Microsoft has struck again. Just a couple of days after launching the Surface tablet, the Redmond company took the wraps off the latest iteration of its mobile operating system, the Windows Phone 8, during a nightclub-themed media event in California Wednesday. With an exciting set of new features, the upcoming mobile OS has indeed managed to get the first impression of many onlookers already.
Asian stock markets mostly declined Thursday as the Federal Reserve's limited help to bolster the domestic economy disappointed some market participants.
China's manufacturing activity fell in June compared to that in May and continued to contract for the eighth straight month, according to the preliminary HSBC Flash Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) released Thursday.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Wednesday were: Skilled Healthcare, VOC Energy, Oriental Financial Group, Alon USA Energy and Kindred Healthcare. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Red Hat, Main Street Capital, Vmware, Apartment Investment & Management and hhgregg.
The inexplicable death of a Nigerian resident in China has brought to light a longstanding unease between the Chinese and the ever more numerous African immigrants
LANDesk Software, the venerable desktop management software developer, said it had acquired private Wavelink to extend its reach into mobile platforms like smartphones and tablets.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Tuesday were: La-Z-Boy, Choice Hotels International, Actuant Corp, Jabil Circuit and Helmerich & Payne. The top after-market NYSE losers were: Chimera Investment, Sunstone Hotel Investors, Gerdau, Scorpio Tankers and Qihoo 360 Technology.
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), the No. 1 database developer, reported full-year revenue rose 4 percent to $37.2 billion -- with revenue from the Cloud, or Internet-based computing, reaching a record $1 billion.
China's attempt to manage inflation in the real estate market is putting pressure on local governments and pushing homebuyers overseas.
For the third time in a mere two weeks, the motorcade of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been involved in a fatal accident. Who is to blame?
Housing starts fell 4.8 percent in May to an annual rate of 708,000, but building permits climbed 7.9 percent to the highest level in nearly four years, the U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday. Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast a reading of 720,000.
A month after the $16 billion mammoth but botched initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social networking site, the ice may be breaking for technology companies.
Refuting Taliban's claims that New Delhi rejected the U.S. call for greater engagement in Afghanistan, Washington praised India's huge role in Afghanistan while Pentagon said that the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta's recent visit to India was very successful.
Stock markets in China and Hong Kong declined Tuesday as renewed concerns over Spain's financial woes offset optimism over the Greek election results.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Monday were: Dana Holding, Alliant Techsystems, Yingli Green Energy Holding, Celanese and Fusion-io. The top after-market NYSE losers were: J.C. Penney, IHS Inc, Western Gas Partners, HCP and Boise Inc.
A new report shows that the Ethiopian government, caught up in an ambitious, nationwide agricultural overhaul, is facilitating the mistreatment and forced relocation of small-scale farmers in Omo Valley.
The surprise decision Monday by the Reserve Bank of India to hold its interest rate steady because of inflation concerns puts fresh pressure on the ruling Congress Party to find a fiscal solution to the country's flagging economy.
Australia's Fairfax Media, which publishes the Sydney Morning Herald, announced that it will cut 1,900 jobs over the next three years in an effort to keep the company afloat amid falling revenues as the journalism industry increasingly shifts online.
Indian markets fell Monday after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the key rates would remain unchanged.
Ultra Petroleum, Gentex Corp, Groupon, Peabody Energy, Nokia, AK Steel Holding, Goodrich Petroleum, Facebook and Coca-Cola Co. are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Monday.
The Reserve Bank of India disappointed the industry as it left the repo rate and cash reserve ratio unchanged at 8 percent and 4.75 percent, respectively, in its mid-quarter policy review Monday. The reverse repo rate, at which banks lend money to the RBI, also remains unchanged at 7 percent.
Notwithstanding India's strong opposition to the Taliban, the religious extremist group Sunday praised New Delhi for resisting the U.S. call for greater involvement in Afghanistan.
