Jamelle Agbuis

Fisherman's Friend throat lozenges have announced a new campaign aimed at double-digit growth for the UK-based brand in Australia and New Zealand.

Tokyo Electric Power Co in Tokyo: the shares are down more than 90% from before the March 11 quake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power station disasters.

In Los Angeles on Monday, Microsoft revealed its further plans to make the 360 a comprehensive streaming entertainment solution with Xbox Live TV, YouTube integration, and voice activated navigation and Bing search.

The Aussie spent most of Monday's domestic session above the US107 cent mark on speculation there may be a surprise rate hike by the Reserve Bank of Australia when it meets today.

Stocks dropped Monday for a fourth straight day, as concerns about an economic slowdown continued to weigh on investor sentiment.

Here it is, early June, and markets are already wondering when they can expect the announcement from the People’s Bank of China about an interest rate change.

Despite considerable efforts by the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the European debt crisis remains intractable.

It was no wonder shares in mineral sands group, Iluka jumped more than 8% yesterday to a new record high.

Apple may be generating loads of rumors this morning, but Microsoft has got some noise to make, too, even if done accidentally -- or accidentally on purpose.

As the previous Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, Alan Greenspan was once considered the most powerful and influential man in the world.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today dispelled the rumors surrounding the company's new cloud service. For months, the rumor mill churned out thousands of webpages of guesses about iCloud. Would it be a cloud-based music locker, MobileMe revamp or something else?

During today's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS software, announced that to date 200 million iOS devices have shipped.

Finger tracking, a feature which MIT hackers showed off on Kinect about six months ago was the second feature shown off on Monday. One of the demonstrations of finger tracking let the user draw in 3D space with his fingertip.

A pregnant hairdresser in Brisbane has decided not to pursue legal action after she was fired from her work, via text message.

Australian businesses are being urged to implement succession planning in their internal recruitment processes in order to win the ‘war for talent’.

Thunderbird is a pleasingly powerful, but often overlooked email client that comes from the same stable as Firefox.

Apple on Monday debuted a new subscription service called iTunes Match which scans a user's library of music, and "matches" the user's songs with iTunes' database of 18 million songs.

Apple's newest operating system, Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is coming next month, with Apple passing big savings to customers. But you'll need v10.6 "Snow Leopard" to get it. The announcement came earlier today during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference.

Since Betanews' original report last Wednesday, dozens of readers have e-mailed their own reports of account issues, most dealing with Sega's Kingdom Conquest.

For the past couple of weeks we have observed that the markets are revisiting 2010 and have become more volatile and uneasy as a result.

A stronger Euro and weak greenback across the board has propelled the Australian dollar to a three-week high late on Friday night of US107.74 cents.

A pair of conferences in California this week will focus on new services and software for consumers that are delivered over the Internet.

US non-farm payrolls (employment) rose by 54,000 in May, well down on the 232,000 increase in jobs in April and short of economist predictions for an increase in jobs of 150,000.

Given the millions of super fund members, the 2,000-2500 complaints received annually by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal seem relatively small in number.

MacDefender, the fake antivirus malware targeting Mac OS users that stole headlines in the month of May has changed names yet again. It can now be found under the name "MacShield."

If you're looking for free antivirus protection then there's no shortage of products available, each claiming they're the one for you. There's a new addition to the list, as IObit has just released version 1.0 of their new Malware Fighter Free.

Well, if we thought last week was a big one for the Australian economy and policy (and investors), then this week is even more vital.

The Australian dollar has opened up in the mid 1.0700’s this morning after the jobs data released from the US for May on Friday night fell short of expectations.

Toyota's Altona car making plant in Melbourne is expected to return to full production from this week.