Cybercrime has evolved beyond targeting Windows as it moves into smartphones, tablets and mobile platforms.
Just one day after signing a huge contract to sell aircraft to China, Boeing (NYSE: BA) said it will lay off about 1,100 U.S, workers involved in the manufacture of its C-17 military-cargo aircraft through the end of next year.
South Korea agreed on Thursday to a North Korean offer of high-level military talks, a major breakthrough in the crisis on the peninsula which improves the prospect of renewed aid-for-disarmament negotiations.
Iran said it had no fresh offer to make to revive a nuclear fuel swap proposal but was ready to discuss it in talks with world powers on Friday, and Russia said ways of easing sanctions on Tehran should be addressed too.
President Barack Obama urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to let the value of China's yuan currency rise and delivered a strong message on U.S. concerns over Beijing's human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
Chinese President Hu Jintao is meeting with Congressional leaders on Thursday, with discussion of the yuan on the agenda.
Gold fell like a stone on Thursday, following three days of gains, and ignored a recovery in the euro as investment demand waned. Spot gold fell over $20 to $1,348.55 an ounce by 1426 GMT.
Facebook's global reach has been the envy of many companies, as about 70 percent of its 500 million users are from outside US and now Facebook has launched an app for feature phones to further bolster its march.
Silver prices could hit an incredible $120 in just three years, propelled by a physical shortage in the silver market and further momentum in economic recovery, CommodityOnline has reported citing a report by thesilvershortage.com.
Michelle Obama asks American students to study in China, stressing the need for competitiveness and cooperation
China's economy recorded a 10.3 percent growth in 2010, coming back strongly from the global crisis, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday showed.
World’s most populous nation China is also the largest net savvy population in the world now as more than a third of its population were hooked on to the Internet at the end of 2010, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.
President Hu Jintao on Thursday will try to persuade often hostile U.S. lawmakers that China is a threat-free engine of growth, after a White House summit sought to narrow rifts between the world's top two economies.
Japanese Economics Minister said on Thursday China probably has sailed past Japan to emerge as the second biggest economy in the world after the United States, according to a Reuters report.
Chinese green groups on Thursday accused iPhone maker Apple of failing to properly oversee its Chinese suppliers, leading to poor environmental and safety standards, and dozens of poisoned factory workers.
China's benchmark short-term money market rate spiked 194 basis points on Thursday, heading for its biggest single-day rise in history, hit by cash calls for the payment to meet the official increase in bank reserve requirement ratios (RRR) and the coming Lunar New Year.
Major state automaker China Changan Automobile Group aims to sell 2.4 million vehicles this year, up slightly from a record 2.38 million units in 2010, the China Securities Journal reported on Thursday.
China finished 2010 with a bang, its growth soaring past expectations while inflation slowed just a touch, numbers that could prod the government to ratchet up its easy-does-it approach to tightening.
China will auction eight shale gas exploration blocks in the first quarter of this year, an expanded plan for China's first such auction, which was originally expected in November, a ministry official said on Thursday.
General Electric Co chief executive Jeffrey Immelt said on Wednesday he wants the United States and China to open their borders for truly free trade between the world's top two economies, rather than hiding behind protectionist walls.
President Barack Obama urged Chinese President Hu Jintao to let the value of China's yuan currency rise and delivered a strong message on U.S. concerns over Beijing's human rights record at a summit on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama pressed Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday to let the value of China's currency rise and delivered a stern message on U.S. concerns over Beijing's human rights record.
