With China and its steel making industry continuously slashing its production output and ultimately decreasing import demand, revenues of capesize ships that haul steel making raw materials iron ore and coal have been hardly hit and fell for a third day.
By Rudi Filapek-VandyckFNArena has added another video to its Investors Education section on the website.
Qantas will resume flights by noon Monday after Fair Work Australia (FWA) ordered an end to its lockout and grounding of 108 planes that stranded 68,000 passengers worldwide since Saturday.
Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC will now offer its Android users 5Gb of free cloud storage thru file hosting service Dropbox. HTC announced this new partnership on its Facebook page.
It seems like you can't read about tech news without running across news about one company suing another for patent infringement. Just this week, Apple was granted a patent for the slide to unlock feature which is also a feature in most smartphones. What this means is that Apple can now sue other phone and tablet manufacturers for using the slide to unlock feature and we can reasonably expect a new spate of patent infringement cases from this development in addition to all the lawsuits flying...
Australians visit an average of 2,772 Web pages months, according to Nielsen Online Ratings, which recently got the Interactive Advertising Bureau's (IAB) endorsement as preferred measure of counting Internet Activities in the country.
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In a stunning reversal of its August decision to spin off its PC division, HP will keep its stake in the personal computer business. The hardware giant had announced that it would kill of its smartphone and tablet products and would consider splitting the company in two. This idea was definitively scrapped when HP announced in a press release that it would keep its $40 billion its Personal Systems Group or PSG.
The confidence of small businesses in Australia is yet to be fired up, according to the results of the latest survey done by the National Australia Bank.
The distinction between online retailers and bricks-and-mortar stores is slowly being erased due to the falling rates of rentals in Australia.
The 52nd annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in Florida is showcasing a prototype of a personal submarine that can repeatedly take up to three people for a trip down into the deepest part of the Earth, the Mariana Trench.
After the latest inflation figures released on Wednesday showed that the Australian economy is slowing, economists are now tipping an interest rate cut.
Should the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lower interest rates, most Australians would rather reduce debt than go on a Christmas spending spree, a national survey by mortgage broker Loan Market has found.
Facebook protects majority of its 800 million active users from spams using a massive defense network called Facebook Immune System (FIS). But a researcher said users may lose their personal information to bots posing as friends.
- A stronger US dollar has been impacting on steel prices- MEPS suggests greenback strength could impact on pattern of world trade- Impact of stronger US currency anticipated to continue into 2012By Chris ShawThe average Hot Rolled Coil price for BRIC countries as calculated by steel industry consul...
The ongoing industrial dispute in Qantas which has caused family holidays to be canceled and business meetings to be postponed has dug so far a $68-million hole in Qantas's pocket.
Pundits have been saying that the patent war among smartphone makers is killing innovation. But recently unveiled touch-screen phones show that device-makers are no longer copying each other's designs for a large rectangular brick and are trying to outdo each other in adding cutting edge features in their devices.
Victoria's water minister said the project manager of the desalination plant under construction in Wonthaggi will have to pay $1.6 million fine for each day of delay in finishing the project after the June 30 deadline.
By David Fessler, Investment U Senior AnalystThere's a plan, considered grandiose by its critics.
While the biggest news out of Nokia World is the announcement of Nokia's first Windows Phone, the mobile phone company also unveiled a new line that is aimed at emerging markets such as India and Africa.
Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI) has confirmed the previously provided guidance for the 12 months to 30 June 2012 for an after tax profit of between $600-650 million after completing a detailed forecasting review across all of its operating companies.
The engineering and construction markets in Australia are expected to grow strongly over the next few years, according to construction giant Leighton Holdings (ASX: LEI).
Owners of cars exposed to the Fukushima radiation are auctioning off the vehicles around Japan after failing to export and decontaminate them.
By Greg PeelThe Dow rose 339 points or 2.9% while the S&P gained 3.4% to 1284 and the Nasdaq added 3.3%.
Apple's Siri may be the new media darling these days but that doesn't mean that Google's Voice Search is going to stand being ignored. Google uploaded a pair of new videos to its YouTube channel that show two Australian engineers pushing the limits of Google's Voice Search.
Rio Tinto plans to conduct a complex testing program in 2012 for its VK1 exploration technology.
Speculations are abuzz that Australia's coal market is nearing its zenith, what with the latest intent of Australian coal miner New Hope Corp. wanting to be bought out in the tune of $5 billion.
Australian affordable tablet computer manufacturer Kogan may have given in to pressure from Apple not to sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1, but two retailers are resisting Apple.
The Australian Stock Exchange is back online after trading was halted for four hours on Thursday due to a technical glitch. Trading resumed 2 p.m. after the market stopped at 10:05 a.m.
More Australian consumers are shifting to plastic money to do their purchases. As a result credit and debit card transactions are expected to reach 4 billion in 2011.
