LOS ANGELES - NBC and the producers of America's Got Talent are partnering with YouTube to put the show's audition process online.
Many would have thought that by playing computer games will improve memory and other skills because it stimulates brain activity.
With official interest rates near zero and the Federal Reserve unable to cut them any further, every policy meeting by definition brings the central bank one step closer to an eventual monetary tightening.
China overtook large European nations in a shift in voting power at the World Bank on Sunday that was designed to give emerging economies greater influence in the global development institution.
Germany's E.ON , the world's largest utility by sales, has shortlisted three bidders for the multi-billion euro sale of its U.S. business, three people with knowledge of the matter said.
Countries that weathered the global economic crisis with their financial systems relatively unscathed are being shortsighted by opposing a global bank levy, the IMF's chief said on Saturday.
Greece and top world finance officials raced to get rescue funds to the debt-stricken euro zone country but concern in Germany about the scale of the bailout threatened to slow down the process.
The further integration of Arabic language capabilities in internet and other technological architecture will grant millions access to the digital world, Microsoft and Google executives said.
G20 finance leaders said on Friday they had secured a better-than-expected global economic recovery but were wary of overconfidence as Greece's debt crisis put the focus on worsening public finances.
A U.S. government watchdog will investigate the Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud lawsuit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the SEC's inspector general said on Friday, while two shareholders sued the bank over the fraud allegations.
G20 finance leaders said on Friday they had secured a better-than-expected global economic recovery but were wary of overconfidence as Greece's debt crisis put the focus on worsening public finances.
Proposals to hit banks around the world with new taxes to help pay for bailouts split world finance leaders on Friday.
World finance leaders will seek to assure markets on Friday that the global economy is recovering despite the cloud cast by debt-troubled Greece and its request for a huge bailout.
World finance leaders gather in Washington on Friday hoping to plot a course beyond the financial crisis, but Greece's worsening debt woes served as a stark reminder the global economy remains vulnerable.
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Stop-loss selling hammered the euro to a one-year low on Friday on heightened speculation Greece would have to seek a bailout to avoid default, while Asian shares fell, dragged down by resource and financial stocks.
World finance leaders gather in Washington on Friday hoping to plot a course beyond the financial crisis but Greece's worsening debt woes served as a stark reminder the global economy remains vulnerable.
The IMF sought to maintain unity within the Group of 20 economic powers on Thursday, urging countries not to go separate ways in reforming the financial sector, as frictions emerged over a controversial plan to tax banks.
Over the past six years, social networking has been the Internet's stand-out phenomenon, linking up more than one billion people eager to exchange videos, pictures or last-minute birthday wishes.
Goldman Sachs risks losing clients wherever politicians hold sway after U.S. accusations the Wall Street powerhouse committed fraud, posing a threat to some lucrative business areas.
The biggest study to date into the effects of mobile-phone usage on long-term health was launched on Thursday, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years.
(Reuters) - Children born extremely early -- at 25 weeks or before -- may risk a lifetime of lung problems, including asthma, British researchers reported on Thursday.
