Shares in British luxury goods company Burberry Group PLC jumped Tuesday after the company reported strong second-half sales and predicted a full-year profit at the top end of market forecasts. Burberry’s popularity in the Asia Pacific region, particularly Hong Kong and Taiwan, led sales 33 percent higher in the six months to March 31, compared to a year earlier.

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Filed under: Food , Health , Consumer Ally , In the News The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said today it’s cracking down on 10 operations that allegedly used fake news websites to market acai berry weight-loss products. The agency wants to shut down the sites posing as legitimate news sites and have titles like “News 6 News Alerts” and often feature logos of major media outlets including ABC, Fox News and CNN

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Filed under: Company News , Technology , Investing , Apple , Insurance Apple ( AAPL ) is gearing up to report its quarterly results after the markets close Wednesday, and both investors and consumers are wondering if it’ll take a hit from Japan’s massive earthquake and tsunami , which have already rocked the earnings results of some other tech titans. Toshiba ( TOSBF ), for example, issued a warning Tuesday that it will fall short of the consolidated sales and operating income forecast it made in late January because of the disaster in Japan. And Sony Ericsson on..