Staff Reporters

MORE than 200 jobs and $3.5 million in investment in the northern suburb of Joondalup is expected as a result of Stellar Call Centres setting up a major facility in WA.

The De Beers-controlled Central Selling Organisation has experienced a record sight of precious diamonds at centres in Europe and the Far East.

GREEN Line Investor Services has taken up the challenge laid down by E*Trade and drop-ped its lead brokerage rate to $28 for online trades up to $10,000.

MOBILE phones that answer calls silently may be used by eavesdroppers to listen in to office discussions.

TELSTRA has commenced a series of web-based seminars to educate Australia’s rapidly growing home business market.

COOPERATION between Australia and the Republic of Korea in e-commerce and information technology is set to reach new heights with the announcement of a set of common principles.

West Oil NL has achieved a milestone in its Timor Sea exploration after farming out its 33.3 per cent interest in ZOCA 96-16 to Phillips Australasia Exploration Company.

In 1998, during the Internet’s Christmas shopping boom, one consulting company found that online consumers between the ages of fifty and fifty-four spent, on average, around $US626, while online consumers under the age of twenty-five spent an average of a

MORE males than females are experiencing a midlife change in career or lifestyle, according to research carried out by Morgan & Banks.

MANY Western Australians in England would have felt very homesick over the past couple of weeks with The Land of Plenty exhibition so prominent at Selfridges in London and Manchester.

The small end of town and investors were the winners from the Ralph Report into business taxation, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

WA’S first Internet auction site has been established by Nedkelly.com.au

Local hydrocarbon explorer Hardman Resources NL, which is on track to spud its first gas well in late October, has also strengthened its corporate status.

BUSINESS and consumer confidence in electronic commerce will be enhanced with the recent formulation of an authentication council.

Americans, with their penchant for therapy speak would call it denial. We more plain speaking Australians would call it inexplicable, unfathomable contradiction.

In recent years the capital markets in Australia have been usurped by the federal government.

Perth businesses could be seriously underprepared for the introduction of the GST, a new survey has revealed.

AN AUSTRALIAN company has developed a real time credit card transaction technology that allows any web server or website to be turned into an electronic commerce gateway.

Perth-based junior mineral explorer Gallery Gold Limited has discovered a new gold province in a style similar to the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

PERTH-based software solutions company BMIS will soon provide the University of WA with training for JADE programming technology.

THE WA Tourism Commission’s website has attracted more than 300,000 hits since its launch five months ago.

AN event designed to provide decisionmakers with a network of new leads and contacts showcasing WA products and services will take place at the Perth Entertainment Centre from 21 to 23 September.

Arborio rice – whether cooked in Italy or Australia – is the same. Good chicken stock is the same here as it is in Italy. The same can be said for fruit and veg.

WA students are tasting the business world through an employment program that closes the gap between education and work.

Perth-based junior Maiden, which is reaping the rewards of its labours in the East African state of Tanzania, has registered “significant” strikes at two prospects at its Jubilee Reef project in the Lake Victoria Goldfields.

DELIVERING results that improve the business environment for the property community continues to be the Property Council’s key objective.

The supply of energy to a Gympie coffee plant has set a precedent for Kleenheat Gas Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Perth-based national agricultural and industrial group, Wesfarmers Limited.

Exploration worth an estimated $180 million is expected to be expended on seven offshore hydrocarbon permits issued to local and international bidders recently.

DESPITE growing crime statistics, it seems many people are waiting until their property has been stolen before taking action.

Driving down St Georges Terrace, have you ever wondered who owns all the buildings? Perth’s CBD has 1,274,000 square metres of active office space housed in 186 buildings.

SOUTH East Metropolitan College of TAFE has won the Training Provider of the Year category at the recent WA Training Excellence Awards.