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  • Tech leaders see CFO's role growing

    Executives from a number of well-known companies, including technology stalwart Google and business applications vendor SAS Institute, spoke of the rapidly expanding list of duties assigned to today's chief financial officers at an event on Friday.

  • Australia lags in tech commercialisation fight

    Australian companies have long prided themselves on their highly inventive nature and global reputation as early adopters of new technology. But Australia's track record in commercialising technical know-how on the global stage is lamentable.

  • Oracle writes new shopping list

    Stock crash or no, software giant Oracle late last week said it was sticking to its game plan and that meant more acquisitions.

  • TechOne beats Civica to council job

    Business software vendor TechnologyOne has scored a deal with Wangaratta city council worth more than AU$1.1 million.

  • Green tech to outpace Internet spending in 2008

    The results of a KPMG survey project continued investment in the green-tech sector this year and a wave of acquisitions.

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  • Battles and triumphs of Australian start-ups

    Five Aussie businesses take us behind the scenes during the early set-up phase of their tech companies.

  • Salesforce.com CEO: Microsoft is still a dinosaur

    For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.

  • Can there be another Google?

    While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.

  • Between church and state

    Gartner's impartiality is questioned after revelations that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell, among others, owns shares in the research firm.

  • What's on their mind? Linux and IBM

    The mind-bending spectacle of Steve Ballmer and Scott McNealy swapping Detroit Red Wings jerseys and yukking it up onstage at a swank San Francisco hotel made for a fetching photo opportunity.

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