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September 09, 2014 2:18 AM [SAN FRANCISCO] For Twitter Inc, a tweet will soon be more than a form of communication or an ad - it will be an invitation to buy. ...

September 09, 2014 2:18 AM THESE days, business leaders find themselves increasingly asked about their strategy for corporate sustainability or CSR, the commonly used acronym for corporate social responsibility. ...

September 09, 2014 2:18 AM [NEW DELHI] Smartphone makers are in a race to the bottom of India's economic pyramid as they battle for customers in the fast-growing low-end market segment where analysts say opportunities are vast. ...

September 09, 2014 2:37 AM MAYBANK'S new "Mobile to Mobile Transfer" app is growing by nearly a fifth annually, and with an increasing number of its Singapore registered online banking customers using the application to transfer money, some S$2 billion worth is being transacted monthly now. ...

September 09, 2014 2:44 AM [NEW YORK] Just a few years ago, airlines got their weather reports by telex. Pilots pored over reams of paper and compared the forecasts with their flight plans. Once airborne, they depended on radio communications and rudimentary radar to avoid bad weather. ...

September 09, 2014 2:46 AM ON Sept 4, 2014, The Business Times published a letter from Singapore Exchange, or SGX ("Market reaction to queries: Singapore's experience is consistent with Hong Kong's"), which raised some methodological issues about research on responses to price queries in Singapore and Hong Kong, undertaken by Ho Yew Kee, Eugene Kwek and me. ...

September 09, 2014 3:11 AM SHARES of Wilmar International, First Pacific and Goodman Fielder fell on Monday after the three said they were pushing back the date by which Wilmar and First Pacific's acquisition of Goodman Fielder will be implemented. ...

September 09, 2014 3:12 AM THERE was no grand strategy, or public relations-fuelled timetable. Put it down to good timing. But as luxury hospitality operator Banyan Tree celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, it has embarked on its most ambitious expansion yet. ...

September 09, 2014 3:13 AM [SINGAPORE] Singapore looks set to enact the world's most restrictive laws on online and mobile gambling. These pursuits will soon be prohibited if the Remote Gambling Bill - tabled for the first time in Parliament on Monday - is passed. ...

September 09, 2014 3:13 AM THE Mid-Autumn Festival had a bitter filling for Singapore stocks on Monday. If it is any consolation, there is that once in a blue mooncake chance to make a bad pun. ...

September 09, 2014 3:16 AM [NEW YORK] If you agreed with all the academics, billionaires and politicians who denounced US Federal Reserve monetary policy since the financial crisis, you missed US$1 trillion of investment returns from buying and holding US Treasuries. ...

September 09, 2014 3:16 AM THE Land Transport Authority (LTA), together with the Intelligent Transportation Society Singapore (ITSS), is bidding to host the 26th Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) World Congress 2019 in Singapore. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - World share markets stalled on Monday as the threat of Scotland splitting from the rest of Britain leapt to the forefront of investors' attention, the latest in a recent run of geopolitical curveballs. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday called for swift action to close a federal tax code "loophole" that allows businesses to reincorporate abroad to avoid U.S. corporate taxes, but offered no new ideas for how to do that. ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc has a lot for which to thank people like Deng. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The No. 3 U.S. Senate Democrat has circulated a draft proposal to crack down on U.S. companies that invert, or merge with foreign competitors to get lower tax rates, and it would apply to deals as far back as 1994. ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co Executive Chairman Bill Ford said new technologies that allow cars to talk to each other and drive themselves may scare some people, so the industry will need to allow consumers to opt out of such features. ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors in New York revived their five-year crackdown against insider trading on Monday, taking a former executive at data equipment maker Foundry Networks Inc to trial two months after suffering their first jury defeat in a separate case. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - State-backed Royal Bank of Scotland aims to raise up to $4 billion from the share flotation of its U.S. bank Citizens Financial Group this month, it was announced on Monday, putting it on track to be the biggest U.S. bank share offering this year. ...

LONDON (Reuters) - With returns on government bonds at rock-bottom prices, sovereign wealth funds are muscling into stock markets and other higher-yielding assets like real estate at a rate that private investors warn could destabilize the world economy. ...