Music and books retailer HMV Group will close 60 UK stores in the next 12 months in response to declining sales — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Aussie electronics entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan has warned that billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey won’t stop at getting his way over GST and duty regulations for offshore retailers, but could ask for additional tariffs or subsidies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vodafone has set up a number of taskforce teams
to try to fix network problems following a class action legal threat in which about 9000 customers have expressed an interest in joining.
Sydney law firm PiperAlderman last month sought disgruntled Vodafone customers to press a class action over dropped calls, bad reception and poor data performance — via The Sydney Morning Herald
In this latest Cool Hunting Video, we visit Brooklyn to tour the Mast Brothers’ bean-to-bar chocolate factory—one of just a handful in the US. The chocolatiers, Rick and Michael Mast, walk us through their uniquely intensive process, DIY machines, and a little of their food philosophy — via Cool Hunting
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) today questioned the campaign by major retailers to thwart the rise in overseas e-commerce — via redwolf.newsvine.com
News Corp is still considering a sale of its social networking site MySpace but a person familiar with the matter told Reuters there are no talks currently with potential buyers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.
In response to moves by France to ban a Monsanto GM corn variety in late 2007, the ambassador, Craig Stapleton, a friend and business partner of former US president George Bush, asked Washington to penalise the EU and particularly countries which did not support the use of GM crops — via pameladrew.newsvine.com
Dyson’s latest vacuum cleaner does away with the bag, the cable and most of the appliance as well — via josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com
The world’s largest daily deals website, Groupon, which Google tried to buy this month for $US6 billion, has confirmed it is entering the Australian market — via redwolf.newsvine.com
TAG Heuer and Parsons The New School for Design have unveiled the winners of the Art of Watchmaking
, a 10-week competition that challenged eight teams of Parsons product design students to reinterpret TAG Heuer’s classic Monaco chronograph — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In a dimly lit room at the back of an Afghan house, 21-year-old Zahara is crouched on a plank of wood weaving a large carpet on a loom that she was able to buy using a microfinance loan of $1,100 (710 pounds).
Zahara started weaving carpets when she was 10 and did not go to school, but the loan from non-profit development group BRAC allowed her to start her own business about 18 months ago and she has since taken out two more loans of $330 each — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It has already presided over one of the biggest PR disasters of the year and now Vodafone faces being sued by potentially thousands of its customers over poor network performance.
Sydney law firm PiperAlderman is seeking out disgruntled Vodafone customers to form a class action lawsuit over dropped calls, reception issues and poor data performance that have left customers fuming — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The Justice Department has not even pressed charges over its disclosure of confidential State Department communications. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down — via redwolf.newsvine.com
US sanctions tend to be riddled with exceptions that are neither humanitarian nor democracy-related, a former US sanctions official has said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Biotechnology multinational Monsanto says it will give legal support to a grower of Genetically Modified canola if his neighbour takes legal action over contamination of his organic crops — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The bankers’ trade association has written to Cambridge University [PDF] asking for the MPhil thesis [PDF] of one of our research students, Omar Choudary, to be taken offline. They complain it contains too much detail of our No-PIN attack on Chip-and-PIN and thus breaches the boundary of responsible disclosure
; they also complain about Omar’s post on the subject to this blog — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The maker of the Power Balance bracelet worn by many athletes has been forced to admit misleading advertising and to refund customers in Australia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It’s amusing to see the country’s biggest retailers on TV pleading their case for a GST on imports and talking about Australian workers and jobs. After decades of sourcing the lowest possible manufacturing prices from India, China, and Vietnam, we have to defend Australian jobs by paying GST on our overseas Internet purchases under $1000 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There is an unbelievable scandal in the making that threatens to subvert our four-century-old method for guaranteeing a fundamental building block of the American republic—property ownership. The biggest reason why you probably haven’t heard much about it is that it involves one of the most generic and boring company names imaginable: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., or MERS. It is a story of deception engineered at the highest level of power for short-term gain, and another epic failure of the private sector to uphold the laws and traditions of American society, even something as fundamental as property rights — via aperspective.newsvine.com
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