Staff Reporters

MACMIN NL is progressing towards producing silver from its Texas Silver project by the last quarter of this year.

A WA-made careers guidance video was one of seven finalists in its category at the New York Festival’s International Film and Video Competition.

PROGRESSIVE expansion of its vineyard and winery operations will result in the Houghton Wine Company building a new facility in the South West next year.

WA-based venture capitalist Burdekin Resources Ltd has invested a 40 per cent stake in a new joint venture between Oracle Corporation Australia and US-based Liberate Technologies.

TRADING conditions in WA are improving with the economy being steady but set to accelerate.

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Nido Petroleum Limited has made considerable progress with its project in China and expects to produce oil in the first quarter of this year.

NEARLY 40 per cent of workers would accept a job following avirtual interview, a virtual tour of the workplace and viewing footage about the employer, according to a recent survey by Monster.com.au.

TEAMS vying for the America’s Cup have used Fremantle-based Formation Design Systems’ software technology to design their yachts.

THE movement against cybersquatting, the use of trade marked names for websites which are not held by the owner, is gaining momentum.

JUNIOR oil and gas explorer First Australian Resources NL has signalled its intent to the bourse that it intends going down the track of the electronic superhighway.

THE days of retail giants such as Harvey Norman, Woolworths and Coles entering the non-bank financial industry are not far away.

AUSTRALIA’S first purely online directory developer has been created with shareholders in Boss Resources voting to change the company’s name to Aussie Online Limited.

As businesses demand more complex website functionality, web developers may have to learn a lot more about XML – it’s been around for nearly four years but now its time may have arrived.

aRECORD production from WA’s Stag field has provided a fillip for Santos Ltd’s balance sheet for 1999.

BENTLEY-based Dynamic Digital Depth has devised a way to deliver 3D content over the Internet.

A great read I enjoyed over the summer break was Gerry McGovern’s new book The Caring Economy...Business Principles for the New Digital Age.

Hotel Northbridge has been one of the big beneficiaries of the ‘clean up’ of Highgate, says licencee Matt Doughty.

THE average employee now spends less than four years with the same organisation, according to a survey by Drake Management Consulting.

GOLD production for Sons of Gwalia Ltd has only just exceeded budgetary targets in spite of Red October recently coming on stream.

PERTH-based Internet stock broker Sanford Securities recorded 5.4 million website hits per day in January.

BUSINESS expansions plans by supermarket group Woolworth Limited could include additional outlets in WA.

PERTH-based Troy Resources NL has entered the new year with a strong balance sheet and plenty of prospective exploration ground.

ADECCO has announced improved financial results for the 1999 fiscal year both globally and in the Asia Pacific region.Company results include revenues of $17.3 billion.

WA-based Impress Technologies subsidiary mBox.com Limited has appointed BMCMedia.com Limited to promote and sell advertising on its website.

TWO Perth multimedia companies are vying for leadership in the interactive CD-ROM product market.

A good ‘family restaurant’ delivers more than kiddie-proof food, high chairs and chips with everything. It imposes a frame of mind where it doesn’t matter so much what wine goes with what dish or whether the sea salt is from Normande or even what you wear

A MOVE by mining giant North Limited to slash about $100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring by Pilbara iron ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.

I HAVE just visited Perth on one of those things Barry Humphries’ Sir Les Patterson used to refer to as a ‘fact finding mission’.

IT WAS no surprise to read in January that an international survey has rated Perth’s quality of living among the highest in the world.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

GOLD miner Croesus Mining NL has reported high-grade gold intersections in recent drilling at its Fort William prospect at Binduli.

THE diversified resource sector hitting the strongest industry grouping performance during December augurs well for the industry which continues to be dogged by gold jitters and hawkish sentiment from US markets.