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Affordable luxury: Lab-grown diamonds steal the spotlight
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (1124+ words) Diamonds are forever " and now they're for everyone. The jewellery world is having a sparkly shake-up, with lab-grown diamonds firmly claiming centre stage. The Global Diamond Trade Organisation recently revealed the current retail market share in Australia is between 5060 per…...
Valentine’s Day gift guide: 30 gifts for your loved one
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (26+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....
Using AI to revitalise your old photos
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (269+ words) In those days a lot of expertise was required to get the desired result, but now just a few keystrokes will give the same result using artificial intelligence. However, what's changed in 20 years has been the editing software and the…...
Lanna Hill: Membership trumps message for building brand loyalty
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (26+ words) It's rarely about one clever ad anymore. It's about solving two problems at once: attention and trust. Attention is fragmented, and trust is expensive....
Ikea battles Amazon and Temu as market shifts bring pain
1+ mon, 23+ hour ago (35+ words) As the first snow fell over "lmhult, the small Swedish town where Ikea was born in the 1940s, managers of the world's biggest furniture retailer from across the globe gathered for its annual summit....
Payment giants are preparing for a world where AI agents book flights and shop for you
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1009+ words) Major payment and tech companies are racing to build the infrastructure for what they see as the next evolution of global commerce: artificial intelligence agents that can perform searches, compare prices, and make purchases on behalf of consumers. The trend…...
AI will make a list but shoppers should check it twice
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (26+ words) The West Australian is a leading news source in Perth and WA. Breaking local and world news from sport and business to lifestyle and current affairs....
Booming Afterpay’s mind-boggling losses since US sale
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (850+ words) Payments platform Afterpay slashed the value of its local business by $1.9 billion in 2024 to take total writedowns across the homegrown buy-now, pay-later group to $12.2b since 2023. The former share market star has now posted total accounting losses of $10.5b since 2023, though its…...
STM’s mega list of more than 120 Christmas present ideas
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (1120+ words) Main Image: The Koko Black Christmas range is one of many options in the STM gift guide. Credit: Supplied We've done the festive browsing for you for this guide with more than 120 ideas, from gifts below $50 to luxury splurges, unique…...
Retail supremo dangles 'game-changing' mystery tech
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (25+ words) Harvey Norman chair Gerry Harvey has hinted he might be selling robots in the next 18 months alongside a 'secret' technology, after dissing his rivals....