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Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Boeing plans to carry out the first test flight of its delayed 777X airplane later this week, said two people familiar with the matter on Tuesday.

Halliburton Co swung to a loss in the fourth-quarter as it took a charge of US$2.2 billion on its fracking business due to falling demand from oil and gas producers in North America, its largest market.

Apple Inc dropped plans to let iPhone users fully encrypt backups of their devices in the company's iCloud service after the FBI complained that the move would harm investigations, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

British broadband supplier TalkTalk said it had agreed to sell its fibre network, which initially built ultra-fast connections in the northern city of York, to Goldman Sachs-backed CityFibre for 200 million pounds (US$260 million).

European competition authorities are expected to rule on the London Stock Exchange's US$27 billion takeover of data and analytics company Refinitiv "around the summer", an LSE board member said on Tuesday.

Attorneys for a former Apple Inc executive on Tuesday will try to convince a skeptical judge of a core tenet of tech startup culture - that employees can plan a competing venture while still in a job.

SINGAPORE: Three companies were found to have rigged their bids for the provision of building, construction and maintenance services to Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), said the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) on Tuesday (Jan 21). Shin Yong Construction, Geoscapes and ...

KFC apologized for an advertisement in Australia that shows two young boys staring at a woman's breasts, after calls from a local campaign group to boycott the fast-food giant over the ad it called "sexist", the Australian Associated Press reported.

European planemaker Airbus said on Tuesday that it had decided to create new A321 production capacity at its French site in Toulouse, in order to cope with strong demand.