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Online To Boom Despite Economic Woes

Online news services are set to benefit from the current economic downturn say research group Frost & Sullivan.They also claim that Australia's total general advertising market revenues to increase 24%...

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PC Market Pumping 20% Growth Tipped

Continued strength of the portable PC sector will see worldwide PC shipment growth leap almost 20 percent in 2010, according to a new IDC report. This compares with overall growth...

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Retail Confidence Up Despite Sackings

23% of all retailers have sacked staff or closed stores a new research study conducted by the Australian Retailers Association has revealed, yet despite this retailers are optimistic about an...

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Harvey Norman Sales Slump As Consumers Say We Are In A Recession

Harvey Norman sales have declined 3.1% sales for the 28 days ended 23rd November 2008. Revenues are down $32 million according to CEO Gerry Harvey in a report to the...

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OZ Gets Its Group-on, Spends $0.5bn

OZ Gets its Groupon: Australian group buying coins over half a billion in 2012, with Groupon and Scoopon leading the pack

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MasterCard Say Retail Sales To Grow CE Remains Strong

Consumer electronics is set to be one of the strongest retail sectors running into Xmas say research Companies GFK and Gartner. At the same time MasterCard has said that retail...

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Why You Can Fail Occasionally

COMMENT: How many of us remember our failures more than our successes? My own divorce, the time I didn't get a research grant, the last job that I was fired...

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GFK In $4.4B Merger Deal Staff Cuts Coming

GFK is set to merge withTaylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) a UK research Company. The deal worth $4.4 billion will save save TNS over $152 million over three years as they...

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REVEALED: iPad Worst Enemy…iPhone 4S

The iPhone 4S gobbles iPad sales - but Amazon are on your tails too, Apple.

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David Jones Stuck In A Rut: Analysts

Outlook not getting any better for DJs

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