Amidst the industry's focus on growing popularity of smartphones and tablets, Google, Inc., operator of the world's most popular search engine, said at an event in San Francisco California, it has made improvements for conducting Web searches in desktops, the device still used for the bulk of queries in Google.
The US Supreme Court is set to rule on whether up to 1.5 million women, who are current and former employees of Walmart, can sue the company for sexual discrimination.
Driven to take advantage of current ore prices and be ahead of its peers, Rio Tinto Ltd (ASX: RIO) and its partners have decided to hasten the development in its project in the Pilbara Region in Western Australia by earmarking some US$676 million of funding for early works and procurement.
FNArena has added another video to its Investors Education section on the website. In this educational video, ATW's Jerry Simmons explains weakness at the opening of the month was "strategic" as it led to the S&P500 weakening into and below the 1290-1295 zone.
Not the best way to start an investor day briefing for Insurance Australia management with news of another round of earthquakes and damage from Christchurch headlining news broadcasts and at the forefront of investor's thinking.
Eight hours or so after IAG issued its investor day update, QBE, the country's biggest insurer, revealed that while its expecting as 50% to 60% rise in first half earnings, the spate of natural disasters would play havoc with its insurance returns.
For many employers, discovering that an employee has earned extra income from some form of 'moonlighting' is a dismissible offence.
US producer prices rose by just 0.2pct in May after rising by 0.8pct in April. The modest rise in prices was largely due to a fall in gasoline prices.
Buyout activity helped U.S. blue chip stocks eke out a slim gain Monday, though the economic worries that have driven six straight weeks of losses kept traders cautious and weighed on the technology sector.
Ratings agency Standard and Poor´s has slashed the credit rating of Greece by three notches from B to CCC and retained a negative outlook on the rating. S&P has also warned that it would view a debt restructuring as a default.
For a third straight month, business owners in Australia have been down by pessimism as the Australian dollar reached new highs, an indicative report by the National Australia Bank (NAB) said.
Australian men are overweight, have a higher risk of cancer, prone to illicit drug use, injury, and smoking and have a shorter life expectancy that women but don't expect them to see a doctor about it, at least according to a recent study by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
More Aussies are forgetting their manners and using their mobile phones inappropriately, according to new Telstra State of the Nation Research.
The retail giant's $1.4 billion plan to dominate its competitors in the home improvement market hit a giant block in limited land space in key sites. Bunnings, the leading hardware retail store and the one Woolworths is gunning for has already gobbled up land during the global economic crisis.
Last week at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2011, technology giant Apple took the wraps off OS X Lion, saying it has 250 new features. Aside from the price tag set for this new OS – an electrifying $29 or $100 dollars less than the previous $129 Apple operating systems – here are 10 reasons why Apple fans should consider upgrading:
By Greg PeelLast week saw the annual World Nuclear Fuel Conference held in Seville which distracted the usual market suspects and ensured a mere 150,000 pounds of U308 equivalent was traded in the spot uranium market, industry consultant TradeTech notes.
Ash from a Chilean volcano, which is streaming over Adelaide and Tasmania, continued to disrupt airline services in Australia and New Zealand.
Beef cattle producers in Australia can expect an increase in projected farm cash incomes in 2010-11 as a result of improved seasonal conditions according to a new report released today by ABARES.
Vegetable prices in Australia had now promptly returned to pre-flood levels after short-term price increases in early January and February this year, official industry reports said.
The Coalition will attempt to overturn the government's ban on exit fees in the Senate through a vote in the Senate.
Market-leading IT company Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced Monday that it will be reorganizing its corporate structure to fit with the strategy shift it announced last March.
By Greg PeelThe Dow fell 172 points or 1.4% while the S&P dropped 1.4% to 1270 and the Nasdaq lost 1.5%.
(This story was originally published on June 8th, 2011. It has now been republished to make it available to non-paying members at FNArena and to readers elsewhere).
Judging by the market outlook commentaries over the weekend and last night, it's going to be a seventh negative week for global markets this week.
The most important announcement for the Australian and global markets will be the second round of Chinese data for May due out later today.
According to one view, China's import data in May was fairly benign; according to other views, it's a signal of a gathering slowdown.
Once again markets have looked at China's monthly trade figures and fretted and fussed about a slowdown or a bust in 2013 (why?) or suggested that the economy is heading into no man's land.
When a prospective employment candidate looks at an organisation, what do they see? Employer brand and recruitment processes have a direct impact on the success of talent attraction and retention efforts.
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it plans to start selling its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer in Australia and 15 other new markets in the next 30 days.
There was a drop in the amount of full-time positions in Australia in May, which was offset by a rise in part-time roles, according to the latest employment figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
