Apple iPhone 5 is still elusive but more purported features are being leaked daily to fuel its demand, as if it were.
Silver has lost its shine of late as fears of another global economic slowdown reduced its appeal as an industrial metal. Silver fell from the record prices it set a couple of months back to hover around $35 per ounce. However, optimists are speculating that silver will bounce back once again and cross the $100 record. There are even experts who fancy silver's price parity with gold!
However you slice and dice it, a sizeable chunk of China's local government debt will likely go bad over the next few years. But that will not be anything the world's second-largest economy can't muddle through.
Stock index futures pointed to gains for equities on Wednesday, reversing falls from the previous three sessions, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and for the Nasdaq up 0.5 to 0.6 percent by 0802 GMT.
Tudou.com - Mandarin for Potato- is a Web site that offers full streaming films for free, often before they come out in the United States. But copyright may be an issue.
Netflix's price increase has film enthusiasts all over the United States saying they may cancel memberships.
China's economy slowed less sharply than expected in the second quarter and Beijing said corralling inflation remained its top priority even though a complex and volatile global economy clouded the outlook.
The Moscow Cathedral Mosque -- a place of worship for many Russian Muslims of Tatar origin-- was built in 1904. This year, that mosque is 107 years old. Where's Muslim Russia's Google Doodle?
China's Sina Corp will launch a virtual currency for its highly popular microblogging service, Weibo, in the third quarter this year, the firm's first real push to monetize the platform, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter on Wednesday.
China Telecom Corp Ltd plans to offer Apple Inc's popular iPhone in China by close to the end of 2011, sources said, making it the second operator to do so in the world's largest mobile phone market.
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U.S. manufacturers cannot find skilled workers despite high unemployment, which means there is a need to align the nation's higher education system with the requirements of industry, lawmakers were told on Tuesday.
Global commercial real estate sales rose 47 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier to $101 billion and are on track to reach or top $440 billion for the year, according to a report by real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle Inc .
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said tough economic conditions in Europe and the United States were hurting demand, and it maintained its forecast for slower quarterly revenue.The U.S. trade gap widened much more than expected in May as a jump in oil prices helped push imports to the second highest level on record and exports fell slightly from April's record high, a U.S. government report showed on Tuesday.
The U.S. trade shortage rose 15 percent to $50.2 billion in May, a record high since October 2008, as oil prices and imports skyrocketed according to a report release by the Commerce Department.
The U.S. trade gap widened sharply in May to its highest level in 31 months as surging oil prices helped push imports to a near record and exports fell slightly from April's record high.
Beijing will continue to put taming inflation at the top of its agenda by keeping a prudent monetary policy stance, but it will try to avoid any big swings in economic growth caused by excessive tightening, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in comments published on Tuesday.
The U.S. trade gap widened much more than expected in May as a jump in oil prices helped push imports to the second highest level on record and exports fell slightly from April's record high, a U.S. government report showed on Tuesday.
Technology giants like Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft and China Mobile lead the list of top global brands.
China said on Tuesday its crackdown on pirated goods has made great strides, a claim borne out by government statistics but not necessarily by a trip to one of Beijing's many shops where pirated software, movies and clothes are readily available.
China could begin testing its first aircraft carrier within weeks and is developing more advanced satellites Reuters reports.
