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It was billed officially as a move to “increase collaboration across hardware, software and services” at the top of the world’s most valuable technology firm.

Barclays will be forced to disclose the names of staff involved in Libor rigging, following a damning court judgment over claims it mis-sold interest rate swaps to a care home operator.

Kweku Adoboli claims senior colleagues knew about his ‘off book’ acitivity and pressed him into making riskier deals

Investment firms have warned that a plan to limit the marketing of tax-efficient investment schemes could “severely restrict” a key source of funds for small businesses.

Three of Britain’s biggest banks will this week admit that billions of pounds of profits have been wiped out by rising claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance (PPI).

A supply chain finance initiative launched by the Prime Minister this week could entrench a culture of late payment among Britain’s largest companies, according to shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna.

The Government has indicated that it will rebuff calls to regulate the asset-based finance industry despite complaints that some providers are exploiting small businesses.

A growing army of “zombie” businesses is “choking” the economic recovery, an insolvency firm has warned.

Amid the fanfare accompanying the noisy launch of the iPad mini this week, Apple Inc also took the wraps off new Mac computers.

David Cameron is facing an official investigation after appearing to drop a hint about market-sensitive growth figures not published until Thursday.

Dyson has discovered a spy for its German rival Bosch working in its high-security inventing department in Malmesbury.

Starbucks’s global finance chief has said he “looks forward” to paying more tax in the UK but that taking on a series of “way too expensive” property leases had hit profits.

Back in the 1980s, Redmond, just east of Seattle, was a boom town. Microsoft, the international computer giant which is headquartered in the Washington State town, had made multi-millionaires of hundreds of its staff, on a scale that even Apple, Google and Facebook have not since managed.

The British economy will not recover until the banks own up to their bad debts and are recapitalised again, the Governor of the Bank of England has warned.

Treasury mandarin tells MPs emergency measure likely to have helped economy but admits full impact is unknown