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30th January 2011 Archive

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  • Coupons drive M&A activity downunder

    Party like it’s 1999

    It’s feeling a little bit like 1999 in the Sydney digital startup space. Last week online giant and TV broadcaster mash-up Yahoo!7 made the next in a series of digital acquisitions, this time taking out one of the top players in the white hot coupon space, Spreets, for a handy $40 million. For Spreets, which launched a mere 12 …

    Media 30 Jan 2011, 20:50

  • Farewell, E-Com Multi

    What goes around, comes around

    Ten months after deciding to ditch the IT industry in favour of Australia’s booming mining sector, E-Com Multi has issued the prospectus that will, once complete, see the company listed as Rico Resources. Once described as a “successful automotive ecommerce startup” (back in 2002), the company had recast itself as an installer …

    Financial News 30 Jan 2011, 22:21

  • Disto shares in Motorola’s mining radio win

    Qld Gas to shell out $14.4m on radiocomm for LNG project

    Motorola Solutions is to provide $14.4 million worth of radio communications infrastructure for Queensland Gas Corporation’s (QGC) southern-Queensland liquefied natural gas project. The system will be installed and commissioned by Motorola and Brisbane-based CBO. Motorola will supply a microwave backbone for the QGC gas …

    The Channel 30 Jan 2011, 23:12