Three robberies within 48 hours hit different retail outlets in Toronto, Canada. In the latest incident, keeping with the high-end character of the fashion outlet, the robbers rode a white BMW X5 and stole $100,000 worth of items on Wednesday from a Prada shop.
RadioShack and Staples Outlets have removed the Amazon Lockers after a year of letting the online shopping site drop off the customer ordered items in lockers.
Apple continues to have a big week as it finally unveils the iOS 7. Not to mention, the tech giant has also just unwrapped two of its phones: the iPhone 5S and 5C. Additionally, Apple has also unveiled their latest operating system interface: iOS 7. What’s the verdict?
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) remains one of the most widely followed stocks in the world despite critics saying that Apple is no longer an innovative company with the recent launch of its latest products, the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S.
Apple iOS 7 download “error occurred” message frustrates users
Google Doodle, in celebration of 194th birthday of Léon Foucault features an interactive Foucault pendulum
Pope Francis is now in a bottle. Well, his scent at least. American fragrance maker Excelsis Fine Fragrances has released a new scent that pays homage to the "humble and down to earth" personality of the half-year old supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic church. A dab of this scent would probably make someone smell heavenly, or smell like a saint. Just hope it won't make criminals smell as appealing too.
New Zealand has the fifth highest job turnover rates in the world, according to the Kelly Global Workforce Index. Experts said that New Zealanders are willing to take risks and change jobs more often in a reviving economic environment.
The Australian share market is hovering at 5 year highs at lunchtime in the East on Thursday, following a spectacular night for US stocks which saw the Dow Jones Index close at a record high.
The popular adage that in life the only permanent things are change and death could possibly be altered if tech giant Google would succeed in its ambitious venture to solve death.
By Greg PeelIn the past two months, the US economy has shed 347,000 jobs, notes the UK Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, roughly comparable with the rate of loss seen post-GFC.
BlackBerry unboxed on Wednesday the Z30 smartphone, hoping the device would boost the finances of the ailing Canadian company, which is set to lay off 40 per cent of its employees by yearend.
BRW Magazine released on Wednesday its 2014 Young Rich List for Australia which was topped by two software entrepreneurs who established the company Atlassian, now valued at $550 million.
With Tourism Australia pushing for Australian wine and food through the Restaurant Australia campaign and official government statistical data confirming more wine exports to China, it is little wonder that beer drinking in the country down under is going down.
By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 147 points or 1.0% while the S&P gained 1.2% to 1725 and the added Nasdaq 1.3%.
I was in Uruguay and then Buenos Aires, Argentina, last week. I met with a variety of interesting people on my trip. One of them is a guy who writes a blog from Buenos Aires, OfWealth.com, under the pen name 'Marco Polo'.
At the close, the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) eased by 0.3 per cent ahead of the Federal Reserve's statement on monetary policy tomorrow morning. The two biggest sectors of the Australian market (the miners and financials) headed in opposite directions and played a balancing role for local equities.
In some good news for the agriculture sector in Australia, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) says the country’s gross value of farm production is expected to achieve a record of $49 billion in 2013-14.
Apple confirms iPhone 5s and 5c Sept 20 release date.
Investors are sitting on the sidelines ahead of tomorrow morning's US central bank update on its stimulus strategy. The All Ordinaries Index (XAO) is down 0.3 per cent, however still is hovering around five-year highs. Local stocks have improved over seven of the past eight sessions. Global markets moved negligibly overnight and interrupted trade in the region is also keeping a lid on trade.
Apple iPad Mini is used to try a mobile app which will allow police to issue tickets
Here is a list of countries which the U.S. government has limited or no trade with.
It was a relatively quiet day on the stock market. The S&P500 backed off a little, but it's had a pretty good run lately. We've been telling our subscribers that the market is set up for either a meltdown or a melt-up. We're sitting in the meltdown camp.
Big moves happened overnight. In fact, if you go by betting website Paddy Power's numbers, the moves were so big they had to shut down the entire market.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday a $119.99 price for the Windows 8.1 OS for people who are still running older versions of Windows. It applies to computers using Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
By Peter Switzer, Switzer Super ReportCall me old fashioned but I love the 7% plus play and I always think of this when, like now, a lot of experts are talking about "rotation".
FNArena is surveying investor sentiment in Australia in an effort to generate, over time, a guage similar to the AAII Investor Sentiment Survey in the US.
By Greg PeelThe Dow closed up 34 points or 0.2% while the S&P gained 0.4% to 1704 and the Nasdaq added 0.
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) forecasts that the country's beef and veal exports will go up 6 per cent while dairy exports will increase 15 per cent.
There would be one less porn magazine on newsstands as FriendFinder Networks, publisher of Penthouse magazine, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday.
