George Soros is pledging $2 million to two outside groups supporting progressive causes and helping President Barack Obama's re-election campaign and other Democrats running in November, a Soros advisor said on Monday.
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg took questions about the No. 1 social network's slowing revenue growth and its $1 billion Instagram purchase, kicking off a cross-country roadshow on Monday to promote its
The average time spent accessing Facebook via smartphone in the United States was 441 minutes in March, compared with 391 minutes via computer, according to comScore, underscoring the increasingly high-profile role of
Vladimir Putin ordered Russia's government to boost investment and shake up state-run industries in a flurry of decrees issued after he returned to the presidency on Monday with a call for a
Greece must implement the reforms it agreed to under the second bailout programme and the European Commission is ready to help Athens with that, the European Union executive said on Monday, after
Greek and French election results rattled investors on Monday by undermining confidence in the region's plans to cut spending and tackle its debt crisis, sending the euro to a three-month low. European
Romania's new prime minister said he was confident his leftist government would win parliamentary approval on Monday and finalise a deal with international lenders to restore public wages to their previous levels.
* Left Coalition scores big surprise in Greek election * Topples socialist PASOK scoring second place Greece's youngest political leader Alexis Tsipras was the big beneficiary of Sunday's national election as austerity-fatigued
Shares, oil and other riskier assets slumped on Monday after elections in Greece and France saw incumbents defeated, raising fears the collective response to the euro zone debt crisis seen as crucial
Greece's two main pro-bailout parties failed to win a majority in parliament that would allow them to form a coalition, results of 95 percent of the vote in Sunday's election showed. Both
