Australia's government approved on Friday SABMiller's A$11.5 billion ($11.2 billion) deal to acquire Foster's Group Ltd under the country's foreign acquisitions laws, but attached conditions requiring the company to keep brewing operations in Australia.
The world's biggest annual arts extravaganza is gearing up to lure fans from the London 2012 Olympics up to the Scottish capital for three weeks of comedy, music, art, theater, the skirl of massed pipe bands and fireworks over Edinburgh castle.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) on Monday started notifying customers of United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Italy that it would hold its annual one-day shopping event on Friday, a day after Thanksgiving, at its retail stores and on online store.
The euro fell to a six-week low against the yen on Thursday and Asian stocks were subdued after an unsuccessful German bond sale raised alarm that Europe's ever-worsening sovereign debt crisis is starting to affect even the continent's economic powerhouse.
Occupy Tokyo is one of East Asia's most significant outgrowths of the Occupy Wall Street movement that has swept the world over the past two months, but most media sources have ignored it. Growing out of outrage over the Japanese government's handling of severe damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant in March, it has become a major force in the East Asian nation.
Johannesburg stocks fell to their lowest close in a month on Wednesday, as weak Chinese factory data sparked concerns about demand from the world's second-largest economy, hitting miner Assore and luxury good maker Richemont.
The two performed live for the first time ever at Tuesday's sold out show.
A Qantas Airlines Twitter competition could be the greatest PR failure in Australian history.
Scientists have picked up a signal from Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, the European Space Agency said Wednesday. The craft was launched earlier this month, but scientists soon lost contact with it.
After President Barack Obama's commitment this month to a transpacific free trade agreement, business leaders in Europe and United States are asking for a similar initiative across the North Atlantic to spur economic growth and create jobs.
Several of the Blue Penguins rescued from an oil spill that occurred in October off of the coast of the New Zealand island of Tauranga have been returned to the wild.
Rapper Too Short has had enough of the death rumors circulating on Twitter and he wants you know that he is alive and working on his 19th album.
Black Friday 2011 will feature a one-day Apple shopping event. Get your credit cards ready.
African, Australian and Colombian prospects will play a key role in boosting AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.'s gold output to 5.5 million ounces by 2015, the world's third-largest gold mining company said Tuesday.
Australia's Qantas Airlines has been left red-faced after an ill-timed public relations campaign and Twitter competition backfired, drawing thousands of angry responses.
A Facebook craze that originated in Queensland encouraging teenagers to post pictures of themsleves nude on the internet is are investigated by the police.
Qantas Airways' attempt at social media promotion has turned into a disastrous campaign with users sending out messages insulting the airline.
Corporate IT managers don’t have clue about their employees’ mobile devices and how they could potentially kidnap proprietary information, Citrix VP Elizabeth Cholawsky told IBTimes.
Australia's plan to impose a new tax on major coal and iron ore miners moved a step closer Monday after key independent MPs said they would back the legislation in return for stronger oversight of coal seam gas projects and a higher threshold where the tax kicks in.
Australia's minority government won support from two key independents for its controversial 30 percent tax on iron ore and coal mines on Monday, meaning the laws should have the numbers to pass through parliament.
Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan warned Monday that the global economy remains in a grim state and that an unbalanced recovery might be the best option, at talks where senior U.S. officials warned of a souring mood at home toward China.
Rapper and producer Missy Elliott is not dead, she confirmed via Twitter on Sunday. I'm Great ppl 4 all who keep asking! Alive and well! Elliott tweeted. Enjoy ya night tweeps!
