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    For NetSuite customers, price, availability and performance of applications outweigh the desire to have their data kept inside the country, the company's CEO Zach Nelson said today.

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    Online auction giant eBay announced Tuesday it has agreed to sell 65 per cent of its stake in Skype to a group of investors in a deal that values the web communications service at US$2.75 billion.

  • Trade Me buys Holiday Houses

    Fairfax-owned New Zealand e-commerce giant Trade Me today announced that it has bought Holiday Houses, an online accommodation booking site.

  • Conroy's paternalism misses target

    Our great Communications Minister's limited focus on scary dangers like Facebook leaves many real net nasties unaddressed in Safer Internet Day activities.

  • Ballmer: Yahoo 'search deal makes great sense'

    Microsoft's CEO touts the company's newly named online services chief and says having him on board would make a Yahoo search deal simpler.

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  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    The state of e-commerce in Australia

    Research by Roy Morgan has shown that online shopping continues to rise in Australia. Almost half of all Australians have bought something online, with travel the most popular product.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    RedBubble paints a rosy picture

    Melbourne-based online art retailer RedBubble is close to becoming cash-flow positive, according to the start-up's co-founder Martin Hosking.

  • Read the blog post - Jude Willis

    Why eBay tried to screw Aussie users

    Now that the bizarre ruckus over eBay's proposed PayPal monopoly appears totalled, it seems a good time to ponder why eBay chose Australia to risk its reputation on such a massively unpopular scheme.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Basics of online commerce still neglected

    It's tempting to assume that selling online is now such a common concept that we can all take it for granted, but there's still enough defectively stupid sites out there incompetently hawking their goods to make me think that an Ecommerce 101 course wouldn't be short of potential attendees.

  • Read the blog post - Munir Kotadia

    Westpac's online failures expose weak points

    Westpac, one of the biggest banks in Australia, experienced multiple hardware failures on Monday and at the end of last week, which caused its online banking service to fall over for hours at a time. What happened to its backup systems?

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    Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?

  • The best CRM suite is...

    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

  • Why Healthscope picked Technology One

    The chief information officer of Healthscope tells us why, despite a stakeholder bent for an SAP or Oracle supply chain and financial system, the Australian healthcare giant opted for Queensland-based vendor Technology One instead.

  • Conroy's paternalism misses target

    Our great Communications Minister's limited focus on scary dangers like Facebook leaves many real net nasties unaddressed in Safer Internet Day activities.

  • Making the security ROI model work

    Chief Security Officers face a challenging quandary at budget-time because the traditional return on investment (ROI) model falls apart when it is applied to security products but as that is the only language budget-approvers speak, what is a CSO to do?

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  • Norton Internet Security 2010

    Norton Internet Security 2010 builds on the immense progress it made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.

  • The best CRM suite is...

    What's the best customer relationship management suite? We put six of the top vendors to the test to find out in our no holds barred face-off.

  • Google Analytics

    If you're wary of Google knowing everything about your business and your web site, then Google Analytics is not for you. But for most, it's a useful ally in a challenging business climate.

  • Actinic Business 9

    Actinic Business 9 provides enterprise level e-commerce at SMB prices. Our only criticism of Actinic Business is that it could be overwhelming for newcomers and overkill for sole traders. But if you have delusions of e-commerce grandeur, jump right in.

  • Skype to connect buyers with sellers

    VoIP company takes page from parent eBay, offering a business-rating directory and a service linking advice givers and seekers.

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