Higher gold prices and increased sales lifted New Gold Inc.'s adjusted third-quarter earnings nearly 70 percent, the Vancouver-based company said Friday.
Research in Motion (RIM) launched BBM Music this week, a music-sharing app a spokesman for the company has said evolves the mixtape. Seeking to capitalize upon - and perhaps revive - its BlackBerry Messenger network of 45 million users, RIM's newest app allows users to choose 50 songs from an extensive cloud-based library of content licensed from music giants Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as from smaller independent labels.
Stock index futures pointed to a mixed open on Wall Street, with futures for the S&P 500 flat, Dow Jones futures up 0.1 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.2 percent at 1008 GMT (6:08 a.m. EDT).
Daylight Savings Time, for most people in the U.S. and Canada, ends on Sunday at 2 a.m. Remember, at that time, to turn all clocks back to 1 a.m. local time. Airline schedulers see Daylight Saving Time as yet another headache.
Johnson & Johnson, the U.S. healthcare giant, Thursday denied reports that its baby shampoo products contained cancer-causing chemicals.
MF Global 's operations in Asia and Australia have received nearly 40 credible offers and a sale is expected to be agreed by the end of the weekend, the provisional liquidator for the brokerage's Hong Kong unit told Reuters on Friday.
Europa, a suspense drama about astronauts from different countries who head to the frigid glacial moon of Jupiter, has found a warm reception at this year's American Film Market, selling in 12 territories so far.
Attention, Australia: Kim Kardashian hasn't just left the building, she's left the country.
Attention, Australia: Kim Kardashian hasn't just left the building, she's left the country.
Pro surfer Kelly Slater was crowned Association of Surfing Professionals champion for the 11th time on Wednesday -- a new world title record -- at the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Search in San Francisco, Calif.
South Africa on Thursday said it signed an agreement with 12 other countries to combat cross-border tax evasion.
With a gleam in his eyes, Sidney Hamden recalls the glory days of Kirkland Lake, the little Canadian mining town in northern Ontario that was long ago dubbed The Mile of Gold.
Research In Motion's Indian unit said on Thursday its managing director Frenny Bawa has left the company to pursue other interests and the BlackBerry-maker has appointed an interim head for the country's operations.
Kim Kardashian seems to be taking her recent break-up very hard. TMZ reports that the divorcee is telling friends that she is so distraught over the failure of her marriage and the maelstrom of public scrutiny that she cannot function. She is supposedly telling friends, I need to take care of me now, and I can't work for awhile.
Steel Authority of India (SAIL), the country's largest domestic steel producer, blamed a halving of quarterly profit on rising costs and a strong dollar on Thursday.
Cannes is the incongruously glamorous backdrop for a meeting designed to desperately find a solution to Europe’s greatest crisis in more than 70 years.
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Asian shares, the euro, commodities and the Australian dollar all fell on Thursday as fears that Europe's debt crisis could unleash financial chaos prompted investors to shed riskier assets in favor of the relative safety of the dollar.
Fitting older versions of Google's Inc popular Android software to cheaper cellphones could send the repair costs of global telecoms operators up as much as $2 billion, a study by wireless services firm WDS showed.
Cannes, the beach resort in the south of France, is the ideal locale for the G-20 economic summit.
A boat full of more than 70 asylum seekers headed for Australia capsized off the coast of the island of Java on Tuesday, drowning at least eight people, including three children.
Although the U.S. ranks fourth in overall human development, when the scale is adjusted to account for income, health and education inequality, it falls to 23.
