Australian smart energy innovator carbonTRACK has appointed technology veteran Brenton Spear as chief executive officer to work alongside founder Spiros Livadaras to drive the company’s global growth.

Digital marketing and directory services provider Sensis has been sold to client experience and small business software provider Thryv.

MYOB has chosen Greg Ellis to succeed Tim Reed as its CEO.

Australian business consulting firm Elabor8 has boosted its executive team with the appointment of 30-year ICT industry veteran John Sullivan as its new chief executive.

IT solutions company Tquila ANZ has a appointed 20-year industry veteran Janet Michie to the newly created position of Telstra channel manager in a move it says is part of strengthening its partnership with the telco.

Sensis, the marketing services company that publishes the online Yellow Pages and White pages directories, has been rapped over the knuckles by the competition watchdog, the ACCC, and undertaken to refund customers for not fully disclosing contract terms.

Online sales of products and services in Australia are increasing, with more than half of the country’s small and medium sized businesses now using e-commerce, according to newly published research from Sensis.

Yahoo7 is to sell advertising across the Sensis network under a new partnership between the two companies.

Australian businesses need to jump on the social media bandwagon quick smart if they want to engage and attract the interest of consumers to their products and services.

UK-based Sales platform provider CloudSense has opened a new office in Sydney as it looks to further accelerate growth in the Asia Pacific market.

Former Service Stream CIO Craig Wishart has taken on a senior executive role at ICT solutions firm UXC as the company absorbs a raft of acquisitions over the course of this year.

A new report shows that while three in four Australians are making online purchases, only a quarter are purchasing from overseas businesses. This is down from one third last year.

Just a month after announcing it would sell 70% of directories business Sensis to private equity firm Platinum, Telstra has announced 800 jobs will go. Was that part of the deal?

Telstra boss David Thodey says the sale of 70% of the Sensis directories business to Platinum Equity for $454 million and the partnership with the US equity firm will maximise the value for shareholders.

Telstra is selling off a majority stake in Sensis to a US private equity firm for $454 million.

Telstra subsidiary Sensis has entered into an agreement to acquire News Limited owned online directory business TrueLocal.

Telstra has finally thrown in the towel on its $636m, 2004 acquisition of the Trading Post: Australian online auction site and marketplace, quicksales.com.au - a subsidiary of carsales.com (ASX: CRZ) - is to licence the TradingPost.com.au brand from Telstra and operate the TradingPost.com.au website.

Sensis is reporting a 23 percent increase in ownership of home computers and a ten fold increase in ownership of tablets by Australians aged 65 and over, in just 12 months.

Former News Corporation executive, John Allan, has been named managing director of Telstra's directories subsidiary, Sensis, replacing Bruce Akhurst, whose resignation was announced in March.