The area will include online training, Webcasts, and meet-the-experts events, as well as contests for developers..

BHP Billiton has named 44-year-old South African Marius Kloppers as its new chief executive to succeed Chip Goodyear from October.

NEWS Corporation’s $73 a share bid for Dow Jones was attractive and should be considered, its largest outside shareholder said overnight.

Still facing strong competition from cable and satellite.

STRONG infrastructure spending in resource rich WA has boosted construction activity across the nation, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

THE once mighty Perth-based biotech company Chemeq, unable to bear the strain of a $60 million debt to bondholders, has called in the administrators.

THE dollar opened higher today as rumours circulated about possible takeovers and a rebalancing of a major equities benchmark.

EUROPEAN stock exchanges retreated overnight in the aftermath of sharp falls on the Shanghai market but losses were limited by a muted opening on Wall Street.

THE broad-market Standard & Poor’s 500 index smashed a seven-year-old record high today, rising 0.79 per cent to a preliminary close of 1530.06 points.

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