Inspiration for jewelry and fashion design comes from many different places and influences, but perhaps no influence is as universal as the natural world around us, writes Temple St. Clair, a New York City-based jewelry designer who speaks out on humanitarian and environmental issues, in the National Jeweler.

What are the reasons that men are buying themselves increasing amounts of jewellery? A new survey attempts to discover the reasons.

India has emerged as a strong contender in the global gems and jewellery market despite the world-wide recession and its related setbacks. Demand revival from the traditional markets of the US and Europe is set to spur export growth, ensuring that the value of exports of gems and jewellery expands by around 25% this year.

Online retailers are speeding up their mobile marketing initiatives, driven by consumers' ever-increasing appetite for mobile applications, according to a new study.

If Botswana - with a GDP of 13 billion dollars in 2008 doesn't want to sink again to a GDP of 165 million dollars (the figure in 1972, when production began at its first diamond mine, Orapa), it has to take strong, swift and very effective action. Botswana needs to plan for that day in the not-so-distant future (20-30 years) when the rough diamonds that are supplying the economy with air to breathe run out. For the consumer in Manhattan, diamonds are a luxury item. For the citizen of Gabarone, they are a matter of survival.