France’s agriculture sector has suffered its fair share of setbacks lately. But here’s a particularly gruesome one: Farmer suicides are adding to the industry’s struggles.
Well that didn’t take long. Just 30 days after rolling out a cheaper, plastic-cased version of its flagship smartphone, Apple is reportedly backtracking.
Big Western brands have spent the last several decades trying to crack emerging markets with their marquee brands. But now that many have established booming businesses abroad, some are reversing course.
European governments are having trouble keeping the lights on in their troubled economies. European auto enthusiasts, on the other hand, are still living the good life.
Say hello to literature’s new golden child: the short story.
The tech world’s two most popular devices are moving in opposite directions.
The numbers: Not great. Although fourth-quarter profit at US discount store Family Dollar was $102.2 million, up 26% from the same period last year, its revenue of $2.5 billion was slightly lower than the $2.56 billion forecast by Forbes’ analysts. Family Dollar shares are down in early trading.
What’s in a name? Quite a bit when AB Inbev, the world’s biggest brewer, is trying to build international cachet for its marquee brand.
The US boasts the world’s largest GDP and the planet’s most influential government, but its citizens aren’t all that intellectually exceptional.
It appears that there are far more super-wealthy Africans than anyone realized.
What to watch for
There aren’t many people with enough wealth and devotion to soccer to commission an extravagant mansion in the shape of a soccer ball. But Luis de Garrido, a celebrated Spanish architect, bet that if he designed such a property to be built in Barcelona, one famed soccer player was sure to bite: Lionel Messi.
Remember Sizzler, the 90s-era global restaurant chain based in the US that made a name for itself with endless salad bars and cheap chicken dinners? The chain, which now has restaurants spanning across Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Puerto Rico and Thailand, is banking on just the thing to refresh your memory: an impossibly cheap dinner deal you’d be foolish to forgo.
Few crime statistics are as sobering as the ones coming out of Mexico these days.
Spanish residents aren’t merely out of work—they’re out of the country.
The film world may still fawn over French cinema, but that doesn’t mean the French do.
The Vatican’s first step towards financial transparency was rather eye-catching.
It appears Venezuela isn’t pumping out nearly as much oil as it claims.
Peru isn’t merely one of the world’s largest exporters of gold—it’s also one of its dirtiest.
It hasn’t even been two years since mobile game maker Zynga went public, then promptly saw its stock plummet to a fraction of its IPO value. Now, British-based game developer King, best known for its hit game Candy Crush, has reportedly filed paperwork for an initial public offering. Have they learned nothing?
It appears the creators of Candy Crush Saga are ready to cash in on the success of the simple three-of-a-kind matching game.
If we’re going to tackle climate change, we might want to start by addressing the world’s inability to wean itself off cows.
Forbes has added legendary magician David Copperfield to its “Ones To Watch” list, where it puts people likely to make it to the magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans. After more than a decade spent performing in Las Vegas and many years of world tours, Copperfield has built an empire worth an estimated $800 million, according to Forbes, and is fast-approaching the rare self-made celebrity billionaire status—an accomplishment that Oprah Winfrey is the only other entertainer to have achieved thus far. (The least rich person on the Forbes 400 is currently worth $1.3 billion.)
If you like diamonds, you’re going to love Sotheby’s latest gem.
