Ice cream prices could go up by as much as 10 percent around the world this year, said a report by the Telegraph on Monday, after two of the world’s largest producers of the vanilla spice reported much lower than expected harvests in the last two months.
China is slowing gaining a foothold into the US and Canada oil and natural gas industry, said a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, as Chinese companies continue to scoop up minority stakes and joint ventures with North American oil companies.
Almost all of us use social networking sites – whether it’s for our businesses or our own personal use. However, things start to get a bit uncomfortable when one finds out they don’t have control over their own personal information.
The tale of Tyler Clementi – the student who was outed as a homosexual on the Internet, and who eventually committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge – has once again brought up the issue of cyber-bullying and online harassment, particularly as social media was used publicly broadcast Tyler’s homosexuality.
Unemployment in America peaked 3 years ago, at the height of the subprime housing crisis which slowly spread across the financial markets across the world. While the labour situation has since improved, unemployment remains high. But one industry darling has added almost half a million jobs to the American economy.
You’ve probably heard of the iEconomy, but have you heard of the App Economy?
There is a new bank on UK’s High Street. While Virgin Money has been around since 1995,the company only came into serious prominence when it finalised the deal to acquire troubled bank Northern Rock on the 1st of January this year. But will the deal to take over Northern Rock be a good result for the public who bailed out the bank during the financial crisis? And what impact will Virgin Money have on the UK’s banking sector?
Consuming too much sugar is just as harmful and addictive to you as smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol, claimed researchers from the University of California-San Francisco (USCF) in an editorial published in Nature on Wednesday.
European banks could ask for more than a trillion dollars in loans from the European Central Bank (ECB) next month, reported the Financial Times on Monday, as the ECB prepares for a second money auction designed to avert a possible credit crunch.
With the furore over what many perceive as indecent pay packages, one can be forgiven for assuming that bankers and the traders are the only ones in the top “one percent”. The truth is many other jobs pay just as well, without the media scrutiny and public “we are the 99 percent” antagonism and outrage. What are these jobs, and what did they major in back in University?
An Oklahoma state senator has proposed a bill that would ban the use of human foetuses in food, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday, claiming that his own online research had led him to believe that such a ban was necessary.
On Tuesday, Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey introduced Senate Bill 1418 to the Oklahoma State Legislature, calling for the prohibition of “the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human foetuses.”
