Sharon Olalia

A planned one-hour strike by more than 1,000 engineers is expected to delay Qantas Airways’ flights Friday at airports across Australia.

Australia’s total number of jobs advertised in major metropolitan newspapers and on the internet rose by 1.0 per cent in April to an average of 197,637 advertisements per week, according to the ANZ Job Advertisements Series released today. This follows a 1.3 per cent increase in March.

LastPass has withdrawn its command for all its users to reset their master passwords due to a possible database breach.

More timely tax assistance will be offered to 6.5 million Australian taxpayers on lower incomes to help encourage work and provide some modest help with cost of living pressures.

Recognising many small business operators are doing it tough in a patchwork economy, the Australian government is providing small businesses with an instant tax write-off of the first $5,000 of any motor vehicle purchased from 2012-13.

With its value amounting to $153 billion, Apple is now the world’s valuable brand. Leaving behind Google - the leading Internet search engine - to second spot, Apple now costs double of its capitalization, says the yearly BrandZ study of the world’s top 100 brands.

Internet giant Google has launched its Google Shopping product search engine in Australia.

The Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA) welcomed the finding in the report that competition is the best means of protecting consumers’ interests, in preference to further layers of regulation.

ING DIRECT, Australia’s fifth largest retail bank, today welcomed the Senate Economic Committee recommendations on bank competition.

Tony Golossian, the famed “holy man” in Sydney has been condemned a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 20 years in jail.

A review of the present ban on mortgage exit fees and setting a standard fee for wholesale funding guarantee for banks are included in the series of modifications caused by the Senate inquiry into competition in the Australian banking.

After detecting a “traffic anomaly” on one of its database servers, LastPass which is an online password management provider, required all their users to change their master passwords.

Telstra (ASX: TLS) will be the first telco in Australia to offer the Motorola Xoom tablet, the first device worldwide to run the designed-for-tablets Android 3.0 OS. Motorola and Telstra have announced today the Motorola XOOM will be available on Telstra from 24 May for $840 RRP.

Kevin Rudd’s disclosure of Bali bomber Umar Patek’s capture could have compromised the U.S. operation to kill Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan says.

Trainee pilots with as little as 200 hours of experience are flying Qantas Airways’ (ASX: QAN) budget airline Jetstar, according to the pilots' association.

Westpac (ASX: WBC) has now restored ATM and EFTPOS facilities following an earlier outage triggered by an air-conditioning fault at a data centre.

A male relative of the Lin family has been arrested at a home in North Epping and taken to the custody of Parramatta police station.

Australian retail sales slumped 0.5 per cent to a seasonally adjusted $20.46 billion in March from $20.55bn in February and rose from $20bn a year earlier, according to official national figures released today. Economists expected a 0.5 per cent rise in sales for March.

Australians are believed to be paying much higher costs for supermarket goods in comparison to other countries. This suggestion circulated as a result of an international survey conducted by 7News.

A recent survey shows that more than 1.6 million Australians are pushed to drop private hospital cover with the proposed changes to the health insurance.

Osama bin Laden apologized to all his children for not being a good father to them in a will he wrote three months after the September 11 attack. He even warned his offspring not to join the Al-Qaeda group.

New home loan borrowers are lapping up at an increasing rate the range of ongoing discount products on offer, according to Australia’s largest independently owned mortgage broker.

Despite scare-mongering from big business, Australia’s strong economic figures confirm a $28 a week pay rise for Australia’s lowest paid workers is modest and affordable, claims the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).

Even in today’s digital era, a whopping 40 per cent of small businesses in Australia don’t have a website. New research released today by Sensis has found many SMEs are at risk of falling behind their larger competitors when it comes to digital marketing.

A homemade bomb was uncovered in a computer room that had been set to explode at Villawood Dentention Center in Sydney on Saturday.

Nearly 200 senior representatives of credit unions and building societies – mutual banking institutions are calling on the Gillard Government to reaffirm its commitment to banking competition by announcing the retention of the $1 million cap for the retail deposit guarantee.

The Newspoll published in The Australian newspaper revealed 60 per cent of the voters are opposed to the prime minister’s plan to put a cost on carbon next year as opposition leader Tony Abott perseveres to campaign against the tax.

The 14th Dalai Lama, one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders, will provide words of wisdom to current and future Queensland business leaders when he visits Brisbane for a lunch forum in June.

Aimed to pin down the people behind the massive breach which exposed personal information of more than 100 million online gamers, Sony hired outside investigators to clean its networks.