Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) wants to pay back $45 billion in bail-out funds by the end of the year, accelerated by a program to raise capital, the Financial Times reported on
Japan's Nikkei average fell 0.9 percent on Thursday, dented by Honda Motor Co and other exporters as the yen climbed to a two-month high on the dollar and after the Federal Reserve
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday a Texas federal jury ordered the company to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million in damages for infringing a patent. The world's largest software company,
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, eager to show himself as a man of the people, has revamped his Facebook networking page with home videos of him flirting and discussing world politics with his
Acer Inc, the world's third-largest PC brand, plans to introduce a phone model running on Google's Android software this year, the head of its phone unit said on Wednesday. The company plans
The dollar hit its lowest in almost five months and Asian stocks slipped on Thursday after news that the Federal Reserve lowered its forecasts for U.S. economic growth for the next three
"Five-dimensional" discs with a capacity 10,000 times greater than current DVDs could be on the market within 10 years, researchers reported on Wednesday. A team from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia
MSCI's main world stock index hit a new high for the year on Wednesday, taking it to levels last seen in November 2008. The all-country world index reached 245.32, gaining around 1.75
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S. economic situation was stabilizing but warned the country faced the prospect of higher unemployment for some time to come. "We expect that there is
Lloyds Banking Group Plc said the terms of a state-backed plan to insure its riskiest assets might alter, and regulators could force it to make disposals, sending its shares down more than
