US taxi firm Uber is willing to make concessions as it seeks to reverse a decision by London authorities not to renew its licence in the city, which represents a potentially big blow for the fast-growing company.
Mark Zuckerberg, the world's fifth-richest person, plans to sell as much as 18 per cent of his Facebook stock.
The UK had its credit rating cut by Moody's Investors Service, which blamed Brexit, a sluggish economy and Prime Minister Theresa May's weakened political position.
The death this week of L'Oreal's founding family matriarch is putting the spotlight on a reclusive 64-year-old heiress who now finds herself as the richest woman in the world.
The decision to strip Uber of its licence goes against free markets and the desire to make London a capital of the technology world.
French businesswoman and billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L'Oreal and still owns the largest stake in the cosmetics giant, has died aged 94, her daughter has announced.
Daimler plans to spend $US1 billion ($1.26 billion) to start production of Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles at its Alabama factory, setting the world's largest luxury-car maker up to battle with battery-car specialist Tesla on its home turf.
The risk factors that could decide the fate of China's property boom can be found well beyond the capital and biggest city.
The latest press conference on free trade deal negotiations between Australia and Indonesia felt a lot like Groundhog Day.
Crocs, perhaps the most polarising shoe of our time, is making a comeback.
It's hard to say what will happen to Martin Shkreli in jail, but one thing's for sure: It won't be fun.
Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to stop inequality and tax avoidance
Your afternoon chocolate bar may be fuelling climate change, destroying protected forests and threatening elephants, chimpanzees and hippos in West Africa, research suggests.
In the two years since bursting onto the national scene, Martin Shkreli has often appeared to be his own worst enemy.
Beijing: Australian start-ups say a move by the Chinese government to crack down on Bitcoin signals the end of the gold rush.
Cirque du Soleil's CEO Daniel Lamarre is heading to Melbourne, but not for the circus.
A US judge on Wednesday ordered Martin Shkreli to be jailed while he awaits sentencing for securities fraud, citing a Facebook post in which the former drug company executive offered a $US5000 ($6283) reward for a strand of Hillary Clinton's hair.
It seems that the smash-hit movie It is not good for the clown business.
The latest contender for space in your refrigerator is milk made from yellow peas.
Irma was poised to be the costliest US storm on record. Then something called the Bermuda High intervened and tripped it up.
We need to ask ourselves whether the better strategy is to move the jobs to workers rather than move the workers to the jobs.
Nissa Scott started at Amazon last year but she has moved onto a new and interesting role at the online giant - babysitting robots.
US cities line up to woo Amazon as retail giant announces it will be building a $US5b 'second headquarters'.
Lego had enlisted the help of Batman, Darth Vader and Harry Potter. Unfortunately, even that wasn't enough to turbocharge its profit.
Jakarta: Indonesia has complained to the World Trade Organisation over a protectionist tariff imposed by Australia on paper imports, in a move that could overshadow the last months of sensitive free-trade negotiations.
Corporate America's sweetheart, Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson, talks on gender and politics.
A breakthrough by a Swiss chocolate maker expands the industry's hues beyond just dark, milk and white.
Boosting multilateral trade systems is set to be the focus for BRICS meeting.
Unlike Apple at the time of that 2011 handover, Uber is a wildly unprofitable, undermanaged mess of demotivated workers and squabbling directors.
Kisaku Suzuki once ran a company that made lolly-wrapping machines. And he was angry. And that's when the it came to him: he would use his firm's knowledge of sweets-packaging machines to develop the world's first sushi robot.
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