Mobile phone service providers scrambled on Tuesday to hold onto half a million users spooked by BlackBerry's showdown with UAE regulators, offering them a switch to Apple's iPhone and other rival smartphones.
Asian stocks rose to their highest levels in nearly three months on Tuesday, boosted by strong European bank results and a sign the U.S. economy was stronger than expected. European shares edged
Oil prices extended three-month highs towards $82 on Tuesday, tracking gains in Asian equities following strong bank earnings and upbeat manufacturing data for industrialised economies a day earlier. U.S. September crude rose
Greek drink refrigeration equipment maker Frigoglass said on Tuesday first-half net profit jumped 137% on a recovery in its eastern European and Asian markets. Athens-based Frigoglass, which supplies bottler Coca-Cola Hellenic and
Kuwait has asked BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) to block pornographic sites though will not suspend services like other Gulf states have threatened to do, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Mining group Xstrata said it would pump over $5 bln into new mines and keep targeting organic growth rather than acquisitions, after more than doubling first-half earnings per share on higher metals
Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co, whose unit holds a stake in BP Plc's ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, said on Tuesday it has so far received a $480
A question-and-answer page on Google Hong Kong's website became inaccessible to some mainland Chinese users on Tuesday, underscoring Beijing's sensitivity about the Internet. The Chinese government, obsessed with maintaining social stability and
Spanish, Italian and French car sales dropped in July from a year ago as scrappage schemes were phased out and austerity measures kicked in, figures showed on Monday. In Spain, industry association
European shares hit a three-month closing high on Monday, to finish above a key resistance level, boosted by strong results from HSBC and BNP Paribas and better than expected U.S. manufacturing data.
