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.
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.
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."
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.
"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.
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.
'This is still a relatively immature defense and high-tech relationship.'
Private equity firm Elevation Partners has invested $120 million in Facebook Inc by buying shares of the social networking site, a media report said.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The conviction of Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab by a Mumbai court in 26/11 terror attack case has been widely carried in the US media on Tuesday, the day on which it was itself grappling with trying to find out who was behind the failed Times Square car bombing.
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.
Floyd Cardoz, the chef behind the New York restaurant Tabla, has taken home the top prize in the third season of Top Chef Masters.
The US government is examining the possible role of Goldman Sachs and well-known investment banker Rajat Gupta in the Galleon hedge fund insider trading scam, says a media report.
A record 15 million people around the world this year entered America's green-card lottery, an immigration scheme offering a quick path to legal and permanent United States residency for 50,000 people annually, a media report said on Monday.
AIG Rail Services Inc, a Chicago business that is part of AIG's financial-services division, was set up around five years ago and provides rail-car leases and equipment financing to shipping companies, railroads and others.
The US Federal Trade Commission is understood to be preparing for an antitrust challenge against Internet giant Google's proposed purchase of mobile advertising firm AdMob, a media report says.
The US-hosted Nuclear Security Summit, to be attended by leaders of 40 countries including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is expected to issue a communique endorsing a global crackdown on illicit trade of nuclear material. A draft communique also calls for securing all vulnerable nuclear materials within 4 four years, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
As per the study of CEOs of 200 major US companies, the median compensation fell marginally by 0.9 per cent to $6.95 million in 2009, the Wall Street Journal said, citing an analysis by Hay Group management consultancy.
United States President Barack Obama is expected to "try his level best to avoid the K-word -- Kashmir" during his three-day trip to India that starts next week, a newspaper has reported.
A few weeks ago, contrary to speculations among the Chinese, Zhao Baige, deputy director of the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China, announced that the country would be continuing with its one-child policy for another five-year term starting 2011.
The US had lost communication with nearly 50 intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles, one-ninth of its arsenal for 45 minutes over the weekend, even as defence officials said that there were no chance of an accidental launch or foul play, a media report said on Wednesday.
Internet search engine giant Google is testing a new TV-programming search service with satellite television operator Dish Network Corp, a move that would allow users to find content from television and the web.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Pakistan will again raise their demand for a deal -- similar to one the US has with India -- during US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi's meeting in Washington on October 22.
In the coming week, the United States and Pakistan will hold their third strategic dialogue since March this year and Pakistan is all set to renew its attempt to push for a civilian nuclear deal with Washington.
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