Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Carnival revellers wear targets with portraits of Portuguese Prime Minister Passos Coelho (R) and Madeira Island Regional President Alberto Joao Jardim at the Torres Vedras parade February 21, 2012. The Portuguese have mostly quietly accepted reforms in the labour market, soaring unemployment and cuts to welfare to rein in their debt mountain - but calls to cancel the centuries-old tradition of carnival went a step too far. The government tried, in the name of austerity imposed by international lenders, to force the end of Tuesday's public holiday but the country effectively shut down all the same as the Portuguese refused to go without their pre-Lent festival.
REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro (PORTUGAL - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS POLITICS)
Analysis: Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:50:18 +0100 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As it prepares for one of the biggest IPOs ever, Facebook is coming under the same fierce attacks being waged against other big technology companies: patent lawsuits. Last year, Facebook was named as a defendant in 22 lawsuits accusing it of patent infringement, double the number from 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of court documents on legal database Westlaw, a Thomson Reuters unit. Among the lawsuits is one alleging Facebook violated a patent that covers the core ability to transmit messages to large networks of users. ... (Source: Reuters)
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:30:14 +0100 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's quarterly results blew past Wall Street's expectations as U.S. consumers snapped up near-record numbers of iPhones and iPads, sending its shares up 8 percent. The world's most valuable technology corporation returned to form after a rare miss in the previous quarter. It sold 37.04 million iPhones - its flagship product - and 15.43 million iPad tablets, doubling from a year earlier and easily outpacing already heightened expectations for a strong holiday season. And it smashed estimates on all its results including gross margin, which came in at 44. ... (Source: Reuters)
Watch: Jason Wu talks through his Target collaboration
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:10:14 +0100 Jason Wu appeared on America’s Today show January 18 to offer styling tips on his upcoming collection for US retailer Target. (Source: AFP Relax News)
Target stores plan "Breaking Dawn - Part 2" sneak peek
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:20:11 +0100 LOS ANGELES, Jan 17 (TheWrap.com) - From 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on February 10-11, participating Target stores will celebrate the release of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1" on DVD and Blu-Ray by showing a sneak peek of the final installment in Summit's vampire romance franchise. This will be the first time footage from "Part 2," due in theaters November 16, will be available for public viewing. Target is also planning a special "Part 1" set for DVD and Blu-Ray. ... (Source: Reuters)
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