Playboy opens first European store in London
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Playboy continued its evolution from adult magazine to international merchandising brand by opening its first store in Europe Friday at the heart of London&#39;s shopping district.
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Google&#39;s shopping-specific search site, Froogle, has seen its first release outside US shores. The UK is the first European country to get Google&#39;s shopping search and comparison service.
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On Monday, Virgin Group subsidiary Virgin Digital launched an online store designed to leverage the name recognition of its brick-and-mortar Virgin Megastore while competing with a subscription-based model.
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Zipcar Inc., the Cambridge car-sharing service launched in 2000 with a dozen Volkswagen Beetles, said yesterday that it is making its European debut today in London.
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London's Winter Fashion Week kicked off in style, with Dublin-born designer Paul Costelloe unveiling his Parisian-themed collection, but the size-zero furore rumbled on.
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Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment  , the world's biggest casino operator, has agreed to buy  Britain's London Clubs  for $530 million, giving the  U.S. company a strong opening in Europe.
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Wannabes finally have a chance to digitally mingle with celebrities and sexpots at the most infamous house in North America thanks to the release of Playboy's first video game, "Playboy: The Mansion."
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The focus was more on who was in the  audience when London's premier fashion event began on Sunday  because designers said U.S. recession fears had made Russia and  Asia the markets to target.
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An X-rated exhibition featuring a pornographic fresco from a Roman brothel and a fig leaf used to hide the private parts of Michelangelo's David is to be staged at one of London's top arts centres.
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London Fashion Week opened for the first  full day of shows on Monday but attention remained more on the  body shape of the models than the clothes they were wearing.
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London opened its spring/summer fashion   week on Monday, but there was more attention on the body size   of its models than on what clothes they were wearing.
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Looking to gain a foothold in the potentially lucrative British gambling market, Caesars Entertainment Inc. has announced plans to construct a Las Vegas-style hotel-casino in London.
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Largest European Apple Shop to date opens inside the FNAC Digital store on the Boulevard Saint Germain in Paris.
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The legendary Playboy talks about his new club, marriage and growing up Puritan
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The world's largest computer games publisher, Electronic Arts, has opened a European test centre in Madrid, providing hundreds of video game fans from across the continent with a dream job.
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Apple is to open its first retail store in Europe on Saturday, a state-of-the-art boutique in central London selling the latest products from the US computer and technology group.
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Flaunting bunnies, booze and blackjack, the first Playboy Club in nearly two decades opened in Las Vegas on Saturday night with high hopes that its time-tested combination of sex and celebrity will attract a new generation of high rollers.