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Pub sales start the new year on a strong note
The pub sector has started the new year on a busy note.
- by Carolyn Cummins
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15 years of Facebook: has it made the world, and Australia, a better place?
Monday will mark 15 years since Mark Zuckerberg started the social media platform from his Harvard dorm room in what has now become Silicon Valley lore.
- by Jennifer Duke & John McDuling
Commercial real estate
Accent Group sneaking out of the blocks
Accent Group is working on a new sneaker concept store out of the CBD retail core.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Commercial real estate
Headwinds will replace tailwinds for REIT markets in 2019
Headwinds are coming for the commercial property sector in 2019.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Commercial real estate
Developers focus on another stellar year for suburban offices
Property developer Peter Cahill is hoping to ride the suburban office boom, which resulted in more than $1 billion worth of assets transacting in 2018 – the fifth year in a row of $1 billion-plus sales.
- by Simon Johanson
Mining
'Get on with it': Rio boss urges Indigenous recognition
Australia's two biggest miners created corporate history this week, when they jointly backed an Indigenous push of 2017 for constitutional recognition
- by Darren Gray
Ansell buys US glove maker for $96.2m
Ansell has continued the rebalancing of its business following the 2017 sale of its condom-making unit.
- by Stuart Condie
Commercial real estate
Nine's former home of TV gets final nod for $400m redevelopment
The last planning hurdle for the $400 million redevelopment of the former home of Nine Entertainment at Willoughby, in Sydney's north, has been cleared
- by Carolyn Cummins
Media & marketing
SMH, The Age, AFR journalists dominate business reporting awards
Journalists from The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review have dominated the 2018 Westpac Excellence in Financial Journalism Awards.
- by Sumeyya Ilanbey
Aviation
Qantas buys stake in charter flight operator, hopes to become majority owner
Qantas has snapped up a 20 per cent stake in charter flight operator Alliance Aviation Services and intends to become its majority owner if the competition watchdog lets it.
- by Patrick Hatch
National security
Brumby quits Huawei board days after US criminal charges outlined
Former Victorian premier John Brumby has resigned from the board of Huawei’s Australian operations in a damaging blow to the Chinese technology giant.
- by Richard Baker & Nick McKenzie