10 Ways Facebook Will Rule Our Lives

After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded company worth $104 billion. With shares trading at a hundred times earnings, Facebook is under a lot of pressure to increase the profit that it brings in. In other words, now the fun begins.

This 7.6% Yield Looks Safe

Although mega-cap blue-chip companies like HSBC , Vodafone and SSE provide the safest and most reliable way to generate a decent dividend income, it can be more rewarding for keen investors to seek out ...

Sixteen vehicles, 70 days and 8,000 miles: The fuel-guzzling Olympic Torch convoy causing traffic jams in a town near ...

Snaking through the crowds as the Torch passes through towns and villages is its long entourage of support staff and vehicles.

How the humble app is changing the face of shopping - and retailers

On December 10 the world's biggest online retailer, Amazon, sent chills down the spines of traditional retailers when it called on its army of millions of customers to take to the shops with their smartphones and use the Amazon barcode scanner application to scan the prices on any three toys, electronics, sporting goods or music.

Pinal Sheriff's Office stockpiles, prepares to sell military equipment

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office has collected millions of dollars' worth of surplus military equipment that is intended for law-enforcement use and distributed some of the gear to non-police agencies while preparing to sell other property as a budget booster.