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Success or failure? The Click Frenzy on Nov 20 in Australia was met with mixed reviews with a major retailer calling the event a runaway success, while critics who bit the hype that it was the sale that would stop the nation were disappointed not only because of the Web site's crash but also the flimsy deals made available.

Due to perceived bad policies put in place by the Gillard government, Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart warned on Thursday that the country may risk following the model of financially challenged European nations.

By Tatiana Didier, Roberto Rigobon and Sergio SchmuklerInvestment through global funds increases year on year.

Quietly, Samsung has refreshed its Galaxy Tab line, which is the South Korean tech giant’s answer to Apple’s iPad, earlier this year, giving it some bump up to fit prevailing tablet lovers’ demands and trimming some excesses at the same time.

Few months into its scheduled February 2013 launch for new generation of handsets and a revised mobile platform, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) saw considerable boosts on shares value, reports said.

There is a third smartphone system outside the dominant Android and iOS world and it’s called the Windows Phone 8. Of course we know that already in the same way that we equate WP8 to Nokia’s Lumia handsets.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has denied reports she was aware of a Melbourne property that was bought on money allegedly pilfered from union coffers, insisting that her role as lawyer for the Australian Workers Union (AWU) was strictly on setting up its ‘slush fund’.

By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArenaI joined Twitter. Not because I am curious what this celebrity has to say about her kids, or to read that another one is waiting for a connecting flight, impatiently.

By Richard (Rick) MillsAhead of the HerdAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best informationNickel is present in over 3000 different alloys that are used in over 300,000 products for consumer, industrial, military, transport/aerospace, marine and architectural a...

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 PeelIn the most anticipated come-back since Nellie Melba, China's manufacturing PMI is back in expansion territory after thirteen consecutive months of contraction.

One more bad publicity for Microsoft’s Windows 8 as Yahoo! News reported that influential gadget reviewer Jakob Nielsen will wait out for the next version of the operating system, judging the freshly rolled out OS as lacking the punch for a compelling PC experience.

LG’s Optimus smartphone lines can be considered as the South Korean consumer electronic firm’s saviour. The handsets are largely credited for nudging LG out of the red column, chalking up respectable profits after the global smartphone scrambling had ended for the September 2012 quarter.

HTC One S has been in the competition for quite some time but a second and really thorough look seems warranted for a device that enraptured quite a number of tech experts for its impressive and sturdy finish.

The Aussie took a tumble on Wednesday as Euro zone finance ministers, the IMF and the European Central Bank failed for a second week in a row to reach an agreement on how to get Greece's debt down to a manageable level.

By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 48 points, or 0.4%, while the S&P gained 0.2% to 1391 and the Nasdaq added 0.

Looking to get Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Mini minus the two-year obligation? The downsized mobile phone is currently available on Amazon, CNET said on Tuesday, but stocks are running very low.

Global sales of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 8, has been slow at best but devices running the cross-platform OS were moving in a much better pace, tech blog site Mashable reported this week.

The power of online shopping could be both liberating and problematic if one is not as conspicuous as ever. Scanning through colourful and interactive catalogues of products and services spells fun as the new shopping flare. Nonetheless. shopping or just browsing, one should not let your guard down as there are those on the watch to do some online mischief.

Click Frenzy's website may have crashed due to the surge of consumers wanting to get first dibs on discounted products, and may have lost patrons along the way, but the real winners here were the retailers themselves prepared to serve online consumers.

Looking to get Samsung’s Galaxy S3 Mini minus the two-year obligation? The downsized mobile phone is currently available on Amazon, CNET said on Tuesday, but stocks are running very low.

The Finnish mobile phone maker is set to deploy its revamped and rebranded map application, now called Here, to Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android ecosystems, which the company said should be up and ready for downloads in the next few weeks.

The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is the tablet incarnation of everything about Amazon. As one reviewer observed – consumers so deeply entangled with the giant online retailer’s sub-ecosystem will find this new slate the quickest gateway in accessing products on the company’s store.

General Electric takes the Lead in Avio Acquisition

'Ahh the French', as Orson Welles once declared in an infamous champagne commercial. The Hollywood legend made the point that French champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence. Today, the French are being punished for their excess. At least, that's how we see it.

Billabong International Ltd., the Australian surf wear manufacturer, which had expected buyers withdraw offers for takeover the previous month, stated on the 19th of November that one of the directors of the firm was set to investigate a probable Billabong leveraged buyout offer of the company.

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 7 points, while the S&P gained a point to 1387 and the Nasdaq was flat.

Job loss is a possible trigger for heart attack, putting at risk older people and those with serious medical conditions such as high blood pressure and obesity, a new U.S. study said.

A lower cash rate right before the 2012 Christmas season goes into full swing remains a possibility as suggested by the Nov. 6 RBA board meeting minutes, which hinted that ‘further easing’ could be on the way.