Bloomberg Reliance Industries Ltd.’s second-quarter profit rose 18 percent from a year earlier, buoyed by higher earnings from its petrochemicals business. Net income for the operator of the world’s biggest oil-refining complex rose to 77.04 billion rupees ($1.2 billion) in the three months ended Sept. 30, the Mumbai-based company said Thursday in a stock exchange filing. That compares with ...

  Bloomberg After taking control of China’s online shopping market, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. wants to bring the business of instant feedback to a brick-and-mortar sector that’s 10 times bigger. The nation’s biggest e-commerce company is building a network that would allow physical stores — and the brands they sell — to monitor transactions as they happen, Chief Executive Officer ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s job market is going casual. The nation saw its biggest monthly drop in full-time jobs in five years in September, a report showed Thursday, sending down the local dollar. The 162,800 part-time positions added in the year so far is the biggest gain on record, according to data going back to 1978. The 112,100 full-time jobs cut ...

  Bloomberg Intel Corp.’s fight to overturn a record 1.06 billion-euro ($1.17 billion) European Union antitrust fine received a boost from an adviser to the bloc’s top court in a case that could have ramifications for a growing list of disputes involving U.S. tech giants from Google to Apple Inc. Intel’s appeal should be totally re-examined by a lower court, ...

  Brussels / AFP European Union president Donald Tusk warned the bloc would be incapable of negotiating new trade deals if Belgium failed to approve the accord with Canada by Friday. The deal, known as CETA, “could be our last free trade agreement, if we are not able to convince people that we negotiate to protect their interests,” Tusk said ...

  Bloomberg Verizon Communications Inc. suffered its worst quarter of subscriber growth in more than six years amid intensified price competition from smaller rivals, adding pressure on the company’s media and advertising ventures to take up the slack for a rapidly maturing wireless business. The nation’s largest wireless carrier signed up 442,000 total subscribers in the third quarter, falling far ...

  Paris / AFP European sugar producers will target export markets in addition to looking for new domestic customers when the EU lifts quotas next year and fully embraces free-market farm policies, officials and analysts say. However, some analysts believe exports will face tough competition in attractive Middle East and North African markets while some producers, especially in Italy, fear ...

  Bloomberg Monsanto Co. talked to three other companies about potential transactions in the months leading up to its agreement to be acquired by Bayer AG for $65.7 billion, the largest ever agricultural takeover. Details of the talks were revealed in the seed company’s proxy statement filed Wednesday. While talks with Germany’s BASF SE about a possible combination of their ...

  Bloomberg After pushing the auto industry along toward an electric future, Elon Musk wants to put cars on an accelerated path to driving autonomously, equipping each new Tesla Motors Inc. model with the hardware needed for full self-driving capability. Every Tesla, including the upcoming Model 3 sedan, will ship with eight cameras and a dozen sensors to give them ...

  Relaxnews The new Samsung ArtPC Pulse boasts an innovative modular design, doubles as a sound bar and can be programmed to glow different colors when you get an email or social media alert. Samsung calls its latest premium PC a computer that challenges “traditional perceptions of how a desktop PC should look and operate,” and while there is something ...