Collective buying website OurDeal has officially launched in Melbourne and Adelaide today, joining Sydney.  OurDeal's collective structure capitalises on the power of numbers to leverage discounts for consumers. Since launching in Sydney in ...

Online travel booking agency Wotif.com Holdings has grown its share of the Australian accommodation market and the flights market to post a 21.6 per cent rise in full-year profit.  Wotif.com reported net profit after tax of $52.95 million in...

Online retailer Big Brown Box reports positive customer feedback since the July launch of its dedicated store on eBay offering electrical appliances and consumer goods.  The site - http://stores.ebay.com.au/BigBrownBox - sells only brand new...

Seventy companies have been chosen as finalists in the inaugural Amber Awards for online service providers.  The finalists were selected from a comprehensive field of online businesses that receive the most traffic by Australian visitors. Th...

Thousands of Melbourne youths are planning a massive game of hide-and-seek in Ikea's huge Richmond store.  A Facebook page set up earlier this month promoting the guerilla event on August 29 has so far attracted nearly 3000 participants. The...

New Zealand shoppers are about to receive another tool in their quest for bargains with Lasoo's launch of iPad and iPhone applications Friday.  The Lasoo iPad application is one of only a few New Zealand iPad applications currently in the ma...

Online travel service provider Webjet has announced a series of changes to its board, naming a new chairman, MD and executive director.  In a statement on Wednesday, Webjet said current director John Guscic would be appointed MD from April 2...

Flixter, an iPhone app used by millions of US moviegoers, has made its Australian debut.  'Movies' from Flixster combines movie information with social networking to create the world’s biggest online movie community, incorporating crit...

PayPal wants to make it easier to buy low-cost digital goods online, whether it's a single article on a news website or virtual items in a video game.  Scott Thompson, the online payment service's president, said that PayPal plans to roll ou...

After six months of searching for a buyer, Adultshop.com has decided to take a different route to rebuild the business.  The company has purchased bordello company Stiletto for $20 million in stock from Blackfeather. ...

Job seekers might concede their social networking sites are in the public domain - but that doesn't give employers the right to use them as part of the recruiting process.... Thats the bizarre finding of an online survey of 900 job candidates unde...

Vivo Cafe's flagship store in the Sydney CBD has successfully hosted a breakfast event by using the relatively new social media platform, Foursquare.  Similar to Facebook or Twitter, Foursquare is a free social networking service with which ...

Nearly one in two adults with access to the internet have bypassed their banks’ online bill payment service and go directly to the biller’s website instead.And 22 per cent of online banking customers have never paid a bill online at all. ...

The world's largest online retailer of new products - Amazon - says sales of digital books are soaring, helping boost sales by 41 per cent in the last fiscal quarter.Amazon.com released its second quarter trading results overnight (Australian time) T...

Brisbane medical professional, Dr Sean Clark has launched a dynamic new interactive online medical resource that lists more than 40,000 medical practitioners. The new concept enables Australians to have "quick, easy and free access to available do...