Financial Markets

Google Ventures CEO Bill Maris ‘Quits’

More high-level departures at Google as man in charge of Alphabet investment arm steps down

8 years ago

Verizon Acquires Yahoo’s Core Business For £3.86 Billion

Yahoo's core assets finally sold off as Mayer claims: 'Yahoo is a company that has changed the world'

8 years ago

Yahoo Fails To Reveal Buyer, Suffers £332m Loss In Q2

Yahoo also announces £365m write-down of Tumblr

8 years ago

IBM Drives Blockchain Into Singapore

Opens blockchain innovation centre, promises to team up with government, industries to help make Singapore FinTech capital of Asia

8 years ago

Google Trends Shows Massive Brexit Uncertainty After Polls Closed

Searches for 'what happens if we leave the EU' surge 250 percent two hours after polls closed

9 years ago

Dell Sales Flatten Ahead Of EMC Merger

Dell's holding company Denali reports revenue down 2 percent year-over-year with sales gloomy for most of Dell's businesses

9 years ago

Huawei Revenue Booms 37 Percent As Company Strengthens In Europe

Huawei's net profit up 33 percent year-over-year as growing IT division and smartphone sales reap rewards

9 years ago

London Tech Firms Signal Opposition To Brexit

Better in together? London tech firms overwhelmingly opposes Britain's exit of the EU, new survey suggests

9 years ago

Facebook To Pay Millions More In UK Tax

Sales from big advertisers will no longer will routed through Irish tax haven as pressure mounts on Facebook to pay…

9 years ago

HPE ‘More Focused’ As It Delivers Strong First Quarter

Whitman claims HPE is more nimble, beats Wall Street on first results since split

9 years ago

Surge In IoT Projects Helps ARM Shrug Off Smartphone Slowdown

Smartphone slowdown? ARM posts record profit and sales, but market frets over future and shares tumble

9 years ago

Alphabet More Valuable Than Apple As Google’s Core Business Beats Expectations

But operating loss from Alphabet's self-driving cars and other moonshots increases to £2.5 billion

9 years ago

IBM Boss Rometty To Pocket £3m Bonus For 2016

Despite 15 back to back quarters of revenue decline, Rometty's bonus boost is almost $1m more than last year's

9 years ago

VMware Prepares For Weak, Transitionary 2016 As 800 Jobs Axed

VMware announces 2016 revenues below analyst expectations after strong last quarter of 2015

9 years ago

IBM Posts More Declines Despite Cloud Progress

Bad news for shareholders. Fifteenth consecutive revenue fall as Big Blue continues painful migration to cloud

9 years ago

Dell Prepares SecureWorks IPO

Strong growth but increasing losses reported as Dell continues EMC-deal corporate shuffle

9 years ago

Worldpay Offers Loans To UK Small Businesses

Payments firm looks to offer new affordable funding option to small businesses

9 years ago

UK, US Wargame Tests Financial Response To Cyber Attack

War games. British and American tests the responses of their financial centres to a major cyber attack

9 years ago

Despite £470m Loss, Lenovo Rides Wave Of Success In India

Lenovo continues to struggle in home market of China but finds consumer success in other regions

9 years ago

IBM Under Accounting Investigation For Transactions in US, UK, and Ireland

IBM admits United States Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing company practices since August

9 years ago

All Eyes To China As Dell Announces £80bn Five-Year-Plan

Dell will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years, contributing $175 billion to imports and exports

9 years ago

Toshiba Loses £209m After Accounting Scandal

Fallout from accounting scandal continues to rock Japanese firm after it posts annual loss of £209m

9 years ago

HP Battered By PC Sales Slump

Revenues falls more than 8 percent in quarterly results as HP split appears on the horizon

9 years ago

General Election Stalls UK Tech Sector Growth

Worries over European market also affect growth, but UK tech sector still sees boost in profits

9 years ago

Oracle Revenue, Profits Flat, Miss Wall Street Projections

Company's fourth-quarter profits fell to $2.78 billion from $3.6 billion in the same period a year ago; currency exchange cited…

10 years ago

Toshiba Moves Accounting Probe Into Chip Business

Following an independent investigation set up earlier in May, Toshiba will now probing accounting irregularities in its TV, PC and…

10 years ago

Tax Practices Of Tech Giants Attacked By OECD Official

The man in charge of reforming global tax laws warns tech giants to stop “extremely aggressive” tax planning

10 years ago

Facebook Profit Slides As R&D Costs Bite

Social networking giant posts positive results, but profits dip and revenue growth slows

10 years ago

AMD Suffers £120 Million Loss, Dumps SeaMicro Server Business

AMD blames "challenging PC environment", with revenues down 26 percent year-over-year

10 years ago

IBM Prepares Defence Against Disgruntled Shareholders

After 11 consecutive quarters of revenue decline, shareholders turn to activist investors for shake things up at IBM

10 years ago