Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, assured on Monday the 35-nation governing body of Vienna-based U.N. agency that Fukushima atomic power plant reactors are now stable.
A report released on Tuesday by Deloitte Access Economics forecasts a bleak year for Australia's retail industry. The study said sharemarket volatility would likely result in the sector turning from bad to worse.
The Australian securities regulator is investigating Hanlong Mining for suspected insider trading and has obtained freeze order on the assets of company officials.
Fears of a radioactive leak erupted in a French nuclear waste site after an explosion that killed at least one person and injured four Monday.
With 100 million users at the start of this year, Twitter now faces the challenge and mounting pressure to go public. An analysis of the social networking site's future moves and motives.
Australian steelmakers are seeking a reduction of interest rates and warned that if the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) would continue with the current trend, the long-term future of the steel manufacturing industry in the country would be at risk.
Thousands of Suncorp employees face a nervous wait as the Queensland based company undertakes a study to determine whether insurance jobs are to be sent offshore, a union claims.
The Swatch Group has severed its cooperation contract with Tiffany & Co. for allegedly delaying the development of the business and the company is preparing to file a case seeking compensation for the loss of the planned future business.
The United States government grants tax incentives to companies working on medical breakthroughs, urban redevelopment and alternatives to fossil fuels, the results of which could improve lives worldwide. However, the US government also grants tax breaks for the video game industry. Tax analysts are asking, “Why?” In a country that provides tax breaks for a company that created a video game about killing space zombies, tax analysts are baffled, to say the least.
In an act that could be classified as part of a larger global legal war between Apple and Samsung, a German court banned Korean firm Samsung from selling an iPad-like computer tablet in Germany, ruling it had emulated the iPad.
Coca Cola pursues alternative fuel vehicles through the launch of the latest e-trucks to reduce costs and promote a cleaner environment.
Target plans to open 50 small- sized stores called Urban by Target in next four years to increase sales.
The high-end smartphone market has attracted device makers due to its high margins and skyrocketing demand. With tens of smartphone models available today, who will emerge the winner if we send each handset to a contest where their beauty and talent will be judged?
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said on Monday that it would observe closely the moves of supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths, particularly if the two would try to purchase Franklins or other independent grocers.
Weak signals emitted by the general condition in Australia’s retail industry did not prevent key players from achieving higher margins in fiscal year 2011 and the good news is, better quarters are ahead for the sector, according to a new study.
YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley have another project in the works, a new revamped version of the social bookmarking site Delicious.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered on Sunday the closure of the Yakolev-42 chartered plane that crashed Wednesday that caused the death of 43 people, including almost all of the country's national hockey team members, AFP reports.
A strike contagion is apparently spreading in Australia's labor sector. Days after thousands of public workers in New South Wales walked off their job over a state pay cap, coal miners of BHP Billiton resumed their job walk off on Saturday over pay and work condition disputes with management.
Minecraft 1.8, the latest adventure update to the hugely popular sandbox building indie video game written in Java by Swedish creator Markus "Notch" Persson, has been leaked.
Microsoft Corp. will host a conference this week where Windows 8 and other new products are expected to be unveiled. But there are things we'd love to see at the event but won't.
Rumors of the iPhone 5 should be over in just a few weeks. An internal memo from U.S. carrier Sprint says that employees can't take time-off during Sept. 30 to Oct. 15 due to a major phone release. The memo backs rumors that Apple Inc.'s long delayed but highly anticipated iPhone 5 will be released in early October.
Outages are occurring too often. Up to 365 million users of Microsoft Corp.'s e-mail and cloud services worldwide were scratching their heads at the end of the week: Hotmail, Skydrive, Office 365, and others Windows Live service were inaccessible. Though service was restored in a couple of hours for most, the downtime was the second in 30 days.
Nexteer Australia has received government funding of $63 million to help develop and manufacture its innovative lightweight technology and create more than 250 jobs in Australia.
Ferrier Hodgson, an accounting firm specializing in insolvency, has been appointed as receiver of Solar Shop Australia Pty Ltd., Australia's largest provider of solar PV systems, a move that has shaken and disappointed the solar industry.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) appealed the Federal Court’sruling dismissing its application to prevent Metcash from acquiring the Franklins supermarket business, saying that the acquisition will erode competition .
With an iPhone 5 release date expected in October, all talk has been about Apple's yet to be unveiled smartphone.
Apple's popular iPad is a hot commodity with consumers but can they be used to make your business better?Here are 6 ways other companies have tailored the iPad to make a better customer experience and enhance their overall service.
Amidst the soaring threats of striking another global recession and skyrocketing prices in fuel, consumers in Indonesia manage to cultivate a growing penchant for cars, commodity gladly perceived prolific by Asia's largest car manufacturer, Toyota Motor Corporations.
In a move that has come to define the dog-eat-dog business world, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz was fired this week. Bartz has come back at this perceived betrayal with some expressive comments directed at the board of directors of the internet company.
AFTERNOON REPORT
(4.30pm AEST)The local share market has finished the trading week on a positive note, with the All Ordinaries Index (XAO) adding 7.6pts or 0.2pct to 4277.4 and the S&P/ASX 200 Index (XJO) firmer by 6.7pts or 0.2pct to 4194.7.
