MARKETING

British luxury goods group Burberry met forecasts with a 4 percent fall in first-quarter underlying revenues and said on Wednesday trading conditions remained challenging.

Microsoft Corp is pitching to five of the world's biggest advertising companies a deal to buy Razorfish, its digital ad agency, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing executives familiar with the situation.

The price of nearly one in four U.S. homes for sale on July 1 had been sliced at least once since landing on the market, data compiled by real estate website Trulia.com showed on Friday.

Sales fell at many U.S. apparel retailers and warehouse club stores in June as the weak economy and cool, rainy weather dashed interest in summer shopping for consumers across the country.

Sales fell at many U.S. apparel retailers and warehouse club stores in June as the weak economy and cool, rainy weather dashed interest in summer shopping for consumers across the country.

Whether you like them or not, online rating Web sites are a reality for today's real estate professionals.

Unseasonable weather and consumers without the stimulus boost they received last year were expected to have dampened U.S. retail sales in June, analysts said.

Unseasonable weather and consumers without the stimulus boost they received last year were expected to have dampened U.S. retail sales in June, analysts said.

Even with home prices at their most affordable level in years, many real estate practitioners are finding that their biggest business challenge is a scarcity of buyers. Given this, you may not think that now's the best time to be picky about whom you choose as clients. But that's the smartest thing you can do.

Oil fell to below $65 a barrel on Monday and touched a five-week low earlier in the session, pressured by doubts over the prospects for a recovery in the global economy and energy demand.

Oil fell to around $64 a barrel on Monday and touched a five-week low, pressured by doubts over the prospects for a recovery in the global economy and energy demand.

Essentially two kinds of people existed in the '80s: Coke drinkers and Pepsi drinkers. And if you loved Michael Jackson, you had good reason to fall into the latter group.

The downturn in global advertising is approaching its lowest point and, after a fall of 8.5 percent in 2009, the industry should see a mild recovery in 2010, a leading media agency predicted on Monday.

It is a little too early to celebrate new life in the housing market, but Americans should soon have something to party about if the spring housing season is any gauge.

The 911 call made from the house of television pitchman Billy Mays when he was found dead was obtained by a tabloid and published online.

The eToro platform is continuing to lead the pack as far as forex trading platforms are concerned, now adding commodity trading to their wide selection of trading instruments and tools. eToro, which had started out targeting the beginner trader market segment, has recently made leaps and bounds to capture a more advanced crowd of traders with great success.

Management consulting firms Towers Perrin Forster & Crosby Inc and Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc on Sunday announced an agreement to merge into a new publicly listed company called Towers Watson & Co.

Microsoft and VivaKi, the digital arm of Publicis, on Thursday unveiled a broad cooperation deal spanning the fast-growing digital advertising sector to targeted television advertising.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc posted an unexpected rise in quarterly profit by cutting costs to offset slumping demand for home furnishings, and the retailer's shares rose more than 6 percent.

Woolworths, the 100-year-old sweets-to-DVD retailer that collapsed earlier this year, will on Thursday be revived as an online business by Britain's biggest home shopping retailer, Shop Direct, which bought the brand name in February.

U.S. travel over the Independence Day holiday weekend will drop 1.9 percent this year compared to 2008, a casualty of higher fuel prices and economic worries, travel and auto group AAA projected on Wednesday.