Yum Brands Inc forecast rising 2011 labor and food costs in China and said that modestly raising prices in its top growth market would help mitigate that pressure.
BJ's Wholesale Club Inc said it may put itself up for sale, under pressure from a private equity firm that may make a hostile bid.
Workers union sues Bank of America and its Countrywide unit for not disclosing mortgage crisis sooner
British telecommunications company BT Group plc reported its highest share of DSL broadband net additions for eight years and said pretax profit for the third quarter more than doubled from last year.
Bank of America Corp was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming the lending giant hid foreclosure problems that eventually led to a decline in its share price.
Actor Corbin Bernsen has purchased a 75-year-old tudor-style house in Valley Village with his wife, actress and interior designer Amanda Pays.
Match.com, an operating business of IAC (Nasdaq: IACI), purchased OkCupid this morning for $50 million in cash, plus potential future payments contingent upon performance.
Iran has witnessed a dramatic increase in executions so far in 2011, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said Wednesday and her office said the rate was three times that of last year.
South African group Pioneer Food said on Wednesday it has withdrawn its offer to buy unlisted wine and spirits maker KWV, after the deal failed to gain support from some KWV shareholders.
South African Mining Minister Susan Shabangu said on Wednesday the government would act to ensure sufficient coal supplies for power generation, but urged industry to sort out the supply problem first.
South African petroleum company Engen is looking to expand in Mauritius after it concluded an agreement on Tuesday to buy Chevron's business in the Indian Ocean island, it said on Wednesday.
Standard Chartered has promoted the head of transaction banking for China to lead the same division in Africa, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile phone operator, overcame stiff competition to post a 6 percent rise in third-quarter sales, boosted by a surge in mobile data and strong prepaid growth.
A cocoa export ban in Ivory Coast and a liquidity shortage since incumbent Laurent Gbagbo seized the central bank's local branch has left the top grower's cocoa industry in chaos, with beans piling up on farms or being smuggled out, farmers said on Wednesday.
K&L Gates has opened a new office in Brussels, Belgium, in its bid to expand its presence in Europe and has poached on two partners from McDermott Will & Emery to lead the office.
Colorado's Secretary of State Scott Gessler has given up his plan of moonlighting at his old law firm to supplement his government salary, after it prompted widespread calls for his resignation.
Colleen R. LaRose, a Pennsylvania woman also known as 'Jihad Jane,' has pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder a Swedish cartoonist, providing material support to terrorists, and other criminal charges
Apple Inc. said its CDMA iPhone 4 will be available for pre-orders from Thursday at Apple stores and Verizon Wireless. Apple said orders will be fulfilled on a first come, first served basis due to strong demand.
British carpet and floor covering retailer Carpetright Plc said it expects full-year profits to be below last year and below market expectations, citing lower third quarter sales due to adverse weather conditions and fragile consumer confidence.
Britain's Imperial Tobacco Group Plc said it made a good start to the year with underlying tobacco net revenue up 5 percent and increased cigarette and fine cut tobacco volumes.
American car owners gave a confidence boost to auto manufacturers, as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and Toyota posted double digit gains in January US auto sales.
The British motor industry is on line to receive a 7-billion-pound boost from electric cars between 2011 and 2014, according to a survey by GfK Automotive.
Borders Group Inc, the second-largest U.S. book chain, may file for bankruptcy later this month, a source familiar with matter said.
A group of lenders has withdrawn its plan for reorganizing newspaper owner Tribune Co, leaving two proposals for ending the company's two-year stay in bankruptcy, according to court documents.
U.S. aviation security authorities on Tuesday unveiled a new pilot program aimed at quelling an uproar about full-body scanners used to screen air travelers -- the new software will no longer produce an image of the actual person.
A lawyer of UK-based law firm ACS: Law has withdrawn from pursuing alleged illegal file-sharers, citing death threats from hackers.
DLA Piper is all set to emerge as the largest law firm in the world in terms of revenues and the number of lawyers, after it merges with its Australian partner DLA Phillips Fox.
British music company EMI Group said that Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has seized control of the company from struggling financier Guy Hands, in a move that it will probably lead to the sale of EMI.
Sony Computer Entertainment America has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) against hacker 'Geohot' who circumvented PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware security measures to run unapproved code on the game console.
Howrey is reportedly mulling a tie-up with Chicago-based intellectual property (IP) specialist Winston & Strawn and the top bosses of the two law firms are in discussions whether a merger would make sense.
