Google Inc is making its boldest move to take on Facebook in the fast-growing social networking market and to maintain its dominance on the Web.
Campbell Soup Co will shed nearly 800 jobs as part of a series of cost cuts, which include exiting the Russian market, automating operations at a factory in Australia and closing one in the United States.
Microsoft Corp made its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of "cloud" computing on Tuesday.
French search engine company 1PlusV said it is suing Google for 295 million euros ($417.7), alleging the company used its market dominance to block the development of alternative services.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged on Monday India to push ahead with reforms, particularly in the finance sector, to realize the "enormous potential" in economic ties between the two countries.
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde is expected to be chosen as early as Tuesday to be the new leader of the International Monetary Fund.
An impressive investment plan from Bangkok Land Plc will give a shot in the arm of Thailand’s conference and exhibition economy. The real estate giant is to spend Bt3.1 billion ($101.06 million) within the next 12 months on IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, the country’s leading venue in Asia.
Facebook overtook Microsoft websites in Britain for the first time last month, becoming the UK's second-most popular after Google as people aged over 50 flocked to social networks.
No specific proposals have been tabled for Britain's banks to get involved in any private sector deal regarding Greece's debt problems, the UK Treasury said on Sunday.
In the fall of 2009, Deutsche Bank quietly fired one of its top derivative traders in London after a colleague in New York complained about finding "substantial trading anomalies" in a multibillion dollar portfolio of high-risk credit default swaps managed by the German-based bank, Reuters has learned.
European Union leaders promised more money to help Greece stave off looming bankruptcy, provided its parliament enacts an austerity plan finalised in fraught last-minute talks with international lenders.
Booming Asia had more millionaires than Europe for the first time last year and is fast closing in on North America for the top spot, a report released Thursday said.