Ten years after lawyers helped forge an agreement to bring China into the World Trade Organization , a step that created opportunities for scores of non-Chinese businesses, foreign attorneys in the country wish they had struck a better deal for themselves.
Gold prices will rise later this year and into next year, Goldman Sachs said Tuesday, in a note expressing relative optimism about the near-term prospects for the global economy.
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer failed to clinch his maximum bonus for the second year running due to the company's slow progress in mobile phones and adapting to the tablet computer revolution.
The day Apple fans have long awaited is finally here and IBTimes plans to offer the most comprehensive live coverage of the Let's Talk iPhone event.
Uncertainty over Yahoo may have attracted interest from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies as well as from China’s Alibaba Group and Silver Lake Partners.
Less than a day after an Italian court acquitted her of murder, Amanda Knox was on a plane home to Seattle.
U.S stock futures are down on Tuesday as Eurozone debt crisis fears intensified on authorities’ inability to step up and calm the situation.
Gold prices fell Tuesday, weighed down by panicking investors preparing for the fallout of a Greek sovereign debt default -- damage to European banks and falling business activity on the continent and perhaps the U.S. -- by dumping stocks and abandoning the euro and buying dollars.
The Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that a traditional Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance of the recorded musical work under federal copyright law.
Sprint Nextel Corp., the third largest wireless and telecommunications network carrier in the U.S., has recently signed a multi-billion dollar deal with California-based Apple Inc. to purchase 30.5 million units of the iPhone 5, over the next four years.
Some tech experts and observers still seem torn over whether Apple will unveil an iPhone 5G, an iPhone 4S, or both today at its Let's talk iPhone event at company headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.
Stock index futures fell on Tuesday, a day after equities hit 13-month lows, on increased worries about a major banking crisis in Europe and expectations Greece would default soon.
The CME Group raised trading margins on platinum and copper futures, hoping to tame volatility in products that have fallen sharply as markets witness what is turning out to be the worst rout since the 2008 financial crisis.
A battered pickup truck pulling up to Huaying Trading's back street office in Goma is about all that remains of Congo's once-bustling resources business as an impending U.S. crackdown on so-called conflict minerals scares most buyers away.
Cornell University scientists in New York have just completed a social behavior study focusing on Twitter. Published in the journal Science, the research was based on a two-year period of observations recording 509 million tweets from 2.4 million users. Scientists gathered participants from 84 different countries to determine whether there were any trends or correlations to people's moods across regions.
Look out Republican presidential nomination race frontrunner Rick Perry. Here comes Herman Cain, the former Godfather's Pizza CEO. Cain is gaining momentum, and starting to make a run after his Florida straw poll victory.
President Barack Obama's chances of winning a second term are bleak, with only 37 percent of the voters believing that he will scrape through in 2012, the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey has found.
The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics will be shared by three scientists, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of exploding stars, according to the Nobel Prize Committee.
With the advent of the Apple’s “Let’s Talk iPhone” event rumors are strengthening that there will be only a iPhone 4S and no iPhone 5.
There are unprecedented levels of depletion of the ozone layer, above the Arctic Circle, this spring, according to a NASA-led study. The research was conducted by a team of scientists from 19 institutions across nine countries, including Canada and the United States.
World stocks hit a fresh 15-month low on Tuesday and the dollar rose to a nine-month peak as fears over a major banking crisis in Europe mounted along with expectations Greece could soon default, accelerating a global economic slowdown.
Switzerland, despite bank settlements with the United States to disclose tax evaders, remains the top refuge for financial secrecy, according to a new international ranking of tax haven countries.
