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High profile philanthropists have told the Western Australian business community that its members have a duty to be more generous with their wealth.

Perth-based online movie company Quickflix has inked a marketing partnership with retailer Dick Smith Electronics.

The Australian share market has opened higher with both the mining and banking stocks up.

The Australian dollar has managed to hold its ground after getting some support from a positive session on European stock markets.

Italy has led Europe's stock markets in a robustly positive reaction to elections which have put conservatives in a leading position but given anti-EU forces a huge boost in France and Britain.

The potential strike action at Port Hedland has brought into sharp relief key workplace relations issues facing Australia.

Two-and-a-half years after entering the Australian market, Squire Sanders is set to expand its international reach through a merger with fellow US law firm Patton Boggs.

The Australian share market has pushed back above the 5,500 mark amid a quiet trading session that was buoyed by last week's gains on overseas markets.

Fewer offshore oil and gas wells are being drilled and their total cost has increased five-fold in the last decade, a new report has found.

Shares in Subiaco-based explorer Resource and Investment have closed higher on the back of strong drilling results at the company's Grosvenor copper-gold project in the Bryah Basin.

Western Australian information technology and communications companies are continuing to spread their national influence, with Empired the latest to announce an east coast deal.

SPECIAL REPORT: Investors and NFPs are increasingly turning to social enterprises, or impact investing, as it is called.

SPECIAL REPORT: Corporate donors say giving well means taking a targeted and strategic approach.

Serpentine Park Home & Leisure Village will have to go back to the drawing board to progress its $12 million expansion plan, with the Metropolitan East Development Assessment Panel set to knock

SPECIAL REPORT: The disability sector may have no choice but to heed calls for mergers if the National Disability Insurance Scheme comes to WA.

SPECIAL REPORT: The growth of private philanthropy holds promise for the not-for-profit sector.

SPECIAL REPORT: Business wants more than just good stories from the NFP sector if it is to justify its funding – it wants hard data.

A man has died while working at Stone Resources Australia's Brightstar gold mine near Laverton.

International hotel chain Accor is increasing its presence in Western Australia, building a 15-storey Ibis Styles hotel in East Perth.

Peter Kennedy's new book promises a fascinating ride through four decades of WA political history.

Engineering and consulting services company Logicamms has signed contracts with Samsung C&T Corporation, Chevron Australia and Oil Search for a combined contract value of about $15 million.

Engineering contractor Sedgman says it expects to post a full-year net loss because it is unlikely to complete the sale of surplus assets in time to bolster its results.

Western Australia-based builder Giorgi Exclusive Homes has been awarded the top prize at the Housing Institute of Australia's national awards.

Private equity group Pacific Equity Partners has launched a $1.1 billion takeover bid for information services group SAI Global.

The Australian share market has pushed above the 5,500 mark at the open on the back of a positive lead from markets in the United States last week.

Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has rejected suggestions Labor is taking a "wrecking approach" to the government's budget.

The Australian dollar has drifted lower against a stronger greenback amid an improving US economic outlook.

US stocks have finished a bumpy week on a high note as technology and small-cap equities shook off the blues from recent weeks and led the overall market higher.

Eric Streitberg has taken charge of Buru Energy after chairman Graham Riley resigned, on the same day that shareholders delivered a massive protest vote at the company's annual meeting.

Kimberley Diamonds has replaced its managing director after a horror month in which the company's share price plunged 75 per cent.

In this week's edition of Business News Background, head of content Mark Pownall and news editor Mark Beyer discuss Woodside Petroleum's exit from Leviathan, Craig Serjeant and John Gannon's SFG takeover by IOOF Holdings, Shell to take a whole tower in the new Kings Square development, worker shortage in the LNG sector but job shortage for engineers and a huge pull-out feature in our paper this week - Giving Well, your guide on giving.

The head of a Perth-based start-up has led a team to victory in the first-ever global ‘hackathon' in Seoul, South Korea.