One of the big takeaways from the 2010 census was that, after a century-long love affair with suburban subdivisions, affluent Americans are jumping back on the (worldwide) urbanizing bandwagon. For a new … It is an essential piece of a progressive …

Today LG officially unveiled the G2, the company's latest high–end Android smartphone and the follow-up to last year's Optimus G. Unlike its predecessor and the generally understated Nexus 4 — which LG was also responsible for — the G2 takes a rather …

About two million Windows-powered tablets were shipped in the second quarter in an increase of more than five times from the same three-month period last year, according to IDC. Microsoft on Monday knocked US$100 (RM300) off the price of high–end …

Chief Global Strategist Michael Purves discusses the impact of falling gold prices with Olivia Sterns on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers." (Source: Bloomberg). Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. That means we're …

Stephen Colbert was actually able to “Get Lucky” by having Daft Punk suddenly stand him up. The electronic-music duo was scheduled to play Colbert's Tuesday night show, but bailed because Punk-ers Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas …

If you believe the price of gold has hit bottom, old school logic says you should buy a whole lot of gold mining shares right now. The gold miners, conventional wisdom goes, always pay off bigger than gold itself when the commodity price rises. But …

Gold has fallen so far in 2013, but gold-mining stocks have fallen even harder. Fund managers say the shares tend to move in either direction more than the commodity due to the leverage to the price. For the sake of round numbers, suppose a company's …

As Comcast Comcast stock jumped to record highs in the last week, Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts had even more reason to celebrate than the rest of the company's investors. With the stock surge, Roberts returned to billionaire status for the first time …

The story Smallman related to his West Coast audience concerns Barclays Wealth's pioneering deployment of voice biometrics at its global customer services call centre, a facility that serves “high net worth and affluent individuals – from £100,000 …