Economic turmoil may have caused serious stresses and strains for the masses this year, forcing spending cutbacks on everything from hamburgers to holidays – but the backyard shed and related DIY has survived, new research reveals.

Over three quarters (77%) of…

This year Australians have the chance to vote on who they think offers the best online services in Australia as part of the AMBER Awards.

AMBER, in this case, does not stand for the petrified sap of trees but for the…

For the past three years the most aggressive and effective Australian banks in seizing new clients in the micro-business space have been CBA and ANZ.

Yet in 2009, CBA emerged alone in aggressively competing for micro-business customers, with ANZ retreating significantly…

Choice, at least in financial services, isn’t necessarily a good thing – or at least it’s a poorly understood thing, because too much choice usually means consumers become paralysed.

The fast moving consumer goods and the internet search industry understand this…

The whopping 150 year custodial sentence handed down in the US this week to Bernard Madoff provides limited reprieve to the thousands of investors who lost money.

The publicity surrounding the $65bn fraud raises questions again over inadequacies of Government and…

Credit cards are a necessary evil in the diminishing cash world we inhabit, but so many of us don’t control the beast, bending over and paying without argument the extravagant fees and high interest demanded.

Currently there is over $32 billion…