'WITNESSING HISTORY': Apple executives unveiled a software development kit to let programmers craft applications to sell on the newly launched online App Store
Apple is opening its iPhone software to outside developers in an effort to make the hot devices even more popular and wrest market share from "smart phone" market king BlackBerry.

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ON THE REBOUND: CEO Vikram Pandit hopes to stem the bank's losses by raising fresh capital from foreign investment funds such as Singapore's Investment Corp
US financial giant Citigroup announced a radical overhaul of its troubled US mortgage business on Thursday, aimed at stemming multibillion dollar losses triggered by the US housing slump.

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Criminal charges were filed on Thursday against four executives at two US companies who imported toothpaste from China that contained a poison used in antifreeze, the city attorney in Los Angeles said in a statement.

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The Japanese government yesterday proposed a former finance ministry heavyweight to head the Bank of Japan, risking a clash with the opposition, which fears the central bank's independence could be compromised.

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CATCHING UP: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said his company coveted Yahoo's Internet ad business, since Microsoft hasn't developed its own fast enough
Microsoft Corp would either combine or shut down duplicate Internet services after purchasing Yahoo Inc, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.

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