Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos is broadening Amazon.com Inc.'s entertainment ambitions, buying video-game service Twitch Interactive Inc. in one of its biggest-ever acquisitions...
After a year of wrangling and horse trading Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has finally passed the legislation for his landmark energy reform, which will mark him down as one of the most influential Mexican presidents...
A China antitrust regulator said on Tuesday that Microsoft Corp had not been completely transparent with its sales information on the software it distributes in China, including information on sales of its media player and web browser software...
After some summer unrest, the U.S. equity market is once again hitting fresh peaks, prompting many investors to lament that there are no good values left...
One of the biggest challenges behind Google's modular Project Ara phone platform has been getting processors to play nicely with the technology. How do you let someone swap out the very heart of their device as easily as they would a memory card...
Germany’s economy ministry will approve the sale of utility RWE’s oil and gas unit DEA to a Russian investor despite tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine crisis, as Reuters reported, citing two individuals familiar with the matter...
Home Depot announced Thursday that longtime CEO Frank Blake will step down on November 1. He will be replaced by Craig Menear, the company’s current U.S. retail president...
The overall net profits of six out of seven Lebanese banks operating in Syria dropped 54 percent in the first half of 2014 to SYP 2.89 billion, down from SYP 6.35 billion during the same period last year...
Heineken NV Wednesday reported a 1.3% drop in net profit for the first six months of the year as currency movements and divestments weighed on sales, while it expects organic growth to moderate in the second half of the year...
Profits at Syria’s banks plummeted 79.7 per cent in the first half of the year as a conflict raging for more than three years continues to take its toll on the economy...
On July 22, the US House of Representatives passed the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act to prevent Hezbollah — classified as a terrorist organization since 1995 — from gaining access to international financial institutions...
From this week, social media blogging platform Tumblr will start to analyse every photo posted to a Tumblr site to glean information about users’ brand preferences...
Apple Inc.’s stock soared to an all-time high, surpassing a 2012 record as investors look ahead to new products such as bigger-screen iPhones and a wristwatch-like device that may jump-start revenue growth...
LoopPay, Inc., the inventor of MST technology, informed that it has received an investment from Visa Inc...
Arab Banking Corporation (ABC) has declared that its consolidated Group net profit for the first half of 2014 was $137 million - a 22 % increase when compared to $112 million for the same period last year...
Heavyweights from Wall Street are developing preliminary plans to transfer some London-based activities to Ireland to address concerns that the UK is drifting apart from the EU...
And CEO Larry Page is determined to push even further. Page's vision is that Google's products and services will become the control center of people's lives: The company's driverless cars will chauffeur people around safer roads and deliver goods within hours of an online order...
EGP lending climbed at a faster pace than FX lending in May. Breaking down the loans in terms of currency, EGP loans grew at a faster pace (+2.1 per cent MoM) than FX loans (+1.0 per cent MoM) in May, the latest month for which data is available...
Lebanese banks’ subsidiaries, namely Bank Audi Syria, Bank of Syria & Overseas, Byblos Bank Syria, Bank BEMO Saudi Fransi, Sharq Bank, and Syria Gulf Bank recorded a sizeable SYP 6.35 billion annual contraction in net profits to around SYP 2.89 billion ($19...
