World Business News

Twitter on Thursday revealed that over 140 million active users make 340 million tweets everyday. The company disclosed the figure in an official blog posted after it completed six years of operations.

Cisco Systems is riding the wave of connected televisions with a splashy $5 billion acquisition deal for NDS Group, a privately held British TV software company.

Consumption will overtake investment as China's biggest driver of economic growth in 2012 for the first time in more than a decade, the Ministry of Commerce's research institute said in a report.

Telenor's (TEL.OL) Indian cellular joint venture partner, Unitech Ltd (UNTE.NS), is "in principle" ready to sell its stake to the Norwegian company but wants a "fair" valuation, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.