SAN FRANCISCO – A growing software movement is quietly taking hold on Android-based devices, allowing people to customize smartphones and tablets more to their liking. What’s...
NEW YORK – The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged two Seattle men on Thursday with 35 counts of illegally trading...
WASHINGTON – The City of Miami has sued three major banks for what is says has been a pattern and practice of predatory lending that has...
PARIS – Loss-making French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent has decided to sell its unit that supplies telephone systems to big companies, the CFDT union said on...
ABUJA – Nigeria’s, Africa’s most populous nation of more than 160 million people, wants to reach a 30 percent broadband penetration by 2017, Information and Communication...
GENEVA – The High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned Thursday against the rapidly deteriorating security situation in South Sudan and the consequences for the...
LAGOS – United Bank for Africa (UBA), the pan-African financial services group in which investment company Heirs Holdings has a strategic interest, has announced the appointment...
MOGADISHU – The Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay, has strongly condemned the killing of six people outside Mogadishu earlier today....
ABUJA – In about three weeks from now, when the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) releases the rebased Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it will show that...
FRANKFURT – Technology companies Siemens, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba Corp have lost an appeal at Europe’s highest court over a ruling made in 2007 that they...
