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Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer unexpectedly announced his retirement on Friday, ending a controversial 13-year reign as the head of the world's largest software company and sending the company's shares up 7 percent. Ballmer, 57, a close friend and...

Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd do not have to make public the financial details submitted to a U.S. court during high-profile patent litigation, a federal appeals panel ruled on Friday. The Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, (THEWILL) – The World Economic Forum (WEF) with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, has announced that the Transcorp Hilton Abuja will be the official hotel and hospitality partner of the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa...

Emerging market currencies and shares fell on Thursday and the dollar rose as a spike in U.S. debt yields drove up borrowing costs globally, overwhelming the impact of buoyant economic reports from China and Europe. However, with capital on the...

Shortly after signing on as chief operating officer at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg was looking to connect with people in a similar role - No. 2 to a brilliant and passionate young founder. She called Tim Cook. "He basically explained nicely...

China's top banks are expected to win approval for the issuance of tens of billions of yuan in negotiable certificates of deposit (NCD) as early as next month, in another step towards developing market-determined interest rates. NCDs would enable banks...

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp, a unit of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (7011.T), said on Thursday it would delay the initial delivery of its regional jet to the second-quarter of 2017 to ensure the company can meet Japanese safety regulations. The Mitsubishi...

Stock index futures dipped in thin trading Wednesday amid investor caution ahead of the publication of the minutes of the latest Federal Reserve policy-setting meeting. The S&P 500 rose on Tuesday to cap a four-day losing streak, but remained under...

The long-running rivalry between Microsoft Corp and Google Inc is turning into a schoolyard brawl. Microsoft on Wednesday opened a new front against the world's No 1 search provider by piloting an ad-free offering for educational users of Bing, its...

Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS), Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) and four other companies for a project aimed at bringing Internet access to people around the world who can't afford it, mirroring...