6 million to acquire a third of the capital of information technology company, Point Technology Pty Ltd.