Tokyo's iconic National Stadium is poised to receive a billion dollar renovation, turning it into a space-age venue with moving seats for the 2019 rugby World Cup, Reuters has learned.
Panasonic Corp. almost doubled its annual loss forecast to a record 780 billion yen ($10 billion), the latest Japanese electronics company to predict weaker earnings because of Thailand floods and slowing demand for TVs.
Facebook Inc., the social-networking company that’s preparing for an initial public offering, had a valuation of at least $94 billion yesterday in an auction of its shares on the private market.
The Facebook chief may be on the hook for $2 billion in taxes with his company going public. But he's not necessarily all that upset about it, because Facebook in turn gets a tax deduction.
Greece needs about an extra euro15 billion ($20 billion) to get its debt down to manageable levels — and the rest of 17-country eurozone is being asked to help foot the bill.
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing’s Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. agreed to buy Orange Austria in a deal valued at 1.3 billion euros ($1.7 billion), adding to more than $31 billion of investments in overseas mobile-phone operations.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Panasonic Corp warned of a record annual $10.2 billion net loss, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses and show they have not lost their way. Panasonic's forecast loss of 780 billion yen ($10.2 billion) for the year to March dwarfed expectations, and is almost all due to restructuring charges and ...
Mark Zuckerberg may sell about $1.67 billion of Facebook Inc. stock in the company’s initial public offering to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares.
Half a million pensioners are being ripped off by up to £1 billion each year by a “toxic” system of poor returns and hidden charges from retirement annuities, a major report from the pensions industry ...
RT @colorsmagazine: By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in places without enough water to grow the food their inhabitants need.
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RT @colorsmagazine: By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in places without enough water to grow the food their inhabitants need.
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