Taipei - Taiwan's Compal Electronics Inc, the world's second-largest contract notebook compute

San Francisco - Microsoft's bankers have approached Facebook about a purchase of the social networking site as an alternative for its failed takeover bid for Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition.

Quoting a person familiar with the situation, the report said that Microsoft's representatives "recently contacted Facebook" but there were no active discussions between the two.

Hong Kong - Banking giant HSBC was on Thursday u

New York  - Top business leaders on Wednesday urged the world's eight largest industrialized nations to ensure

Geneva - The Head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said Wednesday the multilateral trade body must help provide a solution to the spreading global food crisis.

Stockholm  - The SAS Group, operator of the joint carrier Scandinavian Airlines, said Wednesday i