February 2, 2014
Google poised to execute long-delayed stock split
Google is finally ready to split its stock for the first time, more than three years after co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin began discussing a move engineered to ensure they remain in control of the Internet's most powerful company. The…
February 2, 2014
Wal-Mart lowers profits guidance
Wal-Mart has trimmed its trading outlook for this year, citing a range of one-off costs including the closure of some stores in China. The world's largest retailer said profits were likely to be at, or below, the lower end of financial forecasts.…
February 2, 2014
Argentines jockey to cope with economic turmoil
Prices are soaring, foreign reserves are falling and the peso has had its sharpest slide in 12 years. Instead of rioting, though, Argentines are falling back on tried and true survival skills learned in earlier, more dire times. Some are hoarding…
February 2, 2014
IMF predicts economic growth for St Kitts-Nevis
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is predicting economic growth as high as three per cent for St Kitts-Nevis in 2014. An IMF mission Friday ended a three-day visit to the twin island Federation conducting reviews of the three-year…
February 2, 2014
Pressure mounts for Apple to expand its horizons
Apple reshaped technology and society when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone seven years ago. Now, the trend-setting company is losing ground to rivals that offer what Apple has stubbornly refused to make: smartphones with lower prices and larger…
February 2, 2014
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies
Oscar-winning American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in New York, police say. The 46-year-old was found in his Manhattan apartment after a friend called the emergency services. The police said the cause of death was an…
February 2, 2014
Jamaica Jazz and Blues big acts deliver
At the end of his performance on night 3 Saturday it was a standing ovation for the artiste who delivered all his expected favourites and more. ‘Everyone Plays the Fool’, ‘Don't Know Much’ and ‘Don't Go’ were among the top tracks dropped on loyal…
February 2, 2014
Woody Allen accused of sex abuse by adopted daughter
The adopted daughter of Woody Allen has renewed claims the filmmaker "sexually abused" her as a child in 1992. In an open letter, Dylan Farrow accuses Allen of molesting her in a "dim, closet-like attic" at the age of seven. Ms Farrow, now 28,…
February 2, 2014
Oscars: Best song disqualification explained
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has detailed the reasons why a contender for this year's best original song Oscar had its nomination revoked. Bruce Broughton, it said, "undermine[d] the integrity of the voting process" by telling…
February 2, 2014
Jamaican Deejay John Wayne is dead
Jamaican deejay John Wayne, who rose to prominence during the 1980s with the hit song Call the Police, died yesterday at the Kingston Public Hospital. His brother, deejay Patrick 'Penny Irie' Cephas, told Splash the cause of death was renal……