IBT Staff Reporter

Pakistan has partially unblocked the popular video sharing website YouTube, but links to sacrilegious or profane material will remain restricted, a top government official said on Thursday.

An employee of iPhone-maker Foxconn jumped to his death late on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported, the tenth suspected suicide this year at the high-tech company's huge production base in southern China.

The euro approached a four-year low against the dollar on Thursday on a newspaper report that China was examining its investments in euro zone debt, while bargain-hunting gave some support to Asian stocks.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner takes his appeal for swift European action to calm markets to Germany on Thursday, the key player that stunned markets last week with its ban on some speculative trades.

A Walt Disney Co employee and her boyfriend have been charged with a brazen insider trading scheme in which they said the media conglomerate was in advanced talks to sell its ABC TV network.

Yahoo Inc said it could return to double-digit revenue growth in the next few years, as the Internet pioneer revamps its network of websites to attract users and advertisers in a shifting Internet industry.

A judge has ordered the pretrial merger of at least 40 California state court lawsuits filed against Toyota over cars that have raced out of control, including a case stemming from the fatal crash that sparked the automaker's recall crisis.

Three U.S. lawmakers, concerned that Google Inc may have violated U.S. privacy laws, want to know how much personal data the company has gathered through its project to photograph streets across the country and how it plans to use that information.

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase & Co , accusing the second-largest U.S. bank of illegally siphoning billions of dollars of desperately-needed assets in the days leading up to its record bankruptcy.

An Ombudsman's report, released yesterday, has rocked the Brumby government just six months out from the election. The report released indicated that the state has failed to protect some of the foster children in its care

The Australian dollar appears to be building a base in the low USD0.8000s as international financial markets remain volatile.

Warren Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc, will testify next week before the U.S. panel examining the causes of the deep financial crisis.

A Walt Disney Co employee and her boyfriend have been charged with an insider trading scheme in which they said Disney was in advanced talks to sell its ABC network -- a claim that Disney said was false.

Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company based on market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz said the company would keep modernizing its online properties through the summer of 2011 as it strives to increase the time people spend on its sites.

The U.S. Justice Department is making preliminary inquiries into whether Apple Inc unfairly dominates the digital music market, according to three people whose companies have been contacted by regulators.

Facebook is beefing up privacy protections on the world's most popular online social network, addressing mounting pressure to better secure personal data exchanged among its nearly 500 million members.

China is reviewing its euro zone bond holdings because of growing concerns about gaping deficits in countries including Greece and Portugal, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Small investors angry with Wall Street about their battered portfolios see little relief coming from the U.S. Congress as it attempts the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s.

Warren Buffett has a great saying, that when the tide goes out, we get to see who's been swimming naked, said Adam Butler, a director of wealth management and associate portfolio manager at Richardson GMP.

The Australian Dollar opens lower today at 0.8210 after another turbulent session. A positive lead from local equities helped to support the currency above US82 cents on Wednesday.

American International Group is on its way to repaying government bailout money, its chief executive said on Wednesday, but a Treasury official warned taxpayers could still face losses.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sought to support the battered euro on Wednesday, but the currency extended its decline on a report that China was reviewing its euro holdings.

The end is not near for the distressed debt cycle, as many middle-market U.S. companies will still have to be restructured because of debt taken on during the credit boom, fund manager PIMCO said on Wednesday.

Wall Street staged yet another late-day reversal on Wednesday to end lower as news suggesting China was reassessing its euro-zone debt holdings pushed investors into profit-taking mode.

Sales of new U.S. homes scaled their highest level in nearly two years in April, while orders for long-lasting manufactured goods surged, giving the economy a firmer foundation to resist possible contagion from Europe's debt crisis.

Apple Inc shot past Microsoft Corp as the world's biggest tech company as measured by market value on Wednesday, the latest milestone in the resurgence of the maker of the iPhone, which nearly went out of business in the 1990s.

Universum - Americas, released the results of its yearly MBA employer image surveys, also known as the IDEALTM Employer Survey.

Wall Street staged yet another late-day reversal on Wednesday to end lower as news suggesting China was reassessing its euro-zone debt holdings pushed investors into profit-taking mode.