Home Depot, the American home equipment giant, based in Atlanta, has signed an agreement to buy the Chinese home equipment chain, the Home Way. The price of the deal was not disclosed but earlier estimates estimated the deal to be worth approximately $100 million.

What do business, the State University of New Jersey and iPods have in common? Podcasing of course. Podcasting is a new method of bringing broadcasts and lectures onto the web and allowing these files to be easily transferred into MP3 player.

Software giant, Microsoft, has developed a startup accelerator program for its partner companies that will provide them with special access to its internal resources. The program is designed to support software development and assist market visibility, and is a way for Microsoft to help itself.

Vanna Bonta, poet, novelist, and actress lends an original story peformance to a Children`s Hospitals entertainment CD. The holiday CD of songs and stories has Santa visiting children and their siblings in hospitals this year.

In a crucial test for a new pope seen by many as being out of touch with today`s youth - not to mention today`s Catholics in general - Benedict XVI took the stage on Sunday to perform mass before hundreds of thousands of young Catholics during the World Youth Day celebrations in Cologne, Germany.

Gili Raanan, CEO and founder of nLayers, the leader in real-time discovery and resource optimization, was chosen by the editors of VentureWire to be a speaker and presenter at the Datacenter Ventures 2005 conference. The Sofitel San Francisco Bay Hotel in Redwood City, CA will host the event from September 20th to the 21st, 2005.

After his stellar rookie season, Ben Gordon has been somewhat of a disappointment this season. There is a notable reduction in his point production, as a result of a reduced role. Last season, Gordon served as the sparkplug off the bench. With Kirk Hinrich and Chris Duhon firmly emplaced in the starting lineup, Gordon future in Chicago has come in to question.

Thirty one year old Brazilian striker Ronaldo, also known as 1976), simply known as O Fen?meno (the phenomenon) has fallen out of favor with his Spanish club Real Madrid

Regardless of what attracts you to men, there is one man that will always be attractive, in at least a few ways. This man is Brad Pitt, one of the hottest men in the entertainment industry. Yet it seems that one unkown magazine is trying to tell us that Brad is in fact, not sexy at all. To this I say FOR SHAME!!

U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice tops the list for the second consecutive year, followed by China`s vice prime minister Yi Wu at second place and Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko at third.

Microsoft announced that it is on schedule for a broad consumer Windows Vista beta release to approximately two million users in the second quarter of 2006, following the announcement Microsoft has stated that her next-generation version of her operation system will make it to the market only after January 2007.

Wealthy nations will discuss absolving poor countries of loan payments at G-7 summit.

Ex-?Friends? star and film actress, Jennifer Aniston, 37, has announced that she has split from her boyfriend, Vince Vaughn. The couple has been together for a year and a half, since meeting on the set of a movie in 2005 ? aptly titled ? ?The Break Up?.

At the annual NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) conference the Internet search giant Google stated they will not sell music, even thought the rumors about Google digital music solution have existed more than a year.

Bharti Enterprises, an Indian corporation specializing in communications, signed a contract with Walmart in the end of November. This contract stipulated the creation of cross-India chain of retail stores