MANAGEMENT

Tensions grow in protests as allegations of financial mismanagement surface.

Wall Street was set for a higher open on Monday as strong earnings from Caterpillar offset concerns European policymakers were struggling to narrow differences in tackling the region's debt crisis.

Oracle, the world’s biggest database company, said it will spend $1.5 billion to acquire RightNow Technologies to extends its cloud-based customer service offerings. The move looks intended to compete against Salesforce.com and other rivals.

LU anticipates the operational changes will result in savings of nearly £1.8 billion ($2.9 billion).

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the massive advisory fee paid by Japan's Olympus Corp. in its takeover of a British company, a media report said, as the firm's shares continued to slide over the scandal.

Fortress Investment Group LLC has hired David Dredge as co-chief investment officer at its convexity strategies group, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Apple Inc co-founder Steve Jobs revolutionized multiple industries with his cutting-edge products but he was not the world's best manager, biographer Walter Isaacson said.

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES meets with media luminary Steven Beer.

Win a chance to go behind the scenes at Vandenberg Air Force Base and watch the launch of the NPP satellite, Oct. 27.

UBS may cut its return on equity target by 5 percentage points to a range between 10 and 15 percent at an investor day next month when the Swiss bank is expected to announce the shrinking of its investment bank.

Google Inc. has reached out to two unnamed private equity firms to potentially assist them in financing a transaction to acquire Yahoo! Inc., according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Saturday.

Williston, N.D., is booming. And it's all because of the oil. People are moving there in en masse. It is probably the one place in the nation where there are not enough empty homes to meet the new residents' demands. North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate of the 50 states at 3.5 percent, and it can tout the fact that workers' salaries have doubled and tripled recently.

A first look at the most wanted features of Android's Ice Cream Sandwich OS upgrade.

Looks like Charlie Sheen is done playing nice with his former bosses.

A former Wall Street banker of Japanese descent has emerged as a key figure in the scandal engulfing Japanese blue-chip company Olympus Corp , according to documents provided by the company's ex-CEO.

News Corp shareholders reelected the media conglomerate's board of directors on Friday and failed to approve a proposal to oust Rupert Murdoch from his chairman post.

The Broncos new QB makes his 2011 debut.

Prospects for corporate earnings are appearing comparatively dimmer in the coming quarters -- even though reports so far this quarter have been looking relatively bright.

Two NFC squads meet in London.

U.S. regulators on Friday approved BP's new exploration plan, moving the company closer to drilling new wells in the lucrative deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico a year and a half after the biggest offshore oil disaster in U.S. history.

British singer Robbie Williams, who signed one of the world's biggest music deals with EMI in 2002, is to release his ninth studio album with Universal Music, the world's largest music company, next year.