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The US Food and Drug Administration has found traces of listeria at an Augusta, Georgia, bakery owned and operated by US cereal giant Kellogg.

Woolworths has announced plans to source all its own-label fresh milk products from Parmalat in NSW, a move the company said is not related to its 'milk war' with Coles.

As with tennis elbow overuse will cause you pain. Alas, not just our weary elbows ache after the same activity over and over again but also our weary minds will feel the pain from management speak overuse syndrome.

The company claimed that under a unique measure used only by itself and the oil industry, earnings would fall 39%, but on the measure used by the rest of corporate Australia net profit is forecast to almost double for the six months to June.

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon have presented bills to phase out the live export trade over the next three years.

The vaunted mining boom may have largely fueled up the national economy yet in the case of the Northern Territory, its residential construction industry appeared to have absorbed the negative impacts of the two-wind growth.

Struggling with dwindling sales numbers while addressing the continued onslaught of Apple smartphones and their cheaper counterparts powered by Google’s Android, Finnish mobile giant Nokia aims to arrest its sliding market shares by refocusing its energy towards the lucrative Asian market.

More than a thousand of Australia’s corporate heads spent last night in the cold in order to raise funds and awareness for the homeless.

Harmful mineral oils from the printing inks used on cardboard can migrate into food if recycled cardboard is used for food packaging.

Paul Ceglia claims that in 2003 he signed a contract with Mark Zuckerberg that entitles him to half the holdings of Facebook Inc.'s co-founder and CEO. Last week, Ceglia said he underwent a polygraph test in New York last week to prove his claim. Now he wants to Zuckenberg to undertake the same lie detector test.

The Canada-based company has confirmed it will release the new touch BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 in late August this year. The new Bold looks a lot like the previous version, but boasts of a 2.8" touch screen and claims to be the thinnest Blackberry phone yet. It has dimensions of 115 x 66 x 10.5 mm, and weighs approximately 130 grams.

Nortel Networks Inc. has received significant level of interest in patents that can be used for smartphone technology. Accordingly, it postponed an action sanctioned by a bankruptcy court in the United States from June 20 to June 27, at 9:00 a.m.Apple Inc., the maker of the iPad and the iPhone will be trying to outbid Google Inc. for the tech portfolio, Bloomberg News reports, citing two people familiar with knowledge of the matter said.

India's Tata Steel has accepted the takeover offer of Rio Tinto for the Riversdale Mines in Africa, allowing the London-based mineral producer to have an edge over iron ore grade coal produced by Riversdale.

National Broadband Network (NBN) CEO Mike Quigley has been the victim of a Coalition smear campaign that has cost Australian taxpayers’ huge money, the Minister for Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said on Friday.

Australian companies are warned of the cyber security breach potential now that exposes critical information that now demands more attention.

Telstra Corporation Ltd downplayed reports indicating that it has finalised the finer details of the contract that embodies the giant telco’s $9 billion agreement with NBN Co. that will aid in the full roll out of the federal-sponsored national broadband network.

Lot's of talk about dominos in European banks and economies if Greece defaults, while from across the Atlantic, a growing realisation the US economy is approaching stall speed, as the Fed's punchbowl is being closed off.

The aggregate fee income of banks in Australia was unchanged in 2010, according to the Reserve Bank, which has conducted a survey on bank fees each year since 1997.

Remaining employees of Borders Group Inc will be spared being laid off as the company reached a deal with its lenders that would avoid closing more stores.

National property values fell by 2.1 percent during the first quarter of 2011 made worse by weak results from January and February, an inaugural report from Commonwealth Bank and RP Data has revealed.

Newcrest Mining Ltd is likely adding its Bonikro gold site in the Ivory Coast following its Wednesday announcement that it will divest its non-core Queensland assets in Cracow and Mount Rawdon, reports said.

China has convicted three people accused of conspiring to steal the casing design of iPad 2 last year, according to reports, which also said that two of those found guilty were previously connected with Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Apple’s gadget product lines.

Queensland Minister for Agriculture, Food and Regional Economies Tim Mulherin today launched a food policy for Queensland to further build the state’s billion dollar food industry.

The recent passing of the Crimes Amendment (Bullying) Act 2011 by the Victorian parliament introduces the possibility of up to 10 years imprisonment for workplace bullies. The Act amends the stalking provisions of the Crimes Act 1958 to make it clear that serious bullying may amount to stalking.

LulzSec has an ancient Greek sailboat mimicking the Odyssey, with a distinctive sail "LOL" on its webpage. Recently, it has indeed rammed through firewalls of companies including Sony Corp. and has even threatened the United States government websites.

Nokia Oyj won a patent fight with Apple Inc., in a settlement that awards a one-time payment and royalties to Finnish handset maker.Nokia did not disclose financial terms of the settlement but said the agreement would have a "positive financial impact" on Nokia's second-quarter results.

Among the assets of Nortel remaining are its patents and patent applications. Search giant Google Inc. has inked a deal to lead an auction for the patents with its $900 million offer to buy the patents. The Google-led auction supervised by a bankruptcy court in the United States will be held on June 20 at the offices of law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. The bankruptcy court will evaluate the auction results at the end of the month.

People around the globe are changing what they eat because of the rising cost of food, according to a new global survey released today by international aid agency Oxfam.

The rising influence of smartphones has negatively impacted the mobile phone behaviour of many Australians as a new online survey conducted by giant telco Telstra showed that 80 percent of the country’s phone owners displayed rude attitude while engaged on their handsets.