With dwindling market share for Symbian and growing smartphone competition may force Nokia to adopt either Google's Android Operating System or Windows Phone 7 in a bid to regain its lost marketshare in the smartphone space.
Bluewater Productions has come out with a comic book on Britney Spears’ life.
Online spending in the United States rose 12 percent to $27.5 billion till date this holiday shopping season. Free Shipping Day punctuated an exceptional week in which consumers spent more than $5.5 billion online, representing a 14 percent increase from last year, research firm comScore said.
Hundreds of investors rioted in the commercial district of Dhaka, Bangladesh on Sunday after the local stock market suffered its sharpest one-day decline in its history.
Dell Computer has run into some hiccups delivering its VenuePro Smartphone, but is offering anyone who ordered one before Dec. 14 a free set of headphones.
Business sentiment in Germany continued to improve for the third straight month in December, helped by better conditions in retailing and wholesaling, according to the Ifo Business Survey.
Global automobile sales are expected to top 80 million units in 2012 and 118 million units in 2020, according to industry tracking firm JD Power & Associates.
AOL Inc. announced its acquisition of New York-based content marketing platform startup Pictela to bolster its advertising offering. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pictela is a platform for distributing videos, photos and applications across the Web in real time.
British retail sales rose in November for a second consecutive month as consumer spending picked up ahead of a hike in value added tax (VAT) next year.
UK retailer Sports Direct International Plc (LON: SPD.L), controlled by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, reported a 73 percent rise in pretax profits for the first half as the World Cup and strong online sales drove revenue growth.
Gain Capital Holdings, which operates retail foreign exchange broker FOREX.COM and other related services like contracts-for-difference trading, will debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday under the symbol GCAP.
Benchmark Capital raised its profit estimates and price target on Google Inc., citing the company's strong operating momentum in search business.
The brokerage maintained its 'buy' rating on shares of the software major with a price target of $33.
The National Retail Federation (NRF) raised its holiday sales forecast to 3.3 percent, or $451.5 billion, from 2.3 percent, saying stock market gains and income growth combined with great deals on merchandise have given consumers the capacity to spend.
US-based Macy's, Inc. announced the construction of a 1.3 million square foot fulfillment center near Martinsburg in West Virginia to support the continued growth of its online business.
SuperGroup, the owner of Superdry brand, reported a 86 percent rise in pretax profit for the first half on strong sales growth at its retail and wholesale segments. But, the British fashion retailer warned rising raw material prices may affect gross margins in the next financial year.
Stocks retreated in the final hour of trading after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at near-zero, maintained its bond-buying program and warned about the slow pace of economic recovery in the U.S.
The economic recovery is continuing, but at a pace that is not sufficient to bring down unemployment, according to a policy statement by the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).
Gold and silver fell off day's highs after stronger-than-expected US data released Tuesday morning in New York strengthened the greenback, losses in which had helped the metals rose to 1-week highs earlier in the day, but both metals held on to the SMA support strongly.
U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after surprisingly strong November retail sales boosted optimism about consumer spending in the holiday shopping season, even as the Federal Reserve issued yet another cautious statement about the economy.
US stocks advanced in early trade on Tuesday, following better-than-expected reports on retail sales and producer prices.
U.S. retail sales continued to rise in November for the fifth month, boosted by holiday shopping as well as fuel prices, the U.S. Commerce Department said.
