There would be no obstacle to the USD976 million all-stick consolidation of Office Depot and Office Max Inc as according to unnamed sources in a Wall Street Journal report, the Federal Trade Commission would be approving the merger.

Software maker SAP on Saturday said it would be reducing the development capacity of Business By Design, a software product targeted to small and mid-sized business customers.

Artworks of British renegade graffiti artist Banksy became popular overnight in New York as city authorities had tried in vain to catch him for vandalism charges.

Rivalry between Google Inc and Facebook Inc seemed to have thawed after the former announced its partnership with the latter on aiding clients to purchase ad inventory.

The US Federal Reserve's Beige Book report reflected a somewhat stable US economy in its first week of the government shutdown.

EBay Inc's fourth quarter earning estimates were in the range of USD0.79 to USD81 per share, lower than analysts' estimates.

The legislation passed by the US Senate and Congress included fund allocations to cover fund reliefs to back payments of veteran soldiers.

Major mining operation disruptions this year in the British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto had reduced investor interest in copper on the London Stock Exchange.

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) had approved a dry run on October 26 for trading firms to test its systems to check whether there are technical issues that could affect trading in the upcoming Twitter Inc IPO.

Voxeljet, whose technology was used to design Aston Martin cars for the James Bond film "Skyfall", traded as high as USD29.06 from its initial USD13 per share price after its debut on the German stock exchange.

An impending economic crisis could have happened to Americans should US Congress and the government had not arrived at a debt ceiling agreement.

Grupo Ser Educacional SA had 30 days to comply with Brazilian regulator CVM in order to life the suspension of its planned initial public offering.

Global ratings agency Fitch ratings was confident that the US government would be able to fulfill its debt payments even if no agreement would be passed after October 17.

Google Inc would be joining the elite group of companies which stock had hit the USD1,000 price per share mark.

BBC Wordlwide would reintroduce its BBC Earth and BBC First offerings starting 2014. Today, The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Worldwide had disclosed its plans to relaunch some of its existing offerings.

A total of USD50 million in investment funding was received by mobile game developer Chukong Technologies from backers including GGV capital and Sequoia Capital.

In its announcement today, Wonga said it had acquired Germany online payments service BillPay for an undisclosed amount.

RealityCap, an iOS app software company, had published a fix for iPhone 5S owners whose sensor provide inaccurate information.

Berlin-based Labfolder's product was aimed to help scientists plan and document experiments. CORRECTION: Changed facts in title and in article body.

The third quarter report of Dow Jones Venture Source showed a rise in venture capital activity in the technology sector.

A rise in acquisitions in Australian and New Zealand farms and assets had been seen recently. The bidding war over Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd had fanned investor fever of acquisitions in dairy farms and companies over Australia and New Zealand.

Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Holdings Ltd received its third and bigger acquisition offer from Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co Ltd.

The Investment Canada Act would be a major hurdle for foreign companies like Lenovo who wish to acquire Blackberry as a whole or in parts.

EBay Inc founder and chairman Pierre Omidyar discussed about his new media venture via a blog post on Wednesday.

Japan hair and cosmetics company Shiseido on Thursday said it had been discussing with L'Oreal about the latter's acquisition of the Decleor and Carita skincare brands for EUR230 million or USD314.3 million.

The Windows 8.1 update would seek to address issues that had been found in the original Windows 8 operating system.

A total of USD40 million in capital investments was raised in cloud software startup Accela's fourth investment funding round.

Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron announced his departure via a Facebook post. Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron recently announced that he would be leaving the gaming giant after six and a half years.

Stitch Fix founder and CEO Katrina Lake told Techcrunch in an interview that the additional USD12 million funding would go towards keeping up the organic growth of the online shopping startup.

According to a report by Techcrunch, Prime Ventures provided a capital infusion of USD7 million to mobile games marketing platform AppLift.