Orange expands to North Africa as a way to enter the Middle East market. The telecomsoperator expresed its desire to end affiliation with Israel's Partner Communications Ltd to give way to Arab pressure.

Jun 07, 2015 06:22 AM EDT

Despite ISS warnings, Google sharehoders reelected all eleven board of directors in its annual stockholders meeting held on 3 June. ISS warned investors against voting for John Doerr, Paul Otellini, and Ram Shriram in connection with executive pay awarded to Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Chief Business Officer Omid Kordestani.

Jun 07, 2015 05:57 AM EDT

Alibaba Group Holding has decided to buy stakes worth more than 1 billion yuan ($161 million) in financial media outlet China Business Network (CBN). CBN is part of Shanghai Media Group (SMG).

Jun 06, 2015 11:33 PM EDT

Paris Climate Summit will push through as scheduled this year with environmentalist groups hoping that a low-carbon economy program would finally fall into place, as UN talks focus on global warming issues.

Jun 04, 2015 11:19 PM EDT

NASA will be testing of their Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) by lifting it 120,000 feet above the ground at Hawaii. The NASA flying saucer-like spacecraft will splash on the waters of the Pacific, which is why the flight was postponed twice die to bad ocean condition. This exercise is done for future human missions to Mars.

Jun 04, 2015 09:29 AM EDT

In 5 years time, the total number of smartphone users will rise to 6.1 billion. At present there are 2.6 billion smartphone users. And by 2020, total mobile users will touch 9.2 billion.

Jun 04, 2015 09:19 AM EDT

US President Barack Obama signs the USA Freedom Act immediately after the Senate passed the bill. The law transfers the responsibility of collecting and keeping phone call data from the NSA to the phone companies themselves.

Jun 04, 2015 04:11 AM EDT

South Korea succesfully launched their own ballistic missile test last Wednesday as a show of arms to it neighboring bully, North Korea.

Jun 04, 2015 08:16 AM EDT

Electronics manufacturers agreed to settle a CRT class action for a total of $528 million. More companies and several other lawsuits are involved.

Jun 04, 2015 04:34 AM EDT

Recently, Isil took over Ramadi, resulting to thousands of innocent civilians being killed while survivors and Iraqi military troops pleaded for U.S. military help.

Jun 04, 2015 04:28 AM EDT

Stocks rise have experts speculating that the country may be on its way to recovery and an increased interest rate is on order. The Fed's Brainard is skeptic on the idea.

Jun 03, 2015 09:30 AM EDT

Jeb Bush has not yet openly announced that he would run for presidency in the 2016 elections but says he “hopes” to and if he does, he would fully comply with the campaign finance regulations with regards to super PACs. However, critics say that Bush is being “hypocrite” for not stating that he would run even though it is clear that he would.

Jun 03, 2015 07:59 AM EDT