Economy

Walmart Targets Amazon, Goes After High-End Online Consumers

Walmart is apparently focusing online --- and wanting to move on up. Walmart is apparently focusing online --- and wanting to move on up. Executives at the retail behemoth have said in a report by the Financial Times they will be ramping up their e-commerce business in an effort to attract high-income consumers --- who tend to do more of their shopping online --- along with the store chain's core of in-store shoppers, whose annual household incomes typically range between $30,000 and $60,000.

Crocodile T-Shirt Priced At $91,500 In New York City Store

Fashion can come at all cost, but $91,500 for a T-shirt is downright shocking! Fashion can come at all cost, but $91,500 for a T-shirt is downright shocking! It's likely that The Awl may have discovered the world's most expensive T-shirt.

U.S. Home Prices Show Highest Year-Over-Year Gains Since Before Housing Bust

Home prices in the U.S. showed the biggest year-over-year increase in January since the summer of 2006, according to Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller home-price indexes.

Windows 8 Release Date & Features

On Oct. 26, Microsoft's Windows 8 will be available to people worldwide. On Oct. 26, Microsoft's Windows 8 will be available to people worldwide.

Venezuela presidential vote looks set for close finish

Venezuela's presidential election looked headed for a close finish on Sunday with President Hugo Chavez facing an unprecedented challenge to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism.

Chavez's Socialist Rule at Risk as Venezuelans Vote

Hugo Chavez loyalists blew bugles in a wake up call for voters on Sunday as the Venezuelan leader faced the biggest electoral challenge yet to his socialist rule from a young rival tapping into discontent over crime and cronyism.