Staff Reporters

Earlier this week I delivered a keynote address to a Queensland conference which focused on online communities.

LOCAL swimwear designer Annette Stivaletta is receiving international interest for her collection Stivaletta_all wet.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission hasreleased an issues paper seeking comments on multi-media prospectuses and other offer documents.

WA engineering company RCR Tomlinson has acquired a 60 per cent share in a new company, Premium Workforce, to supplyshutdown maintenance and labour hire services throughout the state.

PERTH-based e-tailing company Avanta.com.au has secured a deal in the US that will provide the it withprominent market exposure.

APPLECROSS-based software designer Metech has cracked the corporate business sector in Africa for the first time.

A PROPERTY Council of Australia report has found that good urban design can boost economic returns for property investors as well as improve the quality of the built environment.

ONLINE share market investors’ forum HOTcopper’s initial public offering has been heavily oversubscribed.

WA WILL step into the new millennium with an “extremely positive” outlook for the resource industry.

SHOPPING centres can benefit from the impacts of e-commerce through strategic planning and flexibility, and can prosper during the ‘e-tailing’ era according to the Property Council of Australia.

AUSTRALIA’S new community advisory body on Internet content has been established.

MONOCO Petroleum and its WA partners have reported encountering strong gas shows at 736 metres and oil shows at the interval 781-803 metres in the Cardart-1 well in New Caledonia.

WA FASHION house Pierucci has acquired a building in Adelaide’s East End worth more than $1 million which will be ready for retail in late February.

ARGUABLY the world’s largest person-to-person online tradingcommunity, eBay, has released a new Australian web site, www.ebay.com.au

PRO:NED has added a new senior executive search service to its non-executive and executive director search and recruitment services.

PLEXUS International has announced an alliance agreement with StateWest Credit Society.

THE decision by Melbourne-based Plenty River Corporation to select the Burrup Peninsula as the preferred site for its proposed $800 million ammonia and urea plant will be a fillip for Western Australian business.

GRANT Chettleburg didn’t know what sort of job he wanted after leaving school but soon made a name for himself in the horticulture industry.

CABLE & Wireless Optus and Telstra have been recently chosen by the WA Government to supply data communications services to government agencies in remote areas of the State.

ERIC Streitberg is relentlessly pursuing his pipedream of expanding considerably oil and gas output in the Dongara production licence area near the coastal town of Dongara.

PROPERTY Council of Australia past President Gerald Major has been appointed by the Minister for Planning Graham Kierath to the important position of industry representative on the Central Perth Planning Committee.

MANY small businesses will be forced to pay tax on loans they have made to their own businesses under the new tax system.

SOUTH East Metropolitan College of TAFE has recently launched a network course with networking equipment manufacturers 3Com.

For more than twenty years we have been describing the changing nature of work.

ONLINE sales are expected to reach A$14 billion worldwide just in time for Christmas.

A new gold discovery near the Western Queen deposit at the Dalgaranga gold mine in Western Australia has the potential to significantly extend the operating life of one of Australia’s most successful medium-sized gold mines.

A MOUNT Lawley-based human resources company has been formed through an alliance of specialist independent HR consultants.

THE STIRLING Business Association celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala dinner Rendezvous Observation City Hotel.

LIKE business names and trade marks, domain names are now a valuable component of a company’s marketing and promotional strategy.

Union Capital Limited, which has been focusing attention on exploration in Papua New Guinea and Queensland, is about to clinch a deal which could lead to development of a large base metals mine in Iran.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click-through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

UNIVERSITY students have developed a software system for a WA clothing store.