Mazda announces recruitment plan to create 475 new jobs
Posted on 12 Mar 2015 by Tim Brown
Mazda has announced a new graduate recruitment plan for fiscal year ending March 2017 which will see it employ a total of 475 new workers. News
Vegemite disputes New Zealand dollar coin found in packet
Posted on 12 Mar 2015 by Tim Brown
Mondelez International, which makes Vegemite in Australia, has disputed claims by a New Zealand woman that a local one dollar coin was found in her Vegemite packet. $72m Perth Stadium steel contract awarded to Cimvec
Posted on 12 Mar 2015 by Matthew Buckley
A $73m contract to produce the steel for the new Perth Stadium has been awarded to Western Australian civil engineering and construction firm Cimvec. Swiss pilots attempt first round the world solar powered flight
Posted on 11 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess
Aviation history is currently in the making as Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg attempt the first solar powered flight around the world. Alcoa to expand aerospace operations with titanium aquisition
Posted on 11 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess
Major metal manufacturer, Alcoa, is set to pay $1.5bn in stock to acquire Pittsburgh-based titanium company RTI International Metals following an announcement last week. Abbott’s $900m backflip on Automotive Transformation backfires
Posted on 11 Mar 2015 by Tim Brown
The Abbott government has this week been accused of gross over exaggeration after it announced a $900m package to the Australian car industry that may only be worth $100m. Volkswagen to invest $1bn in Mexico assembly plant expansion
Posted on 10 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess
Volkswagen has announced it will invest $1bn to expand its vehicle assembly plant in Mexico’s Puebla state, which the company first opened in 1964. NASA probe Dawn enters orbit of dwarf planet
Posted on 10 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess
NASA has made history once again, with its Dawn probe becoming the first spacecraft ever to circle a dwarf planet. Take a drone tour of Alice at the Large Hadron Collider
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 by Tim Brown
As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to fire up again at the end of the month following two year's of maintenance, its operators have released a video shot by a drone as it flies over Alice, one of the LHC's four detectors. Annual funding for US ed tech companies up 55% in 2014
Posted on 9 Mar 2015 by Aiden Burgess
THE US Education Technology sector received a massive boost last year, with funding having reached $1.87bn in 2014.