IBT Staff Reporter

England seized control with a superb bowling performance against Australia on the first day of the second Ashes test at the Adelaide Oval as James Anderson's 4-51 reduced Australia to their worst start to a test innings in 60 years as they were dismissed for 245.

WikiLeaks moved its website address to Switzerland on Friday after two U.S. Internet providers ditched it in the space of two days, and Paris tried to ban French servers from hosting its database of leaked information.

Video game publishers say they have positioned themselves to capitalize on the future of digital entertainment. Investors will need more convincing.

U.S. employment barely grew in November and the jobless rate unexpectedly hit a seven-month high, hardening views the Federal Reserve would stick to its $600 billion plan to shore up the fragile recovery.

Wall Street mostly shrugged off a weaker-than-expected payrolls report on Friday, leaving stocks little changed as the data didn't alter investors' view the economic recovery is on track.

Whistle-blower website Wikileaks was back online Friday afternoon with a new address from Switzerland. Web users trying to access the new website are being directed to a page with the URL http://213.251.145.96/, suggesting that the group has been unable to find a new hosting provider.

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has adopted cloud-first policy as part of its IT strategy for government agencies.

France's auction of fourth-generation wireless frequencies is on track to be completed by summer although key details on price and terms have not been decided, Industry Minister Eric Besson said on Friday.

As the holiday shopping season is underway, Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:BBY), will be offering a minimum of four free smartphones every day through December.

China will switch to a prudent monetary policy from a moderately loose stance, the Communist Party's top leaders decided on Friday, a change that could pave the way for more interest rate increases and lending controls.

After a long battle, Google has finally confessed to trespassing on a Pennsylvania family’s property to acquire data for its Street View service.

German business software maker SAP is open to intensifying its existing cooperation with Hewlett-Packard Co, its co-CEO told a German paper, but dismissed talk HP may be interested in the company.

The long awaited uptake of the potentially lucrative mobile advertising market by advertisers and consumers has actually started to happen, companies from Canada, Egypt and Poland said on Friday.

An American company that had been directing traffic to the WikiLeaks website withdrew its services late Thursday, making the site invisible for several hours.

Even as food prices shoot up in China, food production remains slow while demand is rising multifold.

The Chevrolet Cruze is the Urban Car of the Year as voted by the Emerging Diversity Education Fund, Decisive Media.

Stock index futures fell from more than two-year highs on Friday, pointing to a slide at the open after a weaker-than-expected payrolls report indicated an economic recovery was still shaky.

U.K. homebuilder Berkeley Group said it was confident of outperforming its full-year expectations, saying there is an underlying demand for the well-located, quality homes developed by Berkeley in London and the South East.

Samsung Electronics promoted its chairman's son, Jay Y. Lee, as president in a move that tightens the founding family's grip over the world's biggest memory chipmaker as it battles slower growth.

General Motors on Thursday said its China auto sales in November rose 11 percent, led by strong demand of its Buick and Chevrolet models.

U.S. employment increased far less than expected in November and the jobless rate jumped to a seven-month high of 9.8 percent, dampening hopes for a self-sustaining economic recovery.

Wall Street's largest two-day rally in three months will be tested by jobs data on Friday, with some in the market predicting a strong report that will push the S&P 500 to a fresh two-year high.

Big Lots Inc's quarterly profit missed market expectations by a penny as the close-out retailer spent more to prepare for the holiday season, and the company cut its outlook for its crucial fourth quarter.

The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School will be offering a new Executive MBA program beginning May 2011.

U.K.'s Greene King Plc, the brewer of Old Speckled Hen ale, reported a 17 percent rise in interim pretax profits, driven by strong like-for-like (LFL) sales growth at its Retail division.

India’s number one software services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has opened a business process outsourcing facility in the Philippines following the path of India-based BPO companies which have operations in that country.

Stock index futures were little changed on Friday, following Wall Street's biggest two-day rally in three months and ahead of key labor market data that will show whether the economic recovery is on track.

Whistle-blower site Wikileaks has been killed Worldwide. Servers in the United States have killed the site's domain name after they claimed mass attacks. The withdrawal of the domain name implies that the website has been shutdown across the World. A twitter message of the website posted on Friday confirms the reports.

Financial markets steadied on Friday as the European Central Bank continued to buy euro zone government bonds in moderate amounts to counter a destabilizing rise in peripheral countries' borrowing costs.