Staff Reporters

Investor interest in technology stocks in Aust-ralia remains intense with the recent announcement that a portion of GPS Online’s float is already over-subscribed – in less than a week.

STRATA companies have been warned to establish a financial plan and set aside sufficient funds to implement it.Blackburne Real Estate director Sheryal Griggs said they should plan financially to ensure they had reserve funds for capital expenditure item

The stunning growth of WA’s nickel industry over the past two years has more than surprised even the most optimistic industry observers. The state now has the capacity to become the world’s biggest producer by 2003.

FOUNDED as a Bulletin Board Service 14 years ago as The Perth Omen, the company is today the third largest Internet Service Provider in Perth servicing both business and personal users.

THE Western Australian Awards began in 1972 as a joint initiative of the Fleetwood Group of Com-panies and the WA Department of Tourism to recognise individuals and organisations who had made an outstanding contribution to the tourism industry.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently scrutinising companies that fundamentally alter the direction of their business to incorporate Internet-based and ‘hi-tech’ assets.

EAST Perth and North-bridge are still attracting strong buyer demand.

A JUNIOR Canadian-listed company, Banro Resources Corporation, has had its 13 million ounce gold mine in the southern Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seized, its field equipment looted and four of its staff jailed for treason in Ki

CONNECTING your business to the Internet should never be a guessing game.

THE State Budget was a disappointing result for the WA tourism industry, says Tourism Council Australia branch manager Brian Hearne.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently announced it would extend relief granted from the prospectus provisions of the Corporations Law for employee share issues.

A handsome new $5 million office/apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

A small Sydney-based company, with widespread WA distribution of its mostly pharmaceutical products, has achieved an international breakthrough with a new technology.

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

MORE than 70 per cent of the finalists in this year’s WA Tourism Awards for Excellence are from the regions, with the Kimberley and South West providing 50 per cent.

Melbourne-based consultant Peter Moore has been appointed by Sovereign Resources (Australia) NL to spearhead their marketing strategy for its $78 million SRDC manganese sulphate project, locat-ed 61 kilometres southeast of Nullagine in the Pilbara region

An international hotel chain has secured its first foothold in WA’s hospitality industry with a management contract for a $55 million development in North Fremantle.

THE Internet’s pace of adoption has eclipsed the take-up rate of all preceding communications technologies.

Visitors to the City Beach foreshore in the near future may be surprised to discover a new cafe/restaurant for their entertainment.

WORKSHOPS are being held throughout WA to discuss the next five year strategy for the state’s tourism industry.The WA Tourism Commission has employed independent consultant Market Equity to meet with a wide range of industry bodies to investigate their

The eyes of the nickel world were firmly fixed on WA at an event to examine progress at the nickel laterite processing facilities at Murrin Murrin, Bulong and Cawse in the eastern Goldfields.

With the Internet Phantom Menace casting a shadow over the business world and so many small to medium-size businesses acquiring technologies from different sources, it’s a lot like dancing with wolves (providers) while trying to make peace with the Indian

Imagine if I were to ask ten of the most talented and experienced entre-preneurs: “what is the most important ingredient in running a successful service business?”. I could get ten different answers: knowledge, experience, capital, advertising, training,

THE recent move by the Bank of England to sell 125 tonnes of gold this year stopped dead a rally in the precious metal.

A major retail centre in Albany, the Dog Rock Shopping Centre, has been placed on the market by its vendors at a proposed price of between $7 million and $8 million.

IT has been observed that 80 per cent to 90 per cent of the organisations we work in today will not exist in twenty years time or will be radically different.

The Federal Government’s move to censor the Internet is a cynical exercise which is doomed to fail. The Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill has been developed by television regulators blundering into a field they know little about.

THREE strikes for Carnarvon Petroleum NL are likely to have its directors and shareholders, cracking open the Vintage Brut to celebrate.

A RECENT trade mission to South Africa and Mozambique by a WA business delegation investigated new and emerging commercial opportunities.

THE handing down of the State Budget and the signing of the Regional Forest Agreement with the Federal Government made for a busy start to this month.

In a government-commissioned report, Ernst and Young identified job opportunities. But it also established that a number of Kewdale and Welshpool firms would be lured to the modern industrial estate.

A $45 MILLION package has given a great kick-start to the Gascoyne Murchison Strategy (GMS) plan initiated by pastoralists in rangeland WA.