News Corporation, the media group headed by Rupert Murdoch, confirmed this morning that it had made an offer to take full control of BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster in which it has a 39 per cent stake.

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The cyber attacks that contributed to Google's reevaluation of its operations in China also hit 33 other companies...

HP, Microsoft In $250 Million Cloud Computing Pact...

N Brown, the home shopping group that acquired the High & Mighty brand in September, today reported a stabilising of customer bad-debt levels in the latest sign that the worst of the recession may be over...

Roger Carr, the Cadbury chairman, urged shareholders today not to let Kraft “steal” the British confectionery group as it reiterated its board's unanimous rejection of the American food group’s £10.5 billion hostile offer...

Heineken, the Dutch brewer, secured its position as a global brewer this morning after announcing the €5.3 billion (£4.8 billion) acquisition of the beer operations of Femsa, the Mexican drinks and retail group behind the Sol and Dos Equis beer...

Banks are not lending as much as many politicians and economists want them to. But in the early stages of most economic recoveries tightfisted lending is the norm...

Virgin Money, which tried to buy Northern Rock before its nationalisation two years ago, today gained a foothold in retail banking through the acquisition of Church House Trust in a deal valuing the regional bank at £12.3 million...

Car sales fell by 6.4 per cent last year, to the lowest level since 1995, the industry body said today, as concerns mount about the end to the car scrappage...

Google and Apple '” Silicon Valley's once-close allies '” bumping up against each other in phone market...

Kraft Foods today added new cash to its hostile £10.3 billion bid for Britain's Cadbury, having sold its North American frozen pizza business to Nestlé for $3.7 billion...

Nestlé’s $28.1 billion windfall from the sale of Alcon to Novartis seems destined for the pockets of its own investors and not the bank accounts of...

Northern Rock, the state-owned lender, has been formally split into a good and bad bank, the Treasury confirmed today, as suitors begin to circle...

Novartis International, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, chose the first day of trading in the new year to launch one of Europe's biggest ever takeovers, a $40 billion ($£24.8 billion) offer for Alcon, a leading maker of eye care products and contact lense solutions...

Japan’s four-month-old Government, already reeling from a political funding scandal and dwindling public support, today vowed to enlarge the economy by 150 trillion yen (£1 trillion) and haul the nation out of a “long, downward-sloping tunnel”...

Unemployment will peak at 2.8 million next summer, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has forecast, far lower than the figure of 3.2 million...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission should block Google's planned acquisition of AdMob because the deal would diminish competition in the mobile...

TransMedia's Glide browser operating system for Microsoft Internet Explorer is now available for download.

AP - U.S. antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.'s proposed $750 million purchase of mobile phone marketer AdMob, the latest...