Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama entered final hours of the election campaign with a solid, though narrowing, lead over his powerful Republican rival John McCain.
Citigroup plans to launch a $200 million fund for small-business lending in low and moderate income communities.
The report by the Wall Street Journal said, "Google Inc is planning to introduce Android-based television software to developers at an event in May," citing sources with knowledge of the development.
This effectively freezes the legal fight in the courts until Wednesday noon (2130 IST) following Wells Fargo and Wachovia announcement of $15 billion deal which bested the earlier deal with Citibank. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal said discussions to resolve the mess are continuing, with the most likely scenario resulting in Citigroup buying branches from Wachovia in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region.
Hedge funds maximise absolute returns using a broad range of strategies including unconventional and liquid investments. Quoting people familiar with the matter the Wall Street Journal said: "The Securities and Exchange Commission ordered more than two dozen hedge funds to turn over trading information as it ramps up its investigation into whether traders were spreading rumours to manipulate shares."
Major American banks, including Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, temporarily lowered their debt in the past five quarters before reporting it to the public in order to mask risk levels, 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.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has made it to the annual list of the world's 100 most respected companies compiled by the Wall Street Journal, topped by US-based healthcare products major Johnson & Johnson.
Attributing to people familiar with the development, The Wall Street Journal reported that UBS AG's brokerage unit in the US is laying off nearly 200 employees, including about 25 managing directors.
Floyd Cardoz, the chef behind the New York restaurant Tabla, has taken home the top prize in the third season of Top Chef Masters.
Commercial banks, charities and governments have set up funds worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the past few years to invest in private farm and food projects in Africa, while several major companies have expanded operations there, the leading financial daily Wall Street Journal said.
In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said that he is setting a new course for Oracle that includes hiring 2,000 sales and engineering employees and developing a line of high-end computer systems.
A good wealth manager is as important as a right mix of asset allocation in creating wealth in your lifetime.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Deutch joined Citi's board in 1996, after leading the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Wall Street Journal quoting two people familiar with the situation said Bharti has contacted West Asian sovereign wealth funds for additional cash to back its MTN bid for a majority stake. Further, the paper quoted another person and said that Bharti has already negotiated about $12 billion in financing from a group of banks that includes Standard Chartered PLC, but the deal may require more resources.
FBI is probing a computer-security breach targeting Citibank that resulted in a theft of tens of millions of dollars by hackers who appear linked to a Russian cyber gang, according to a media report.
'As long as the military and the madrassas rule just across the border, Afghanistan will never find peace,'says Chris Patten.
Just a decade ago, a kind of muscular nationalism was the leitmotif for talent management within Indian corporations. Any suggestion of bringing in foreign talent had managers bristling with indignation.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no plans to cut short the global torch relay despite disruptions by protesters in London and Paris, Olympic chief Jacques Rogge told the Wall Street Journal. Reports the IOC executive board would consider scrapping the torch relay outside China at a meeting in Beijing later this week are "based on a misunderstanding", the IOC president told the paper.
Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine
At a board meeting last week, Benmosche told fellow AIG directors that he was 'done' but agreed to think it over after other board members reacted with shock.
The next-generation iPad, which is unofficially termed the 'iPad 2', is expected to be 'thinner and lighter'.
Apple is working on less-expensive iPhones, while undertaking an overhaul of applications amid growing competition.
India's capacity to deal with terror is better today than what it was two years ago. And I can say with confidence our capacity to deal with terror next year would be even better from what it is today, says home minister
Jobs has been taking business meetings at home and on the phone.
Attributing to people familiar with the situation, The Wall Street Journal said, Twitter Inc is nearing a deal to garner as much as $100 million that would buy the fast-growing Internet-messaging company more time to chalk out its business model.
The new version of the iPad will have a camera on the front of the device for features like video-conferencing, the Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as saying.
Dow Jones said shares representing approximately 60.3 per cent of the outstanding voting power of the company were cast on Thursday in favour of the merger. Announcing the approval, Dow Jones said the stockholders' vote satisfies the final condition for the completion of the deal. The two companies had signed an agreement and plan of merger on July 31. The merger became effective on Thursday.
The survey takes into account factors such as financial reputation, vision, corporate reputation, quality and innovation.
As part of the reshuffle, James Murdoch will step down as chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, and replace his father as non-executive chairman of the UK satellite broadcaster.
In a major catch, Pakistani authorities on Saturday nabbed a top militant suspected of beheading the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
19-year-old Indian-American pre-med student Atul Nakhasi is suddenly the darling of Democratic Presidential candidates.
Writer Asra Nomani, a friend of Daniel Pearl's, tells Aseem Chhabra why she doesn't believe in A Mighty Heart.
The move came as the United States and its European allies are believed to have faced resistance in pushing their case for referring Iran's nuclear activities to the United Nations Security Council.
India-born PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi has been the news recently for her trip to China, her remarks about the US Fed and her ability to handle the financial crisis.
The ship, which departed from Long Beach, Calif., Sunday on a seven-day voyage to the Mexican Riviera, was about 200 miles south of San Diego when a fire ignited in the engine room, cutting off power, telephone service and air conditioning.
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