BUSINESS

Facebook has generated enough market excitement that experts said its public offering debut would easily attract total buys that would kick up the company's value at around $100 billion.

Australia's general trading environment is far from being ideal but Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) is upbeat that profit gains will mark the initial half of its calendar 2012, which will be anchored on specific expansion moves.

Credit unions have long been touted as an alternative to banks, though only recently have more and more customers made the switch over to the financial cooperative.

Australia's mining sector continues to gallop, while the rest of the economy trails behind.

By Greg PeelIndustry consultant TradeTech reports five transactions in the uranium spot market last week totalling 500,000lbs of U3O8 equivalent.

Concerns about Greece's possible exit from the euro zone helped to push U.S. stocks to three-month lows, as the Dow industrials lost ground for the eighth time in nine sessions.

U.S. financial firm Goldman Sachs Group Inc has more than doubled its exposure to short-term Italian government debt over the first quarter of this year.

A quick preview of the key economic events for the upcoming week!

By Greg PeelThe Dow closed down 125 points or 1.0% while the S&P lost 1.1% to 1338 and the Nasdaq dropped 1.

This week, three seemingly unrelated stories hit the news.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that consumers should not blame the company for the constant program crashes of Macintosh computer during the 90s. He said that it was Microsoft’s fault.

The Fair Work Ombudsman will go over the books of about 120 cafes, restaurants and fast food outlets in Adelaide to check abuse of workers, particularly in the area of wages.

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has decided to junk his American passport, believing that his U.S. citizenship would prove impractical as he stays most of the time in Asia, where he has long-secured residency status.

The unexpected gains in Australia's unemployment rate in April may once again be placed in peril with threats of job cuts in several companies.

Conflicting data...what to believe?

Sony Corp, once the envy of its rivals, chalked up anew billions in yearly losses, pointing to the sagging fortune of the Japanese firm that once crafted consumer electronic products that became ubiquitous in global households.

Samsung Electronics has finally started rolling out Android 4.0 or Android ICS updates for Samsung Galaxy Note. The lucky people who would first experience the update would be Samsung Galaxy Note users in Europe.

Many people who have Android-based smartphones and tablets are becoming frustrated due to the lack or slow roll out of Android updates. Both Google and mobile carrier AT&T are refusing to take the blame for this situation.

Intel’s chief executive Paul Otellini predicted that a hybrid of tablet and ultrabook will be “the next big thing” in the tech world.

A mortgage broker in Western Australia has been found guilty of bilking as much as $1.2 million from seven borrowers and using the cash to pay his credit card bills and other debts.

After four years of housing market slump, in early-2012 house prices in the Netherlands continue to fall.

Nothing excites Australians like house prices and mortgage rates. It is no surprise, therefore, that the recent decision by major banks to increase interest rates 'outside the cycle' - that is independently of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - has led to hyperventilation among consumers and politicians.

Australian banking major ANZ has defended its policy on interests in a letter addressed to The Age from its Australian operations chief Phil Chronican who argues that the cost of funding has increased substantially, and provided data to support his claim.

Nicholas Moore, chief executive of Macquarie has added his voice to growing calls made by leaders of industry for interest rates to be cut next week as a means by which confidence in the country would be boosted by helping export based industries who are currently suffering from the high value of the Australian dollar.

Your Facebook account will soon be like your iOS and Android phones as it will launch its App Center in the coming weeks.

Australian miner Dart Energy said on Friday that it would no longer drill a coal seam gas (CSG) well in St Peters, Sydney, The firm confirmed its statement in a filing with the Australian Securities Exchange.

Today we take up the challenge of the art of stock valuation in a world of monetary madness. We're already a few years into what's probably going to be a prolonged bear market.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has given permission to three Chinese state-backed banks to set up branches within the U.S.

London's finance sector is facing a 16-year low in the number of available jobs, said the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) on Wednesday, with the euro zone crisis expected to cause more than 25,000 layoffs in 2012.