The de facto leader of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong, was arrested Friday on bribery charges, a dramatic turn in South Korea's decades-old struggle to end collusive ties between the government and powerful family-controlled conglomerates.
Snap Inc.'s co-founder Evan Spiegel has a $US588 million ($764 million) payday staked on his company successfully pulling off an initial public offering.
Chloe Bridgewater has a little more drive than your average seven-year-old. Taken by the idea of working somewhere with bean bag chairs, go-karts, and slides, she decides to apply at Google.
US President Donald Trump's old office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan sits unoccupied, unofficial storage space for the gathering trove of memorabilia that his two oldest sons say they hope will eventually be turned over to their father's presidential library.
Even if you're not much of a fashionista, it's been hard to miss the firestorm that has recently engulfed the Ivanka Trump brand.
Apple shares hit a record on optimism the next iPhone will drive a resurgence in sales and help the company's services businesses grow.
Samsung Group chief Jay Y. Lee was questioned by South Korea's special prosecutor for more than 15 hours as part of an investigation into a graft scandal that threatens to topple President Park Geun-hye.
Greece put under pressure to bring in more austerity to achieve stable future and certainty for its citizens.
Some people like to take a break from work with a quick bite of chocolate. But what if a quick bite of chocolate was your work?
Daniel Tarullo's departure means Donald Trump will soon get to fill three of the Fed's seven board positions and put his stamp on the world's most powerful central bank.
US stocks jumped to another record, a key index of global sharemarkets hit a 20-month high and crude rallied as investors continued to bask in the afterglow of President Donald Trump's promise of "phenomenal" tax reform.
The head of the union at the world's biggest copper mine says he's never seen owner BHP Billiton this reluctant to cede ground over wages. That's why he's preparing for a long strike.
Elon Musk has been forced into the difficult position of defending the White House while trying not to alienate customers or employees.
Juan Francisco Beckmann Vidal and Juan Domingo Beckmann - the heirs to the family that controls tequila giant Jose Cuervo - are seeing their net worth soar a day after the company carried out Mexico's biggest IPO in more than three years.
Apple was slugged with an $18b fine by the EU last year but the company will be smiling if Donald Trump's US tax plan gets off the ground.
This private deal was one of the year’s biggest art transactions, after Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II had gained 71 per cent since 2006.
A new company has been drawn into the president's ongoing skirmishes with corporate America.
TV maker Vizio has been accused of secretly collecting - and selling - data about its customers' locations, demographics and viewing habits.
Despite a 99 per cent failure rate and a recent setback, Alzheimer's researchers are plowing ahead with hundreds of experiments - and a boost in US federal money - to try to crack a deadly disease that has flummoxed them for decades.
Nearly 100 companies, including some of high-tech's biggest names, joined a legal brief opposing President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban, arguing that it would give companies incentives to move jobs outside the United States.
US President Donald Trump's economic honeymoon could come to an end as soon as next year, senior London fund managers have forecast, with the US at risk of plunging into recession.
As he prepared to sign orders designed to roll back bank regulations enacted to stop the next financial crisis, President Donald Trump said that the rules are stifling lending.
The chief executive officer of Cargill, the largest privately held US company, has become the latest corporate leader to voice concerns about immigration and trade protectionism.
China will severely punish people involved in illegal financing activities, especially targeting underground banks and the stock market.
As Donald Trump Jr. tried to step from the shadow of his billionaire father, he forged a long-running business partnership with an energetic dealmaker from Utah who has been dogged by lawsuits, bankruptcies and business failures.
Launching Alibaba's Australian headquarters, billionaire founder Jack Ma said the Chinese e-commerce giant would help Australian and New Zealand businesses share their products with the world.
Snap is aiming to adopt the most shareholder-unfriendly governance in an initial public offering, ever.
President Donald Trump is moving to loosen rules enacted after the financial crisis that restrict the way Wall St operates.
US luxury department store chain is winding down its relationship with the controversial Ivanka Trump brand after boycott threats and concerns about the first daughter's conflicts of interest.
Snap, maker of Snapchat, has file documents for its sharemarket float, the first social media IPO since Twitter three years ago. It could turn its boss Evan Spiegel and supermodel fiancee Miranda Kerr into one of the world's richest young couples.
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