Optus has made a last-ditch bid to prevent Telstra from reaching an agreement with regulators over its participation in the national broadband network (NBN).
iiNet founder Michael Malone has become the second Western Australian businessman in as many years to be named Ernst & Young's Australian Entrepreneur of the Year.
Shares in internet service provider iiNet are in a trading halt amid speculation it is the preferred bidder for Australian Capital Territory telco TransACT.
IT is a familiar tale in the online business world – a local innovator offshores its development work in an emerging market and then seeks to crack a big market like the US as a company maker.
The incumbent directors of scooter manufacturer Vmoto have retained their board positions after narrowly surviving a challenge from a group of disgruntled investors.
The builder of the federal government's $36 billion national broadband network (NBN) has signed contracts worth up to $635 million for equipment to install the high speed service in homes and busin
Nine Entertainment chief executive David Gyngell says he is focused on running the company and not on the pile of its debt that will soon require refinancing.
WHAT makes a group of venture capital investors from California travel halfway around the globe to a mining town in their search for technology opportunities?
Perth-based youth volunteer organisation Big Help Mob has taken first prize at the WApp Awards, for its mobile application designed to help co-ordinate volunteers around the country.
Qantas Airways' bookings should improve in the period ahead as the end of work stoppages brings greater certainty to the Flying Kangaroos' schedule, analysts say.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she wants developing nations to invest in clean energy, as she heads to the G20 leaders' summit on France's south coast.
Listed company AnaeCo has resolved to focus on the commercialisation of its waste treatment technology, following the resignation of its founder Tom Rudas.
A START-UP Perth business has unveiled an innovative plan to enter the data centre market, in which heavyweight IT and telecommunications players like Fujitsu and Leighton have recently made multi-million dollar investments.
PAUL Symons could never have predicted the tangent his life would take when he left his job as a high school teacher in 1998 to start Malaga-based company PC Locs.
Balcatta-based engine technology firm Orbital Corp's shares have jumped after it announced it had begun production level supply of its new generation LPG fuel systems to Ford Australia.
Advanced Braking Technology has received a $2 million Commonwealth grant which it will use to accelerate the market entry of its rubbish truck braking technology.
Perth-based IT services group Synergy Plus has been placed into receivership after its major funder GE Capital demanded repayment of a finance facility.
Nextgen Networks has completed a 426-kilometre fibre optic cable link from Perth to Geraldton, built as part of the $250 million National Broadband Network Regional Backbone Blackspots Program.
The DomGas Alliance and APPEA, who are normally at odds with each other on energy policy, have backed Energy Minister Peter Collier's discussion paper to shape the next 20 years of energy regulation.
Advanced materials company Quickstep has signed an agreement that will pave the way for it to become a recognised supplier to global helicopter company Sikorski International Operations.
Perth based Amcom Telecommunications has increased its full year earnings guidance after announcing a 46 per cent increase in half-year net profit after tax of $7 million from its 100 per cent owned operations.
Perth-based internet service provider iiNet says it is on track to reach its full year guidance after recording a one per cent increase in first half profit.
