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 ...
Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand, according to people briefed on the company's plans.
After a six-year effort, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would formally ban insider trading by Congress, along the way picking up support from some surprising backers—lawmakers who actively trade stocks.
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.
If the Australian government wants to guarantee a return to surplus, there's roughly 6 billion Australian dollars (US$6.44 billion) in their coffers targeted for mortgage-backed bond deals that have possibly overstayed their use.
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.
There are few who have earned the sobriquet "the world's greatest wine taster." The late Harry Waugh, one of England's most gifted wine merchants, who was so popular in the U.S. that he had a dining room in a restaurant in Tampa, Fla., ...
LONDON—The euro extended a slide in European trading hours Friday as fears re-emerged over Greece's ability to stave off a default. The euro was trading at $1.3230, compared with $1.3286 late Thursday in New York. The dollar was at ¥77.75 ...
TOKYO—Japan's two biggest brewers forecast solid profit growth for 2012 even as one posted weak earnings for last year, in a sign that a recent rush of overseas mergers and acquisitions will soon start boosting their bottom lines.
TOKYO—Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi perplexed the markets on Friday with comments that were interpreted by some as revealing rarely disclosed details about currency intervention.
HONG KONG—Private-equity firm Longreach Group is considering selling its majority stake in Taiwan's EnTie Commercial Bank, according to people familiar with the matter.
Short-selling fell at the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market during the second half of January. In the exchanges' latest twice-a-month statistics, this time for the period ended Jan. 31, the number of short-selling positions ...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Corporate insiders are now selling their companies’ stock at a rate not seen since late last July. That’s a scary parallel indeed, since that late-July spike in selling came just days before one of the more ...
MUMBAI -- Indian shares ended down Friday, snapping two straight sessions of gains, after data showed that the country's factory output growth slowed sharply in December.