Apple Inc. is being aggressive defending its own IP with well publicized suits against Samsung and HTC, Barclays Capital said. Key companies in the wireless arena including Apple and Google continue to acquire and invest in IP to cement their positions.
The two large banks decided to keep interests rates steady.
A stuttering economy and anemic profit growth means company bosses' pay is unlikely to rise as fast this year as in 2010, but complaints from politicians and disgruntled shareholders over executive rewards are not going away.
Hutchison Whampoa Ltd <0013.HK>, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's flagship ports-to-telecommunications company, posted a 632 percent rise in first-half net profit, helped by hefty one-off gain from the spin-off of its port assets, but lagging market forecasts.
Compensating customers who were mis-sold insurance pushed Lloyds 3.25 billion pounds ($5.3 billion) into the red in the first half but the loss was broadly as expected and the British bank reiterated its full-year guidance.
Different wars for different times. Cofer Black, a former top CIA counterterrorism official, said on Wednesday he sees parallels between the terrorism threat that emerged before the September 11 attacks a decade ago and the emerging cyber threat now.
Teenage Britons are spending more and more time using smartphones to make calls, send texts and use social networking sites, and more than half of those that own the devices claim to be addicted to them, regulator Ofcom said on Thursday.
A growing desire for the glossy, long locks of celebrities is fuelling a multi-million pound (dollar) global trade in human hair, with demand for hair extensions surging in the past year, according to e-commerce website Alibaba.com.
Heather Mills was quoted on Wednesday as saying a journalist at British publisher Trinity Mirror, owner of the Daily Mirror tabloid newspaper, had hacked her phone before she was married to former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney.
The British tour operator closes its doors, leaving 12,000 vacationers stranded and scrambling for alternative travel plans.
A new study lead by Jonathan Kingdon of Oxford University found that the African crested rat stores poison from the bark of a tree in its hair to attack and sometimes kill its enemies.
The distributor has nabbed the international rights to Nick Broomfield's documentary "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!" on the former Alaska governor.
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, aged 31, is the king of Bhutan, a tiny kingdom in the Himalayas. He was born February 21, 1980 (when Obama was already in college).
Britain said Wednesday it will introduce a digital exchange where licenses for copyright works may be bought and sold, as part of a revamp of its 300-year-old copyright laws.
A crop circle is a flattening of a crop, and another mysterious one has been found in England.
Drug dealer has come forward to say he sold Winehouse $2K worth of drugs shortly before her death
"I am convinced that the Israel government would have accepted him, but he declined the offer because he was a patriot."
The coke was so well hidden that it took the police six days to find all of it. T
A recent study published on Wednesday suggests that two strains of Salmonella are resistant to multiple antibiotic treatment drugs as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture?s Food Safety and Inspection Service investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella poisoning linked to ground turkey.
India's task of sparing themselves the blushes against England has received a blow after both Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh were ruled out of the remainder of the four-match test series.
The couple and Prince Harry flew budget airlines from Edinburgh
The world's economy moved closer to stagnation last month as firms in Asia and Europe reined back in the face of an ongoing debt crisis and signs of a new U.S. slowdown, business surveys showed on Wednesday.
