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An unexpectedly steep drop in the U.S. unemployment rate last month looks to offer fresh ammunition for President Donald Trump as he stumps for votes contending he is the better choice for the U.S. economy in the run-up to the Nov. 3 presidential election.

An Indian firm is set to launch a battle royale mobile videogame in partnership with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, capitalizing on the void left by a ban on Chinese tech firm Tencent's popular PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG).

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) will simplify the parameters for the Jobs Growth Incentive scheme to ensure qualifying companies can expand their manpower needs and bring forward hiring plans, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo said on Friday (Sep 4). In a Facebook post, she said that ...

Colombian regulators on Friday ordered Alphabet Inc's Google to clearly ask each user whether the world's largest search engine can use their personal data which is being captured without authorization.

SoftBank Group Corp made significant option purchases in the U.S. stock market in recent weeks as a way of temporarily investing some of its proceeds from asset sales, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

SINGAPORE: Amendments to the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Act were passed on Friday (Sep 4) to update rental relief measures implementation and to extend arrangements for remote meetings during the COVID-19 crisis. The Bill also introduced temporary powers for the Law Minister to extend certain ...

With no end in sight to the coronavirus pandemic, worldwide demand for surgical gloves -- as for other types of personal protective equipment -- is booming, leaving manufacturers struggling to keep up.

U.S. rural telecom networks, which have relied on inexpensive equipment from Huawei and ZTE to run their businesses, have told the government that it would cost US$1.837 billion to replace those switches and routers, the Federal Communications Commission said on Friday.

Amazon.com Inc is planning to create 10,000 more jobs in the next few years in Bellevue, Washington, the e-commerce giant said on Friday.

U.S. job growth slowed further in August as financial assistance from the government ran out, threatening the economy's recovery from the COVID-19 recession.