Google parent Alphabet shattered estimates for second-quarter earnings, reported Tuesday. Over the three months ending in June, the tech company raked in $61.88 billion, which is 62 percent growth over […]
Pinterest’s New Creator Tool Aims to Boost Sales Commissions
Pinterest is getting serious about boosting its shopping powers. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new tool that lets multimedia content creators make their Idea Pins shoppable and earn money […]
Google wants to relocate engineering team from US to NZ – immigration allowing
Google setting up its first New Zealand-based engineering team – a group that will work on new areas for an existing, un-named privacy and AI project. But staffing up the […]
Dollar's ascent pauses before Fed outcome; Aussie struggles
LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar’s march towards a 3-1/2 month high paused on Tuesday as a Fed policy meeting got underway with risk appetite broadly subdued, leaving the Australian […]
Analysis – Law without order: investors grapple with China's regulatory risk
(Reuters) – Western investors are wrestling with the risks of investing in U.S. listed stocks of Chinese companies after Beijing embarked on a regulatory crackdown on large swathes of its […]
Christchurch property for sale after last selling for $30,000 in 1981
A tiny Christchurch flat could fetch around 16 times what it last sold for. The tidy two-bedroom property in the St Albans area of Christchurch has just gone on the […]
Versace Makes Retail Push in the U.S.
MILAN — Versace continues to invest in the North American market to expand its retail network. While the Italian luxury fashion house, which is owned by Capri Holdings, is scouting […]
Credit Suisse settles spying case with former wealth chief Khan
(BLOOMBERG) – Credit Suisse Group said it reached a settlement with its former wealth-management executive Iqbal Khan and a private detective firm, calling to a close a spying scandal that […]
A Washington Post reporter sues the paper and its top editors, claiming discrimination.
Felicia Sonmez, a Washington Post reporter, on Wednesday filed a discrimination lawsuit against the newspaper and some of its top editors, claiming they had discriminated against her by barring her […]
S&P 500, Dow fall as jobless claims rise; megacaps boost Nasdaq
(Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Dow indexes fell on Thursday after data showed weekly jobless claims hit a two-month high, while a rise in megacap growth stocks offered […]