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UK property developer increases property portfolio by 12% as it unveils pretax profit boost

A123 Systems earlier sued Apple for allegedly poaching its engineers to develop "large scale battery division".

Service, codenamed 'Tahoe', will be similar to Amazon Prime, and is intended to boost Wal-Mart online business.

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London-based HSBC owns 62.14% of Hong Kong's Hang Seng Bank.

He has also called a general meeting at Rangers.

Tesco told IBTimes UK it hopes to find the former Homeplus employees different roles in its business.

Shanghai Composite and the Hang Seng indices settle lower after Beijing put out another set of weak economic data.

Pennycook said that the company had been 'undermanaged' by previous regimes.

Toyota recalls about five million Corolla, Vitz and other models, mostly in Japan and Europe.

Affected models are Chevrolet Malibu sedans, and Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon midsized pickup trucks.

UBS and four other global banks are set to reach settlements with US regulators.

From Nice to Cannes Film Festival in a seven-minute UberCopter ride.

Woman found unexpected item after buying sandwich in Grimsby store.

Germanwings disaster and French strikes hit budget airline as Greece sucks life out of FTSE 100.

Russian authorities still have a long way to go to make 'deoffshorisation' a success. Here's how they can start.

A property bonanza looms now that a Labour mansion tax is no longer on the cards.

George Osborne studiously tweeted about how much has been recovered and used to pay down the national debt.

Morgan Stanley's giant physical oil trading business is the largest and oldest on Wall Street.

Nomura allegedly sold bonds based on false statements.

Deal will see TechCrunch and The Huffington Post fall into Verizon's hands.

Here is my blueprint for Cameron as he seeks to build on amazing election triumph.

Apple has become the number one smartphone vendor in China, overtaking Xiaomi.

Australia to table 2015 federal budget at 10:30am BST and India will release factory and inflation data at 01.00pm BST.

EasyJet reported a £7m profit for the first half of the year.

Brands to be acquired generated total sales of about €110m in the 2014 financial year.

GE unlikely to get unconditional EU clearance for its Alstom bid.

The government now owns 19.93% of Lloyds.

PwC has been auditing Tesco's accounts for the last 32 years.