More than a century ago, Eastman Kodak Co. got into the camera-making business with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest." Soon, the buttons are going to be made by someone else.
By Gurdev Singh Virk of Dow Jones Newswires MUMBAI - Numeric Power Systems Ltd. late Thursday said it has sold its UPS business to Indo Asian Electric Pvt. Ltd.--a unit of French electrical equipment company Legrand SA for 8.37 billion ...
LONDON—European regulators said the Continent's banks are well on their way to replenishing their capital cushions, but concerns persist that the lenders aren't taking sufficiently drastic actions to fortify themselves.
MOSCOW—The tycoons who reaped fortunes thanks to Russia's controversial 1990s privatizations should make a one-time windfall payment to legitimize their holdings, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Will PepsiCo's latest offensive mark a turning point in the latest cola wars? That is the hope of the snack and drink company, which has lost U.S. carbonated-beverage market share in recent years as Coca-Cola kept prices low even as input ...
MADRID—Bankia SA, which just months ago was hailed as a success of the country's banking consolidation, on Friday will outline its plans to comply with Spain's new bank-cleanup rules—standards that have raised some doubts about the lender's ...
President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and ...
BEIJING—A senior Chinese official warned of a "trust deficit" hampering relations between Beijing and Washington, just five days before Xi Jinping, the man expected to become his country's top leader later this year, begins a visit to the ...
By Scott Denne from WSJ's Venture Capital Dispatch blog. More than a decade ago, IBM spent the dot-com boom making sure it made money selling to start-ups. In the current tech boom, it says there's more to gain from partnering with the ...
Customers have a habit of slipping through your fingers when, instead of offering innovative products, you seek to keep them locked into old ones. That is a pricey lesson Oracle is learning.
Deutsche Bank analysts reckon BHP Billiton's harvest of several non-core assets could bank the world's biggest miner up to US$10 billion. Though the broker notes BHP will be in no hurry to sell, the miner has emphasized its focus on large, ...
There are many privileges that come with marrying into the country's most powerful political family. For instance, it earns you easy headlines.
The latest project of Hyatt hotel heir Anthony Pritzker is a 49,300-square-foot building designed by an architecture firm in Paris. It involves a small army of specialized consultants and boasts amenities like a bowling alley, hairdressing ...
One eye-catching nugget in the treasure trove of correlation data released by HSBC this week is the news that French government debt has very little correlation with investor risk appetite.