More mergers in 2009

A DIFFICULT market environment is likely to spur greater merger and acquisition activity during 2009.

Banks battle a deal drought

THE global financial crisis has squeezed the corporate deal pipeline, but investment banks in Australia are preparing to fight off the significant slowdown in fee-earning transactions.

Parry On

Summary: U.S. success in Beijing has helped fuel a prep fencing movement. On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, a record 360 high school fencers invaded the cafeteria and two gymnasiums at Catholic Memorial High ...

Read-a-long with Nintendo Power #237

As widely reported, there's a new Ninja Turtles game coming next year, with the [frankly unbelievable] buzz that it could be the Smash Brawl killer.

Achievement Awards 2008 - " Australia and New Zealand

The following award winners and their clients will be honoured at our sixth annual awards dinner on Tuesday, February 3, 2009.

Walking a financial tight-rope

''I was running a medical centre, I was paying a mortgage, interest rates were around 18% and people were going bust everywhere.

Babcock, banks continue crisis talks on debt

BABCOCK & Brown was last night locked in talks aimed at convincing its banking syndicate to restructure the company's $3.1 billion debt.

Test Driven Development Firestarter

Event Date: Saturday, January 19, 2009 Event Time: 08:30 , 09:00 a ' 17:00 Event Location: Microsoft Tampa Office If you want to learn what TDD is all about, this is the event to attend.

En garde! Fencing grows in popularity

A record 360 athletes competed in the Midwest High School Fencing Invitational on Saturday at Catholic Memorial High School.

Lion could blow some bubbles in the deal

Coca-Cola Amatil is 70 per cent owned by other shareholders. But in two announcements yesterday, its board moved from a cool but not conclusively hostile stance to a decision to walk away from negotiations - ...