IBT Staff Reporter

General Motors is considering putting European arm Opel up for sale again, two German magazines reported.

China said it hoped the United States will take effective steps to improve its fiscal position, in Beijing's latest expression of concern about the possibility that Washington could briefly default on debt.

Defaced Rep. Anthony Weiner who is in the middle of the crotch-gate scandal came close to stealing thunder from Apple's mega launch of iCloud and iOS 5 on Twitter sphere as the Congressman racked in similar number of tweets as Apple's WWDC.

Nokia said its chief technology officer had taken a leave of absence and a Finnish newspaper said he was unlikely to return due to disagreements on strategy, a fresh blow for the struggling mobile phone company.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Thursday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.22 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.43 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.41 percent at 0930 GMT (5:30 a.m. ET).

The top candidate to run the International Monetary Fund, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, said she backed a bigger say for China at the Fund while making clear that the euro zone crisis would be a priority if she wins the job.

Senior U.S. Federal Reserve official Charles Plosser warned on Thursday of the risks to future inflation from its program of quantitative easing and reiterated that the bar for more stimulus for the economy was very high.

After seeing a huge rush in the tablet market, HP TouchPad has finally been heard of entering the growing market after a long silence since its announcement in February this year

World stocks held near the previous day's 11-week low on Thursday while the euro rose broadly as investors looked to the European Central Bank to signal a July interest rate hike at its meeting later.

Citigroup Inc said computer hackers breached the bank's network and accessed the data of about 200,000 bank card holders in North America, the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies.

The International Monetary Fund on Thursday urged China to allow the yuan rise further to rebalance its vast economy, and called for freer use of the currency in global trade and commerce.

Digital-coupon business Coupons.com said it had raised $200 million from institutional investors, underscoring the tremendous investor appetite for businesses that help consumers find bargains using the Internet.

US car major Ford Motors is planning to invest 50 billion rupees to set up a three-lakh-cars-per-annum plant in Gujarat, according to various media outlets.

General Motors will invest $49 million to purchase tooling and equipment for the Bedford Powertrain plant and create 91 jobs, the carmaker said in a statement.

The experience enabled by Wii U and the new controller takes players deeper into their games, while reaching out wider than ever before to be inviting to all kinds of gamers, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said while introducing Wii U, the successor of its worldwide mega-hit video game console.

Citigroup Inc confirmed a computer breach at Citi Account Online, giving hackers access to the data of hundreds of thousands of bank card customers.

A federal judge signaled that she would approve a settlement calling for Wells Fargo & Co to pay $32 million to about 1,200 female brokers who claimed they were paid less than men and denied promotions because of their gender.

Citigroup Inc has acknowledged that a computer breach may have given hackers access to the data of hundreds of thousands of bank card customers, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

A Youtube video that went viral on the internet showing a women with a tattoo of 152 Facebook friends on her arm turned out to be a hoax.

Delta will now have to pay back $175 million dollars in loans that was used to help Northwest Airline's training center because Delta is moving the facilities to Atlanta, Georgia, Delta's home.

Sony Corp expects its new PlayStation Vita handheld games device to sell faster than its predecessor, despite the explosive growth of mobile gaming on smartphones and tablets.

There is a 25 percent of the Northern Lights being visible tonight on Earth because of the Solar Flare and coronal mass ejection that occurred yesterday.

A hacker has exploited the vulnerability of iOS 5 by hacking into the newly launched, but not yet released, mobile operating system.

The world's biggest video game publishers, in a surprise move after years of rocky relations with Nintendo, threw their weight behind the Japanese company's new Wii U console this week.

Republican lawmakers are playing with fire by contemplating even a brief debt default as a means to force deeper government spending cuts, an adviser to China's central bank said on Wednesday.

One of several men accused of helping online poker websites dodge U.S. gambling laws lived in Central America for years to avoid a telemarketing fraud charge and was preparing to flee to Thailand before his arrest, a U.S. prosecutor said on Wednesday.

Apple updates its guidelines to prohibit DUI checkpoint evasion apps.

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said this week she will seriously consider issuing additional guidance outlining when public companies should disclose cybersecurity breaches.

Sticking power was what helped Japan's Capcom, best known for macho games like Street Fighter and Resident Evil, break out of its niche and score an international smartphone hit with the gentler Smurfs' Village, the company's president said in an interview.