-- The Apple chairman and former Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs passed away on Wednesday after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old, reported China's Xinhua news agency. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives, Apple said in a statement. The world is immeasurably better because of Stev...
Give Steve Jobs credit: while nobody can possibly know how Apple will fare without its co-founder and Chairman, the company has a qualified CEO and management team. In Silicon Valley these days, that's a major difference.
Following the suit of HP and the $99 TouchPad sale, India plans to introduce a $35 tablet computer dubbed Aakash for students, which will be the least expensive tablet in the world.
In 2008, Microsoft tried -- and spectacularly failed -- to buy Yahoo at a price of $33 per share, which valued the company at about $47.5 billion. Yahoo now has a market cap of about $20 billion and is trading at just under $16 per share.
Thousands of consumers from some of the largest countries around the world are demanding a higher level of responsibility from companies in dealing with societal issues and consumers are using their own spending and loyalty to push these issues, according to a new report.
A five percent tax surcharge on the wealthiest that Senate Democrats propose would cover President Barack Obama's roughly $450 billion jobs package.
The smartphone market is facing plenty of superphones from different manufacturers, but only two -- Apple iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S2 -- are the devices that people might prefer over others due to the beautiful designs.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said his government has scored initial success in taming inflation, and told banks to lend more to small firms and tolerate high levels of bad debt from them, official media reported on Wednesday.
Representatives of the Dalai Lama, who is based in northern India, began the visa application process in June.
Turkey’s military coincidentally plans to conduct a routine exercise near the Syrian border through next week.
U.S. stock index futures pointed to a modestly higher open on Wednesday after European finance ministers appeared ready to prop up struggling banks and a report on the U.S. labor market came in better than expected.
Private sector business activity shrank in the euro zone for the first time in two years last month as new orders dried up, stoking fears that the economy could be heading back into recession, surveys showed on Wednesday.
Industrial commodity prices ended several days of losses on Wednesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it would take measures to prevent the economy from sliding into recession, although copper and crude oil held near multi-month lows.
U.S. stock index futures were higher but more volatility was likely on Wednesday as European finance ministers appeared ready to prop up struggling banks, with data due on the U.S. labor market and services sector.
Samsung has said that it will be filing for the preliminary injunction requests for a ban on iPhone 4S sales with courts in France and Italy since the phone infringed its patents.
Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution Tuesday that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn't stop military crackdown against civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Apple Inc. took the wraps off the sequel of iPhone 4, called new iPhone 4S, at its Let's talk iPhone event Tuesday.
Asian smartphone makers have a chance to exploit a rare letdown from pacesetter Apple Inc. after the new iPhone 4S failed to wow fans and investors, leaving Android rivals better placed to grab market share.
Yahoo Inc's long-time advisers Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Allen & Co are preparing to give potential buyers financial information, in a sign the troubled Internet giant is ready to put itself on the block, sources close to the situation said.
Europe is likely already in a mild recession, and the United States could very well join it, but the global economic turmoil is unlikely to reach the depths of the 2008 downturn, Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach said on Tuesday.
The first two weeks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) season will be canceled if the lockout is not resolved by October 10, league commissioner David Stern said Tuesday.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie dashed hopes on Tuesday that he might make a late leap into the 2012 Republican presidential race in a move that sets up a battle between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry.
