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Ian Somerhalder of the CW TV series “Vampire Diaries” is encouraging people to use Goodshop To-Go to support his foundation, The Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF). Goodshop To-Go is a Web site that reportedly allows online shoppers to earn up to 20% of each of their purchases for their chosen cause or charity. Plus, it gives more than 100,000 coupons for users which enables them to not only save some money but also to donate with every purchase. What’s great is that this service is free!

Anchorage Capital Partners, the new owners of electronics retailer Dick Smith, is publicly listing the company and targeting $344 million for the initial public offering (IPO). They announced the IPO on Thursday afternoon.

Google has officially launched Helpouts on Nov. 5, 2013. It offers netizens help from experts via live chat over video. It includes tips in Art and Music, Computers and Electronics, Home and Garden, Education and Careers, Fashion and Beauty, Fitness and Nutrition, Health and Cooking. One of the first live video chats to be launched was Helpouts by Sephora featuring several makeup tips and tricks from the French brand and chain of cosmetics stores that can be found all over the world and on the I...

Australia Post launches world’s first video stamp

Yay, Butterbeer is here! Thanks to Starbucks, Harry Potter fans need not go to the Three Broomsticks Inn anymore to have a taste of this famous drink favoured by our beloved HP characters.

While prestigious model competitions such as America Next Top Model has opened its doors to plus-size models, fashion label Abercrombie & Fitch has just realised its folly in shutting its doors to clothes for bigger shoppers.

Oprah Winfrey has unveiled her favorite things in 2013. Each year, the Queen of Talk Shows makes a list of her favorite things and shares it with her viewers, even giving away some of these amazing products to lucky fans. Are you wondering what made her fabulous list this time around? Listed below are 10 of Oprah Winfrey's favorite things in 2013.

The Burger King (BK) 'Wicked Winter' ad is not socially responsible for promoting burgers as an effective hangover cure, according to the New Zealand Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Choice’s Shonky Awards had named and shamed SimCity producer EA Games, Kleenex's Mansize tissues and Qantas Frequent Flyer Toolbar among Australia’s dodgiest products.

In the latest attack by Chinese media on global companies, Starbucks and Samsung have both come under fire for allegedly bullying Chinese customers and over-charging them. Leading the charge China Central Television (CCTV) and the China Daily. This comes after iPhone maker Apple was blasted by CCTV earlier this year for not repairing customers' iPhones for free.

The V-Tex Technology Drink Chiller which cools drinks in just 45 seconds was recently unveiled by Enviro-Cool (UK) Limited (Ltd). It is designed to reduce energy consumption by 90%.

Coca-Cola, its name, logo and taste, is one of the best brands in the world. For those thinking to invest in the beverage giant should first take a look at the following facts.

Beginning on Wednesday, Oct 23, Walmart shoppers could bring in their old tablets and trade them for up to $300 voucher that they can used to buy a new tablet. The promo covers the newly launched iPad Air and iPad Mini.

Who would not want to work for big companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook? But how could one get a job in these "most wanted employers' companies?"

Toilets are associated with dirt and filth because it in those porcelain bowls where people pass out their solid and liquid body waste for sanitary purposes. But what if a restaurant decides to use toilet bowl-shaped containers to serve noodles and other Asian dishes in it, would you dare dine in such kind of establishment? The Magic Restroom Café, located at 18558 Gale Ave, No 222, City of Industry, Los Angeles, California, does that. The restaurant, owned by new restaurateur YoYo Li from China...

Crumbling Asian stocks was a result of the U.S. stalemate. Consequently, this has also affected the Australian market.

Push-up bras were invented to help females with small breasts to make it appear that these hapless women have bigger front bumpers.

8 police officers who risked their lives by entering a burning building in Wentworthville, New South Wales (NSW), Australia on Oct. 8, 2013 to help people who were trapped inside have been praised as heroes for their brave act. However, the man they saved, 36-year-old Jomaa Market store owner Chadi Jomaa, could be the one who started the fire in the first place.

An explosion rocked a two-storey building on Station Street in Wentworthville, New South Wales (NSW), Australia at around 4:30am on October 8, 2013. The building reportedly contained residential units on top of an Afghan supermarket.

By end 2015, the Coca-Cola Company, popularly known as Coke, will be launching 1,500 to 2,000 Ekocenters or mini one-stop shops that will supply cooked meals, clean water, power, Internet, vaccines and Coke products to 20 developing countries, which including Africa, Asia, North America and Latin America.

Nike opens contest for kids to design LeBron James' shirt.

Apple's newly released iPhone5C is living up to the C in its name for cheap at least in Walmart. The world's largest supermarket just dropped the price of the 5C to only $45 with a two-year contract.

The 2013 EB Games EXPO is a gamer’s dream come true. It is an annual event for the gaming industry, which features upcoming games, presentations from game developers and several community events. It will be held at the Sydney Showgrounds in Sydney, Australia from Oct. 4-6, 2013.

Woolworths, the largest chain of supermarkets in Australia, will not be offering eggs from battery hens in its stores anymore. This is in line with the company’s environmental commitment for sustainability and the reduction of carbon footprint, which includes animal welfare.

Eighty-six per cent of consumer payments by Australians are done in other ways except cash, indicating how far ahead if the country in terms of becoming a cashless society.

Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry arrived at his team's media day wearing something radically different. Instead of wearing Nike shoes, as he had been doing for the past four years, he was wearing Under Armour.

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.

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.

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.