Western Australia's mining sector has again proven its worth to related service providers with an information technology company receiving a significant award for work with BHP Billiton.
Google captured more than half of the $US8.8 billion ($A9.33 billion) spent on mobile internet advertising worldwide last year and is expected to boost its share in 2013, market watchers say.
Perth ‘hackers' have justified the city's growing reputation as a host for start-ups, walking away with a swag of prizes at a national competition aimed at mining government data for the people.
West Perth company Ezeatm has announced an earning downgrade one week after sacking company founder and chief executive Todd Zani, who has allegedly responded by requesting a shareholder meeting to
IT services firm ASG Group has announced $25 million in new contracts, while flagging it is in the process of finalising $60 million worth of additional deals.
Global information technology company IBM is bucking the trend of companies cutting back in Western Australia and instead investing heavily in its local operations.
As Australia cuts reliance on big power stations and embraces rooftop solar panels and other renewable energies, grid planners will to need to change the way electricity is moved from sources to us
Curtin University is in the running to build a key component of the Square Kilometre Array radio-astronomy project after securing Federal Government support.
The Wyllie Group has realised a big profit on its six-year investment in Amcom Telecommunications, selling half of its total holding in the listed Perth company.
Perth IT company Ajilon has proven itself as a reliable provider to the justice and law enforcement arena as the Western Australian department of the Attorney General awards it a successive five ye
Perth-based information and communications engineer Titan ICT Consultants has signed an agreement with a US-based group to enhance its underwater fibre optics services for the oil and gas sector.
Former agricultural investment company AACL Holdings has decided its future lies with a technology business established by Perth entrepereneur Gavin Burnett.
NBN Co remains "very comfortable" about staying within its forecast $34.7 billion capital cost for rolling out the National Broadband Network, chief executive officer Mike Quigley says.
Consumers will soon be able to watch current American television over the internet without subscription, under a new agreement Quickflix has signed with television giant HBO.
The federal coalition will deliver a faster, better, cheaper national broadband network to all Australians if it wins government, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.
Vodafone Australia chief executive Bill Morrow has set an ambitious timetable - aiming to make his network Australia's most trusted mobile service by the end of this year.
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the coalition policy detailing its alternative to the National Broadband Network is "very imminent".
The competition watchdog isn't satisfied with the national broadband network builder's plan governing wholesale broadband pricing and access to its infrastructure.
Negotiations between IT firm ASG Group and US defence giant Lockheed Martin have stopped following that latter's refusal to increase its initial proposal.
Apple has blamed global music labels and movie studios for making it more expensive for Australians to download music, television shows and movies than people in the US.
