Business

News Hour: Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U.S. government accused the chip maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key semiconductors...

News Hour: US stocks rose and the dollar fell on Friday as Donald Trump was officially sworn in as the president of the United States and Barack Obama’s term ended. Trump’s inauguration dominated a day that...

News Hour: One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.” It was a moment rich in irony. Many...

News Hour: Google is acquiring Twitter’s mobile application developer platform Fabric, a move which could give some breathing room for the social network after charting an independent path without a suitor. Terms of the deal were...

News Hour: Toshiba shares fell over 10 percent on the Tokyo market on Thursday following media reports of expanding losses at its US nuclear power business. Toshiba dived 10.74 percent to 257.4 yen in early trade...

News Hour: Early optimism among business lobbyists and executives that Donald Trump’s election heralded better days has slowly given way to uncertainty as the president-elect fires off mixed and sometimes confusing messages on healthcare, taxes and...

News Hour: Asahi Group Holdings Ltd  is open to the possibility of more acquisitions, its chief said, even after Japan’s biggest beer maker sealed $10 billion worth of deals to buy European assets from Anheuser-Busch InBev...

News Hour: British American Tobacco has agreed a $49.4 billion takeover of U.S. rival Reynolds American Inc, creating the world’s biggest listed tobacco company after it increased an earlier offer by more than $2 billion. BAT,...

News Hour: Boeing Co said its chief executive will meet with Donald Trump on Tuesday, at the President-elect’s request, to discuss its Air Force One presidential jumbo jet based on the Boeing 747 airliner and possibly...

News Hour: Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it would create about 10,000 jobs in the United States this year, about the same as in previous years, as President-elect Donald Trump puts pressure on companies to hire more...