The still-unnamed watch, which Apple followers have dubbed the iWatch, will be the company's first foray into a niche product category that many remain skeptical about, especially as to whether it can drive profits as growth slows in tech gadgets.<br />
"A really big challenge at the moment for the Asian companies is to find out how they should behave in this context of vehicles coming under more pressure to be lighter," said Truls Thorstensen, president and CEO of EFS Business Consultancy.<br />
The company initially assumed that its world-class engineers and the sheer scale of its Windows user base would sweep away competitors, but Google has not relinquished any share.
The TISA covers 50 countries and 68.2 percent of world trade in services but out of its purview were Brazil, Russia, India and China.<br />
While not for sale, Project LiveWire is specifically designed for the purpose of getting an insight into rider expectations from an electric Harley-Davidson motorcycle, the company said in a statement.<br />
Excluding special items, the company drew down $255 million in cash in the period, significantly less than the $784 million it used in the fiscal fourth quarter.<br />
The largest contingent of supporters camping by the beach is Argentine, but Colombians, Chileans and Ecuadoreans could also be seen parking old cars, trailers and even small buses turned into rolling dormitories along Avenida Atlantica, one of Rio's most famous postcards.
A technical default would not occur immediately on 30 June because the government has a grace period of 30 days before such a determination can be made.<br />
Tokyo-based Sony Corp. has lost money in six of the seven past years, and is forecasting more red ink for the fiscal year through March 2015.<br />
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday expressed confidence the U.S. economic recovery was on track and hinted at a slightly more aggressive pace of interest rate increases starting next year.
Like Amazon.com Inc, JD.com has a logistics-focused e-commerce business. The company, whose delivery staff outnumber Alibaba's 22,000 employees, promises same-day delivery in 43 of China's biggest cities.
The official said fighters of the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began their attack on the Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, late Tuesday night.
The EU is asking tobacco firms to do more to track and trace their goods, in order to tackle a huge black market and ultimately prevent some of the 700,000 deaths each year in the EU from smoking-related diseases
Amazon, a company of seemingly boundless ambition, appears to be venturing into yet another market: smartphones.
Facebook Inc launched a smartphone app, Slingshot, on Tuesday that will allow consumers to exchange disappearing photos and videos without requiring Facebook accounts, the Internet company's latest effort to develop mobile services beyond its core social network.
"The advance of extremists to Baghdad or bombing by US forces will be a trigger a rise in US oil prices above $110. That would be a burden for the world economy in the near term," said Daisuke Uno, chief strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp
65-year-old Gupta, once regarded as among the most powerful and influential in corporate America, will serve his jail term at a minimum security satellite camp of the Federal Medical Center-Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts.<br />
The International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the United States on Monday and said the economy would not reach full employment until the end of 2017, allowing the Federal Reserve to bide its time before raising interest rates.
"When we stare at computers, our blinking times decreased compared to reading a book at the table," says Dr. Yuichi Uchino, an author of a new study. Uchino is an ophthalmologist at the School of Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo..
The IMF forecast economic growth of 2 percent this year, below the 2.8 percent rate it predicted in April, due to a weak first quarter. It kept its 2015 forecast unchanged at 3 percent.<br />
Rajaratnam is serving an 11-year prison term. A federal jury convicted him in May 2011 of nine counts of securities fraud and five counts of conspiracy.<br />
India believes armed insurgent groups from its northeastern states use the isolated Himalayan kingdom as a hideout, and in recent years has grown anxious about China seeking a toehold in the one South Asian nation seen as completely loyal to New Delhi.<br />
A leap in bank lending to the construction industry indicates financial institutions have resumed pouring money into real estate projects in the last few months, after cutting back sharply in the wake of Dubai's 2008 crash.
Rengan Rajaratnam faces three counts of conspiracy and securities fraud, after prosecutors dropped four other charges.<br />
The continuing reason since 2011 for the high number of reports on salmonella is <em>paan</em> leaves.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad is prepared to invest up to 1.25 billion euros ($1.70 billion) over the next four years, Italy's transport minister said on Wednesday.<br />
"I came here to find some inspiration ... and when I go back I need to find something different," he told Reuters, saying he wanted to perhaps work for "a social enterprise, a business that's trying to make the world a better place somehow."
Bilateral trade relations between India and Bhutan have grown significantly from the level of US $141.86 million in 2003-04 to US $397.22 million in 2012-13. While India's exports to Bhutan in 2012-13 were US $233.22 million, the imports were valued at US $164 million
The bulk of Iraq's current oil exports come from south of Baghdad, still far from the Islamist rebel fighters