The housing market has shown signs of life recently. Prices have risen, mortgage rates are very attractive and construction...

Low inflation rate and slow growth help

Jon Stewart, who turned Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” into a sharp-edged commentary on current events...

Finance ministers to meet on Monday again to find a solution

To Dick Costolo, there’s gold in them thar tweets, and Twitter has just begun to mine it.

David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand...

Many officials are concerned that raising rates prematurely ‘might damp the apparent solid recovery’.

Silicon Valley has lately come to the realisation that it is not the meritocracy it has long pretended to be...

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service...

For the next four days, a sprawling conference centre here will become the global hub for the telecommunications and technology industries.

Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related to the phone hacking...

Emerging from the desert like a giant steel squid, Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal is starting to take shape.

A reversal of fortunes within the financial industry is illustrated in few places more vividly than JPMorgan Chase.

In front of a packed audience here, Mark Zuckerberg turned on the charm.

Assets of top oil funds quadruple to $5.4 bn since July, Contango structure trims gains through roll costs

The US is home to 50% of the world’s golf courses. That also figures why the country has some of the most beautiful and wonderfully...

The Courchevel cable car is the latest addition to Airbnb’s ‘A Night At’ series, offering overnight accommodation in money-can’t-buy venues around the world

Will Apple’s newest product—the Watch—be as big as its iPhone?

HSBC pledged a new era of higher dividends on Tuesday, laying out plans to slash nearly one in five jobs...

Candidates are following a shift in the political debate, from jobs and a fragile economic recovery during the 2012 campaign, to one now centred on income inequality

Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world.

US Elections 2016: The US Embassy in Delhi is all set to welcome the new President. Here are some pics what the US embassy in Delhi looks like right now:

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has granted observer status to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC),

Fifa adding more World Cup berths could mean better representation for Asia and Africa

The number of applicants seeking H-1B visas has dropped significantly with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receiving only 199,000 petitions for 2017, compared with 236,000 in 2016, reflecting the impact of the recent protectionist measures undertaken by the American government.

The President’s executive order directs the federal bureaucracy to enforce visa law more vigorously, and to study new ways to reform and restrict the H-1B system.

It will allow startups to challenge incumbent operators.

A minor planet has been named after a Bengaluru student. What are the rules behind such nomenclature?

Defence, water issues and agriculture will top the agenda of talks when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Israel next month.

The ocean has deep secrets. It is a world as vibrant as the one outside. There is a unique ecology that defies common knowledge and often perplexes scientists. This barely-explored territory is also believed to hold vast quantities of precious metals and minerals that can sustain the modern world for centuries. So it is not […]

By 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill-sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial.

Employees no longer need to be working at the desk to stay productive: Microsoft.

In today’s world, employers need to be shown, not told, what your skills are. So, set up that GitHub account, post your projects there, develop an opinion, and create a portfolio rather than a resume.

Uber doing away with the post-trip tracking feature that had drawn the ire of users is a sign of the torsion privacy concerns create when faced with the demands of a data-driven world.

Alliance Air, which is the low cost regional subsidiary of Air India, will launch three new routes under the government's regional connectivity scheme by the end of September and will induct eight ATR – 72 aircraft by the end of FY18 to further consolidate and expand its operations.

In March 2014, the government approved two projects for setting up semiconductor units and also created an empowered committee (EC) for implementation of the projects.

The board of directors of AirAsia Group (AAGB) on Tuesday rebutted all allegations levelled against the airline’s top brass including group CEO Tony Fernandes, deputy group CEO Bo Lingam and also AAGB and AirAsia India.

The trial, starting the day before a momentous midterm election, could help rewrite the nation’s political map for a decade.

Spearheaded by France, the plan has met resistance from countries such as Ireland and Sweden, which question the wisdom of the EU going it alone given the global nature of digital services.

The proposed city been embroiled in controversy from the start over how data from smartphones, sensors and the like, will be used.

Amazon.com said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shopping sprees.

Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma called fighting over trade senseless and decried once again a widening conflict between the US and China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Monday to lower tariffs, broaden market access and import more from overseas at the start of a trade expo designed to demonstrate goodwill amid mounting frictions with the United States and others.

Western bigwigs were a no-show at China’s biggest web conference.

The study is the second in a series, after an earlier report found that OPEC’s spare capacity reduces oil price volatility and generates as much as $200 bn of annual economic benefits for the world economy.

The Trump administration has assured lawmakers and the American corporate sector that the public would get an opportunity to respond to its proposal of revoking work authorisation to H-4 spouse visas after they raised their concerns over the move, which will impact thousands of Indians. H-4 visas are issued to the spouses of H-1B foreign […]

That’s a field Europe’s biggest software company wants to gain a stronger foothold in because it’s growing faster than its core enterprise software business.

At that price, the IPO would surpass the offering of former national carrier Nippon Telegraph & Telephone in 1987.

An internet diversion that rerouted data traffic through Russia and China disrupted several Google services on Monday, including search and cloud-hosting services.

Asian nations gave up hopes of completing a 16-nation trade bloc this year, with Chinese and Australian officials now looking to finalise the deal in 2019.