Multinational electronics company Kyocera Corp. and Century Tokyo Leasing Corp. recently finished a 9.9-megawatt photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in the Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.

Dec 09, 2015 10:19 PM EST

Mondelez, the American owner of Cadbury, is facing controversy for allegedly avoiding its UK corporate taxes despite earning £96.5 million.

Dec 09, 2015 10:08 PM EST

Scientists from across the world gathered for the International Summit in Human Gene Editing in Washington, DC this week. The meeting discussed the new gene editing tool called CRISPR-CAS9 and its use in human gene editing.

Dec 09, 2015 09:25 PM EST

Hundreds of civil lawsuits against Volkswagen will be heard by a federal judge in California. The decision was made by a judicial panel despite a push from the automaker and the federal government to send the cases to different states.

Dec 09, 2015 09:23 PM EST

The After School app allows teenagers in high school to posts anonymously about anything. This has caused an immense amount of cyberbullying and in some cases, threats to the students themselves.

Dec 09, 2015 08:32 PM EST

A six day hearing will start Thursday between four major tobacco companies and the UK government over the legality of the plain packaging law to be put in effect next year.

Dec 09, 2015 08:19 PM EST

The XSTAT 30 is a special device created to offer instant treatment to the citizens during severe bleeding, shock, and trauma. The FDA has approved its use for civilians which were earlier used for the military purposes.

Dec 09, 2015 07:52 AM EST

After years in the making, HondaJet is now awaiting final process of full certification to enter the market. This will be the first of Honda Jet aircraft series.

Dec 09, 2015 07:45 AM EST

An introduction of the first ever cartless shopping by Target in their Wonderland store situated in downtown Manhattan. This is an all new set up to help the customers with a trouble free shopping.

Dec 09, 2015 04:32 AM EST

Didi Kuadi, largest car hailing app in China, has appointed Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang as a senior advisor and board observer to the ride-hailing app firm as it battles Uber technologies for market share in China. In a statement, the company said Yang’s experience will help it build its mobile platform, which is already used by 250 million people in China. Both companies have stepped up their plans to expand in China recently, signaling tougher competition in the years ahead.

Dec 09, 2015 04:04 AM EST

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has positioned himself as a leader in the innovation, has announced a huge investment of $1.1 billion innovation fund to help startups and STEM.

Dec 09, 2015 03:59 AM EST

A chronicle survey conducted in 32 private-college presidents revealed that the maximum pay reached the level of $1 million in 2013. In 2013 the private college presidents' median total payment reached as high as $436,429. First two positions were assigned to Lee Bollinger, of Columbia University, and Amy Gutmann, of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dec 09, 2015 03:06 AM EST

A mystified case happened in Vienna, Austria when some bystanders reported to the police about a boy jumping into the river Danube. Police were baffled to find out that the boy was actually trying to save more than 100,000 euro banknotes floating in the river water.

Dec 09, 2015 01:00 AM EST

IBM is trying to hit the cloud service market by launching Bluemix object storage services. Would IBM make it through by outshining market biggies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft? Besides spreading its cloud service market in international level, IBM has also joined startup helping venture with NASSCOM.

Dec 08, 2015 10:04 PM EST

Newell Rubbermaid and Jarden Corp. are in talks to combine their businesses. WSJ first reported this speculative news by an anonymous source. Soon after this news, the stock and share market of these companies reached sky-high.

Dec 08, 2015 09:53 PM EST