IBT Staff Reporter

Several rivals of Apple Computer Inc. plan digital music devices to work closely with their own online music services, just as Apple's iPods and iTunes do

Asking prices for homes in England and Wales grew almost 10 percent on a year ago in the period from mid August to early September

The country's No. 2 department store group Debenhams said on Monday it would meet its profit expectations and that a Femme Fatale look in women's fashion was helping to revive trading after a sluggish early summer.

Finance ministers on Monday backed a controversial new World Bank strategy for tackling corruption in developing countries but insisted on overseeing how it is implemented

Music videos from artists like Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Sean Paul will be legally available for the first time on YouTube, a popular online video sharing site, after signing its first commercial partnership with Warner Music Group.

Chancellor Gordon Brown suggested on Monday economic growth this year would turn out stronger than forecast in his budget a timely boost as he sets out his pitch to succeed Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Stocks edged up on Monday, led by mining stocks based on higher commodity prices.

Oil prices nudged higher for a second day on Monday, struggling to end their steepest slump in more than a decade amid robust winter fuel stocks and easing geopolitical and weather risks to oil supplies. NYMEX crude for October delivery

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Oil giant BP has denied misleading a U.S. environmental regulator about having installed safety equipment at its Texas City refinery

DLJ, the private equity arm of Credit Suisse, is in talks to buy engineering company Morgan Crucible Co for around 925 million pounds, a source familiar with the matter said.

Retailer MFI Furniture Group said on Saturday that talks over the sale of its retail operations to a private equity group were now at an advanced stage.

European investors will focus on the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision next week and clues about the U.S. economy, while a smattering of company results will also roll on in Europe and the United States.

The world's leading industrial countries are enjoying strong growth but face the risk of rising inflationary expectations, tight energy markets and spreading protectionism

India's Centurion Bank of Punjab Ltd. (CBP) will acquire privately held Lord Krishna Bank (LKB) in an all stock deal, its Chief Operating Officer Anil Jaggia has announced.

Leading mobile operator, Idea Cellular, has tied up with U.S.-based cellular phone manufacturer, Motorola Inc. to provide user-ready Motorola handsets at economical price.

Toyota Kirloskar Motor Limited (TKML), a joint venture between Toyota Motor Corporation and the Kirloskar Group, has initiated a rural drinking water project for the residents of Ramanagara town in collaboration with the Karnataka government.

A consortium of India's leading electronics and energy major, Videocon Industries Limited and US fund Ripplewood Holdings has emerged as the preferred bidder to buy South Korean appliances maker Daewoo Electronics.

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry, Kamal Nath, will participate in a high-level round table discussion on Africa-Asia Trade & Investment during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Annual Meetings in Singapore, on September 17, 2006.

Cyber scams are increasingly being committed by organized crime syndicates out to profit from sophisticated ruses rather than hackers keen to make an online name for themselves, according to a top U.S. official.

The outlook for Microsoft's next generation operating system, Windows Vista, is looking more optimistic following testing of the latest release candidate, RC1.

Investors are still hungry for a stake in small exploration firms that hunt out pockets of oil ignored by their bigger rivals

U.S. consumer prices and costs excluding food and energy both rose a modest 0.2 percent last month, the government said on Friday in a report that could reassure the Federal Reserve that inflation pressures are easing.

Wm Morrison Supermarkets' firsthalf results on Thursday will be a watershed, being the first time it shows the upside of its problematic acquisition of rival Safeway

Kuro, one of Taiwan's best-known file-sharing services, has settled with the recording industry on Friday, agreeing to pay a substantial sum as well as shutting down its networks.

The Thai government could be a threat to the expansion of Tescos in the country. Small shopkeepers in the country are concerned that the growth of large supermarkets is a threat to their business.

Britons make the largest number of cash machine withdrawals throughout Europe, a report shows, almost all of them from free to use ATMs.

The FTSE 100 held steady on Friday, with banks gaining but heavyweight oils and miners led lower by commodity prices and with trading cautious ahead of U.S. CPI data.

Yesterday Microsoft Corporation unveiled details of the first of its products to be released under its Zune brand.