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The following is a list of who will participate in the general strike; Egged and Dan bus companies to run as usual.

ANGLO IRISH Bank has claimed international markets will be plunged into “drastic uncertainty” and “havoc” if the Irish courts uphold claims by Seán Quinn’s family that €2.3 billion loans by the bank to Quinn group companies are unenforceable because they were allegedly made for the illegal objective of supporting Anglo’s share price.

Silicon Valley investors have been going to Israel for decades to take advantage of its pool of hardcore tech entrepreneurs. But a new generation of consumer-focused companies has been emerging in the country over the last few years -- and they're facing a few challenges. One is that the local market is relatively small, which means that it can be harder for them to design and iterate products ...

Ask billionaire trader Ivan Glasenberg how he will cope being number two to Xstrata's "Big" Mick Davis if their two companies' $86bn (£54bn) mega-merger goes ahead, and he laughs.

In fact, history is littered with companies that were the category leader and got displaced, even when they had full and total dominance. So although Facebook is very big and has dominance, its future is not guaranteed.

Overseas Chinese companies have in recent months gained more attention across the country as an increasing number of staff security issues make media headlines

According to the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, telecom companies Rogers and Bell Canada have in their labs an early prototype of Apple's rumored television set. Although the possibility of an honest-to-goodness prototype being tested is exciting, the idea that it's being scrutinized by telco operators is actually the more interesting part of the report.

How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways:

As the U.S. limps back from recession, the tech industry has been hailed as a boon for growth and job creation. But upon closer inspection of multi-bi…

Social media influence scorer Klout has made its first acquisition: a local app maker called Blockboard.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Apple Inc. is in talks with Canada's two biggest telecom companies about becoming partners in the launch of iTV, a device combining features of the wildly popular iPad tablet with those of a television set, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Hacker YamaTough has published Symantec's pcAnywhere's source code. This program is used by users and companies to access personal computers remotely. The publication follows a $50,000 extortion attempt that was made public last night. More »

The commodities and mining companies have agreed a $41 billion all-share merger that would see the biggest ever deal in the mining sector

The talks between Disney and Univision have set media tongues wagging in anticipation of a new 24-hour news network that would compete with CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, and would likely have major ramifications for the cable news industry and for the national political discourse. At the political level, an ABC News-Univision venture would mark the first 24-hour news network marketed toward English...

ICANN has just opened a comment period to hear from people and companies concerned about defensive applications for new gTLD’s. “”Public comment is requested as to why there may be a perceived need for defensive new gTLD applications and steps that could be considered to help alleviate this concern.”" The comment period closes  on February 27th. In announcing the opening of the comment period I...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Chargers for electric cars may become a "billion dollar business" by 2017, said an executive at Swiss engineering firm ABB, which is teaming up with governments and companies such as RWE to roll out a network.

Emergency crews were on standby in Belfast after Thomas Cook flight reported problems with landing gearA passenger plane has made a successful emergency landing at Belfast international airport after reporting problems with its landing gear.Emergency crews were on standby at Aldergrove airport as a flight to Tenerife reported difficulties shortly after take-off.The Airbus 320 Thomas Cook servic...

Regained the spot that it took from Nokia in June and gave up to Samsung in September Click to enlarge. Source: IDC It will come as no surprise to Apple (AAPL) watchers that the company sold 37 million iPhones last quarter. Tim Cook reported that number two weeks ago. Getting comparable figures from Apple's competitors is a different matter, and that's where companies like IDC come in. Samsung,...

by Syed Zoheb Ali Sumair Having your own website is essential for many companies and people. Individuals can discover about your products and services, go through what you have to say or buy the items you are providing. Starting your internet site is only the initial phase. You have a lot much work to be done after your website debuts on the web in order to make it searchable.Most of the time...

Veerappa Moily, Corporate Affairs Minister, said the central government is not making the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) spending mandatory.

To see the future of same-sex marriage, look to savvy companies.

DVD sales may be in a tailspin, but consumers still love cheap rentals. That evidence was clear Monday as Redbox, the nation's largest DVD rental company, agreed to spend up to $100 million to acquire Blockbuster-branded DVD kiosks operated by its largest rival, NCR Corp., adding about 9,000 machines to its existing 35,400. The deal was announced the same day that Redbox's parent company, Coins...

In a strategic move to force India’s hands, Iran has set a month’s deadline for a consortium of Indian state-run oil companies to sign the contract for bringing to production a gas field discovered in the Persian Gulf in 2006

Besides former telecom minister A Raja, 13 others including RK Chandolia and three private companies are facing trial in the 2G spectrum allocation case.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress made a mistake when it stripped away most of the Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to police the holding companies of broker-dealers for risks, according to the SEC's newest commissioner.

Indian state-run oil companies have been given a month's time to sign the contract for bringing to production a gas field discovered in the Persian Gulf in 2006.

Organisers hope the Bristol pound will stop big companies and bankers swallowing up cash that is desperately needed by hard pressed local firms.

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama praised the potential of the country's tremendous supply of natural gas buried in shale. But the "Halliburton exclusion" passed by Congress says gas companies don't have to disclose the chemicals used in fracturing fluids. That was a real mistake because it makes the public needlessly paranoid, says a geophysicist.

The Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad for Chrysler was one of many on advertising's biggest stage and companies spent an average of $3.5 million for 30-second spots.

The Nasdaq is at its highest level since the end of 2000. Highly speculative companies like Netflix and Zynga are soaring, and investors are salivating about possibly paying 100 times earnings for Facebook when it goes public.

Excelling in industry is not easy, especially if you're a woman. According to a 2010 study of New England biotech firms, females comprised only about 12 percent of biotech founders, despite earning about half of the biological science PhDs. And women are equally underrepresented at the senior management level, holding just 12 percent of senior executive positions in the world's top drug compani...

A free, easily customizable software program for automating test equipment via GPIB or RS232 bus may sound too good to be true, especially for smaller companies, graduate students, and hobbyists or for day-to-day laboratory work. But that's exactly what Kurt Pernstich of the PML's Semiconductor and Dimensional Metrology Division has created.

The screens produced will be used by Samsung and other companies in Korea

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A developing Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies that run critical industries is drawing strong opposition from businesses that say it goes too far and security experts who believe it should have even more teeth....

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies are again venturing offshore, and this time a new breed of business is striking deals overseas.

Five years ago, Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry, was one of the most acclaimed technology companies in the world. The BlackBerry dominated the smartphone market, was a staple of the business world, and had helped make texting a mainstream practice. Terrifically profitable, the phone became a cultural touchstone . . .

After 100 patients in Pakistan died from taking contaminated heart medicines, the country's pharmaceutical industry is trying to recover from the scandal.

A Senate plan that would bolster the government's ability to regulate the computer security of companies is drawing strong opposition.

Recent earnings reports show that many government contractors have been able to maintain their profits through cost-cutting despite declining or flattening sales, but analysts are questioning how long companies can keep that up. Read full article >>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Underperforming money managers are losing their most reliable scapegoat....

The spill, which affected 200 miles of the Longjiang River in southern China, was caused by two companies that accidentally released tons of cadmium.

President Cristina Fernandez' government blames private sector oil companies for the country's waning crude production.

Marisa Tomei hasn't been a very good neighbor! Insurance companies of her neighbors are slamming her with a lawsuit, claiming a leak from her apartment caused extensive water damage. The lawsuit claims Tomei's negligence caused over $128,000 in damages. One of her neighbors is actually the famous director, John Waters. Yep. John Waters. LOLz! But he's got no beef with [...]

The Los Angeles Dodgers asked a federal bankruptcy judge Friday to reject claims for damages filed by the San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten in a Dodger Stadium parking lot on opening day of the 2011 season. In a...

OFFICIALS AT Banneker Ventures were thrilled when they learned in February 2008 that their company had won a competition to develop Metro-owned property on Florida Avenue NW. The general construction and contract management firm had beaten rival companies in an open procurement process for the retail and residential project. But when the proposal came before Metro on April 24, Jim Graham (D), t...

The International Food & Beverage Alliance (IFBA) includes ten global food and non-alcoholic beverage manufacturers (Coca-Cola Company, Ferrero, General Mills, Grupo Bimbo, Kellogg's, Kraft Foods, Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Unilever). Although we cannot speak for the entire food and non-alcoholic beverage industry, nor any other industry, our member companies support initiatives to address ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Apple Inc. has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its Internet store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies....

It’s a little odd for AMR (AAMRQ), owner of American Airlines, to be strutting around making fun of other airlines right now; the company is bankrupt, its stock has been delisted, and it’s planning to lay off about 13,000 people and end its pension plan. But Chairman and CEO Tom Horton is clearly feeling confident [...]

TV networks are facing a difficult financial balancing act as major Australian companies cut back their advertising expenditure.

Volatile markets spell extra uncertainty for newly-floated companies and analysts say investors may be wise to wait and see or target a proven winner like Apple.

Research and development centers are helping stem exodus of computer experts, engineers and scientists, Ben-Yisrael says.

Most ships involved in reported cases of sanctions-busting or illicit transfers of arms are owned by companies based in the world’s richest countries.

Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.

Rafael Nadal says his fiscal requirements are up to date after a website reported he set up several companies to trim his tax bill.

But it's doing very, very well. iRobot Corp., makers of the beloved Roomba (and a lot more), announced that it would be investing $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company operating in 80 hospitals around the world. Though $6 million represents just a minority stake in the company, it’s--needless to say--a substantial investment, and a strong expansion of a joint development and lice...

Anglo Irish Bank unlawfully tried to prop up its share price by “shovelling” about €2.34 billion loans into companies in the Sean Quinn group, the Commercial Court was told today.

Finland-based engineering and consulting firm Pöyry is looking to double its business volume with mining companies operating in Brazil over the next three years, the company's South America minerals p...

If Facebook's initial valuation pushes $100 billion, it would be far bigger than many established American companies, including Amazon, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods, Goldman Sachs and Ford Motor.

Merged companies would be a formidable force on the global mining scene

Business advisory group KPMG says companies operating in South Africa have improved their broad-based black economic empowerment ratings.

The SABC intends promoting local music content through a new distribution agreement signed with the Association of Independent Record Companies.

By any yardstick, the Supreme Court’s judgment cancelling the licences of 122 companies providing 2G services in the country is unprecedented. Unprecedented because never in the past has the nation’s top court been so scathing, ruthless, precise, and, should one say, decisive in a case where there were tremendous amount of other interests. Just rewind over a decade and look at the limited mobi...

Australian and Brazilian mining giants are moving villagers to land insufficient for farming and far from jobs to make way for coal projects in central Mozambique, and then sidelining local entrepreneurs as they exploit the region's natural resources, according to a new report.

LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - Kate Hudson has signed on to star in the action-thriller "Everly" for Crime Scene Pictures and Anonymous Content, the companies said Wednesday. Yale Hannon wrote the script, which was included on the 2010 Black List of Best Unproduced Scripts. Joe Lynch is producing. The movie -- set in one room -- is about a woman who breaks up with her boyfriend, a dangerous...

The week in science: sequencing stock rebounds after takeover bid for Illumina; drug companies and nations team up against neglected diseases; and turmoil at the Global Fund.

It used to be that Super Bowl commercials debuted during the Super Bowl.

David Cameron tells MPs he will do everything he can to persuade India to place a major air force order with British companies rather than French.

This story has been updated. President Obama’s recent recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board and the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will create years of legal uncertainty for actions taken by those agencies and chaos for companies affected by the decisions, Republican critics will testify Wednesday. Read full article >>

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appealed to Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden over accusations of sex crimes

NYSE says the two companies are now discussing terminating the merger agreement.

Wien (OTS) - Die Pink Ribbon Aktion der Österreichischen Krebshilfe und Estée Lauder Companies ist das Markenzeichen für Brustkrebs-Vorsorge und Hilfe für Brustkrebspatientinnen. Die Pink Ribbon Partner und Unterstützer sammelten bis 31.1.2012 durch den Verkauf limitierter Pink Ribbon ...

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE, Feb 1 (Reuters) - A unit of the Swire group of companies, a Hong Kong conglomerate with interests ranging from properties to airlines, is among bidders for electronics and...

Companies need more consumer demand for electric vehicles to grow rapidly.

Criticisms of poor human-rights records are being drowned out online by positive stories as Western publicity companies accept huge sums of money to launder the reputations of autocratic governments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading lawmakers are considering adding measures to a new package of sanctions that would single out Iran's national oil and shipping companies and restrict its ability to tap into electronic banking services.

ONE of underworld identity Mick Gatto's companies goes bust owing millions of dollars to the taxman.A liquidator had been appointed.

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar on Monday informed the Senate that eight persons/firms have registered their private planes with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the aviation regulator, which they use for travel purposes within the country and abroad.The individuals and companies who own these private aircraft include Tahir Saleem, Majid Bashir Janjua, Adventure Sport...

ISLAMABAD - Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar on Monday informed the Senate that eight persons/firms have registered their private planes with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the aviation regulator, which they use for travel purposes within the country and abroad.The individuals and companies who own these private aircraft include Tahir Saleem, Majid Bashir Janjua, Adventure Sport...

Norwegian insurance company DNB has installed an alarm system in their toilets that alerts managers if an employee spends "too much time" in the restroom. Apparently, this is only the latest weird and intrusive bathroom rule reported to Datatilsynet, the Danish Data Protection Agency. From the Telegraph: Last year the country's workplace ombudsman said one [...]

EXCLUSIVE: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to move site offshore to try to avoid prosecution, sources sayThailand, China Embrace Twitter Censorship PolicyTech Companies Team Up to Fight Email Scams

The rules governing America's most popular retirement vehicle are about to change, and that could mean huge savings for millions of workers building nest eggs for the future.

Two start-up companies have created databases that let consumers search FDA adverse-event reports of prescription drugs and medical devices.

Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing.

Politicians, health experts and drug companies have agreed a plan to combat 10 neglected tropical diseases over the next decade.

The chief executive of the company behind mobile gaming phenomenon, Angry Birds, has said that piracy helps companies attract more business.

LONDON, United Kingdom Bill Gates, the world’s leading 13 pharmaceutical companies, governments and global organisations have announced unprecedented funding and support to eliminate and control 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTD) by 2020.More than US $785 million will be donated to control or eliminate these infections that affect around 1.4 billion people in 149 endemic countries. These in...

A coalition of 15 technology companies including Paypal and Facebook announce a major initiative in the battle to thwart phishing scams.

LONDON (Reuters) - The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organizations Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020.

The world's major pharmaceutical companies joined forces with governments and leading global health organisations on Monday to donate drugs and scientific know-how to help control or wipe out 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020.

Strikes by trade unions in Belgium disrupted travel Monday on the Eurostar and Thalys internation train lines, the companies announced, as European leaders gathered in the capital Brussels for an informal summit.

Facebook's initial public offering is expected to raise around $10 billion - dwarfing Google's 2004 IPO, which raised just $1.9 billion.

Some of the world’s biggest Internet companies and financial services firms have developed a new approach to fighting email spam that they hope will reduce online scams.    

Insisting he was not acting as a candidate, President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would raise consumer taxes to make French companies more competitive and reduce the budget deficit.

GLOBAL financial uncertainty is starting to bite Aussie companies with 85 per cent saying they won't hire new staff.

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it has ended a contract with three Washington lobbying firms to cut expenses, denying reports that the American companies were the ones to terminate the contract....

The top eight names in the Nasdaq 100 index of non-financial companies, with huge cash hoards, show that when cash piles up high enough, the market simply will not pay up for it.

In the forthcoming Budget, CSR activities may be made mandatory for companies. To facilitate this, appropriate tax deductions should be introduced in the Budget.

Utl.: Europas größter integrierter Glücksspielkonzern erwirtschaftet erstmals mehr als drei Milliarden Euro Umsatz und bleibt Jobmotor. = London (OTS) - Europas größter integrierter Glücksspielkonzern, die NOVOMATIC Group of Companies mit Headquarter ...

These medications could boost the fortunes of companies like Pfizer, Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

Thirty-four dance companies and schools from eight countries will be showcased at the annual conference and festival, hosted in Toronto for the second time

The move continues a trend of major media companies in the U.S. looking south to Latin America for programming concepts and business partners.The move continues a trend of major media companies in the U.S. looking south to Latin America for programming concepts and business partners.

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to ground zero of the housing crisis Tuesday to assail rival Newt Gingrich over his ties to the government-backed mortgage companies that helped make it worse, a message Romney has been pushing since he landed in the state. But that meant he also had to talk about banks - and he continued what's become a habit of ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie studio Sony Pictures Entertainment received 21 Oscar nominations on Tuesday, fending off stiff competition from rival companies Paramount Pictures and The Weinstein Co. for Academy Award nods, which can boost box office and DVD sales.

Needham & Co.’s Rajvindra Gill this morning cut his ratings on Atmel (ATML) and Cypress Semiconductor (CY), both of which make “touch controller” integrated circuits for gadgets, to Hold from Buy, writing that a “non-Apple tablet inventory correction” will extend through this quarter from last year, hurting both companies’ results. Both companies will have to [...]

THE Australian Securities & Investments Commission is targeting companies promoting infrastructure projects.

For the first time in a series of debates, Mitt Romney was on the offensive. He aggressively tore into Newt Gingrich’s time as House speaker and the ensuing years, when he advised companies like Freddie Mac.

Start-up accelerator’s first program outside of US will offer mentorship, money and workspace in NYC to five fortunate companies.

A syndicate of banks that provided funds to companies of developer Sean Dunne towards acquiring the Jurys and Berkeley Court hotels in Ballsbridge for €400 million has settled court proceedings brought to get possession of those properties.

Entrepreneurs will be allowed to set up their companies in empty Government offices, David Cameron says today.

Cricket SA's (CSA) acting president, AK Khan, says the federation's board has not left it too late to familiarise itself with the Companies' Act.

Loblaw Companies Limited is voluntarily recalling President's Choice Organics infant cereals

Leider ist die treibende Kraft hinter SOPA, Lamar Smith, nicht eingeknickt und wird weitermachen. Und zu dem Lanier-Artikel, sorry aber bei Those rare tech companies that have come out in support of SOPA are not merely criticized but barred from industry events and subject to boycotts. We, the keepers of the flame of free speech, are banishing people for their speech. The result is a chilling...

The record of Bain Capital is already a primary line of attack against Mitt Romney by Democrats, especially because of Romney's claim that he created 100,000 jobs during his tenure at the firm.Democrats have released ads on Bain, and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said this month of Romney, "He was a corporate-buyout specialist at Bain Capital. He dismantled c...

THE Federal Government has vowed to pursue companies that exclude Australian steel manufacturers from bidding for work.

(Reuters) - The cruise ship disaster off Italy's coast is drawing fresh scrutiny to the gaps in international safety rules and standards - yet there may be little appetite among the world's major shipping nations and companies for big changes anytime soon.

Google placed a black redaction box over the logo on its much-visited U.S. home page to draw attention to legislation making its way through the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate that would give companies wide ranging powers to combat online piracy

Internet companies are the target of a New Delhi court case.

ARSENE WENGER has claimed rival clubs exert undue influence on match scheduling due to their relationship with television companies and has bemoaned the Premier League’s inability to impose tighter control.

The FDA would collect hundreds of millions of dollars in new fees from pharmaceutical companies to help speed up the review of generic drugs ...

The Federal Communications Commission said Thursday it will review decades-old rules barring cable companies from airing blacked out games

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has ordered the country's public health system and health insurance companies to pay for the replacement of ruptured breast implants made in France, even if they were done for aesthetic reasons.

If U.S.-based oil companies can support Canadian projects, why can’t U.S.-based environmental groups oppose them?

If U.S.-based oil companies can support Canadian projects, why can’t U.S.-based environmental groups oppose them?

TOKYO (Reuters) - Olympus Corp is considering an equity tie-up with five candidate companies including Japanese electronics makers Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp, as well as South Korea's Samsung Electronics, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper said on Thursday.

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: Inside Braden Pollock and Patrick Ruddell's new partnership in ScienceFiction.com. Plus, ICANN leaders to answer questions tomorrow about the controversial new gTLD program that opens Thursday and a new brokerage agreement is announced by Sedo and the .CO Registry.

HIGH-flying executives from state-owned energy and water companies are racking up big pay rises and overseas junkets as families continue struggling.

Robert Cushman: Next Stage, based at the Factory Theatre, is an extension of Toronto’s Fringe Festival: an opportunity for Fringe companies to re-mount favoured productions in slightly less frenzied circumstances.

Britain's travel companies have launched their new year sales with discounts of up to 60 per cent on flights and summer holidays.

During the discussion the prime minister noted that industrial production in the region grew at a rate three times higher than the country’s average, with processing companies making up 83% of the region’s industry. The governor reported on the state of the agro-industrial complex and housing construction. As usual, special attention was paid to healthcare and education modernisation programmes.

The leap from no-name startup to global tech titan is an enormous one.

BRITAIN'S biggest companies suffered their worst year on the stock market since 2008, it was confirmed today

NICHE companies stood out in an auction market still correcting itself from the 2007 boom.

China's industrial companies are posting slower profit growth, a further sign that the country's economy is losing pace.

2010 TR35 member Danah Boyd, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, studies how people use social networks and makes recommendations about how companies can best use social technologies to serve their users. Recently, Boyd has been a vocal advocate for better privacy controls on social networks.

Most media companies prefer not to talk about the support they receive from their government, but all developed democracies intervene in media markets in direct and indirect ways to serve a range of public interest goals.

LAHORE (PR) - Thousands of Wapda workers held demonstrations across the country against the proposed privatisation of nine national thermal power stations and distribution companies. Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union (CBA) workers were carrying banners in support of their demands and raised slogans against Independent Power Projects… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full st...

Vevo the music video site created by the two largest record companies in the country is planning to make the leap into television The company which operates independently but is owned by Universal Music Group Sony Music Entertainment and the Abu Dhabi Media Company is in talks with cable carriers...

The two companies will develop and sell cheaper versions of several biologic cancer drugs.

MADRID – Spain’s incoming prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, promised deep spending cuts in public administration yesterday while offering tax breaks for companies.

SMALL PRINT:IT’S ONE OF the most annoying ailments around, and for decades, medics and drug companies have tried to come up with effective cures for snoring. Nose strips, vocal exercises, oral devices, and even surgery are mooted as ways to stop it, but recently perhaps one of the best remedies was revealed. Japanese researchers have developed and built a robotic polar bear pillow that can appa...

SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Thursday unveiled a home-made interceptor missile designed to counter North Korean ballistic missiles and fighter jets. The new Iron Hawk-II surface-to-air missile, with a range of up to 40 kilometres (24 miles), was displayed at a ceremony in the Agency for Defence Development headquarters in the central city of Daejeon, the agency said. It said that 15 companies w...

Two companies from India and South Africa announced today their commitment to provide banking services to 30 million low-income people living in rural areas by 2015, as part of their support for a United Nations-backed initiative to fight poverty.

The government said it would spend $160 million to build an Egyptian border fence, expand detention centers and increase the policing of companies that hire immigrant workers.

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's largest telecommunication companies announced Friday they have agreed to buy the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and NBA's Toronto Raptors in a deal worth about $1.3 billion....

President Obama's speech in Kansas about raising taxes muddles actual crooks with the innocent affluent and indulges the middle-class sense of entitlement."This isn't about class warfare," said President Obama on Tuesday, in his speech at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kan. But in fact, the president for the first time dived into many of the themes that have been urged on him by left-win...

The Black Keys are withholding their new album El Camino from streaming services such as Spotify Rhapsody MOG and Rdio Other artists including Coldplay and Mac Miller have made similar moves with their latest releases believing that such play-on-demand services cut into album sales However these companies maintain that record sales...

India, under pressure from mom-and-pop stores, suspended plans to open its retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart.

The era of smart sanctions is fading. Today, pain is the point. On Friday, Dec. 2, the European Union reinforced its economic sanctions against Syria, effectively barring its firms from engaging in trade or oil exploration deals with leading state-owned Syrian oil companies. The measures build on earlier U.S. and European sanctions against the import of Syrian oil, setting the stage for a s...

LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists have made the first human embryonic stem cells of a high enough grade to use in patients and deposited them in a public stem cell bank for development in human trials by drug companies and researchers by 2014.

Filed under: Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian All Kardashian women may not be created equal ... but one of the biggest nail polish companies on the planet is sure paying them like they are ... and get this -- even the half-sisters are raking in BIG MONEY. TMZ has learned ... all 6 K-ladies (Kris, Kim...

Ski companies are breathing a sigh of relief as up to 30cm of snow fell across France, Switzerland and Austria today and it is hoped that the snow will continue to fall later this week.

Don't call him a hypocrite on Netflix. Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson is a buyer when the world hates companies.

The EU agrees to new sanctions on 180 Iranian officials and companies in the wake of a report on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, EU diplomats say.

CLAIMS by copyright holders that internet companies can take steps to stop online piracy were tested in the High Court yesterday.

(Reuters) - U.S.-listed solar stocks soared on Wednesday after Auriga analyst Hari Chandra slapped "buy" ratings on four companies in the battered sector, including China's Trina Solar Ltd and U.S....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a U.S. judge's ruling and injunction that blocked tobacco companies from having to display graphic images on cigarette packs and advertising, such as a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat.

Companies that use slim, deliberately sexy models to market their chocolate will actually put female buyers off, a study claims.

Ketchum Sampark Digital will offer interactive strategy, web design, video production and multimedia development to help companies build engagement with their TG on digital media.

LONDON (AP) -- News International executive James Murdoch has resigned as a director of the companies that publish The Sun and The Times of London newspapers, the company confirmed Wednesday....

MOSCOW (Reuters) - One of the Bolshoi Theatre's most promising dance partnerships is leaving its Moscow stage to join the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, both companies told Reuters on Monday.

African cocoa farms are still employing hundreds of thousands of children, the BBC has discovered, 10 years after the world's leading chocolate companies promised to tackle child labour.

Pharma companies see drops in revenue amid European austerity measures.

Several companies are working on technology that would separate your personal stuff from your work data.Advertisement: Prepare for the Anywhere Office with Cisco   Long commutes and limited flexibility are gradually becoming a thing of the past. The future of workplace mobility lies in the "anywhere office."http://network.cisco.com/ Ads by Pheedo

Websites are challenging the monopoly of TV and film companies by making video shorts and movies themselves. Sun Li reports.

Final round of Rice Competition starting now. Six Teams have 15 minutes to present; 10 minutes for questions. Finalists include three medical companies, two from the microchip industries, and one with optical technology: BiologicsMD, Ambiq Micro, GlucaGo, Rebellion Photonics, Reveal Design Automation, OrthoIntrinsics --Jessica Shambora First up: BiologicsMD <...

A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven: space companies for hire.