While it is not clear whether a name change had to do anything about the Islamist radical militant group, Isis Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego-based biotech company, decided to change its

Crude oil prices headed for a third weekly loss in a row, its longest losing streak in four months even as oil prices in general edged higher on Friday as

Indicating turnaround efforts may be gaining traction BlackBerry reported its first quarter-to-quarter revenue gain in over two years o Friday as the company reported a smaller-than-expected fiscal third-quarter loss. BlackBerry

Taking its Chinese rivals Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings head one, Apple Inc said it will launch its payment service in China as soon as 2016. China’s main bank

The fact the same investors own nearly half of both firms means the deal of Royal Dutch Shell’s takeover of BG Group is still likely to go through even as

Following a federal investigation involving his former hedge fund and a pharmaceutical company he previously headed, Martin Shkreli, a lightning rod for growing outrage over soaring prescription drug prices, was

Concluding a six-month strategic review instigated by hedge fund Jana Partners, chip giant Qualcomm Inc has decided not to split into separate chip making and technology licensing businesses. The current

The first fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid sedans would roll out from the Ford Research and Innovation Center Palo Alto at the company expects the cars to take California streets

As Yahoo comes under pressure to change strategic direction, shareholders consider former Yahoo executives Ross Levinsohn and Jacqueline Reses as potential replacements for Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer. New York-based

Talks for a $20 billion swap are going on between Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim. The family-owned German group’s consumer health operation is proposed to be swapped with the French pharmaceuticals

Due to the high levels of supply that may be heightened by the lifting of sanctions against Iran Moody’s has cut its oil price forecast for next year by $10

Coming close to 11-year lows due to fears that the global oil glut would worsen in the months to come in a pricing war between leading OPEC and non-OPEC producers,

After giving “disappeared’ from public view for quite some time, the billionaire chairman of Fosun Group, one of China’s biggest privately held conglomerates, re-emerged on Monday. Guo Guangchang was accused

After a court ruled it had made misleading claims, the drug giant Reckitt Benckiser was ordered on Monday to pull some of its popular Nurofen painkiller brands off shelves in

Royal Dutch Shell received the green light from China on Monday to finally complete its takeover by crossing the last hurdle in its takeover of BG Group. Now the last

A little-known bond trader was on a hot streak before Lehman Brothers collapsed, pulling the trigger on the global financial crisis. More than $700 million in profits was given to

In a win for activist investors that could spark further consolidation in the farm chemicals industry, chemical giants DuPont and Dow Chemical Co agreed to merge in an all-stock deal

Environmentalists have claimed of an alarming rise in highly polluting tar sands imports due to a surge in US exports of crude oil to Europe this year. Since April 2014,

A series of food poisonings and other challenges are threatening is threatening the darling of the fast-food world – Chipotle. The challenge for Chipotle is to cater to the demand

As oil prices lurch further away from levels that allow them to profitably drill new wells and bring in enough cash to keep them in business, U.S. shale oil companies

Volkswagen claimed that no high ranking official of the company – including the board members, were responsible for cheating U.S. diesel emissions tests. The German car manufacturer said this on

Following months of opposition from U.S. antitrust regulators, a possible deal to sell off appliances business to Sweden’s Electrolux was cancelled by General Electric. The deal was worth $3.3 billion.

A fine of record proportions amounting to ¥7.37 billion ($60 million) was proposed to be levied on Toshiba Corp., on Monday by the Japanese regulators after a $1.9 billion accounting

With the aim to expand its presence on trans-Pacific routes, France’s CMA CGM – the world’s third-largest container shipping firm, wants to buy out Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines. The French

As a potent symbol of Russia falling out with Turkey, gas pipes worth 1.8 billion euros ($1.95 billion) are to be left stranded on the shores of the Black Sea.

Paying for their late 2013 data breach as claimed by banks and credit unions, Target Corp has agreed to pay $39.4 million to resolve claims. Lenders had sought to hold

In a public post defending its privacy protections, Google denied accusations that it deceptively tracks and stores student data through its education services on Wednesday. “While we appreciate the EFF’s