As technology heavyweights jostle for consumers with traditional providers, the chief executive of a major pharmaceutical company believes that the global health-care industry faces a "huge disruption".   Digital disruption is an enabler for health-care and pharmaceutical companies to serve...

A healthy sign of political will and how regulators are getting on top of things is reflected by an ongoing probe into several of China's largest overseas asset buyers, said an investor on Tuesday.   Amid a government crackdown on money laundering ahead of the 19th party congress...

During talks in which both leaders took great pains to stress the importance of a strong U.S.-Indian relationship, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do more to relax Indian trade barriers.   Trump and Modi appeared to get along well at a closely watched...

At a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyber attacks on the West, demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets are being acceded to by western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, reports Reuters.    Before...

While some critics say that Amazon.com Inc's bid for Whole Foods Market Inc should be blocked because it gives the online retailer a nearly unstoppable head start toward domination of online grocery delivery, there are other antitrust experts expect the deal to win regulatory approval.   The...

A global squeeze on supply of memory chips is threatened to be worsened as production lines are attempted to be kept running as Apple Inc's new iPhone 8 launch later this year and global electronics makers are scrambling to stock up on memory chips.   Industry sources and analysts say some...

A think tank says that if international climate targets are to be met, there is risk that spending of more than a third of their budgets on oil and gas projects will not be feasible by 2025 for oil giants that include Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell.   According to a report by the Carbon...

The many challenges for the young digital currency world was highlighted by multiple cyberattacks on major bitcoin exchanges this week.   While worries that the largely unregulated cryptocurrency industry will be unable to manage the hype are being added to by record-breaking levels of...

There’s a dark cloud building - one that in time could rain down volatility in global markets, behind the world’s best period of synchronous growth this decade among developed and emerging economies.   A deepening imbalance in the lack of new safe-haven assets as the world’s output expands...

Many items on Wall Street's wish list could be granted if the sweeping plan by the U.S. Treasury Department, unveiled on Monday to upend the country's financial regulatory framework, is successful.   Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview that more than 100 changes, most of...

Global shares and big technology shares were likely to come under pressure again on Monday after Apple shares were downgraded following a drop in big technology stocks Friday caused the Nasdaq composite to post its worst week of the year.   Saying the best case scenario is priced into the...