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 ...
October 1, 2009
Any athlete will tell you that the time to train is in dismal weather, not on perfect, sun-drenched days. If you want to excel at the best of times, it seems, you need...
September 14, 2009
Corporate brinkmanship is making a comeback. Only days after Irene Rosenfeld, chief executive of Kraft (KFT), went public with her $16.7 billion bid for confectionary ...
September 11, 2009
The Prince of Wales was accused of commercialising the Royal Family last night by agreeing a rescue deal with Waitrose that will hand the £4bn-a-year supermarket ...
September 10, 2009
BG Group's Guara discovery off the Brazilian coast contains up to 2 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas, dwarfing last week's "giant" find by rival BP (BP). ...
September 9, 2009
Burberry (BRBY.L) is poised to enter the FTSE 100 for the first time, in a further sign of its revival under chief executive Angela Ahrendts, who took the helm in July...
September 7, 2009
The European Union has poured cold water on reports out Friday (4 September) that the World Trade Organisation had sided with the US in a long-running dispute over ...
September 7, 2009
Kraft Foods will likely have to up the ante if it hopes to acquire British confectionery and chocolate maker Cadbury, maker of the iconic Dairy Milk bar. On Sept. 7, ...
August 20, 2009
With a reputation for inflexible labor laws and Byzantine bureaucratic procedures, Europe might seem the last place outsourcing firms would look to expand. But having ...
August 19, 2009
A series of alleged cases of "exploding" iPhones and iPods in a handful of EU member states in which overheated devices "crackle and pop like a deep-frier" before ...