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November 13, 2009
BT (BT) is set to increase its cost-cutting drive by £500m as it revealed profits had sunk almost 50 per cent in the second quarter, yet management was more upbeat ...
November 13, 2009
After more than a year of negotiations, British Airways (BAY.L) and Iberia (IBLA.F), two of Europe's largest airlines, are finally joining forces. Late on Nov. 12 the ...
November 12, 2009
The founder of Ikea, the international Swedish home furnishing chain, is one of the richest men in the world. Yet Ingvar Kamprad is widely considered to be something ...
November 11, 2009
In 1981, two French brothers from Marseille helped redefine the image of blue jeans in American fashion from utilitarian to sexy. After setting up a tiny apparel ...
November 11, 2009
They have accumulated piles of cash so you would think top Indian outsourcing firms such as Infosys Technologies (INFY) and Wipro Ltd (WIT) would go hunting for ...
November 11, 2009
Vodafone (VOD) is preparing to double its cost-cutting drive to £2bn as it battles against the economic slump and fierce competition and looks to hit the acquisition ...
November 10, 2009
When thousands of suppliers, developers, and analysts converged on Stuttgart in September to attend Nokia World, the Finnish company's annual in-house trade fair, the ...
November 10, 2009
Many refer to the man in charge at the corporate headquarters of General Motors (GM), housed in the five glass towers of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, as...
November 6, 2009
A massive gray mountain rises from the vast plains of Inner Mongolia. The artificial hill is the pride of the Chinese and the envy of the world—at least the ...
November 2, 2009
On Oct. 15, German engineering giant Siemens made headlines by paying nearly a half-billion dollars for Israel's Solel Solar Systems, a pioneer in solar thermal ...
October 30, 2009
When it comes to climate change—particularly the ongoing efforts to create a scheme to combat global warming by the early-December climate summit in ...
October 30, 2009
North Acton is an unlikely outpost for Hollywood. Yet in a West London business park, in headquarters filled with film memorabilia, Lovefilm is plotting its rise. A ...
October 29, 2009
The world's largest electricals retailer, Best Buy, is to create 8,000 jobs in the UK over the next five years and is gearing up to open its first stores this coming ...
October 28, 2009
With just over 1,000 days to go until the start of the 2012 London Olympics, the team in charge of the Games' tech is poised for the real work to get underway. After a...
October 28, 2009
Corporate IT chiefs don't seem to have gotten the memo that a global rebound is under way. German software maker SAP (SAP), a technology bellwether, disappointed ...
October 27, 2009
British Airways (BAY.L) staff fighting planned cuts in cabin crew are to vote on strike action next month in a bad-tempered dispute that threatens to paralyse the ...
October 27, 2009
Following its sale by parent company Ford (F) last year, car maker Jaguar Land Rover has had to face the thorny problem of cutting itself loose from Ford's web of ...
October 27, 2009
BMW (BMWG.DE) became the first major blue chip German company to link the bonuses of its top managers to those of its assembly line workers, amid growing global ...
October 22, 2009
Apple's iPhone has been giving Nokia smartphones a hard time in the marketplace. Now Nokia is giving Apple a hard time in the courtroom. The Finnish handset giant said...
October 21, 2009
Deutsche Bank (DB) surprised investors Oct. 21 with better-than-expected profit for the third quarter, bolstering the bank's claim that it will emerge from the ...
October 20, 2009
Standing at a window in his office, Michael Mertin, chief executive of the optics firm Jenoptik (JENG.DE), gestures to a hilly landscape in eastern Germany. ...
October 19, 2009
Wouldn't you love to get rid of the rat's nest of cables connecting the pieces of your home entertainment system—and cut the hassle of hooking up new audio-video...
October 16, 2009
Anglo American (AAL.L) declared Xstrata's interest in the group "dead and buried" yesterday after the mining giant walked away from its proposed merger having failed ...
October 16, 2009
Channel Four Television has signed a deal with YouTube to bring its flagship shows to the video-sharing site. The agreement will see programming from Channel 4's catch...
October 15, 2009
There's not much to cheer about in third-quarter results from mobile phone giant Nokia that included an unexpected net loss of €559 million ($834 ...
