COMPANIES

J Sainsbury, the retailing and financial services and property investment group, expects customers to spend cautiously in 2012, particularly in first half of the year. Although the short term remains challenging, key events later in the year, such as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games provide opportunities for growth.

Valve's Josh Weier speaks of Portal 2's success, new level-building features and Stephen Merchant.

Sony's PS Vita is possibly the ultimate portable console, but with smartphones and tablets on the rise, is it still what we want?

Valve's Portal 2 hogged the limelight with three big awards for Best Game, Design and Story at Friday's British Academy Video Game Awards.

Eight-bit games are the future, admits the TV host who gets lost in 'horrible 3D worlds'.

Ian Livingstone, CEO of Eidos, the developer behind Tomb Raider, claims the games industry is moving to a 'freemium' model.

Mears Group, a holding company engaged in the provision of a range of outsourced services to the public and private sectors, is delivering a strategy that will join its leadership within the developed markets of social housing and care.

We speak exclusively with Blitz Game Studios co-founder Philip Oliver on the BAFTA's red carpet.

According to a report on Verge, photographs of the Nokia Lumia 719 (the fifth Windows phone) have been leaked.

Berkeley Group, the residential-led property developer is well placed to double its profits before tax around £220 million by 30 April 2013, two years earlier than originally planned and to enhance the value of its land bank to £3 billion by April 2015.

Cairn Energy, the independent oil, gas exploration and production company is excited by the potential of its multi-basin acreage in Greenland offers and the management team is focused on accessing new opportunities that provide material growth for the company and its stakeholders.

The Cupertino-based company has called for a media event, scheduled for 9 a.m. EDT (2 p.m. GMT; 6 a.m. PDT) on 19 March, to explain its plans to spend the surplus money.

Debenhams, the seller of fashion clothing, accessories, cosmetics and products, expects to benefit from lower input prices in the H2 of FY 2012. Britain's No. 2 department store group is scheduled to release its H1 trading update on Tuesday.

There are reports that supposed press images of Korean smartphone manufacturer's Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S3 have been leaked online.

American Internet search giant Google has been working on a 7-inch tablet, in association with the Samsung Nexus line, for quite some time.

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Apple's new iPad has landed and we've put it through its paces, but is it worth the upgrade over the iPad 2?

Nike slammed for insensitive marketing of shoe nicknamed after notorious anti-Irish Catholic paramilitary group.

EMIS Group Plc, the UK's leading supplier of clinical software and related services, has reported a total revenue of £73.2 million for the year ended 31 December 2011, up £61.9 million in 2010 and EPS from continuing operations at 28.71 pence as compared to 23.31 pence in 2010.

Tullow Oil, an independent oil and gas company, announced that it has successfully encountered oil in very good quality sandstone reservoirs in the Enyenra-4A appraisal well, in the Deepwater Tano licence offshore Ghana.

The Berkeley Group Holdings, known for its savvy London land purchases, is confident of its ability to meet its targets, buoyed by a pipeline of forward sales that grew 15.2 percent in the six months to October 31, 2011. The group is scheduled to release its interim management statement on March 19, 2012.

Apple is set to open a new retail store in Harrods to coincide with the launch of the new iPad, tomorrow.

KPMG has published a full list of private creditors to failed broker MF Global.

Trinity Mirror warns of cuts to pension funding obligation to ease pain of profits fall to £74m.

With online pre-orders sold out, the only option is to get up early and queue, but where is best?

Game Group has been given a potential lifeline as administration looms.

Britain's household goods retailer, Home Retail Group, focuses on robust cost management along with cash positions due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding the UK economy. It will also prioritise its investment in the ongoing development of its multi-channel capabilities.

Virgin Media will bring its Wi-Fi network to 80 stations throughout the London Underground network in time for the 2012 Olympics.

Sony Xperia S gets access to 12 games from the PlayStation Store.