Counterpoint Research predicts a 3% growth in the global smartphone market in 2024, driven by AI integration, easing inflation, and demand in emerging markets.
A fresh batch of official consumer price data will hopefully reveal more progress on easing but still painful cost-of-living pressures. The February consumer price index data, a key but incomplete measure of inflation, is due from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday. In January, the monthly index held steady at 3.4 per cent annually […]
Chinese internet giant Tencent registered slowing revenue growth in the final quarter of 2023, with weaknesses in its gaming businesses offsetting strong gains in advertising.
Egg prices are at near-historic highs in many parts of the world as the spring holidays approach, reflecting a market scrambled by disease, high demand and growing costs for farmers.
High street retailer Boots has reported another quarter of growth, helped by the demand of online and app sales.
Researchers have pinpointed climate change as a critical factor that is likely to exacerbate inflation worldwide.
A new study suggests that the agriculture industry's battle with rising global temperatures could drive food prices even higher.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a warning on Monday amid an uptick of measles cases — both globally and domestically.
Protests broke out in Santiago, Cuba on Sunday as people took to the streets to denounce the communist government’s handling of widespread power outages and food shortages. Many Cubans have taken to social media to express their frustrations with the inability of the country's leaders to solve what many see are basic living issues. Several
Rare protests have taken place in Cuba as the island nation's economic
TikTok’s troubles apparently go beyond a possible ban in the U.S. The social media platform has seen user growth slow for the first time in its history, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Sunday (March 17), citing sources familiar with the matter. That report lists a litany of headaches for the company, already dealing with […]
Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise. The author of the study, Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, said that as ice at the poles melts, it changes where...