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Nokia, soon to be acquired by Microsoft Corp, is turning to software created by arch-rival Google for a new line of phones it hopes will make it a late contender in the dynamic low-cost smartphone market. Its first models, Nokia...

Honda Motor Co (7267.T) named the first foreigner and first female to its all-Japanese, all-male roster of board members and operating officers on Monday, helping it catch up with rival Japanese carmakers in diversifying its executive ranks. Japan's third-biggest car...

Financial leaders from the 20 biggest economies have set a goal of generating $2 trillion (£1.2 trillion) in extra output over the next five years. During that period they aim to boost the gross domestic product of G20 countries by...

Attempts by the Federal Reserve to dial back its super-loose monetary policy are good for China because it shows the world's largest economy is improving, China's Finance Minister was quoted as saying on Sunday. Lou Jiwei, in Sydney for a...

BuzzFeed has come a long way from cat lists. This month one of its journalists was on the ground in Kiev reporting on the crisis in Ukraine, and last December it published an in-depth article on a Chinese dissident...

The world's biggest mobile brands will jostle for the spotlight at the premier mobile industry event this week in Spain, but away from the glitzy displays chipmakers will be preoccupied with China, the largest mobile market on the planet. From...

Buoyed by growing demand from Europe and India, Nigerian crude oil export for March loading have sold well with less than 10 cargoes unsold from the March programme. More Nigerian crudes are expected to head to Europe in March compared...

Austria should not demand creditors of struggling state bank Hypo Alpe Adria HAABI.UL take a "haircut" on the debt, central bank head Ewald Nowotny said, contradicting the country's finance minister. Nowotny, who was on Friday put in charge of a...

HSBC will announce staff bonuses totaling just under 2.4 billion pounds ($4 billion) globally for 2013 and is expected to report a significant rise in pretax profit, Sky News reported on its website on Saturday without citing its sources. Europe's...

The world's top economies may agree to set an ambitious target for faster global growth at a weekend meeting in Sydney, where major central banks are also being urged to coordinate policies to avoid "surprises" that could further roil...