COMPANIES

BT has finalised the deal to purchase EE from Deutsche Telekom and Orange for cash and shares totalling £12.5 billion

Information such as names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers and email addresses accessed.

South Korea cites oversupply in taxi market and raises concern that unorganised operators would be hit.

Drug firm GlaxoSmithKline paid £300m after being found guilty of bribery in China.

The chief executive and other senior management at Brazil's Petrobras resigned on Wednesday (February 4) amid a festering corruption scandal, sending shares higher as the government scrambled to find replacements capable of restoring investor confidence in the state-run oil company.

More than 100,000 merchants now accept bitcoin, including Microsoft, Expedia and Twitch.

PBoC move aimed at lifting China's economic growth from a 24-year low.

Turkish banking regulators on Tuesday (February 3) seized control of Islamic lender Bank Asya, citing insufficient transparency to allow for proper regulation, after the bank suffered losses from the fallout of a political power struggle.

Allan Leighton was the former boss of Asda and Royal Mail.

Patrick Pouyanne says oil prices usually take 18 months to recover from major price drop.

Some 204,000 new customers subscribed to Sky in the last six months.

Net income for Disney was up by 19%

DBS's near $1.5bn insurance distribution deal gives global insurers access to Asia's fast-growing insurance market.

Woodroffe appeared in a Labour political broadcast just over a decade ago.

In January, investors withdrew $11.6bn from the fund, taking total redemptions between September and January to $91.5bn.

The e-commerce giant has discussed acquiring some of the stores of RadioShack to showcase its hardware products.

A graphic design firm in France has sparked outrage after it asked Jewish people to not apply.

IBTimes UK checks out London's first paleo restaurant amid celebrities adopting the diet

But Tory MP hopeful insists Boots has right to off-shore for business reasons

Santander Group's pre-tax profit was up by 32%.

Both directors have had their pay suspended when they left the group.

Gazprom, however, does not expect cuts to affect its plans to build gas pipelines to China.

Consumer champion also said recent price cuts could have come a lot sooner

Monday's $6.5bn debt sale is the tech giant's fourth major debt offering in two years.

Jack Ma, chairman of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings, said on Monday that he was not frustrated with Chinese regulators, but wanted his company, which is similar to Amazon in China, to be considered world class.

Underlying profit for fourth quarter declined by 20% year on year to $2.2bn, while full-year profit declined 10% to $12.1bn.

Spanish lender logs net profit of €1.46bn for three-months to December 2014.

Bloomberg earlier reported that Google informed Uber's board of its new plan.

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