IBT Staff Reporter

Apple Inc's next iPad tablet will start shipping as early as the end of February from electronics maker Foxconn Electronics' factories in China, DigiTimes reported on Tuesday.

Mark Cuban, CEO of HDNet, calls over the top video a complimentary service, not a replacement to cable or satellite.

After Paypal and Swiss authorities closed the accounts of Wikileaks, it's Mastercard's turn to refuse any financial support to Wikileaks' money transfers.

Following are comments by EU finance ministers and other officials after talks in Brussels on Tuesday.

England nailed Australia's coffin on the final day of the second Ashes test at Adelaide to take a 1-0 lead in the series with three matches remaining after a brilliant 5-91 from Graeme Swann, giving England every chance to retain the Ashes series.

Toronto-Dominion Bank is in talks to buy lender Chrysler Financial from private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management , a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, was arrested on Tuesday in relation to a Swedish sex-crime case, the London Metropolitan Police said.

Samsung's <005930.KS> Nexus S phone, based on the latest version of Google's Android software, will go on sale this month in the United States and Britain through Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse .

Research from the Harvard Business School suggests that introverts too may be very effective leaders.

It was not just all about Gingerbread powered Nexus S but Google's VP of Engineering Andy Rubin also flashed a prototype of Motorola's Android tablet on stage at D:Dive into Mobile conference.

Samsung's <005930.KS> Nexus S phone, based on the latest version of Google's Android software, will go on sale this month in the United States and Britain through Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse .

Industrial production dropped unexpectedly in October, but manufacturing output rose during the month, boosted by machinery and equipment industries, the Office for National Statistics said.

The Hertz Corporation, the world's largest general use airport car rental brand, has entered into a joint partnership with Smart USA for electric car sharing and Hertz Rent A Car locations in New York, Washington, DC, and San Francisco.

Stanford, Harvard, Tuck, INSEAD and Wharton emerge at the top of the list of MBAs in CSR and Ethics in the QS Global 200 Top Business Schools Survey

Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen AG plans to hire around 50,000 workers worldwide in the medium-term, including 5,000-6,000 in Germany by 2015.

Faculty at the Wharton Business School has voted in favor of a massive overhaul of its curricular design, which also includes an offer of free executive education for its alumni once every seven years.

Stocks jumped to a fresh two-year intraday high on Tuesday as investors bet that a deal to extend tax breaks will prompt increased spending and buoy the economy.

Samsung Electronics Co, the world's second-largest mobile phone maker, aims to boost handset shipments by 18 percent next year to 330 million units, a media report said on Tuesday.

Judge dismisses Wesley Snipes' request to postpone his sentence to January to tide over the holiday period.

The iPad 2, much expected by customers and feared by competitors, is due to be shipped by the end of February 2011.

Wall Street was set to rise strongly on Tuesday as investors bet that a deal to extend tax breaks will prompt increased spending and buoy the economy.

Justin Timberlake’s injury has brought production on the sets of Andrew Niccol's sci-fi thriller, Now, to a temporary halt.

Chinese companies are poised to acquire smaller, intellectual property-rich technology firms overseas, fueled by the country's ambitious drive to converge its television, telephone and Internet networks.

Tesco Plc, the world's No.3 retailer, said overseas markets drove a 7.2 percent rise in third-quarter sales and it was seeing a pick-up in demand in its main British market heading into peak Christmas trading.

China is likely to raise interest rates in the coming days in a demonstration of the government's resolve to tame inflation, an official newspaper said on Tuesday.

British homebuilder Bellway Plc sees pretax profits to rise by up to 20 percent for the first half to end January, saying home reservations taken are ahead of its expectations.

Tension persisted on European bond markets on Tuesday after Germany and fellow euro zone states resisted IMF calls to do more to quell the currency bloc's debt crisis, leaving the ball with a reluctant European Central Bank.

Stock index futures rose on Tuesday after President Barack Obama forged a compromise with Republicans to extend Bush-era tax breaks for two years.

The United States is expected to see weak employment prospects though employers expect the modest hiring pace to continue in the first three months of the year, a survey reported.