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A mural of reggae icon Bpb Marley.

New Bob Marley marijuana gon’ make you feel irie

The reggae singer’s family is on board with a private firm to launch ‘Marley Natural’, a strain of marijuana meant for healing.

New head of the US Federal Reserve Bank

Yellen’s over, now the work begins

Reversing QE has begun and the challenge now is for the Fed’s new chairperson to keep it in check.

WTF, NSA? Tech giants vent spy fury

Google and Yahoo! are fuming over revelations that the agency intercepted their users’ records.

US takes a closer look at digital currency (Photo Archive)

US takes a closer look at digital currency

United States authorities increase scrutiny of the digital currency.

Australia will force Google and Facebook to pay media outlets for their content, the government announced Monday, vowing to lead the world in making the tech giants share lucrative advertising revenues with traditional media.

Google: Don’t expect privacy when sending to Gmail

People sending emails to Google’s Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that it will be confidential, says the company in a court filing.

Haunted economy: Business in the debt-ridden city of Detroit

Detroit’s wheels come off

Bankruptcy is seen as the motor city’s last resort and even then its recovery will be difficult.

Tough start to US-EU free-trade talks

The US and the European Union start talks to create the world’s largest free-trade agreement, amid diplomatic tensions over recent spying revelations.

The company says that the tests went according to plan.

Boeing puts grounded Dreamliner through its paces

Boeing has completed the first successful tests of its troubled Dreamliner 787 since the jet was grounded following battery fires.

BP knew of risks but put cutbacks above safety – expert

BP’s "every dollar counts" culture led to the fatal Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Republican vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan.

Paul Ryan and the share trading scandal

The US vice-presidential candidate has denied he profited from a 2008 meeting with the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke.

The world’s largest hamburger chain said this week its net income fell by 4% in the second quarter.

Global slowdown chips away at McDonald’s boom

McDonald’s, the fast food giant that managed to ride out much of the Great Recession, has been bitten by the global slowdown.

Microsoft’s new tablet Surface shown during the press conference in California.

Microsoft takes on iPad with Surface tablets

Microsoft has launched its own series of tablet computers as the tech giant fights to regain ground lost to Apple’s hugely popular iPad.

Buyers baulk at cost of ‘green’ cars

Buyers baulk at cost of ‘green’ cars

A lot still needs to happen in the alternative fuels vehicle market before sales figures start to rise.

New York police arrest ‘lone wolf’ terror suspect

New York police arrest ‘lone wolf’ terror suspect

An "al-Qaeda sympathiser" has been arrested in New York for allegedly planning bomb attacks targeting soldiers, police cars and post offices.

Las Vegas: A tale of two cities

The rich are having the best of times while the middle and lower classes are struggling to survive.

Amazon kindles its own fire

Amazon kindles its own fire

At $199, the wireless media player/book reader/web browser/geegaw will be the cheapest of its kind when it is released.

The ‘dire’ consequences of default

Analysts say standoff between Obama and Republicans could spark a global recession.

Best returns

Best returns, worst reputation

A new book on Goldman Sachs says the bank will take years to reinstate its image.

Goldman executives’ wages of sin

Goldman executives’ wages of sin

A nun leads the charge against the excessive amounts paid to corporate chiefs.

Walmart sex-discrimination case has profound implications

A 60-year-old Walmart employee came up against the world’s biggest retailer in another round of the largest sex discrimination case in history.