Toronto - BlackBerry's total market value plunged by more than one-fourth on Friday after the smartphone maker reported dismal quarterly results, prompting ever-deeper scepticism about a long-promised...
British Airways will start testing an electronic baggage tag which could remove the need for a new paper tag each time a traveller flies and speed up passenger check-in times at the airport.Passengers...
London - Britain's top share index rose on Monday as investors placed fresh bets at the start of the quarter, with robust June manufacturing data sending industrial firms to the top of the leaderboard...
RTG has been allegedly hit by some serious corporate governance issues and concerns after an attempt by a board faction to push for the ouster of certain company executives.The controversial move, re...
AICO reported a depressed set of financials negatively impacted by the lower seed sales volumes, lower lint prices, impairments as well as high finance costs. Although sales volumes grew 18% to 213,72...
CASH-SRAPPED Star Africa Corporation is technically insolvent as its liabilities far outstrip assets.Star Africa will thus sell its investment in Botswana-based associate Tongaat Hulett and Blue Star ...
THE country's largest shoe manufacturing company, Bata, is aiming at a 20% increase in production by year end despite a shortage of raw materials, a company executive has said.The shoe manufacturer is...
Washington - The White House has assembled a short list of candidates to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a source familiar with the process said last week, and US Treasury Secretary Jac...
Metbank announced last week that it will introduce Zimbabwe's first certified Europay, MasterCard and Visa in collaboration with the global payments technology company, MasterCard.This will see the b...
President Robert Mugabe has become Zimbabwe's sole law-making authority until the next elections are held following the automatic dissolution of parliament, his justice minister told state media on Su...
Cairo - At least four people were killed in Egypt and nearly 200 wounded on Sunday in clashes between supporters and opponents of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, security and medical sources said.A...
PREPARATIONS for this year's Mining, Engineering and Transport (Mine Entra) expo are at an advanced stage with more than 5 800 square metres of exhibition space having been booked so far. The an...
LEGEND has it that when Cecil John Rhodes colonised Zimbabwe he believed that a missing jewel from King Solomon's treasure chest, called Solomon's Ophir was to be found on the plateau between Zambezi ...
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city, is famed for its charisma as the City of Kings and, of course, the kings must live with their queens. The City of Kings - so-called as it was the capital of l...
KHARTOUM - Shipments of South Sudanese oil from Sudan have resumed after more than a year, a senior petroleum ministry official said yesterday, but the South expressed concern Khartoum might stop the ...
LAGOS - As the deadline to register subscriber identity module cards approaches, the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers of Nigeria appealed for an extension of the programme.The Ni...
New York - For only the fourth time in history, there will be a new $100 bill.America's Federal Reserve announced that after a three-year delay due to slower-than-expected production there will be an ...
Address at the ZNCC Annual Congress by Prof. Arthur G.O. Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 13th June 2013, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.IntroductionMost of our development and industrializat...
AS US President Barack Obama jetted into town on Friday, the diplomatic talk was about how South Africa could use the visit to bolster trade ties.The US was a "major export market for South African pr...
London - Canadian Mark Carney begins his job as governor of the Bank of England on Monday, joining an institution divided on whether to pump out more cash stimulus to boost Britain's fragile economic ...
London - A former chairman of Tesco, the world's No.3 retailer, said that restoring the store group's fortunes could take up to three years and appealed to investors to give Chief Executive Phil Clark...
Paris - Markets are heading into a stormy few months after the US Fed pricked the euphoria which pushed share prices to record highs, but turbulence does not mean a return to crisis, analysts say.Afte...
Morgan Stanley (MS) completed its purchase of a brokerage joint venture with Citigroup Inc.'s Smith Barney, capping a four-year effort to more than double the size of its wealth-management division.Mo...
THREE Zimbabwean farmers whose land was seized in President Robert Mugabe's land reforms won a landmark victory in South Africa's Constitutional Court on Thursday.Their attorney can now arrange for th...
DOHA - Qatar's emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said on Tuesday he was transferring power to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, taking the rare step for a Gulf Arab ruler of voluntarily ceding ...