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South Africa's AMCU union said on Thursday it was still seeking a minimum of 12,500 rand ($1,100) in wages from Impala Platinum (IMPJ.J) after reports emerged late last year that it had lowered its demands. The union's president Joseph Mathunjwa...

The first weeks of 2014 showed North Asia's manufacturing and export giants enjoying mixed fortunes, with South Korea and Japan starting the year positively, while China, the biggest of the trio, was still struggling to regain momentum. Asia's top export...

Cloud software maker VMWare Inc said it would buy mobile security company AirWatch for about $1.18 billion in cash and about $365 million in installment payments and assumed unvested equity. AirWatch will become a unit of VMWare and its employees...

IBM Corp missed revenue expectations for the fourth consecutive quarter as the world's biggest technology services company grappled with weakening demand for its servers and storage equipment, particularly in growth markets like China. As a result of the disappointing results,...

Motorola Solutions Inc, which makes walkie-talkies, rugged mobile computers and tablets, reported a 3 percent rise in quarterly revenue, helped by higher government sales. Net income rose to $343 million, or $1.31 per share, for the fourth-quarter ended December 31,...

McDonald's France (MCD.N) has confirmed tax inspectors visited its local headquarters but denied wrongdoing after French media reported it had transferred over 2.2 billion euros ($3 billion) abroad since 2009 to dodge taxes. The French arm of the U.S. hamburger...

Federal Reserve policymakers will likely leave intact their delicately worded easy-money message when they meet next week, despite a surprisingly sharp drop in U.S. unemployment that threatens to make a central part of that message irrelevant. Top Fed officials believe...

Consumer goods maker Unilever (ULVR.L) (UNc.AS) reported better-than-expected 2013 results on Tuesday, with an improved performance in emerging markets after currency devaluations earlier last year hurt demand. The Anglo-Dutch maker of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Lipton tea and Dove...

China's Lenovo Group Ltd has resumed talks to buy International Business Machines Corp's (IBM) low-end server unit, a source familiar with the matter said, a purchase that would bolster its efforts to diversify beyond a shrinking PC market. A deal...

JPMorgan Chase & Co has stopped working on a Chinese firm's initial public offering amid an investigation by U.S. authorities into its hiring practices in China, people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. It is the...