Staff Reporters

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.

PERTH-based Troy Resources NL has entered the new year with a strong balance sheet and plenty of prospective exploration ground.

ADECCO has announced improved financial results for the 1999 fiscal year both globally and in the Asia Pacific region.Company results include revenues of $17.3 billion.

WA-based Impress Technologies subsidiary mBox.com Limited has appointed BMCMedia.com Limited to promote and sell advertising on its website.

TWO Perth multimedia companies are vying for leadership in the interactive CD-ROM product market.

A good ‘family restaurant' delivers more than kiddie-proof food, high chairs and chips with everything. It imposes a frame of mind where it doesn't matter so much what wine goes with what dish or whether the sea salt is from Normande or even what you wear

A MOVE by mining giant North Limited to slash about $100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring by Pilbara iron ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.

I HAVE just visited Perth on one of those things Barry Humphries' Sir Les Patterson used to refer to as a ‘fact finding mission'.

IT WAS no surprise to read in January that an international survey has rated Perth's quality of living among the highest in the world.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

GOLD miner Croesus Mining NL has reported high-grade gold intersections in recent drilling at its Fort William prospect at Binduli.

THE diversified resource sector hitting the strongest industry grouping performance during December augurs well for the industry which continues to be dogged by gold jitters and hawkish sentiment from US markets.

IN AN increasingly ‘wired' world one might expect energy consumption, and with it greenhouse gas emissions, to grow but studies suggest electronic commerce is environmentally friendly.

WITH the dawn of the new millennium, the world's most powerful banker, Allan Greenspan has recognised that the Internet-led new economy has rewritten the economic rule book.

PERTH-based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel-copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.

WA BRICK and tile manufacturer Bristile Ltd – currently embroiled in a takeover of Wesfi – has been forecast to double its earnings in the current fiscal year by expanding interstate.

ALTHOUGH gold experienced a blip in October 1999, it was another disappointing year for the precious metal which has been losing out to investments in hydrocarbons and some base metals.

THE sale of diamonds last year by the De Beers controlled Central Selling Organisation achieved an all-time record, according to South African stockbroker BOE Securities.

IT IS now a matter of history that the changeover to the year 2000 happened without any great problems.

DURING September and October the Property Council of Australia surveyed its membership in relation to the preparedness of business for GST.

PERTH-based junior gold producer Alkane Exploration NL plans to become a significant player in the zirconia industry.

THE Federal Government has announced plans to develop a digital signature process to facilitate its dealings with Australian businesses.

North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd has concluded a $200 million contract with AlintaGas for the ten year supply of product from 2002.

The Federal Government has branded criticisms of its new Internet content legislation, that came into effect on 1 January, as unfounded.