The 109th American International Toy Fair 2012 kicked off this week at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, New York City. The fair is bringing together more than 1,100 exhibiting manufacturers, distributors, importers and sales agents from around the globe to showcase their toys and entertainment products.
Deere & Co. reported a 4 percent rise in quarterly earnings on Wednesday due to growing demand for farming and construction machinery and higher prices.
Proview Technology, the Chinese firm embroiled in a legal battle with Apple Inc (AAPL.O) over the iPad name, said on Wednesday that Chinese customs authorities had told it that any ban on the import or export of the popular tablet PCs would be difficult to impose due to the sheer size of the market.
The Acer Iconia Tab A500 currently runs on Android 3.0 or Honeycomb.
Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket HD, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronic Show 2012 and is expected to be launched within few months, is a 9.27-millimeter sliver of a smartphone with an HD Super AMOLED screen (1280x720). The Nokia Lumia 900, which was launched at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, is the first of Nokia's Windows Phone-based range to feature high-speed LTE connectivity.
Samsung's Galaxy S3 is heavily rumored to be the next big thing.
Talks between Yahoo Inc and China's Alibaba Group over the U.S. Internet giant's Asian assets have hit an impasse, throwing their plans for a $17 billion tax-free asset swap into question, according to sources briefed on the situation.
As the fashion world moves toward the departure of grunge, Prete & Bruno, led by Italian design team Salvatore Prete and Filippo Bruno, have showed up at just the right time. Drawing inspiration from old Hollywood glamour, Prete & Bruno took Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York by storm with their Fall 2012 collection on Monday night, captivating with classic elegance. View the slideshow to see photos from the Prete & Bruno Fall 2012 runway show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York.
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Zynga Inc reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue, but the developer of social media games like FarmVille failed to add new daily players compared with last quarter.
Shares of online dating site SNAP Interactive plunged nearly 12 percent Tuesday after the online dating site on Facebook reported a big fourth-quarter loss.
Baidu, China’s equivalent of Google, could report fourth-quarter earnings rose about 70 percent due to strong growth in usage and ad sales, analysts estimate.
When you feel sick and you don't know why, what do you do? Instead of visiting the doctor, Google wants you to enter your symptoms in its search bar, which will return a list of potential causes. Could this new system disrupt WebMD?
Whitney Houston's New Jersey mansion, the setting of her tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, is for sale, with an asking price of $1.75 million following the start's death last weekend.
BorgWarner (BWA) on Tuesday reported a 9.1 percent growth in fourth-quarter profit, boosted by soaring drivetrain sales.
French banks' liabilities with the Bank of France hit a record high of 218 billion euros in December, of which 119.6 billion was used for monetary policy, the central bank said on Tuesday.
Talks between Yahoo Inc and China's Alibaba over the U.S. internet giant's Asian assets have hit an impasse, throwing their plans for a $17 billion tax-free asset swap into question, according to sources briefed on the situation.
Shares of Yahoo, the No. 2 search engine, fell about 7 percent after reports of problems in divesting Asian assets by new CEO Scott Thompson.
The iPad 3 will be the first Apple device to accommodate the high-speed Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, according to the Wall Street Journal. But if Apple releases its next iPad with LTE, it's a near-certainty that LTE will also come to the iPhone 5, which is set to release in June or July 2012.
The effects of a network-sharing deal with LightSquared are also excluded, Sprint said in an SEC filing.
Norisol Ferrari is passionate. Obsessed with the fine things of life like luxe fabrics. In person, Ferrari exudes a strength so strong manifested from her own femininity, which she strives to incorporate into her designs. Presenting her Fall 2012 outerwear collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York on Tuesday, Norisol Ferrari mixed rich classicism with innovative modernism, exploring the “seductive power of glamour."
Apple will reportedly unveil its next-generation iPad -- presumably called iPad 3 -- on Wednesday, March 7, 2012. The report comes from iMore's Rene Ritchie, who also correctly predicted the name and release date of the iPhone 4S.
Boeing signed a record $22.4 billion order for 230 aircrafts with Indonesian budget airline PT Lion Mentari Airlines.
The robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on the island of Nevis highlights a growing concern for vacationers about the safety of the Caribbean Islands.
Xstrata PLC is looking to sell 20 percent of its proposed A$6 billion (US$6.4 billion) Wandoan Coal Project, to take place west of the Wandoan township in Queensland, Australia.
Millions of Iranians have suffered serious disruption recently in accessing email and Internet social networking sites, raising concerns authorities are stepping up censorship of opposition supporters ahead of parliamentary elections next month.
Standard & Poor's lowered the credit rating of 15 Spanish banks on Monday, following its downgrade of the nation's sovereign long-term debt last month.
The PS Vita packs graphics and power which is nearly similar to its original home gaming system.
BlackBerry 10 phones, which will not be shipped until later this year, are again in the news due to some leaked images that were posted on Crackberry. The images of BB's much-hyped operating system show a great number of changes that have been incorporated including new user interface elements, implementation of home screen widgets on the devices, an updated icon tray with search, camera, and call buttons, quarter-screen widgets and so on.
A Microsoft Kinect is more than just a simple gaming console.
