In a reversal of regulatory fortune, Google has won approval from the Federal Trade Commission for its $750 million acquisition of the mobile advertising company AdMob.
Brazil’s real is poised to drop to the weakest level in 10 months after buyers of the currency diminished and a momentum indicator signaled declines, according to Invesco Ltd.’s Avi Hooper.
Countries around the world are pledging to get tough with companies that market beer and liquor on social media networks such as Facebook, warning that such promotions threaten to entice a new generation into harmful drinking patterns.
The Supreme Court of Canada will consider the federal government´s bid to be dropped as a third party in a pair of potentially expensive B.C. tobacco cases.
Many streets in Bangkok were eerily calm Thursday, a day after the city devolved into deadly clashes between protesters and government forces.
Briefly slumping to a four-year low against the dollar yesterday, the euro has gained the dubious distinction of being the worst-performing major currency this year. And more pain could be on the way, despite the $1 trillion aid package that bought the European Union´s financial impresarios enough time to force some tough love on Greece and other debt-tipsy members.
Italian police have discovered what they say is a fraudulent company selling fake travel packages to the Champions League final.
Top congressional Democrats reached an agreement to increase taxes on managers of buyout firms and other investment funds as part of a jobs bill they plan to put to a vote tomorrow in the U.S. House, lawmakers said.
More than 20,000 protesters marched to parliament Thursday, as unions challenged harsh austerity measures in Greece by staging their fourth general strike this year.
In a victory for anonymous critics of corporations, a federal judge in San Francisco has rejected a company´s attempt to force Yahoo to identify the online commenter who called the firm´s chief executive a "known liar" who believes "humanity exists to be fleeced."
It certainly looks like happy days are here again. Many of the nation´s biggest retailers, including Saks, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, and Target have released cheery sales reports. April´s jobs reports showing a slight increase in the workweek and pay for workers, and more hiring across the board.
A Novartis AG pharmaceuticals unit was ordered to pay a group of 5,600 female employees punitive damages of $250 million, the largest ever employment discrimination verdict according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Pakistani government blocked access to YouTube on Thursday because of ´´sacrilegious´´ content in a growing Internet crackdown against sites deemed offensive to the country´s majority Muslim population.
India´s auction of third generation (3G) bandwidth for mobile phone services has ended with the government reaping $15bn, twice the sum expected.
Former New York art dealer Lawrence B. Salander, who continues to sell art two months after he pleaded guilty to a $120 million art fraud, probably can’t repay his victims, a judge said today.
The EU plans to boost trade with Latin America despite warnings from some European ministers and farmers, who fear unfair competition.
Itau Unibanco Holding SA, Latin America’s biggest bank by market value, fell the most in a year after Bank of America Corp. agreed to sell its entire stake in the lender in a transaction worth as much as $4.4 billion.
As lawsuits over the BP oil spill mount, a group of conservationists and fishermen have a new target: the U.S. Department of Interior´s Minerals Management Service.
As France moves toward a controversial ban on women wearing burqas, tension over the issue triggered a scuffle in a clothing store in the south of the country when one shopper allegedly ripped off a Muslim woman´s Islamic veil, local media reported.
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) company Integreon has entered into what it describes in a press release as the largest legal outsourcing deal ever, worth $852 million over 10 years, with British law firm CMS Cameron McKenna.
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