…China Shares Slide TOKYO – Asian stocks rose after the Federal Reserve expressed enough confidence in the U.S. labor market to taper asset purchases while promising...
SAN FRANCISCO – Ebay’s PayPal division said on Tuesday it is acquiring StackMob, a company specializing in development tools for building mobile applications. Terms of the...
SÃO PAULO — In a disappointment for Boeing, Brazilian defense officials said on Wednesday that they had picked the aircraft maker Saab for a $4.5 billion...
BEIJING – Chinese central bank officials told third-party payment service providers to stop offering clearing services to online Bitcoin exchanges, according to China Business News, which...
WASHINGTON – Facebook has acquired social startup SportStream, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. Backed by business magnate Paul Allen and launched in June...
NEW YORK – Nelson Mandela, the former South African leader and human rights activist who died earlier this month, was the world’s top trending search on...
KAMPALA – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed today the first review of Uganda’s economic performance under the program supported by the...
BRAZZAVILLE – The BUILD Africa Forum is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the Institute for Infrastructure Studies (I.I.S.), a leading infrastructure think-tank based in...
ABUJA – The Nigerian Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, says $25 billion of the alleged unremitted $49.8 billion by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)...
NEW YORK – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Leila Zerrougui and the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama...
