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Asian shares held two-month highs on Monday as a batch of Chinese data showed the economy slowing while still managing to reassure investors it was not in danger of a hard landing. Adding to optimism wee growing bets that the...

A US jury has ordered technology giant Apple to pay more than $234m (£152m) in damages for patent infringement. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, the patent licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the verdict was important to guard...

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that Google's massive effort to scan millions of books for an online library does not violate copyright law, rejecting claims from a group of authors that the project illegally deprives them of...

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's patent licensing body will not be able to extract triple damages from Apple as a jury weighs how much the iPhone maker must pay for using its microchip technology without permission, a U.S. judge ruled...

General Electric Co (GE.N) reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday, helped by cost cuts and higher sales of its jet engines business that offset struggles in its oil and gas segment. The U.S. conglomerate, which is pulling back from...

U.S. stocks drifted higher after better-than-expected consumer sentiment data and as investors assessed mixed earnings from industrial heavyweights GE and Honeywell. GE's (GE.N) shares rose as much as 3.4 percent to $28.99 - their highest since the financial crisis -...

The dollar fell to its lowest since August after weak U.S. data and company results, while a two-month high for Asian indexes helped world shares bounce back from two days of losses. Having obsessed for months about when U.S. interest...

Germany ordered Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) on Thursday to recall and refit 2.4 million diesel vehicles next year, following the company's admission it rigged emissions tests. Europe's biggest carmaker has said it may have installed software that enabled it to cheat diesel...

Video-streaming service provider Netflix Inc reported third-quarter U.S. subscriber additions below its own forecast, blaming a transition to chip-based cards for the miss. Shares of Netflix, known for its original shows such as "House of Cards" and "Orange is the...

Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) lured Google Inc executive Omid Kordestani to become the social media company's executive chairman, the latest step in the company's turnaround efforts under Jack Dorsey, who last week was named permanent CEO. Kordestani's extensive sales experience could...