Yahoo says its $1.1bn (�723m; 857m euros) purchase of blogging platform Tumblr will boost its revenue as soon as 2014. Yahoo's chief financial officer, Ken Goldman, made the claim during a call with analysts, although he did not give firm numbers.

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 ...

The backlash against corporate tax avoidance could end up costing the country jobs and investment, a Treasury minister has warned, as David Cameron outlined plans for international action on closing loopholes at a meeting with Eric Schmidt, Google's ...

Apple on Monday sought to pre-empt accusations of tax avoidance from an influential US Senate committee, publishing its written submission to the committee the day before Tim Cook, chief executive, was due to testify.

Shares in FirstGroup plunged 30 per cent on Monday as investors balked at a �615m rights issue and the scrapping of its dividend.

Households struggling with rising costs were told in no uncertain terms today to expect the squeeze on their incomes to continue for the foreseeable future as the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club warned above target inflation would be a fact of life for at ...

Ryanair wants to more than double its share of the European short-haul market to 20 per cent in the next five years. The target was revealed as the budget carrier brushed off higher fuel costs to post a record annual profit of �569 million.

To the uninitiated, there may not seem to be much difference between a salmon reared in Loch Fyne or the Hebrides. Yet, J Sainsbury was on Monday forced to apologise for mixing up the two areas of western Scotland in a labelling error that highlights ...

In the new global hunt for yield, the euro is likely to be shot down. For many months, the single currency has remained resilient.

Two-thirds of British families will holiday in the UK this summer amid a cost of living squeeze that means a foreign holiday is a luxury that will have to be sacrificed.