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Nintendo slashed its forecast for the year, citing weak sales and stronger-than-expected appreciation of the Japanese yen. It also announced its new handheld 3-D video game console won't be released until after the holiday season.

If you're trying to figure out what to get your friends and family for the holidays, it helps to be a Google Trends watcher. In other words, you can get some pretty good ideas for gifts by following the crowd. So on this Cyber Monday -- called that because the first Monday after Thanksgiving...

Forget Halloween. For retailers, the scariest thing lurking around the corner is the specter of a bad holiday shopping season. Perhaps that explains why Toys R' Us is releasing its annual "hot list" of toys before the leaves have even fallen from the trees. It wants parents to take the list, check...

In the United Kingdom, Officers of Trading Standards are warning consumers there, that electric adapter / chargers which have been imported from China are posing a potentially significant safety hazard to users. At this point, it appears that no similar warnings have been officially issued to...

What fun is retiring well-off if you're not all there to enjoy the ride? Anyone unfortunate to have witnessed the ravages of Alzheimer's certainly understands. But almost all of us have experienced some kind of preview of diminished capacity to come -- glasses "lost" perched right atop our brows;...