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Keep up to date with the Australian market report from leading finance commentator Michael Pascoe. Get the information you need with a morning report and an afternoon wrap covering all the major news and market movers.

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VV Show #49 - Rafat Ali of paidContent and contentNext
Download the MP3. Attention entrepreneurs dealing with the current economic downturn: This interview is for you. After working as a journalist for Jason Calacanis at Silicon Alley Reporter, Rafat Ali ended up broke in a market with a dearth of employment opportunities. To try to find a new job, Rafat created paidContent.org as an "interactive resume." Luckily, no one hired him. From these humble beginnings, Rafat bootstrapped his blog holding company, ContentNext Media, for four years before taking a small investment from famed media investor Alan Patricof in June 2006. From its inception paidContent has doubled revenues each year and was recently acquired by UK-based Guardian Media Group for a rumored $30 million. Listen in as Rafat outlines the past, present, and future of online media, while sharing his war stories from another uncertain economic time.

Harvard Business IdeaCast 141: Use Failure to Grow Your Business
Featured Guest: Rita McGrath, coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth." Copyright 2009 Harvard Business School Publishing

Market Report Friday July 25 - PM
A bloody end to the week - the biggest one-day fall in six months - as the market seems to over-react to NAB's announcement of extra provisioning.