What has caught the media's attention is the invite and presence of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the ceremony.
The biggest U.S. drugmaker promised it would not go hostile, leaving the fate of what would have been the world's largest ever drugs merger in the hands of its target, whose board would have had to make a complete U-turn to get a deal done.<br />
China had banned game consoles in 2000, citing their negative effect on the mental health of its youth
BR Shetty is buying Travelex from private equity player Apax Partners, Lloyd Dorfman and other shareholders.<br />
Authorities put Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansour Aria, to death at Evin prison, just north of the capital, Tehran. <br />
A WTO panel ruled Friday that China's tariffs violated international trade rules.
Filed in 2011, the lawsuit accused Silicon Valley companies of conspiring to limit competition and keep wages down for engineers, programmers and other technical staff.<br />
Of the 26.5 million people who visited Thailand last year, about 2.5 million came for medical reasons, including spa and healthcare services.
The Silicon Valley company is trying to reduce its reliance on PCs and move toward computing equipment and networking gear for enterprises, part of Whitman's effort to curtail revenue declines and return the world's number one PC maker to growth.
The world's second-biggest sportswear firm has been losing market share in western Europe, its home territory, to Nike, which is also challenging the German company's dominance in the soccer market.
The All Pakistan Fruits and Vegetables Exporters, Importers and Merchants Association has said that it would be exporting mangoes worth USD 65 million this year.
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Speaking in Seattle at an annual conference with analysts, McNerney also said the company's job was to improve its execution and focus on productivity to reduce costs and improve margins.
Lenovo is expanding into smartphones to offset a decline in its once-mainstay personal computers (PC) as consumers switch to mobile devices, to the extent that it agreed in January to buy the Motorola Mobility smartphone unit of Google Inc for $2.9 billion.
Germanysoared to second place in the 2012 in a survey of permanent migration published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday. It ranked eighth in 2009.
Narendra Modi, India's newly appointed Prime Minister, has an excellent reputation as being "decisive and focused" on business, which is going to be "very good" for the country, John Chambers said.
Netflix will compete with other video streaming services, such as Canal Play Infinity from Vivendi's Canal Plus in France, and Amazon.com Inc's Prime Instant Video in Germany.<br />
US search engine Google has overtaken rival technology titan Apple as the world's top brand in terms of value, global market research agency Millward Brown said today.
Kerry's statement came hours after Modi was invited by President Pranab Mukherjee to be sworn-in as the Prime Minister of India on May 26.<br />
China's government says it will avoid buying computer equipment that runs on Windows 8
A little-noticed amendment to the United Nations Convention on Road Traffic agreed last month would let drivers take their hands off the wheel of self-driving cars. It was pushed by Germany, Italy and France, whose high-end carmakers believe they are ready to zoom past American tech pioneers and bring the first "autonomous vehicles" to market.
Worldwide sales of personal luxury goods are set to rise 4-6 percent this year at constant exchange rates compared with a 6.5 percent increase in 2013, Bain & Co said in the study presented with Italian luxury industry association, Altagamma.
In a meeting with Credit Suisse's lawyers in March 2013, US Justice Department officials, frustrated by what they viewed as poor co-operation from the bank, for the first time said an indictment was possible if they did not see an improvement, according to a person briefed on the situation.
The Swiss bank escaped the worst for its business-its top management stayed in place, and the New York state bank regulator said it had decided not to revoke the bank's license in the state.
Pfizer wants to create the world's largest drugs company, with a headquarters in New York but a tax base in Britain, where corporate tax rates are lower than in the United States. It has met entrenched opposition from AstraZeneca, as well as many politicians and scientists who fear cuts to jobs and research.<br />
The deal comes as Comcast Corp awaits regulatory approval of its $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable Inc
Apple and companies that make phones using Google's Android software have filed dozens of such lawsuits against one another around the world to protect their technology. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs called Android a "stolen product."<br />