The United States killed on Friday at least 36 militants suspected to be members of the Islamic State, releasing the most massive non-nuclear device ever used in a battle. The Afghan Defence Ministry reassures that no civilians were hurt in the strike.
The New York-based alternative asset management company Blackstone Group said it was in advanced negotiations to buy Ascend Learning for over $2B, including debt.
General Motors reported it was planning to invest $14M in its California facility and create 1100 positions over the next five years.
Due to tensions with North Korea being on the rise lately, Mike Pence, the US Vice President has scheduled a visit to South Korea in order to reassure the US commitment to the country as an ally.
Rising uncertainty over North Korea and the potential for another nuclear test led the US Dollar to lose value on Friday amid demand for the Yen, which might lead to a weekly close in the red zone.
Apple intends to invest in Toshiba's chip company it is currently selling, and the investment is estimated around several billion US dollars, NHK reported on Friday.
Uber was recommended to pay 1.13 million US dollars in fines for failing to probe reports from clients about drivers being drunk on the job.
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors expected difficulties in selling 1M vehicles in China with total 52% sales slump amid political tension.
China's military force could not deal with tension over North Korea, which was urged to halt nuclear weapons program and cooperate with Chinese defense.
Michel Temer, the President of Brazil, denied that there was a meeting with an executive of Odebrecht SA, who provided an illegal 40$ million payment to his party in 2010.
Shares of Tesla inched nearly 3% higher during Thursday's New York trading session, after Musk announced that new planned commercial truck would be unveiled in September.
At least 24 people were killed and nine were injured in southwestern Mexico after a bus crashed into a fuel tanker truck that exploded.
Opinion polls released on Thursday showed that 51.5% of Turks would vote "Yes" in the constitutional referendum on Sunday aimed at increasing the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's power.
On Thursday, the brand new Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet made its first flight, piloted by Christine Walsh, the 737 Deputy Chief Pilot.
The US State Secretary Rex Tillerson received compensation worth $27.4M in 2016, when he served as the chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, a regulatory filing showed on Thursday.
A Malta-based PE company bought nChain Holdings, which was believed to be behind the creation of Bitcoin, sources close to the matter reported on Thursday.
Major US stocks traded lower on Thursday, as investors assessed earnings of the largest banks and the US President Donald Trump's remarks on the US Dollar's strength.
A US aircraft dropped an enormous GBU-43 bomb, nicknamed as the "mother of all bombs", on the ISIS targets in Afghanistan on Thursday, the Pentagon reported.
The Facebook-owned photo and video sharing app Instagram Stories hit 200M daily active users, while the number of DAUs on Snapchat reached 161M in February.
The University of Michigan reported that consumer morale surged to a three-month peak in April on the back of a more optimistic assessment of the domestic economy.
On Thursday, the Pentagon reported US-led coalition forces had mistakenly put to death 18 Arab and Kurdish militia allies in an air strike on the city of Tabqa, Syria.
Data released by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics revealed that the Producer Price Index fell 0.1% over the month of March, following a 0.3% increase registered in February.
The Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey and Russia, Mehmet Simsek and Arkady Dvorkovich, are eager to hold a meeting that will take place in Moscow next week.
Statistics Canada reported that having posted three straight months of advances, the country's manufacturing sales lost 0.2% in February.