IBT Staff Reporter

Santa Google has extended its free US and Canada VoIP calls service through Gmail to 2011.

U.S. regulators may force big financial firms to award half or more of their executive pay in the form of stock or other deferred compensation instead of cash, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the situation.

Liz Hurley eager to reconcile but husband having none of it.

Four popular movies fail to meet the original musical score criteria of the Academy

Regulators are looking into the events surrounding Mark Hurd's abrupt exit as chief executive of Hewlett Packard Co, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Most bird-like dinosaurs long believed to be carnivorous predators were eating plants, a new research showed.

Apple's censorship sword falls on Wikileaks app as it is purged from iTunes App Store.

Apple has moved a step forward towards launching its Mac App Store as it announced that its Mac OS X Download site will stop delivering apps from Jan. 6.

Internet search engine Google Inc is hiring people to fill over 70 vacant positions in India in different areas to meet its business requirements.

China's central bank is considering changing a key component of its monetary policy management by altering the way it manages bank credit, three sources close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

Ireland's central bank fined Allied Irish Banks 2 million euros ($2.6 million) for overcharging customers and said such penalties would play a bigger role in future crackdowns on lenders.

Stocks rose on Tuesday as earnings and mergers supported a steady upward trend in the equity market that investors say has further to run.

Holiday sales have outpaced expectations so far for U.S. retailers, but stock pickers still see several retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores and Sears Holdings , as laggards days before Christmas.

A new iPhone app called Word Lens has been developed that instantly translates printed words from one language to another with a built-in video camera, in real time!

(Corrects headline to 2 million euros, not 2.1 million, and amends to show NCB Stockbrokers are not part of AIB)

Internet video service Hulu is ditching plans to go public for now, choosing to focus on other financing options and new subscription models to expand a nascent pay-video business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Japan's Ulvac Inc said on Tuesday that demand for gear used in making small and next-generation OLED display panels for smartphones is strong, making up for a fall in demand for large liquid-crystal display equipment.

Toyota Motors Co has agreed to pay an additional $32.425 million in civil penalties as the result of two separate investigations into the Japanese auto-maker's handling of auto recalls.

Starting March 2011, the Fast Track MBA program from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College will be offered from a new facility in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood.

Internet search engine Google Inc raced ahead of consulting firm McKinsey as India’s most preferred employer in business schools in 2010, according to a study by The Nielsen Company.

Moody's Investor Services put Portugal's long-term and short-term rating on review for a possible downgrade, citing uncertainties in the country's economic vitality.

Portugal was put on notice that its credit rating could be cut and fellow euro zone debtor Spain had to pay more to issue new debt on Tuesday, suggesting the currency bloc's crisis will rage unabated in 2011.

Toyota Motor has agreed to pay the maximum fine of $32.4 million related to two U.S. probes into its handling of a spate vehicle recalls which hurt sales and tarnished its once impeccable reputation for quality.

Stocks looked set to grind to fresh highs on Tuesday as corporate results and mergers supported a steady upward trend in the equity market.

Communications regulators were poised to adopt Internet traffic rules on Tuesday that would allow providers to ration access to their networks.

The trade between China and the European Union (EU) is balanced and healthy, according to the Chinese Minister of Commerce Chen Deming.

Stock index futures rose on Tuesday as a higher earnings outlook from software maker Adobe Systems and more mergers looked to add fuel to the December rally.

Scientists in the UK are developing technology using nanopores that could ultimately sequence a person’s genome in mere minutes, unlike available commercial methods, which require complex process.

Nissan Motor Co on Monday unveiled the all-new Global sedan model 'Sunny' at the 8th China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition. The model will be launched in China in January 2011 followed by India in the second-half of the next year and progressively across 170 countries.