eBay pushed into collectibles and live auctions last year and now the U.S. retailer is adding a notable name to its list: prestigious auction house Sotheby’s. The duo have teamed up to live-stream auctions from Sotheby’s and allow prospective buyers to place bids in real-time via eBay. Read More
Dolce & Gabbana rarely got bad press for their hundreds of millions of dollars of tax evasion troubles, nor for being billionaires. But their remarks against same sex parents drew swift and sharp rebukes. - Source
It seems as though being busy has been elevated to some sort of an elite status among business professionals. We love to tell people how many emails we get, how much we are traveling, the number of meetings we have scheduled, and just how hectic our lives are. We are such important people that we don’t even have enough time to take a few minutes to put our phones away during an in-person conversation. “Hey how are things going?” “Good, I’m just super busy lately,” is an all to common conversation that keeps happening. Today we spend more time working every single day than doing anything else, we spends hundreds of billion of dollars a year on stress related medical conditions, and the leading cause of stress is…our jobs! - Source
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The survivors of Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu are desperate for water, food and safe shelter, the Red Cross said on Tuesday as it launched an emergency appeal for 3.2 million Swiss francs ($3.2 million).
The rupee gained 9 paise to 62.72 against the dollar in early trade on Tuesday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange on increased selling of the American currency by banks and exporters amid lower dollar value overseas on tepid US manufacturing data.
The benchmark BSE sensex recovered sharply by nearly 203 points in early trade on Tuesday on emergence of buying by funds and retail investors amid positive cues from other Asian markets.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s main stock index rose to its highest in almost seven years on Tuesday morning, breaking through a key psychological resistance level to raise investors’ hopes that the market has resumed a bull run begun midway through last year.
Over the last two years or so, the news around Adobe has mostly focused on its Creative Cloud, so it’s easy to forget that the company also has a huge business in the document business with Acrobat. Now, it’s putting renewed emphasis on this side of its business with the launch of its Document Cloud. Read More
In India, it is a leading electric utility, Jaiprakash Power Ventures, selling off facilities and negotiating with lenders to avoid a default, having increasing its debts thirtyfold in six years.
LONDON (Reuters) – Five years ago, Martin Morales quit his job as the head of Disney Music and took on a self-assigned mission: championing the arts, culture and food of Peru. Especially the food.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan hanged 12 male convicts on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said, the largest number of people executed on the same day since an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in December.
BuzzFeed is hoping to expand its empire by publishing the website’s signature viral content to new platforms. - Source
