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Coca-Cola to cut 1,600-1,800 jobs
US soda giant Coca-Cola plans to cut 1,600-1,800 jobs in a cost-saving move.
09 January 2015
Troubled UK supermaket Tesco unveils revival plans
British supermarket giant Tesco launched cost-cutting plans to shut stores, sell assets and axe its dividend.
08 January 2015
Intel CEO says computing 'unleashed' by wearables
Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said that computing is being "unleashed" by the move to wearables.
07 January 2015
Nissan targets growth in Brazil despite sales slump
Nissan plans to maintain investment and increase its share in the Brazilian auto market.
07 January 2015
Toyota to give away fuel-cell patents to boost industry
Toyota will give away thousands of patents for its fuel-cell cars, it said Tuesday, in an effort to encourage other automakers into the new industry.
06 January 2015
Russia's Gazprom buys partners' shares in South Stream project
Russian gas giant Gazprom said it had taken complete control of the company behind the abandoned South Stream pipeline project, buying shares belonging to France's EDF.
30 December 2014
LG offices raided over suspected washing machine vandalism
South Korean prosecutors raided the Seoul headquarters of LG Electronics following allegations that the firm's executives vandalised their rival Samsung's washing machines.
26 December 2014
Google self-driving car prototype ready to try road
Google on Monday announced that the first completed prototype of its self-driving car is ready to be road tested.
23 December 2014
Brazil's Petrobras graft scandal embroils 28 more politicians
The main accuser in the corruption scandal that has embroiled Brazil oil giant Petrobras gave a list of 28 politicians who had taken kickbacks.
20 December 2014
Hollywood closes ranks with Sony, presses Washington
Hollywood filmmakers urged US authorities to do more to protect against cyberattacks, and sought to close ranks with Sony.
20 December 2014
Kazakhstan must find new oil and gas fields: Senator
Senator Lyazzat Kiinov said Kazakhstan had to invest into oil and gas exploration since the remaning natural reserves would soon be depleted.
19 December 2014
China to transfer dozens of enterprises in non-energy sector to Kazakhstan
China intends to transfer dozens of enterprises in non-energy sector to Kazakhstan.
19 December 2014
Apple suppliers accused of poor treatment of workers
Workers in Chinese factories making Apple products are poorly treated, with exhausted employees falling asleep on their 12-hour shiftsю
19 December 2014
Microsoft lets US shoppers pay with Bitcoin
Microsoft began Thursday letting US shoppers at its online Windows Store pay with digital currency Bitcoin.
12 December 2014
Sony says sorry to Obama, amid leaked emails storm
Beleaguered studio Sony Pictures apologized for racially insensitive remarks about President Barack Obama in company emails.
12 December 2014
Hackers threaten Sony staff in new email
Sony Pictures staff received a threatening email Friday claiming to be from the hackers who breached the entertainment giant's computer network.
06 December 2014
Sony slams 'malicious' hack attack, mum on N. Korea
Sony Pictures denounced a "brazen" cyberattack it said netted a "large amount" of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.
04 December 2014
Microsoft buys email mobile app Accompli
Microsoft said it was buying the mobile email management application Accompli, in a deal reported to be worth more than $200 million.
02 December 2014
Samsung 's mobile chief keeps his job
Samsung said the head of its faltering mobile business would keep his job despite an alarming decline in profits.
01 December 2014
BlackBerry gets OK to buy encryptors of Merkel's mobile
Germany said Friday it had approved Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry's purchase of data encryption firm Secusmart.
29 November 2014