Splitting the bill at a restaurant or settling road trip expenses can be as simple as tapping two phones together to transfer the funds. Bump Pay is a new app for person-to-person mobile payments developed by Bump, the makers of the app of the same name that allows the instant transfer of contact information and
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The activist hacker group Anonymous plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in a bid to uncover corruption and lobby for human rights, a member of the group said on Monday. Anonymous, a loosely knit group that has attacked financial and government websites around the world, hacked into Chinese government websites last week,
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Movie sensation "The Hunger Games" survived fresh competition from the "Titanic" and the gross-out "American Pie" gang to notch its third domestic box office win over the weekend. "Hunger Games" took in $33.5 million at U.S. and Canadian theaters from Friday through Sunday and lifted its domestic sales through three weekends to $302.8 million, according
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Valencia blew the title race wide open when they held Real Madrid to a 0-0 draw on Sunday that trimmed the leaders' advantage over chasing Barcelona to four points with seven La Liga games left. Goalkeeper Vicente Guaita was the hero for the visitors in a tense encounter at the Bernabeu as he produced a
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An explosion hit the Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel and Jordan on Monday for 14th time since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak began last year, security sources said. The blast took place in the northern Sinai at the entrance of the Mediterranean coastal town of Al-Arish. Residents in the city told Reuters they
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Suicide rates for female teens and pre-teens in Canada rose over the past few decades even though the overall number of youths who took their own lives was dropping, according to a Canadian study that covered nearly 30 years. Researchers whose findings were published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal also noted a change in
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Brent crude slipped $1 on Monday as Iran agreed to resume talks that had collapsed more than a year ago on the country's nuclear programme with the United States and its allies, raising hopes of a peaceful resolution to the standoff. Prices were also under pressure on demand growth concerns after data showed U.S. employers
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The dollar hit a one-month low versus the yen on Monday, extending losses after last week's lower-than-expected U.S. jobs figures bolstered views the Federal Reserve could yet adopt more monetary easing to support the economy. U.S. job growth slowed to 120,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, the smallest increase since October.
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Asian shares fell on Monday as a sharp slowdown in U.S. jobs growth raised concerns about the strength of the world's largest economy, prompting investors to curb risk exposure ahead of more U.S. data and earnings as well as figures from China this week. Friday's data showed U.S. payrolls grew by 120,000 in March, far
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Greek Prime Minister Loukas Papademos stated that partition is no option for Cyprus, reiterating that a solution must be in line with UN decisions and provide for a bizonal bicommunal federation with a single international personality, one sovereignty and one citizenship. Addressing the Cyprus parliament at the end of his two-day official visit to the
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