Apple chief executive Tim Cook topped the list of the best-paid CEOs in the US in 2011 thanks to stock options that put him more than $300 million above his next rival, a Wall Street Journal survey showed Monday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Even before the release of the first Android tablet and the Honeycomb operating system, Google predicted its partners would sell more than 10 million tablets a year beginning in 2011 and capture up to one-third of the market by 2012, The Verge report... [Full Article]
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland beat the budget deficit target set under its EU/IMF bailout by more than a percentage point in 2011, the government said on Monday, making it more likely that it would stay on track this year despite cuts to growth forecast... [Full Article]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sanjay Jha, the chief executive to Motorola Mobility, was awarded a total compensation package of about $47 million in 2011, almost four times his 2010 pay, according to a regulatory filing. The cellphone maker, which agreed to b... [Full Article]
Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted children and women last year, some of whom had been sold for adoption or forced into prostitution as far away as Angola, officials said Sunday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Israeli Gross Domestic Product grew 4.7 percent last year, marginally down on the 4.8 percent growth recorded in 2010, updated figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Friday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - Barclays boss Bob Diamond was paid 6.3 million pounds ($10 million) for 2011, including a bonus of 2.7 million, with two other executives paid more, the British bank said on Friday. Diamond was paid 1.35 million pounds salary, 2.7 ... [Full Article]
China's human rights record worsened in 2011, making it the most repressive year in a decade, after Beijing launched a crackdown following protests across the Arab world, a group said Friday. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
Railway operator Eurostar, which links London with Brussels and Paris, said Thursday that traffic and sales increased last year despite a decline in the number of business travellers. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
CAIRO (Reuters) - The number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt rose 18 percent to 83.43 million last year, shrugging off an economic crisis sparked by the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, government figures showed on Thursday. In December 2... [Full Article]