By Alexei Oreskovic. SAN FRANCISCO | Tue May 21, 2013 5:15am BST. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's 721.2 million pounds acquisition of blogging service Tumblr will be a test of her ability to revive the aging Web ...

Shares in London have reached levels last seen at the height of the dotcom boom nearly 13 years ago. At a close of 6,755 points, the FTSE 100 blue chip index matched levels from September 2000, just before the market's fascination with loss-making ...

WASHINGTON - Even as Apple became the nation's most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most ...

The bosses of some of Britain's largest multinational corporations have urged David Cameron to stop moralising and rein in his rhetoric on tax avoidance ahead of a G8 summit next month.

Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary: 'legal issues loom'John Mulligan - 21 May 2013. Ryanair is in talks to significantly boost traffic out of Dublin Airport after years of reducing capacity in the capital.

The European Commission stepped up its investigation into oil price fixing as it sought information from trading houses such as the FTSE 100 giant Glencore.

More than 800 flats in the Battersea Power Station development in London have been sold for �675m. The owners of the Grade II listed power station, which has lain dormant since it stopped generating electricity in 1983 despite numerous outlandish ...

The company is still reeling from the Government's bungled handling of last year's West Coast Main Line contract. Getty. Britain's biggest train and bus operator blamed the Government after launching a massive �615million cash call yesterday.

Scotland has been held back by past and present UK governments, Holyrood's SNP administration has claimed. In a paper, to be published later, it cites six areas where Westminster has pursued policies said not to have been in the best interests of Scotland.

Two out of three families are resorting to a 'staycation' this summer as the squeeze on household budgets makes foreign holidays unaffordable, a study has found.