Switzerland's Sika has an interest to acquire some parts of the construction chemicals business owned by BASF or the entire business, the CEO Paul Schuler stated on Friday.
Evan Williams, the Twitter co-founder, announced on Friday he would step down from the company's board by the end of February, after serving for 12 years as the board's member and CEO.
Andrew Cuomo, the New York governor, ordered state agencies on Friday to launch a probe into Facebook access to personal data via other apps on users' smartphones.
On Friday, Brazil's judge suspended the tie-up negotiations of Boeing and the Brazilian plane maker Embraer, scheduled for February 28; another court injunction that is likely to be appealed by Embraer's shareholders for blocking the tie-up process.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has set an annual target compensation for its CEO Mike Manley that consists of cash, pay and equity bonuses worth $14M, according to the carmaker's regulatory filing.
Microsoft's employees demanded the tech company on Friday to cancel the $480M worth hardware contract to supply weapons to the US Army.
Intel executives announced that 5G modem chips are unlikely to appear in phones until 2020, increasing possibility the biggest customer, Apple, will be behind rivals in making a device, which uses the faster networks.
The US President Donald Trump stated that he may not or may include China's telecommunications companies ZTE and Huawei in the trade deal negotiated between China and the US.
China agreed to purchase up to $1.2 trillion in the US goods within the current negotiations to cease the trade war between the two countries, CNBC reported.
German business confidence declined markedly the lowest level since 2014, as the worries to the country's management floor kept rising, the Ifo announced.
The US cloud storage firm Dropbox released better-than-anticipated financial results for the Q4, with the fourth quarter's revenue growing 23% year-on-year to hit $375.9M.
Home prices in 70 Chinese cities remained largely stable in January, edging up 0.4% month-over-month in January, the NBS report showed.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping stated the the country's financial sector must serve its real economy, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The US Justice Department stated that it filed complaints for forfeiture and recovery of nearly $38M in assets related to 1MDB case, bringing the assets now subject to forfeiture to a total of about $1.7B.
US shares edged higher on Friday, powered by technology stocks and bets of progress in trade talks between the United States and China.
On Friday, crude oil prices reached its highest level in over three months on signs of progress in the ongoing trade negotiations between China and the United States.
On Friday, the US Office of Comptroller of the Currency said that it had reprimanded Japan's MUFG Bank over money laundering lapses.
On Friday, Canada's Barrick Gold Corporation said that it was thinking an all-stock bid for rival Newmont Mining Corporation.
General Motors Co announced on Friday that it had extended the production plant at Detroit factory until early 2020.
According to a report by the Guardian newspaper, UK's top cabinet ministers want the British Prime Minister Theresa May to resign after the local elections.
On Friday, Kraft Heinz Co stocks fell to its lowest level, after the company announced $15 billion write-down on its brands.
On Friday, France expressed reservations on whether the European Union should begin trade talks with the United States.
On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency report showed that Iran is still holding up to its end of the nuclear agreement.
The British Fraud Office has abandoned the investigations into bribery allegations against drugs maker GlaxoSmithKline and Rolls-Royce.