Jamelle Agbuis

QED Risk Services has repackaged its existing broker compliance offering as an online service, that will see brokers generate their own compliance reports by answering questions via the web.

Household financial conditions have fallen to their lowest level in more than a decade, according to the Melbourne Institute.

Two-thousand votes and 93 comments later, we have an answer to the question I posed late last month: "Could 70 percent of you be running Windows 7?" The answer is no. Three quarters of respondents are running Microsoft's flagship operating system. Well, so much for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion coming out next month.

One underperforming team member can drag down the performance of the entire team, according to new research.

Australia’s ongoing skills shortage isn’t only a problem for employers – it’s also having a serious effect on employee stress levels, according to a new survey.

Workplace bullying can affect not just the victims, but any colleagues who witness it, according to a New Zealand study.

Brasil.gov.br and Presidencia.gov.br, two sites belonging to the government of Brazil, were the latest victims of anti-security hacker group LulzSec on Tuesday.

The government's ban on exit fees will remain in place for 1 July, after a motion to overturn the ban in the Senate failed to pass yesterday.

The Australian dollar may be set for a test of USD1.05000 in the short term following indications from Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke overnight that we are unlikely to see another round of quantitative easing from the Fed.

A broken arm requires a doctor to diagnose the break and set the arm in plaster. The problem is known and so is the solution.

Investors were left a bit surprised, and not that impressed, with Qantas's announcements yesterday.

Finnish-phone maker Nokia could learn something from director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg. They deliberately released only a teaser trailer, short on information and long on suspense, for movie "Super 8". The cryptic title evoked mystery, too. Had the trailer told the story, the movie might not be as successful.

I'm involved in local government in my town (Maplewood, NJ) and I'm always looking for ways for the town to save money in order to keep our outrageous property taxes under control.

According to the monthly Media Metrix report from Internet market research firm comScore, Google in May became the first web property to pass one billion unique visitors worldwide.

On Tuesday, Samsung announced its accessory suite for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet,

The Australian Dollar took a tumble during yesterday's domestic session after the June minutes of the Reserve Bank policy meeting revealed there was no urgency to raise rates.

The Australian share market closed higher on Wednesday on investor optimism that debt-burdened Greece will access more bailout money and avoid generating more financial turmoil.

The Federal Reserve cut its forecast for US economic growth, following the FOMC meeting. The Fed downgraded 2011 growth from the range of 3.1-3.3pct to 2.7-2.9pct.

The Reserve Bank is trying to convince us that it is serious about another rate rise, but it is just as reluctant not to pull the trigger because of the weak state of large parts of the domestic economy.

Australia's commodity export earnings are forecast to top a quarter of a trillion dollars, a record in the 2011-12 financial year that starts in nine days time.

SABMiller and its local mate, Coca Cola Amatil are dreaming if they think they can get Foster's for the current cheap 8.2% premium in the $4.90 a share offer, which bobbed up yesterday.

The "lulz" for LulzSec may be about to end as worldwide authorities begin a push to apprehend those responsible.

The reticence of Australian households to spend has been well-documented, but yesterday we got news that was mixed, to say the least about why they are saving.

Nokia deserves the award for most mixed-marketing messaging, by today announcing the luscious N9 smartphone. What a beauty, too.

Apple debuted Final Cut Pro X for the ridiculously low price of $299.99, along with Compressor 4 and Motion 5 -- $49.99 each.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand has announced the withdrawl of one product from Australian shelves, an asparagus juice, having been identified as one of the products made with plasticiser-contaminated emulsifiers in Taiwan.

A Senate decision on the future of the exit fee ban was postponed yesterday, after hopes from industry that it would be overturned.

Synthetic fat substitutes used in low-calorie potato chips and other foods, such as olestra, could backfire and contribute to weight gain and obesity, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.

Union delegates are employees who provide on the ground representation for union members.