Marissa Mayer, the former Google executive who is now in charge of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with the $1.1bn (�720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr.

Hats off to Mervyn King. By voicing his doubts about the government's �130bn gamble on the housing market, the outgoing Bank of England governor has restarted a vital debate.

Google's chairman, Eric Schmidt, has said he welcomes promises by international leaders to crack down on tax loopholes exploited by the search firm and other multinational internet businesses that take billions of pounds of sales from the UK through ...

Marks & Spencer's store staff could see their meagre �100 bonus trimmed or ditched after the retail bellwether posts a further fall in annual profits this week.

By William James. LONDON | Sun May 19, 2013 7:01pm EDT. LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - The cost of protecting Scottish savers would prove difficult to bear if the country broke away from the rest of the UK, a study by Britain's finance ministry said on ...

It began as a sideline on a Herefordshire farm little over a decade ago but is now being touted around the world to potential buyers for �100m.

BAE is moving toward naming its new chairman with the UK defence company's most influential stakeholders expected to make a decision by mid June.

FirstGroup is expected to announce that chairman Martin Gilbert is set to step down in an attempt to placate investors as it unveils plans for a �600m rights issue and cuts the dividend.

Eurasian Natural Resources Corp.'s three founding shareholders sent a letter with details of a planned bid for the company at a price of less than 300 pence a share to its independent committee of directors, according to people familiar with the matter.

Nuffield Health this week became the latest British organisation to offer fed-up savers attractive rates on bonds. The charity is inviting people to invest between �1,000 to �250,000 in its bond and get a fixed annual return of 6 per cent for five years.