Five tips for starting an online business
Fred Schebesta, founder of comparison website finder.com.au, which now averages 400,000 views per month, shares his top five tips for starting an e-commerce site. 1. Find your niche "If you want your business to survive, you need to find exactly where you'll sit in...
Woolworths’ online sales way up over last financial year
Woolworths announced recently that its online sales rose to more than AU$1.2 billion for the financial year ending June 2014. This is an increase of more than 50% compared to last year. Woolworths CEO Grant O'Brien said the latest results reinforced the company's...
Australian Government Portal Publishes Bitcoin Business Guidelines
The Australian government’s online business information portal has published a ‘Bitcoin for business’ page to advise operators of their tax and other regulatory obligations when using the digital currency. It contains a basic explanation of what bitcoin is and how it...
Billabong unloads two online stores
Billabong has agreed to sell two of its e-commerce businesses, SurfStitch and Swell, for $35 million to a consortium that includes SurfStitch founders Justin Cameron and Lex Pedersen "Billabong International Limited today announces the outcome of the strategic review...
2Checkout partners with WooThemes
Online payment provider 2Checkout has partnered with WooThemes to offer 2Checkout’s online payment technology to WooCommerce users. The integration allows WooCommerce merchants in nearly 200 countries to accept payments in 26 currencies, as well as increases...
Irish immigrant taps tasty treats for succulent success
Irish backpacker Eamon Eastwood brought a bunch of Tayto crisps with him to sell to Irish pubs when he visited Australia in 2000 and 14 years later, he's running a booming import business that now supplies Woolworths and Coles, as well as having an online component....
Woolworths to expand its online liquor sales arm
Supermarket and liquor giant Woolworths is planning a dramatic expansion of its Dan Murphy’s online business, which already has 46% of the online liquor sales market in Australia. The new plan will see beer, wine and spirits producers have products shipped to...
Australia prime target for DDoS attacks
Australia is high on the list of targets for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, an online security expert says. A DDoS attack floods a target device or application with high volumes of irregular requests, which swamp the device or application and cause...
