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AstraZeneca, an Anglo-Swedish biopharmaceutical company has entered into an agreement with Amgen, US biotechnology company to develop and commercialise five monoclonal antibodies from Amgen's clinical inflammation portfolio.

EA's FIFA Street has topped the UK video games chart for the consecutive third week despite competition from Mass Effect 3 and newly released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13.

iPhones have considerably higher rates of Wi-Fi usage than Android Smartphones in US and the UK.

The world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare company, GlaxoSmithKline has reported topline results from seven of the eight 'Harmony' Phase III studies investigating the use of albiglutide in type 2 diabetes.

An investment holding and management company, Ashtead Group Plc has announced today that its US subsidiary, Sunbelt Rentals Inc has acquired a Philadelphia based Topp Construction Services and its related company, Precision Steel Works.

PR and healthcare consultancy sees margin pressure in 2011, but upbeat for 2012

A Greek theatre has found a way of staging its own fight-back against news the country will be plunged into recession this year. By offering tickets in return for food!

Trade body says recession unlikely, but growth to remain weak

Oil & Gas explorer agrees $450 million cash and shares deal

Facebook is working on its search engine which might deal a killer blow to Google.

Despite all the messages of doom and gloom the British Chambers of Commerce reckons the UK won't slide back into recession this year.

40 per cent of the children surveyed did not know the UK is in Europe.

Qualcomm is preparing a quad-core version of its Snapdragon S4 chip for Windows 8 laptops.

Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research returns pessimistic outlook and criticises current austerity measures.

Google is planning to launch its own online store to sell branded tablets.

British economy may be poised for sharp recovery

Japan is going through a period of very hard choices which the current Prime Minister of its coalition government Yoshihiko Noda, is pressing the Diet, Japan's Parliament, to address. On 30 March 2012, Prime Minister Noda submitted laws to double the present sales tax of five per cent, proposing a rise to eight per cent in April 2014 and then to 10 per cent in April 2015. His determination, if necessary, to stake his Government's survival on these laws being passed by the Diet was made pl...

There are fears that in Asia inflation might return due to higher energy prices, food and wage costs as crude oil prices are expected to range between $125 to $128 per barrel. However, though oil prices are high in absolute terms, Brent crude prices are only 10% higher than a year ago and food prices are still comparitively lower than the previous year.

Check out how the two smartphones stack up against each other...

A rundown of how the Nokia Lumia 900 and Samsung's Galaxy S2 stack up.

FirstGroup, the British transport operator said that its overall trading for the year ended March 31, 2012 has been in line with management's expectations and remains on track to attain overall earnings target for the year.

The controversy over BioWare's day-one "Mass Effect" 3 DLC "From Ashes" has a new twist in the tale, even as the debate over a leaked vido showing Javik's character supposedly already available on the game disc gathers storm.

More than 17 million unemployed in February, a 1.5 million increase on same month in 2011.

Single-currency zone gauge indicates contraction, European shares fall

With its new business pipeline being strong, Huntsworth Plc, the global public relations and integrated healthcare communications group, is confident of improving trading in 2012 compared to 2011 and is scheduled to report its preliminary 2011 results on Tuesday.

Wifarer, which will be soon available for the iPhone users too, is a useful app to easily navigate malls, university campuses and airports.

Bank lobby group boss to leave this summer after five-year term

Company gives warning over “grossly unjust”proposal.

The latest reports suggest EA's "From Ashes" DLC for "Mass Effect 3" is actually locked on the main disc with an encryption code.