Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
Quantitative easing is not just a simple extension of conventional monetary policy and its eventual unwind is less dangerous than financial markets think.
Private equity investors are looking to coal mines for their next big win. If they can turnaround chronic mismanagement they'll set an example for other industries.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
Kevin Rudd's camp has employed crude methods to promote the worthy cause of a post-union party – inadvertently adding an ironic twist to Labor's misogyny concerns.
Labor is due for a comeuppance at the election but Julia Gillard's political failings are just one of the party's crimes to come out of this wayward parliament.
Shares in the engineering and mining services company lifted today after NBN Co awarded it $366 million worth of contract extensions for the broadband rollout.
Vodafone's 4G network is a step in the right direction for Australia's number three telco and could yet allow it to accomplish the impossible... a comeback.
While the lack of attendees at the anti-wind protest in Canberra left MC Alan Jones a bit underwhelmed, a hastily organised pro-wind rally nearby had more than six times the number of attendees.
As Russia and its allies block climate talks there's hope that America might finally do something. Elsewhere, Warren Buffett continues to back renewables, it's the end of a solar era in Italy, Japan shows signs of slowing down and the EU carbon price lifts again.
CEOs outline changing views on corporate spending and profits, their economic expectations and political dissatisfaction, including advice for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
UK-based Zeebox wants to be the intermediary for all social media-television interactions. It will not only have to lure viewers, but the networks themselves.
Public concerns about cyber attacks and loss of personal data hit their highest level in five years, according to latest poll by IT services provider Unisys.
With new and dangerous malware infecting our computers every day, there's now a potent argument for cyber security measures that use data and insight gleamed from past infections to help prevent new ones.
Hackers have broken into the computer network of the Polish president's office and attempted to spread a computer virus in the form of an email attachment.
ReutersWells Fargo & Co has become the latest bank to suffer problems with its website amid heightened concerns about cyber attacks against US financial institutions.
ReutersThe German government has urged the public to temporarily stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer following discovery of yet-to-be repaired bug in the web browser that the software maker said makes PCs vulnerable to attack by hackers.
ReutersAT&T Inc said some business customers temporarily lost internet access because its network was targeted by unknown attackers earlier this week.
Yahoo, Billabong, Crikey have become the latest in a growing list of companies that have seen their databases come under attack. So are hackers getting smarter or are we making their lives easier?
ReutersTechnology groups Facebook and LinkedIn have agreed to beef up their international privacy and compliance teams in response to demands from the Irish regulator, the deputy Data Protection Commissioner has told Reuters.
Apple is annoyed about other companies mining infomation from the internet habits of its users and has filed a patent for software to blur their online footprint.
Superannuation accounts may be the next frontier in the war on cybercrime according to a Australian Federal Police submission to the Joint Select Committee of Cyber Security.
ReutersMicrosoft India's retail website has been hit with a hacking attack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers' obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site.
With fraudsters targeting the increasing number of people using micro-blogging, here's a few tips to getting back on your feet if your Twitter account is hacked.
Google may have shed its goody-two-shoes with the sweeping changes to its privacy policies but it's really business as usual for the search engine giant.
With Facebook and Google+ forcing users to appear under their real names the freedom to act anonymously on the internet may soon be over and that might not be as beneficial as the networks would have you believe.
