European shares were set for a stronger open on Friday and the euro steadied as investors hoped for a big policy move from European finance ministers to combat the region's growing debt crisis.
Tokyo Game Show (TGS), Japan's biggest gaming event which began Thursday at Chiba's Makuhari Messe convention center, will continue through Sept. 18.
Asian stocks jumped on Friday and the euro steadied, after rising sharply the previous day, as investors hoped for a big policy move from European finance ministers to combat the debt crisis.
Troubled euro zone banks probably need more aggressive capital injections to get through turmoil caused by Europe's worsening debt crisis, top investors said at a Bloomberg Markets 50 Summit on Thursday.
Google Inc's Japanese unit will launch an online search service on Friday that will display the prices and availability of products at stores near the shopper's location, the Nikkei business daily reported.
OpenFeint founder Jason Citron will leave his own company, and will be replaced by head of Gree International Naoki Aoyagi.
Gold and silver prices moved higher late Thursday after posting big losses in the New York futures market.
Investors obviously applauded the move, sending Morgan Stanley shares up 7.2 percent in Thursday’s trading.
Sharp, one of Japan’s biggest makers of electronics, will scrap its Galapagos tablet on the market less than a year. The move demonstrates the market strength of Apple’s iPad line.
South African energy minister Dipuo Peters said on Thursday she had signed off on a proposal for new nuclear power plants, likely worth tens of billions of dollars, and said it would be presented to cabinet soon.
Gold and silver fell hard Thursday after five major central banks announced a coordinated plan to inject U.S. dollars into European banks straining under the load of the continent's sovereign debt crisis.
Sales jumped 2.7 percent in the month to C$46.7 billion ($46.7 billion) following three straight months of declines and beating estimates of a 1.3 percent gain, Statistics Canada said on Thursday.
Apple is known for improving the iPhone experience with the launch of new iPhone versions year after year. This year looks no different if rumors are to be believed. Both hardware and software improvements are expected this year as well.
The world's major central banks, led by the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve, in a coordinated effort Thursday intervened to provide dollar loans to commercial banks in an effort to maintain liquidity in Europe and check institutional investor concern about Europe's private sector banks. What will be the impact on U.S. stocks?
With precious little time to rest after their brutal U.S. Open final, world number one Novak Djokovic and Rafa Nadal will be energized by national pride this weekend as they lead their countries into battle in the Davis Cup semi-finals.
The new loan offers will be conducted in October, November and December.
New claims for jobless benefits hit the highest level since late June last week and a gauge of New York state factory activity contracted in September, sustaining the view the Federal Reserve would take new action to boost growth.
Adobe Flash has finally come to Apple Inc.'s iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, not directly supported but just that the new app tools will be able to export Flash content as an HTML5-supporting format.
There were at least four earthquake with magnitudes of 3.0 or higher on Thursday. Is that something the world needs to worry about?
New jobless claims rose last week to their highest since June and a gauge of New York State manufacturing contracted in September, sustaining the view the Federal Reserve could take new action to boost growth.
While public schools have focused their energy on training students in math and reading since the passage of No Child Left Behind, the College Board announced SAT scores in combined reading and math this year have dropped to their lowest point since 1995.
Sony Corp has yet to secure the next generation of Capcom's popular Monster Hunter game for its new handheld games device, company executives said on Thursday, after the developer said it would offer the game on a rival gadget.
