NEW YORK: Facebook yesterday unveiled an app to allow people around the world with mobile phones but no Internet access to access online...
NEW YORK: Facebook yesterday unveiled an app to allow people around the world with mobile phones but no Internet access to access online...
WASHINGTON: Smartphones powered by the Android operating system captured 85 percent of the worldwide market in the second quarter, threatening to marginalise rival...
NEW YORK: In a case closely watched by the tech sector, Microsoft will challenge a US court order requiring it to give prosecutors...
LONDON: Opec’s oil production rose in July from June, a survey found yesterday, as a fragile recovery in Libyan supply outweighed fighting in...
Traders monitor prices in the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange yesterday in Chicago, Illinois. The Federal Reserve...
A car of Swiss bank Vontobel is parked in front of a branch office in Zurich yestersday. Vontobel Holding scrapped its revenue target...
NEW YORK: Oil prices fell yesterday, with Brent leading the decline weakened by excess supplies in Europe and Asia, while US crude pared...
DOHA: Qatar Central Bank (QCB) will issue QR4bn worth of local currency Treasury bills next week. The T-bills, to be issued on Tuesday,...
LONDON: Miscreant bankers face having their bonuses clawed back for up to seven years after their award under measures set out on Wednesday...
FRANKFURT: Eurozone banks have loosened their lending terms for businesses for the first time since the start of the financial crisis, the European...
ROME: Italy’s loss-making flag carrier Alitalia is working on a final proposal to present to Etihad today in a push to lock in...
Shoppers visit stores in Chicago as consumer confidence has reached the highest level in almost seven years. WASHINGTON: US economic growth accelerated more...
PARIS: Airbus Group showed stellar performance in the first half (H1) of the year, raising net profits by half with sales of airliners,...
A Toyota Motor Corp Prius hybrid car (left) goes past a Volkswagen Tiguan car at their dealership in Tokyo yesterday. Volkswagen is closing...
Yusuf Mehdi, head of marketing and strategy for Microsoft’s Xbox group, at the presentation of the Xbox One as part of ChinaJoy 2014...
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) said its financial first quarter net profit plunged 71.4 percent from the previous year, weighed down by lower passenger...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economy was among the fastest growing in Asia, but it was vulnerable to sudden external shocks due to high levels...
TOKYO: Japan could be flirting with recession after the weakest factory output since 2011, which, following a surprising fall in exports last week,...
