Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) has acquired a majority stake in Riot Games, the video game developer and publisher said on Friday.
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China maintains yuan's peg to the dollar by continually purchasing dollars in the open market, which means that China has to buy more ad more dollars as the U.S. currency gets weaker. And here is the role of the U.S. Federal Reserve in exacerbating Beijing's concerns.
Since the Egyptian government shut down the Internet for days in the wake of protests, some have asked if the U.S. government could set up an Internet kill switch to cut off access -- either to stop people from communicating or protect the country from cyber attack.
A report by an American think thank says that U.S. dependence on China for rare earths is extremely problematic and poses both economic and national security risks.
Federals are trying to identify hackers, who have repeatedly entered the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, the Wall Street Journal reports.
China's yuan currency remains substantially undervalued and should be permitted to appreciate more rapidly but there isn't enough evidence to conclude that Beijing deliberately manipulates its value, the U.S. Treasury department said on Friday.
The European Union will drop its inquiry into whether China is giving illegal aid to two of its leading telecom firms, even as the EU's executive cites evidence of massive subsidies, according to EU Commission documents.
If people on Earth want to talk to aliens, we may have to change our tune - or at least the way we broadcast it. And we may need a crowd to help figure out what to do.
China has offered Zimbabwe $3 billion for vast platinum reserves, a local private newspaper reported on Friday but said the deal was likely to be rejected by the government over its terms.
Now that all the hype and the hoopla of Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to the United States are over, the same basic commercial question remains unanswered: How can American companies create more jobs for Americans by selling more American goods and services in China?
The price of gold is at a critical juncture. What happens in the next couple of weeks can determine whether the metal's spectacular rally will continue or fade.
Palm oil output and stocks, already lagging robust demand due to rains in top Southeast Asia producers, could be made worse should the cooking ingredient become the next target for emerging markets seeking to buy big and dampen adverse effects of booming world food prices.
Investors from China and Libya are interested in buying agribusinesses in Ukraine to secure food supplies, a newspaper quoted top Austrian investment bankers as saying.
For Esther Moloto, the 32-year-old owner of a little house on top of the world's biggest platinum reserves, the sound of progress is falling plaster.
Dollar Gold and Silver Prices were little changed in London trade on Friday, unmoved by unexpectedly weak US jobs data near two- and 3-week highs respectively.
The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Silicon Image, Orexigen Therapeutics, China MediaExpress Holdings and Entropic Communications. The top pre-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Coinstar, Toreador Resources, YRC Worldwide and GT Solar International.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the leading science research organ in the Asian country, has announced a decade-long program in applied scientific research titled Innovation 2020 that lays special emphasis on four key areas, namely space science, information technology, energy and health.
After stirring up a storm with the 'V for Victory, You are the Resistance' campaign, Infowars has now accused the Obama administration of triggering blackouts.
The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Alliant Techsystems, Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Tyson Foods, Vonage Holdings and China Yuchai International. The top after-market NYSE losers on Thursday are: DHT Holdings, Teekay Tankers, RealD, Las Vegas Sands and Netsuite.
The top after-market NASDAQ stock market gainers are: JDS Uniphase, Opnext, Aviat Networks, Silicon Image and China MediaExpress Holdings. The top after-market NASDAQ stock market losers are: Power-One, Biodel, Coinstar, pSivida and MedQuist.
LVMH , the world's biggest luxury group, posted a 13 percent rise in fourth-quarter comparable sales boosted by Chinese shoppers' growing appetite for luxury goods and a steady rise in discretionary spending.
