Business tunes in to staff needs from FIFO to Yammer time
THE use of social media platform Yammer, a growing fly-in, fly-out workforce, and Big Brother-style analysis are tools increasingly in use by human resources departments across Western Australia. ...
View ArticleAsteroid mining Second company announces plans. Time to stake a claim
Deep Space Industries said Tuesday it plans to launch small prospector missions to asteroids beginning in 2015. The goal of asteroid mining is to make space exploration more ...
View ArticleDaytons budget Reaction mixed from local businesses business groups
Heimie's Haberdashery owner Anthony Andler calls Gov. Mark Dayton's proposal to tax clothing costing more than $100 "bogus." Andler, whose suits start at $175, says any tax on ...
View ArticleHindustan Unilever snaps 6 on slew of downgrades from CLSA Credit Suisse and...
Hindustan Unilever Ltd slipped over 6 per cent in early trade on Wednesday after going down nearly 3 per cent on Tuesday, as falling volume growth and a proposal to increase royalty payments ...
View ArticleOnly Indians in Davos but no Indian economy
NEW DELHI | DAVOS: At Davos, the chilly annual pilgrimage spot for the world's rich and powerful, India is getting the cold shoulder this year. Feted in recent years at the Swiss ski resort as ...
View ArticleVIDEO Klaus Schwabs bid to inspire Davos
The founder of the World Economic Forum has called for ideas that go "beyond crisis management", at the start of the 2013 event in Davos. Klaus Schwab was speaking at the Forum's ...
View ArticleVIDEO Tax up for Japan and Indias rich
The governments of Japan and India are considering ways of making rich people pay more tax. For the government in Tokyo it would help to address its fiscal position of having the largest public debt ...
View ArticleVIDEO Australia prime target for hackers
The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has said her country is a prime target for online attacks by hackers and nations. During a keynote speech in Canberra she outlined the country's ...
View ArticleVIDEO Luxury yacht sales boom in China
China's super rich are making a big splash in the marine industry as many seek a new status symbol, a yacht. Demand for luxury yachts is booming as China's rich people take up a new ...
View ArticleCall for workers blacklist probe
MPs will hear calls later for a full inquiry into claims of the blacklisting of workers on major public projects such as Crossrail and the Olympics. The move follows disclosures about a database of ...
View ArticleAllen Doane named exec-in-residence at UH’s Shidler College of Business
Tina Yuen PBN Retired Alexander & Baldwin CEO Allen Doane has been named executive-in-residence for the spring semester at the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business. End ...
View ArticleAccount Director – Automotive
to spearhead the leadership of a prestigious automotive account. You will be responsible for managing a small team and working in collaboration with specialist departments within the agency. You ...
View ArticleBen Venue Signs Consent Decree with FDA Over Drug Manufacturing Problems
Ben Venue Laboratories, the contract drug manufacturer whose quality lapses caused a shortage of Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) cancer drug Doxil and recalls of numerous other drugs, reached an ...
View ArticleDeer Lakes finds its rhythm in win over Ford City
Deer Lakes' #43 Cody Keenan drives past Ford City's #44 Blake Bower during the basketball game at Deer Lakes High School on Tuesday January 22, 2013. Erica Hilliard | Valley News ...
View ArticleGoogle shares up nearly 5 on better-than-expected earnings
Google shares jumped almost 5% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the Internet search giant said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 7% as advertisers increased spending during the holiday shopping ...
View ArticleGlobal spending on movies increased 2 in 2012 report says
Worldwide spending on movies rose more than 2% in 2012 to $62.4 billion, a report said. Spending on movie tickets increased 7% to $33.4 billion as more people visited theaters in every region of the ...
View ArticleBrooklyn Tabernacle Choir at Inauguration Reaches Global Audience
inauguration , he first called them the "award-winning tabernacle choir," as if the huge crowd were expecting another, more famous group, the Mormon Tabernacle ...
View ArticleMalaysian business attacked for Liberia slavery
(23 mins ago) Liberian farmers who survived a 15-year civil war are now fighting lucrative property deals with Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil companies that threaten the land they live on, if not ...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress pulls sketchy Iran intel report for revisions after...
Iran has promised to create a film offering its own version of the events described in the Oscar-nominated political thriller Argo, based on the true story of a CIA operation to rescue six US ...
View ArticleSPEEA council checking with members on Boeing offer
The bargaining unit council of the union for Boeing’s white-collar employees will decide Jan. 31 whether to put a strike authorization vote to the membership, said Ray Goforth, executive ...
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