COMPANIES

A day before it lets loose new Windows-powered devices in New York, Nokia unleashed on Tuesday its free music streaming service, which the mobile phone maker touted as both “enjoyable and easy to use.”

Improvements are now underway on its Chinese production facilities, Samsung disclosed on Monday, following allegations that the Asian tech titan’s manufacturing partners in China were deliberately subjecting product assemblers to inhumane working conditions.

Tiger Airways is roaring its way back into Australian skies by offering large discounts on one-way tickets for as low as $19.95 and resuming trips between Adelaide and Melbourne on Nov 1.

The rejection by Australian building firm Grocon of a compromise offer from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has led to the return on Monday evening of the blockade at the Emporium construction site in Melbourne.

Australia's retail sector showed unexpected poor sales in July and broadly trickling down to the fragile profits of businesses still gaping for low demand for exports in Europe.

The Victoria police have deployed hundreds of officers to the Grocon Myer Emporium construction site in Melbourne to secure the area occupied by members of the union. With their presence, the police safety secretly escorted 35 Grocon non-union employees inside the $250-million site.

Constantly competing for new sustainable and environment-friendly fuels, the Shell Group focused all efforts on a prominent goal of attaining corporate efficiency by means of sustaining the environment at no matter the costs?

Two weeks after Chery Auto, China's largest domestic automobile manufacturer and exporter, recalled some 23,000 vehicle units from Australia due to findings of potential cancer-causing asbestos in some models, the company announced it is set to recall an additional 18,000 units from overseas, still due to the same reason.

What Samsung has been up to since losing its U.S. legal battle with Apple last week? It appears the tech giant is far from licking its wound, opting instead to push out two new gadgets that it hopes would soon eclipse the court room disappointments it just absorbed.

Prospects for industrial peace in Grocon construction sites appears bleaker as the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) disclosed plans to further prolong the ongoing strike which on Thursday entered its ninth day.

A funny story is sweeping the internet. Samsung paid $1.05 billion to Apple by sending 30 trucks containing five cent coins.

Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to revisit the prohibition imposed by the Labor-led government on giant Chinese network specialist Huawei Technologies.

Samsung has vowed to fight Apple’s efforts to shove its gadgets out of the United States following last week’s jury verdict that labelled most of the South Korean tech giant’s products as less innovative.

Blazing wireless internet connectivity will be enjoyed by more than 60 percent of Australians come mid-2013 courtesy of the country’s leading telco Telstra Corporation.

Three rare Australian coins sold for almost $900,000 at a Melbourne auction on Monday night. The sale broke two records.

Acting Health Services Union (HSU) National President Chris Brown is studying the filing of 10 charges in a bid to oust whistleblower and HSU National Secretary Kathy Jackson.

The market responded positively with the Sundance Resources (SDL: ASX) announcement that it has accepted the lower and revised takeover offer of China's Hanlong Resources.

The global smartphone market has become more ‘exciting’ as an American jury found Samsung actually infringed on a number of patents exclusively owned by Apple, tech experts said.

In 2011, Australians lost a total of $4.8 billion to cybercriminals, according to a Norton cyber crime report released on Monday.

Perth residents trooped to shopping malls and other retail outlets on Sunday for the first time as Western Australia's amended Sunday trading laws took effect on Aug 26.

Apple’s iPad has provided much of the leg for the global tablet market to march through incredible growth in the June 2012 quarter, gaining 77 per cent from the overall shipments of the gadget over the past 12 months.

Gina Rinehart is having her sweet revenge on the Fairfax Media board, which rejected her bid to become director, by attempting to dump her shares of the financially challenged company.

South Korea tech giant Samsung recently opened its electronics store in Sydney that bears resemblance to the Apple Store a few blocks away.

Former mobile phones leader Nokia remains a king on its own right, but its current fiefdom appears not large enough for the struggling firm to reverse flagging fortunes, reports said.

Chinese assemblers of iPhones and iPads now work a reduced average of 60 hours each week, according to the update report released Tuesday by Washington-based Fair Labor Association (FLA).

Eight months into year 2012, Apple continues to flex its shares market muscle as the tech giant gained 64 per cent in the year so far and closed its Monday exchanges at $US665.15, en route to an overall market value of $US623.5 billion.

The Australian Automotive Aftermarket Association (AAAA) warned on Tuesday of the loss of 30,000 jobs in the car parts industry and an $800 million export market unless the government extends it assistance.

Amid global uproar on excessive executive pay, two chief executive officers from Australia would have made a good case study on the matter.

Australian flag carrier Qantas grounded two pilots who argued inside the cockpit of a Boeing 747 at the Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport. Their debate was over take-off calculations which they should enter into the plane's computer.