For more than a decade, US-based Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and others in the worldwide tech industry have touted a vision of a connected lifestyle, in which digital content can move across devices throughout the home and be taken on the go.

Sony executives today apologised for inconvenience caused by a massive global recall in laptop batteries, but said the problems were now fixed and that none of the company’s top leaders would resign over the recall.

Japanese stocks plunged for a second day today, bringing its two-day loss to nearly 6% amid investor jitters about a widening criminal investigation of internet start-up Livedoor Co.

THE idea that there are companies generating more wealth than Ireland has been debunked by the United Nations.