BlackBerry investor Victor Alboini said he welcomed a bid for Research in Motion's enterprise business by IBM, saying it would greatly enhance value of an undervalued asset.
Evicting one of Europe's most marginalized groups may help Francois Hollande get back in France's good graces.
Friday marks 13 weeks since the first public trading in shares of Facebook at $42. Now it's near $21.
Brazilian lawmakers have approved a bill that reserves half of the spots in the country's prestigious federal universities for racial minority graduates of the public school system in a bid to provide them with equitable access to the higher education.
Employers in the restaurant and retail industries -- those with a large number of hourly wage workers who traditionally had minimal or no health insurance -- are more likely than other companies to drop their health plans or cut worker's hours in order to maintain their already slim profit margins.
Technology may have a good second half of 2012 after all, despite all the fears of economic collapse, lower demand for PCs and other worries. After Computer Sciences reported better-than-expected results on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard said third-quarter results would be stronger, too.
Three days into its mission, the Mars Science Laboratory, known as Curiosity, is continuing to dazzle scientists and specialists with its first data reports from the red plant. Still more technology companies have acknowledged their participation in the NASA project
Clashes in the Sinai Peninsula have rumors swirling in Egypt, Israel and Palestine.
Mojang, the developers of the hit indie videogame "Minecraft," has more than doubled its profits since last year, according to a recent interview with the company's CEO. The company's success suggests a larger trend occurring in the game industry towards smaller scale localized projects as massive AAA titles continue to underperform for major publishers.
Two non-voting members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have broken a long-standing taboo against wading into politics by publicly talking about how election-year considerations affect the decisions of U.S. central bankers.
An uncanny legal document that accused British bank Standard Chartered of penal law violations raises the question: If the bank were a person, what kind of hard time would it be facing?
Kenya's parliamentary building has undergone a major renovation, worth millions of dollars. Meanwhile, about half the citizens live in poverty.
Peregrine Semiconductor, which has sold more than a billion high-frequency chips to the mobile industry in the past five years, raised $77 million in its IPO on Tuesday and plans to start trading Wednesday, the latest technology IPO since the Facebook fiasco.
Nearly two weeks after AuthenTec Inc. (Nasdaq: AUTH) advised the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had agreed to be acquired by Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, for $350 million, Apple still hasn’t made an announcement nor filed its own SEC report.
This is one aspect of World War II that generates much discomfort and controversy in both India and in Europe.
Some Turkish politicians think Presisdent Barack Obama should have kept his hands free when he called Prime Minister Erdogan... but they had their own reasons to cause a stir.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been winnowing his picks for Vice President in private, with most handicappers suggesting nominees who’ve held public office. How about Margaret (Meg) Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), one of his fondest supporters?
As Japan struggles to define its approach to nuclear power after Fukushima, today's Hiroshima anniversary recalls just how risky nuclear technology can be.
The world's third-largest employer suffered a damaged reputation in the wake of its mismanagement of security in London, but it may keep growing all the same. It has always done so.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) rose more than 3 percent Monday, trading at midday at $21.81, up 72 cents. But they’re still nearly 50 percent below the $38 set at their May 17 initial public offering.
Despite its relative isolation, Egypt's Sinai Peninsula plays a huge role in one of the overarching conflicts of the twentieth century.
Investors may not know that many of their technology companies played a huge part in the system design, software, features and functions. They include Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), Siemens Corp. (NYSE: SI) and General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD).
The expulsion is largely forgotten today, except by the Ugandan Asians themselves and their descendants who have spread across the world
If hundreds and hundreds of teddy bears can't bring down Europe's last dictatorship, what can?
There's one developing storyline in the saga of Knight Capital Group Inc., the Wall Street market maker that lost more than $440 million Wednesday when an automated trading program it had just installed went berserk, that's not being talked about: It is being propped up by the very people it tried to screw over.
National Watermelon Day is today, and the celebration of the annual holiday has become the butt of scores of racist jokes on Twitter, despite the fact that there is no factual basis for the stereotype that black people enjoy watermelon more than people of other ethnicities.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that the birth control program, in place for the past 20 years, has outlived its purpose.
More than 35 years after Franco’s death, the generalissimo remains a divisive figure -- detested by liberals and socialists, ignored by many, but revered by an ever-diminishing group of right-wing admirers.
A slew of the country's largest retail stores beat Wall St. July-sales estimates, a sign that this year's back-to-school season will be the best seen in years.
ECB President Mario Draghi was in policy hell Thursday after disappointing market-watchers at what was the most anticipated and important press conference of his career as a monetary policy leader.
