IBT Staff Reporter

Nissan Motor Co's <7201.T> quarterly profit fell 15 percent on a stronger yen and sliding Japanese demand, but the decline was the slimmest among local automakers and it lifted its outlook on growing overseas sales.

Coca-Cola Co reported higher-than-expected quarterly sales, helped by its third straight quarter of sales growth in North America.

Coca-Cola Co reported sharply higher quarterly earnings that met Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, helped by its third straight quarter of sales growth in North America.

Formula One greats have blasted F1 team Lotus Renault GP for their decision to allow their driver Robert Kubica to take part in the rally, which led to a serious accident, so close to the start of the F1 season.

Word is out that the much awaited tablet from Apple camp; the iPad 2 is under production, confirming earlier reports claiming that tablet is due for launch in April.

The London Stock Exchange is to buy Canada's TMX stock exchange operator to create the world's fourth-largest trading center and claw back some of the market share it has lost in recent years.

The White House unveiled plans to spend $53 billion over the next six years on bringing high-speed rail service to 80 percent of Americans within 25 years, though House Transportation Committee chairman John Mica and Railroads Subcommittee chairman Bill Shuster expressed reservations over its future benefit.

Getting a head start in a $30 million Lunar race, Pittsburgh-based company, Astrobotic Technology, has already booked a ticket to the moon on SpaceX.

Wall Street was set for a slight fall on Wednesday, after a strong run that has taken share prices to their highest levels in more than two and a half years, and with investors awaiting the latest batch of earnings in a reporting season in which most companies have beaten forecasts.

Pennsylvania-based Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9 rocket as early as December 2013.

LG, Sony are indulging in patent wars over PS3

Sanofi-Aventis reported progress in talks to buy U.S. biotech Genzyme and predicted 5-10 percent lower earnings in 2011, underscoring the French drugmaker's need to find new sources of revenue growth.

China's central bank is poised to raise benchmark interest rates twice more in the first half of 2011 for a total tightening of 50 basis points, before keeping them steady for the remainder of the year, a Reuters poll on Wednesday showed.

She has signed a deal with Warner Music

Nearly one third of internet users in European Union caught a computer virus last year, according to recently released figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Just days after DICE formally confirmed the 2011 fall release of Battlefield 3, the media is abuzz with reports on new leaked details and speculations.

The Foundation invests $2 million in educational technology company Inigral Inc. in order to fund the development and marketing of Schools App - the Company's education-focused social media technology product

The University of Cincinnati (UC) and industry researchers reviewed the technologies that will bring devices including: rollable iPads, e-readers and virtually indestructible e-sheets.

Nissan Motor Co's <7201.T> quarterly profit fell 15 percent on a stronger yen and sliding Japanese sales, but the decline was the slimmest among local automakers as a slew of new models helped Nissan beat the sector's growth in key markets.

She did it before the magazine hits the stands

The ambitious project of installing 1 million electric vehicles on American highways by 2015 is ambitious and also achievable based on steps already taken as part of the Recovery Act and additional policy initiatives proposed by President Obama, the US Department of Energy said in a statement today.

World stocks fell from this week's 29-month high on Wednesday as China's interest rate rise prompted investors to book profits, while general optimism over global growth sent 10-year U.S. bond yields to nine-month highs.

Social networking site Facebook on Tuesday opened shop in Hong Kong to expand its presence in Asia notwithstanding its ban in mainland China.

Universal Pictures too has another evil queen in Charlize Theron

After the embarrassing fumble at the Super Bowl, Christina Aguilera is getting a shot at redemption with a minor league baseball team inviting her to sing the National Anthem at MCU Park this summer.

Results of a national survey indicate the growing stress on two-year colleges in the face of repeated budget cuts and steadily rising demands from a population grappling with unaffordable costs of a four-year college degree.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the vice chairman of a joint venture between a local firm and Abu Dhabi's Etisalat in connection to a massive telecoms scandal that has crippled the government.

Toyota Motor Corp shares soared on Wednesday after a U.S. government report gave its cars a clean bill of health and a better-than-expected profit outlook helped the world's largest automaker put a dismal year behind it.

Google-owned YouTube is now facing a potential threat from Twitter media sharing site, TwitPic, as the startup on Tuesday announced the launch of video support.