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Taylor Swift will launch her first nationwide tour called Fearless, which will take her to 52 cities in 38 states beginning Feb. 10 in San Antonio and stretching through the spring, summer and fall in the United States and Canada.

T-Mobile is gearing up to launch G1 phones across Europe with prices starting at 1 Euro for a two-year contract.

Sears Holdings Corp. signed an agreement with hip-hop artist LL Cool J to introduce an exclusive line of streetwear for children and teens this fall.

Sales people on the run will soon be able to integrate their customer information with their Blackberry smartphones.

Shares of Research in Motion Ltd. fell on Friday, falling more than 2.8 percent after a report that the it will push back the release of its 3G BlackBerry phone for AT&T to as late as August.

Credit card network, Visa has said it is planning to raise a record $18 billion (9 billion pounds) in what would be the largest ever Initial Public Offering in the U.S.

The Atlantis space shuttle is set for launching later today after NASA announced it had finished all the preparations for the mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.

Sony said on Wednesday it is delaying the planned introduction in late January of a Skype Web phone service for PlayStation Portable (PSP) users in Japan due to technical problems.

NASA announced on Friday that space shuttle Atlantis will be launched February 7, after a delay due to technical problems.

Philips and crystal Jewelry Swarovski announce new luxurious color enhanced USB memory keys and headphones for 2008 during the International CES 2008 on Sunday.

Nokia has again pushed back the launch of its gaming service N-gage due to delays in software testing, a spokesman said on Thursday, in the latest blow to the Internet services ambitions of the world's top cell phone maker.

The Launching of Atlantis space shuttle was delayed until Saturday, on allegations of problems associated with fuel sensors.

Apple Inc said on Tuesday the newest version of its Macintosh operating system would go on sale on October 26, hitting the market after a four-month delay due to the company's work on the iPhone.

Thousands of U.S. gadget fans flocked to stores on Friday to be the first buyers of Apple's iPhone, a music-playing and Web-browsing device expected to shake up the mobile industry.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone hits store shelves on Friday in a consumer spectacle that has whipped gadget fans into a frenzy over a device that challenges business as usual in the mobile phone industry.

AT&T Inc. said on Thursday it has hired 2,000 temporary store workers to handle its much-hyped introduction of the iPhone, the first cell phone from iPod music player maker Apple Inc.

As shares of Apple climb higher in anticipation of the iPhone device’s June 29 launch, analysts are skeptical of new battery life claims and the hype surrounding the new unit.

E-Trade Financial (Nasdaq: ETFC) announced the launch of a global trading platform on Tuesday to provide its retail investors with online access to foreign markets for the first time.

Kenya Airways will not launch scheduled flights to Congo Brazzaville tomorrow as earlier announced.Unresolved issues in negotiations on air traffic rights forced the last-minute cancellation.

Microsoft's external high-definition DVD player for Xbox 360 console will use the HD-DVD format and will be released on Nov. 22 in Japan, the software maker said on Wednesday during a media briefing at the Tokyo Game Show 2006.

Luxury goods giant Gucci Group is gearing up to launch in India next year and is confident smaller designer brands will meet profit targets as its three-year growth plan bears fruit, CEO Robert Polet told Reuters. Niche brands Bottega Veneta and Balenciaga are growing rapidly -- by more than 100 percent in Balenciaga's case in the first quarter. Both reached profitability two years ahead of schedule.