The Guardian Chinese smartphone on sale on Amazon and eBay contains built-in malwareThe GuardianA Chinese Android smartphone on sale on Amazon, eBay and other online stores has been found to contain a virus that pretends to be the Google Play Store but steals user data. The Star N9500, which closely resembles Samsung's Galaxy S4 smartphone…
Reuters Rare British Guiana stamp sells for record $9.5 millionReutersThe hefty price, which includes the buyer's premium, makes the one-inch by one-and-a-quarter-inch stamp (2.5 cm by 3.2 cm) printed in black on magenta paper the most expensive stamp ever sold at auction, and the most valuable object by weight and size, … More: continued here
FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) recently hosted a customer appreciation movie night in Thailand. The opening weekend screening of the new Godzilla film attracted more than 350 FedEx customers to the SF Cinema in Bangkok. More: continued here
Reuters The mail survives a tornado, the post office doesn't in Today in Picturesal.comDarcy Kleinschmit, a rural mail carrier from Norfolk, helps save the mail from the destroyed Pilger Post Office in Pilger, Neb. The National Weather Service says the storm that struck northeast Nebraska appears to have produced four tornadoes, one of …Postal Service…
Bachmann-led effort to rename Cold Spring post office for slain police officer …Minneapolis Star TribuneST. CLOUD, Minn. — The U.S. House has approved a bill to rename the Cold Spring post office in honor of slain police officer Tom Decker. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann led the effort. Bachmann says renaming Decker's hometown post office the…
Fox News One-cent stamp from 1856 sold at auction for $9.5MFox NewsNEW YORK – A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world's most valuable stamp— again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta sold Tuesday at auction in New York for $9.5 million, Sotheby's said … More: continued…
The Economist explains Why rare stamps have become so valuableThe Economist (blog)ON JUNE 17th the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp, the only surviving example of a penny issue printed in the South American British colony in 1856, will go under the hammer at Sotheby's, a large auction house, in New York. Each of the three…
Royal Mail PLC Receives New Coverage from Analysts at Jefferies Group (RMG)Ticker ReportRoyal Mail PLC logo Stock analysts at Jefferies Group started coverage on shares of Royal Mail PLC (LON:RMG) in a report issued on Wednesday. The firm set an “underperform” rating and a GBX 420 ($7.13) price target on the stock. Jefferies Group's …and…
CBS News Rare 1-cent stamp sells for $9.5 millionCBS NewsNEW YORK – A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world's most valuable stamp – again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta sold Tuesday at auction in New York for $9.5 million, Sotheby's said.Stamp Sells for a…
World's Rarest Stamp To Have Guard at Tonight's AuctionABC News (blog)A postage stamp described as “the Mona Lisa” and “the Mount Everest” of stamp collecting for the past 100 years could fetch as much as $20 million in an auction tonight at Sotheby's Auction House in New York. The British Guiana One-Cent Magenta stamp … More:…