Business

News Hour: Facebook, Twitter, and news organizations including Agence France-Presse have joined a coalition of media and technology groups seeking to filter out online misinformation and improve news quality on social networks. First Draft News, which...

News Hour: German drugs and crop chemicals company Bayer has won over U.S. seeds firm Monsanto with an improved takeover offer of around $66 billion, ending months of wrangling after increasing its bid for a third...

News Hour: China’s quality watchdog said on Wednesday Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s local unit will recall 1,858 units of its Galaxy Note 7 phones, after the Korean firm’s product was found to have fire-prone batteries. Samsung...

News Hour: Pandora Media Inc said on Tuesday it had signed direct licensing deals with a number of music labels, including heavyweights Sony Music and Universal Music Group, beefing up its music collection to compete with...

News Hour: Barrick Gold Corp, the world’s biggest gold producer, said on Monday it would partner with Cisco Systems to incorporate digital technology in all aspects of its mining business, aiming to improve productivity and efficiency....

News Hour: Canadian business software maker OpenText Corp said it agreed to buy Dell-EMC’s enterprise content division for $1.62 billion as it looks to expand its services to larger businesses. The Dell-EMC enterprise content division (ECD)...

News Hour: Solar panel installer SolarCity Corp, which is being bought by Tesla Motors Inc for $2.6 billion, said on Monday it had raised $305 million to fund its projects. A private investment fund affiliated with...

News Hour: LinkedIn Corp, the operator of the world’s largest online business networking service, has launched in India a “Lite” version of its website for mobile browsing. The company, which is being acquired by Microsoft Corp,...

News Hour: Volkswagen’s luxury car unit Audi has agreed to deepen collaboration with Chinese internet technology groups to offer more digital services in the world’s largest car market. Audi and FAW-Volkswagen, VW’s joint venture with FAW...

News Hour: Singapore became the newest member of the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) Initiative as it hosted the initiative’s Fifth Global Dialogue. Singapore joins 58 other partner stock exchanges, including the London and New...