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Fast Retailing Co <9983.T> Japan's leading apparel chain, said it expected a sales boost from shoppers seeking lighter clothing this summer as temperatures rise and half the nation turns its air conditioners on low to conserve power.

The recent outbreak of E. coli is one of the worst on record, but deadly infection from the bacterium due to infected produce is nothing new. So what can you do to prevent your family from becoming sick from Escherichia coli?

Sunday around 11 p.m., a mother of four was fatally shot in the Bronx. The victim, identified as Claudia Millan, 29, was shot in the face in her apartment on Park Avenue near 179th Street in Tremont. She collapsed on the street while still clutching her 2-year-old son's hand, police said.

Sony Next Generation Portable (NGP), the much-awaited handheld gaming device, may not show its face for months to come, but rumors are already flying thick and fast that it has a new name - PS Vita.

Chinese gold demand is expected to exceed 700 metric tons in the next several years and sharply outpace domestic production. Annual gold production in China, world’s second largest consumer of precious metal, is expected to reach 400 tonnes by 2014 with demand at 700 tonnes, signaling room for a strong ramp up in imports.

Google rolled out a mobile payments system for its Android phone this week, with observers widely expecting Apple to do the same, but recent privacy snafus and infrastruction challenges question the technology's viability.

Wall Street investment guru and editor of GameChangers Hilary Kramer has put together a list of 12 stocks which she advised investors to sell immediately. While the names that appeared on the list are big ticket stocks, Kramer justifies her position, saying that investors usually make the mistake of holding on to what used to be hot previously. She says, for example, retail stocks were 'yesterday’s market leaders.'

Amazon today launched a Mac application store, pitting the company against Apple's own five-month-old Mac App Store.

Google introduced its NFC contactless payment platform, Google Wallet at an event in NYC. Here's a look at some of the photos of the event.

The long-awaited debut of Google Wallet was finally announced today, marking a watershed moment for mobile payments. But there is much more cutting-edge functions to expect, when it comes to the mobile world.

Google introduces Google Wallet, a new mobile platform for contactless payments.

Tenants and their supporters are building homeless encampments to dramatize what they fear will happen if rent laws expire.

Silver Prices handed back most of Wednesday's gains, dropping 6% inside three hours before hovering around $37 per ounce.

Google Wallet, a mobile payment system on Android-based Sprint smartphones, is expected to be unveiled at a media event in Google's New York office, at 12 p.m. today.

Amazon said it will offer a repeat of Monday's blockbuster Gold Box Deal of the Day under which customers can purchase the Lady Gaga Born This Way MP3 album today for $0.99 and get 20 GB of free Amazon Cloud Drive storage.

Google will unveil a new payment system tomorrow, a move the company hopes will pit the search-giant against companies like Visa and Mastercard.

An Apple retail store at 1981 Broadway, New York City, was accused of racial discrimination, according to a lawsuit filed in February, 2011.

Google's long awaited mobile wallet or Near Field Communication (NFC) enabled smartphones which will make processing payments with a mere wave of the phone near a point-of-sale a reality is due to be unveiled on Thursday.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Velti, China-Biotics, Oncothyreon, Synovis Life Technologies, and Inter Parfums. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Park Sterling Bank, Charming Shoppes, Books-A-Million, CoStar Group, Exterran Partners, and Compuware.

RIM. has come out in defense of its Playbook, saying the tablet has sold better than expected.

Several drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ online do not include the components they claim, a report from the journal Drug Testing and Analysis said