Former Samsung Chairman Lee Kun-hee saw the suspension Wednesday of his prison sentence in a tax-evasion conviction, a move that confirmed South Koreans' view that tycoons are immune from jail.The Seoul Central District Court convicted Lee for failing to pay
Do you let the fox in the henhouse?" So asked Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo, as we chatted for more than an hour one afternoon last week at Allen & Co.'s annual conference. The fox in question,
There is no better way to get a blogger talking than by telling him what he cannot publish, although you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise.A grand jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in New York this year sought
A criminal probe of Apple Inc.'s co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs over stock options tampering is now over, but the potential legal shadow over him and the company isn't going away just yet.Although Jobs is not being indicted for his
Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates Tuesday.Investors viewed the chipmaker's favorable results as a sign that global PC demand is healthy despite a sputtering U.S.
Mark Kittrell sees his firm, Team Technologies Inc., in much the same light as an insurance company."You hope you never need us," said Kittrell, vice president of business development for the data-management organization.But when the Cedar River started sloshing over
Say No To School Books Sponsorship Scheme If You Are Contacted By Phone We have been contacted this morning by a company purporting to be a publishing media company asking us to name the school for books to go to
Inspectors are looking for information concerning brokerage's sales practices, internal evaluations of the auction rate securities market and marketing strategies.
A Western company has bought the first 30 Airbuses converted into cargo planes by Russian aircraft maker Irkut. The announcement came at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK, where experts warn Boeing and Airbus are producing much less in Russia
President Dmitry Medvedev has continued his predecessor's promotion of the rouble as a regional currency, with the government continuing to explore the proposal with business representatives.
In the opinion of Presidential Secretariat head Viktor Baloha, the said order demonstrated Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's intention to decide at her own discretion the question of energy carriers delivery to Ukraine.
Oil prices have fallen sharply for the second straight session, in a sign that markets are becoming more volatile. Experts point to fears of an economic slowdown, especially in the U.S. But while the world's biggest economy is reeling -
