IBT Staff

Even though Australia has enjoyed 25 years of economic growth, many regional communities have either struggled to recover or never recovered from factory closures, declining commodity prices, or a drop in tourists.

Australians aged from 25 to 34 have actually enjoyed increases in their incomes compared to the population average. They have also done better than people the same age in other countries.

Much of the discussion has been on how Cambridge Analytica was able to obtain data on more than 50m Facebook users – and how it allegedly failed to delete this data when told to do so.

By the end of this century, the world’s population will have increased by half – that’s another 3.6 billion people. With the global population rising at 45m per year, comes the inevitable rise in demand for food, water and materials, but perhaps most essentially, housing.

The happy case here is that Trump gets the message, doesn’t overreach, and stops threatening further US tariffs.

As winter draws closer, many Australians are wondering whether this year’s influenza season will be as bad as the last, and whether they should get vaccinated.

The mediatech revolution is well underway. It’s in our lounge rooms, bedrooms and on our way to and from work. We’re tuning into Spotify, playing Fortnite and watching Netflix into the wee hours like there’s no tomorrow.

Australian firms are in a sweet spot between the bickering United States and China, where they can sell more and buy more cheaply because of weaker competition in both markets.

Bitcoin has been on a volatile ride in recent times, its value rising and falling like a kite caught in variable winds. But there are certain variables and concurrent conditions that are signals worth watching.

When this New York millionaire went public with this controversial Amazon prediction...

Following his recent talk about “How to be a successful tech startup founder,” Oliver Isaacs sat down with International Business Times Australia to share his insight on the subject.

Instead of going through the endless malfunctions and hassles of the old fax machine, eFax lets a person fax the document with just one click.

As the nations of the world prepare to meet in Brazil for the environmental summit Rio+20 (20 years since the first one there), one of Brazil's neighbors, Bolivia, isn't waiting for other countries to take action. It's pushing ahead on what it calls the Law of Mother Earth.