Staff Reporters

MOBILITY is the key word for the Cannington-based Australian Tax Office GST field team.

TWO Bartercard offices in WA are moving to bigger premises to cope with business growth.

WA manganese producer Consolidated Minerals Limited will shortly kick off a major reverse circulation drilling program at its Woodie Woodie project in the Pilbara as part of a long-term strategy to increase the project resource base to underpin a ten year

PERTH-based Internet service provider iiNet has entered binding contracts to acquire fellow Perth-based ISPs Networx, Octal and Infinite Data.

ECLIPSE Breeding Venture is offering two naturally bred yearlings for this year's Magic Millions sale. The stud farm has been running for nearly ten years.

SENTIMENT in the world diamond market is high and augurs well for WA producers.

A NEW electronic commerce-based insurance company for credit unions and their members has been formed by the Credit Union Services Corporation.

Those spy cameras operated by the Perth City Council are interesting things. Tenants in Exchange Plaza have been watching with interest a new one on top of the PCC's office block.

AFTER a long and nail-biting wait, Hardman Resources NL has finally clinched the big deal that could result in the junior developing into a substantial producer.

“WAIT” is the advice from analysts with regards to Microsoft's impending release of Windows 2000 – the long-awaited upgrade to the Windows NT operating system.

IT IS just on seven years since the Coalition Government was elected on a platform of bringing sound financial management to the State.

MACMIN NL is progressing towards producing silver from its Texas Silver project by the last quarter of this year.

A WA-made careers guidance video was one of seven finalists in its category at the New York Festival's International Film and Video Competition.

PROGRESSIVE expansion of its vineyard and winery operations will result in the Houghton Wine Company building a new facility in the South West next year.

WA-based venture capitalist Burdekin Resources Ltd has invested a 40 per cent stake in a new joint venture between Oracle Corporation Australia and US-based Liberate Technologies.

TRADING conditions in WA are improving with the economy being steady but set to accelerate.

JUNIOR hydrocarbon explorer Nido Petroleum Limited has made considerable progress with its project in China and expects to produce oil in the first quarter of this year.

NEARLY 40 per cent of workers would accept a job following avirtual interview, a virtual tour of the workplace and viewing footage about the employer, according to a recent survey by Monster.com.au.

TEAMS vying for the America's Cup have used Fremantle-based Formation Design Systems' software technology to design their yachts.

THE movement against cybersquatting, the use of trade marked names for websites which are not held by the owner, is gaining momentum.

JUNIOR oil and gas explorer First Australian Resources NL has signalled its intent to the bourse that it intends going down the track of the electronic superhighway.

THE days of retail giants such as Harvey Norman, Woolworths and Coles entering the non-bank financial industry are not far away.

AUSTRALIA'S first purely online directory developer has been created with shareholders in Boss Resources voting to change the company's name to Aussie Online Limited.

As businesses demand more complex website functionality, web developers may have to learn a lot more about XML – it's been around for nearly four years but now its time may have arrived.

aRECORD production from WA's Stag field has provided a fillip for Santos Ltd's balance sheet for 1999.

BENTLEY-based Dynamic Digital Depth has devised a way to deliver 3D content over the Internet.

A great read I enjoyed over the summer break was Gerry McGovern's new book The Caring Economy...Business Principles for the New Digital Age.

Hotel Northbridge has been one of the big beneficiaries of the ‘clean up' of Highgate, says licencee Matt Doughty.

THE average employee now spends less than four years with the same organisation, according to a survey by Drake Management Consulting.

GOLD production for Sons of Gwalia Ltd has only just exceeded budgetary targets in spite of Red October recently coming on stream.

PERTH-based Internet stock broker Sanford Securities recorded 5.4 million website hits per day in January.

BUSINESS expansions plans by supermarket group Woolworth Limited could include additional outlets in WA.