Business

Apple to buy Beats for $3bn 30 May 2014 - 01:00 pm

A pedestrian walks past a Beats brand display in the subway system of New York yesterday. NEW YORK: Apple, seeking to bolster its...

Facebook COO at Harvard 30 May 2014 - 12:59 pm

Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg delivers the Class Day address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one day ahead of Commencement Exercises at the...

Hyundai launches two sedans 30 May 2014 - 12:58 pm

Models with Hyundai Motor Co’s New sedan The AG (left) and a diesel version of the Grandeur (Azera) sedan at Busan International Motor...

TPAO to buy Total’s stake in Azeri gas 30 May 2014 - 12:55 pm

ANKARA: Turkey’s state oil company Turkish Petroleum Corp (TPAO) has agreed to acquire French energy company Total’s 10 percent stake in Azerbaijan’s Shah...

Russia-Ukraine gas talks today 30 May 2014 - 12:55 pm

BRUSSELS/ATHENS: Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the European Commission to resolve a gas dispute will go ahead today, the Commission said, as time...

Argentina obtains debt deal to steady economy 30 May 2014 - 12:54 pm

PARIS: Argentina, fighting to stabilise its economy, obtained a deal yesterday to clear nearly $10bn in debt arrears from official creditors in The...

Changes in UDC management 30 May 2014 - 12:54 pm

DOHA: The Board of Directors of United Development Company (UDC), the master developer of The Pear-Qatar, yesterday convened a meeting to discuss the...

Internal auditing meet conducted 30 May 2014 - 12:53 pm

DOHA: PwC launched 2014 State of Internal Audit Profession in the 4th National Conference on Internal Auditing organised by the Institute of Internal...

Infosys drops 7pc as top executive quits 30 May 2014 - 12:53 pm

MUMBAI: Shares in Indian outsourcing giant Infosys sank by 7 percent yesterday after the latest departure of one of the company’s senior managers....

Spain economy grows at fastest rate since 2008 30 May 2014 - 12:53 pm

MADRID: Spain reported yesterday the fastest economic growth since a devastating 2008 property crash, even as 5.9 million people searched in vain for...

US economy in Q1 stumbles, but prospects brighter 30 May 2014 - 12:52 pm

WASHINGTON: The US economy contracted for the first time in three years in the first quarter as it buckled under a severe winter,...

Qatar Chamber re-elects board 29 May 2014 - 02:55 am

FROM LEFT: Suhaila Al Hareb, Abdul Rahman Al Najjar and Ali Al Missned casting their votes yesterday. By Mohamed Osman DOHA: Sheikh Khalifa...

LNG supply to face competition in future 29 May 2014 - 02:53 am

Qatargas CEO Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani (left) at the Monthly Gas Lecture organised last week by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum. Doha:...

EMRA’A holds workshop for women 29 May 2014 - 02:51 am

Participants at the workshop. DOHA: ExxonMobil Qatar’s Professional Women’s Network, EMRA’A, held a workshop for over 100 female employees from ExxonMobil, RasGas Company...

Materia, Qapco sign MoU to study development of new materials 29 May 2014 - 02:50 am

DOHA: As Qatar continues to grow its energy and industrial sectors, and attempts to further optimise its hydrocarbon resources utilisation, research and innovation...

UK initiates criminal probe into GSK 29 May 2014 - 02:49 am

A security guard walking past the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) company sign outside the GSK factory in Shanghai, China. LONDON: Britain’s fraud office has launched...

LG unveils new G3 29 May 2014 - 02:47 am

Models with LG’s flagship G3 high-end smartphones at its unveiling ceremony in Seoul yesterday. South Korea’s LG Electronics launched a revamped version of...

Bulgaria defence expo 29 May 2014 - 02:46 am

A visitor looks at an armoured combat vehicle at “Hemus 2014 Defence, Anti-terrorism and Security” exhibition in the city of Plovdiv in Bulgaria...