Business

Google has a 'translation engine' that does a pretty good job.The idea came about in 2004 when one of its founders used a translation tool acquired by licence to read a letter, fan mail really, from a South Korean.

Starting this week, the Financial Gleaner publishes the submission by former chairman of the Eagle Group of Companies, Dr Paul Chen-Young, presented to the FINSAC enquiry in the form of a book.

Greece's profligacy, clandestinely assisted by Wall Street's Houdini-like amoral derivers of derivatives, succeeded in creating waning confidence in the euro, which fell from US$1.51 in December to a low of US$1.361 this...

Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú, owner of América Móvil and Claro, has overtaken Bill Gates and is the first man from a developing nation to become the world's richest person...

Government yesterday unveiled its economic support programme, which is being put in place to ease the hardships of the more than 3,600 workers made redundant after the divestment of two sugar factories.Under the programme, each person will get financial...

It's the end of the workday (4:30 for some, 5:00 for others) and you're wondering where the day went. In between all the phone calls and meetings, you just haven't accomplished your list of things to do for the day. For other persons though, this inability...

Appliance Traders Limited (ATL), a trader of electronics and appliances, is searching for new operating space for two outlets, and has already rebranded one store as ATL Elite in an apparent shift upmarket. The Elite store, shortly after opening late...

The new-born litter of 10 piglets and mother, 'Sandy'.Raising pigs a rewarding professionChristopher SerjuGleaner writerSOMERSET, St Thomas:THE COLD night wind coming off the river was giving Marsha Graham a hard time as she struggled to keep warm, but...

As Europe struggles with a debt crisis, the idea of a European Monetary Fund is quickly taking hold. Such a body could be a lender of last resort and keep financially troubled governments from unsettling the euro and global markets...

American International Group (AIG) will sell its overseas life and health insurance unit for US$15.5 billion to MetLife Inc, the insurer said, as it attempts to repay billions in government aid.In the deal announced Monday, MetLife will pay US$6.8...

The Wall Street Journal reports that a British agency is investigating whether Kraft Foods Inc misled employees and investors about its takeover of chocolate maker Cadbury PLC.

Money transfers from Latin American and Caribbean migrants to their home countries are likely to stabilise in 2010 after suffering a 15 per cent drop in 2009, according to a new report last Thursday by the Inter-American Development Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund (FOMIN).