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The Australian share market has closed 1.3 per cent higher, reeling in some of the steep losses inflicted by tumbling oil prices.

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Fledging Perth technology company APE Mobile has struck deals with some of the largest civil engineering contractors and secured Perth business leader Giles Everist to join its board.

Western Australia's subdued resources exploration sector is set to receive a new boost in the form of a digital map for explorers to better target mining and petroleum discoveries.

Atlas Iron has reduced the size of its board and cut pay for the remaining directors to help reduce costs amid weak iron ore prices.

Curtin University has unveiled the first phase of a new multi-million dollar business education precinct, made possible through a $1 million sponsorship from Wesfarmers.

Iron ore miner Pluton Resources has settled proceedings against junior secured creditor Rizhao Port Group Logistics, which includes the removal of receivers appointed by Rizhao in disputed circumstances last month.

All Australians will have the national broadband network connected or know when they will be connected by the 2016 election.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has kept the cash rate unchanged for a sixteenth consecutive month at 2.5 per cent.

Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek iron ore mine site has been raided for drugs by WA Police, working in cooperation with the company, as part of a crackdown of mine sites across the state.

The disability services sector is gearing up for a brave new world as new players seek to join the market.

One of Western Australia's largest solar power providers is set to take a Pilbara-based corporation off-grid after striking a deal that provides electricity and battery storage at a commercially competitive rate to Horizon Power.

WA's leading charity store chains are becoming more vital to the causes they fund

The Australian economy is picking up a bit of pace as cheaper petrol and low interest rates encourage more spending.

The Australian share market has reversed some of its heavy losses after a strong bounce in oil and gold prices.

Retail and tech equities have led US stock markets lower following a disappointing kickoff of the holiday shopping season.

The Australian dollar has bounced back from four-year lows overnight as commodity prices stage a recovery.

Crude oil prices have bounced back sharply from five-year lows in what analysts say may be just a technical correction after last week's $US10-a-barrel plunge.

Gina Rinehart has shown the dogged determination of an entrepreneur to develop the Roy Hill iron ore project.

Gold prices have surged to a one-month high as a rush of haven buying sparked by Japan's credit-rating downgrade forced bearish investors to clamour for the exit.

Mid-tier accounting firm ROCG Perth has expanded with the acquisition of specialist research and development tax consultants Insight Business.

Geraldton-based builder Serena Guidice has become the first ever woman to be named National Young Builder of the Year by the Master Builders Association.

In its latest push for greater conservation in mining regions, the Environmental Protection Agency has classified a proposed Mineral Resources iron ore project in the Yilgarn as 'environmentally unacceptable'.

Telstra has won a contract to build a 500-kilometre subsea telecommunications cable for Chevron in an effort to improve communications across the company's projects in the state's north-west.

Dongyi Hua-led VDM Group is looking to strengthen its balance sheet by signing a share placement agreement with a private investor to raise $3 million.

The stubbornly high currency is widely expected to slide below US70 cents, with upside for some sectors and pain for others.

The share market has dumped 2 per cent, with energy stocks tumbling in the wake of the lowest crude oil prices since 2009.

Engine technology developer Orbital Corporation has filed court documents in the US against major car industry players Mercedes-Benz and Robert Bosch over alleged patent infringements concerning its direct injection technology.

One of three independent directors on the board of grain grower cooperative CBH Group, Samantha Tough, has resigned today after reported divisions among its directors.

Perth's residential real estate market is continuing to experience the malaise felt through much of 2014, with the Real Estate Institute of WA, and market analysts RP Data reporting slight lifts in

Engineering and infrastructure firm RCR Tomlinson has established a new subsidiary to build a power station in the Galilee basin in Queensland, with Indian company Adani Mining lined up as a foundation customer.

Shares in grocery wholesaler Metcash have dived 13 per cent after the IGA Supermarkets brand owner flagged a slide of more than 20 per cent in its full-year earnings.