Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said the software company could announce major organisational changes at its entertainment and devices division as early as this week.
The US markets regulator is investigating Mark Hurd's departure from Hewlett-Packard Co as part of a broad inquiry that will also look into claims that the former chief executive leaked inside information on a multi-billion dollar deal, says a media report.
Their recommendations have something to take note by Indian exporters and policy makers.
"Citigroup has struck a deal to sell a $ 1.7 billion portfolio of private-equity assets to European buyout firm AXA Private Equity," The Wall Street Journal reported citing a source.
In December last year, United States President Barack Obama issued a secret directive to all the top officials in his administration dealing with internal security and foreign policy affairs, urging them to find out ways to increase America's involvement in alleviating the rising tension between India and Pakistan, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.The directive was mentioned, says WSJ, in a memo written by National Security Adviser James Jones.
Negotiations that continued till 2009 eventually failed and the money could not be recovered.
The United States government appointed pay czar will review the executive compensation packages at 419 bailed out companies including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
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Insurer American International Group will recover $45 million from its employees given as retention payments last year and return the amount to the government, a media report says.
Wealthy people are now donating less for charitable purposes, although they still feel an obligation towards such social work, a survey has revealed
In January, Google had threatened to close down its operations in China after discovering hacking attempts into email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is pushing the Taliban to attack American troops and their allies based in Afghanistan, the media here has said, close on the heels of a White House report that slammed Islamabad for not doing enough to battle terrorists holed up near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was warned by a senior Al-Qaeda military commander not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and that he should be "freed" but the American was killed anyway, according to leaked WikiLeaks documents.
Banerjee, the editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily newspaper, is working toward a bachelor's degree in Management science and engineering with a concentration in technology and policy, which he expects to complete in 2011.
Citigroup Inc has defended its $75 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over under-declaration of its subprime mortgage exposure, setting the stage for a federal judge to decide on whether to approve the deal, according to a media report.
Attributing to Microsoft CEO for greater China, Simon Leung, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company plans to invest $100 million in Chinese companies, on top of the $40-million the software maker has invested since 2006.
A private funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer, was held, according to a media report. It was a small private gathering on Friday, the Wall Street Journal quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying.
A private funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died on Wednesday after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer, was held, according to a media report. It was a small private gathering on Friday, the Wall Street Journal quoted a person familiar with the matter as saying.
Attributing to people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal said, "Federal regulators are ready to propose a record penalty of $25 million or more against American Airlines for the maintenance lapses that prompted widespread flight cancellations in the spring of 2008."
"Google, as part of its goal to allow shoppers to use their mobile devices, rather than physical credit cards, to pay for goods in retail stores, is working on a potential partnership with electronic-payments company VeriFone Systems Inc," The Wall Street Journal reported citing a source.
Attributing to people familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal said AIG is preparing to pay Kelly several million dollars in severance after she resigned over federal pay curbs.
The CIA found that 15 Saudi agents flew on government planes to Istanbul and carried out the killing at the Saudi consulate, the report said, adding that it could complicate President Donald Trump's efforts to preserve US ties with one of the closest American allies in the region.
An advertisement by Pakistan in America's leading daily the Wall Street Journal on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has not gone down well with readers in New York with some calling the ad a "joke".
Mobile phone maker Nokia Corporation has launched a search to replace current chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who has been struggling to mark a place for the company in high-end smartphone market, says a media report.
Eid ul Fitr or the 'festival of fast breaking' is the most celebratory of all Muslim festivals.
Private equity firm Elevation Partners has invested $120 million in Facebook Inc by buying shares of the social networking site, a media report said.
The Wall Street Journal is working towards aligning its India strategy to the practices it follows globally, that is, to increase focus on digital distribution.
Time Warner Inc's popular business magazine Fortune is planning to publish fewer issues annually and make other changes that could result in job cuts, says a media report.
Apple's nascent interest comes as Hulu's owners look to sell the popular property. Hulu's owners include Comcast Corp, News Corp and Providence Equity Partners.
Attributing to people familiar with the situation, the Wall Street Journal said that some officials at the agency have expressed doubts about the rigour of the report, which was based partly on interviews of Citi executives who were asked to rate the effectiveness of their colleagues.
Goldman Sachs is seeking to avoid a fraud charge as part of its settlement with the United States market regulator SEC, which had charged the investment banking major with defrauding investors by misrepresenting facts, a media report said.
Berkshire has reduced its stake as various regulatory inquiries and a slowdown in the business of rating lucrative structured bonds has taken a toll.
Global software major International Business Machines' chief executive Samuel Palmisano believes the government's $30-billion information technology investments may create over 900,000 jobs.
Google Inc has asked some television-set makers to delay the launch of TV sets based on the internet company's software, says a media report.
New York prosecutors are poised to file civil fraud charges against Ernst & Young.
According to the publication, in July, McGraw-Hill Cos, owner of BusinessWeek, said it was putting the magazine on the block. Since then, McGraw-Hill and its investment bank, Evercore Partners Inc, have had discussions with several parties.
Lawyers of embattled Goldman Sachs met with representatives of the US market regulator SEC this week, a move seen as an attempt to settle the lawsuit against the banking major, according to reports.
India's Permanent Representative to the UN Hardeep Puri invited over two dozen journalists from the mainstream American media, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, at a working luncheon to get its point of view on the UN reform process across.
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