IBT Staff Reporter

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.3 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.3 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.2 percent at 0804 GMT (4:04 a.m. ET).

Logitech expects a boost in its business from Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype as the deal should lift wider take-up of videocommunications, a senior executive told Reuters.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura said on Monday.

HSBC Holdings will run down its $33 billion U.S. credit card business if it cannot find a buyer, the bank's chief executive said on Monday, part of efforts to slash costs and cut back on retail banking.

China's avid Internet users are taking a leaf from India's anti-corruption drama by opening websites so citizens can confess, sometimes in pitiless detail, to buying off officials.

Regions Financial Corp's board is investigating if executives delayed public disclosure of loans that were going bad during the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

German luxury carmaker BMW Group will invest 500 million pounds in its UK production network over the next 3 years.

Ford Motors has been ordered by Ohio Court to pay $2 billion to more than 3,000 US truck dealers for overcharging them.

As the Miami Heat were losing to the Dallas Mavericks in the final minutes of Game 6 in the NBA Finals, players including Heat stars Lebron James and Dwyane Wade appeared to just give up.

Goldman Sachs is to launch a commodities index with Clive Capital, the world's largest commodity hedge fund, the Financial Times reported on Monday citing a source familiar with the product.

Citigroup will close its Japan office for Citi Venture Capital International as the high-growth focused fund management firm has failed to find any attractive investments, two people with direct knowledge of the closure said.

Allied World Assurance Co Holdings agreed to buy Transatlantic Holdings for $3.2 billion in stock, creating a specialty insurer and reinsurer with broader reach and product offering.

Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki was named the NBA Finals MVP for his performance throughout the series against the Miami Heat as the Mavericks beat the Heat 105-95 in Game 6.

The new photos of Representative Gabrielle Giffords have been released on Sunday. It has been almost six months after she was shot in the head in Tucson in January, 2011.

Dirk Nowitzki, 32, has finally won it all and he will probably come down as the best international player to ever play the game of basketball in the stage of NBA.

With the game sealed and the NBA title all but decided, cameras panned toward the exit where Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitski exited the court for the locker room with approximately two seconds left in the game.

Allied World Assurance Co Holdings agreed to buy Transatlantic Holdings Inc for $3.2billion in stock on Sunday.

The Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat 105-95 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to win the NBA title for the first time in team history.

It wasn't a record breaking box office weekend for famed director Steven Spielberg, who is playing the role of producer in this week's number one box office movie.

Shares of Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> slid almost 3 percent on Monday after the company forecast a larger-than-expected fall in operating profit as it struggles to restore production following the earthquake in March.

Transatlantic Holdings Inc and Allied World Assurance Co Holdings said on Sunday they will merge to create a premier global specialty insurance and reinsurance company.

The Dallas Mavericks are leading the Miami Heat 53-51 at halftime in Game 6 of the NBA Finals in Miami. The game has been a rollercoaster ride of a half with wild swings and extended scoring runs by both teams.

Washington should streamline permitting for construction projects and make it easier for tourists to visit the United States to help boost hiring and spur the economy, a top adviser to President Barack Obama said.

A number of Wall Street's biggest banks are preparing to lower their use of U.S. Treasuries in August, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

The 500 workers at India's Dell factory, clad in blue uniforms and the occasional bright pink salwar kameez, are all Indian. Computers leaving the assembly line go to millions of newly affluent Indians feeding an explosion in consumer demand. But the boxes of component parts on the floor say Made in China.

According to a new research bariatric surgery does not assist older men to live longer.

Family Radio president Harold Camping, who famously predicted that about 200 million people will Rapture on May 21 and the world will be destroyed five months later, on Thursday night suffered a stroke which has affected his ability to speak.

Harold Camping, president of Family Radio, a Christian radio ministry, suffered a severe stroke on Thursday night and had to be hospitalized, triggering concerns as to whether his followers will ever be able to hear his famous gravelly voice broadcast over 66 stations anymore.

Access to the website of Spain's national police force was blocked for over an hour late on Saturday in a reprisal attack by the hackers' group Anonymous, the newspaper El Mundo said on its website Sunday.