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Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it had acquired Jumpcut, a site that provides simple to use online video editing tools

The FTSE opened higher on Thursday, supported by mining and oil stocks, as traders reacted positively to renewed U.S. confidence following a near record breaking high on Wall Street on Wednesday.

Accenture Ltd., one of the world's largest consulting firms, is poised to pull out of a major computer system project for the NHS as early as Thursday

Internet media giant Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it had acquired Jumpcut, a site that provides simple-to-use online video-editing tools......

Newmont Mining Corp said its gold sales would drop this year and next but would recover in 2008 and 2009 when projects in the United States, Ghana and Australia reach full production.

Australian property investors are sending huge amounts of investment offshore in search of higher returns and diversified portfolios.

Telstra boss Sol Trujillo received a $1.5 million bonus for a strategy plan he paid a US company $54 million to develop, a report says.

U.S. mortgage applications fell for the first time in four weeks even as interest rates dropped to a six-month low, an industry trade group said on Wednesday, offering more evidence the country's housing market slump is deepening.

Sales of new U.S. homes unexpectedly rose in August but sales in July were weaker than first thought, while new orders for durable goods fell, according to government reports on Wednesday giving mixed indications about the economy's direction.

Verizon Communications Inc. said on Wednesday it expects its upgraded fiber network project, FiOS to be in more than 50 percent of all households in the US by 2010 that are within the company's service area.

New orders for U.S.-made durable goods fell unexpectedly in August and orders excluding transportation or defense goods also declined surprisingly, a government report showed on Wednesday.

A federal judge has dismissed a large portion of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., saying that U.S. law does not cover many of AMD's claims.

The FTSE 100 index opened higher on Wednesday, led by miners and after an unexpectedly big jump in consumer confidence in the U.S. on Tuesday

Hong Kong continues to be the preferred base for international companies to oversee their regional operations, a Census & Statistics Department survey suggests. The number of regional operations and local offices in Hong Kong operated by overseas and Mainland companies reached its highest-ever level this year, topping 6,350.

Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li took another step to promote the sale of his controled-shareholder interest in the fixed-line phone operator PCCW......

Most Americans read food labels to help them decide what to buy but few people actually understand what they're reading or consuming, according to two U.S. studies published on Tuesday.

The US Bureau of Economic Analysis released on Tuesday personal income data for the second quarter of 2006 which showed that personal income growth slowed to 1.7 percent following two quarters of 2.2 percent growth.

Oil prices were slightly higher Tuesday after a rally the day before lifted crude futures by almost $1 a barrel on worries that the recent drop in prices could prompt OPEC to cut production.

The USA has dropped from being the most globally competitive country in the world to being the sixth in a report by the World Economic Forum released today.

Nokia, the worlds largest cell phone-maker, unveiled new multimedia phones for U.S. consumers on Tuesday.

Fixed income is likely to be less of an engine for profit growth for Wall Street firms as the United States housing market growth shows signs of slowing after two years of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.