Belgian police search property of KPN's new CEO over Proximus share sale

Belgian police searched the home and office of Dominique Leroy, the incoming chief executive of Dutch telecom firm KPN , to investigate her sale of shares in Proximus , the company she is leaving. ...

Cloud and clear: Tencent draws on gaming tech to lift B2B cloud ambitions

Tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd plans to leverage its strengths in video games and social media to grab market share in China's burgeoning cloud computing sector from incumbent Alibaba, the head o...

Rolls-Royce hit by further setback to fixing Boeing 787 engines

Rolls-Royce will take longer than expected to fix problems with its Trent 1000 engine, frustrating efforts to get Boeing 787s grounded by the glitch flying again and knocking the British company'...

Shares soothed by stimulus, oil heads higher

World shares rose on Friday as stimulus measures by major central banks eased worries about growth, especially in Asian markets, while oil headed for its best week since January. ...

Military strike against Iran would result in 'all-out war': Zarif

Any U.S. or Saudi military strike against Iran would bring "all-out war", Tehran said on Thursday, keeping up a drumbeat of warnings to its adversaries after they accused the Islamic Republic of a ...

Google to invest 3 billion euros in European data centers

Google will make an additional investment of 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centers, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland. ...

Britain's Thomas Cook scrambles for $250 million to avert collapse

Britain's Thomas Cook scrambled on Friday to find an extra 200 million pounds ($251 million) to satisfy its lenders and secure the survival of the world's oldest holiday company. ...

Explainer: Abe, Trump head for trade deal; auto tariffs a sticking point

U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are expected to clinch a deal on farm tariffs and digital trade when they meet in New York next week. ...

U.S., Chinese trade deputies face off in Washington amid deep differences

U.S. and Chinese deputy trade negotiators resumed face-to-face talks for the first time in nearly two months on Thursday, as the world's two largest economies try to bridge deep policy differences ...

China sovereign fund CIC says cautious of U.S. investment amid trade war

China Investment Corp (CIC) reported a 37% dive in annual profit on Friday and said the ongoing Sino-U.S. trade war has made the Chinese sovereign wealth fund more cautious about investing in the U...