Uber Technologies Inc has agreed to pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit brought by drivers nearly six years ago, according to court filings, resolving one of its many legal battles with drivers ahead of a hotly anticipated initial public offering this year.
CANBERRA: The ongoing pay dispute might leave Australia without their top players in the home Ashes series against England later this year, vice-captain David...
GENEVA: The economic gender gap could take 170 years to close after progress towards parity between the sexes suffered "a dramatic slowdown", the World...
CALIFORNIA: Facebook said Tuesday it has signed a series of deals to pay celebrities and media companies to produce content for its new live video streaming service.
KARACHI: A foreign news agency's report has stated Scandinavian countries including Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway are considered to be the best states for working women.
DUBAI: The French car-maker Peugeot would pay compensation to Iran according to a new contract signed with Tehran last month, for the losses inflicted through its sudden withdrawal from the Iranian market during the sanctions, Iran's minister of trade and industry said on Saturday.
NEW YORK: Google has agreed to pay 130 million pounds ($185 million) in back taxes to Britain, prompting criticism from opposition lawmakers and campaigners who said the "derisory" figure smacked of a "sweetheart deal".
LONDON: Thousands of doctors protested over pay and working conditions in London on Saturday in a growing row between Britain's medical profession and the government.
GAZA CITY: Palestinians paid tribute to the tiny boy who drowned while fleeing the Syrian war by building a sand sculpture of him Monday on a beach in the Gaza Strip.
AMMAN: The United Nations children's fund said Thursday that 14 million children are paying the price for warfare in Syria and neighbouring Iraq, with violence and hardship shaping their future.
WASHINGTON: German mobile phone company T-Mobile has agreed to pay at least $90 million to settle US government claims that it bilked customers with bogus charges, US regulators said Friday.
WASHINGTON: Apple Pay, meant to inject momentum into a fragmented market for the emerging mobile payments sector, has instead highlighted the squabbles between retailers and the banking and payments industry.
MEXICO CITY: A Mexican court has ruled Nokia Mexico S.A. de C.V must pay damages to customers who bought defective mobile phones prior to the handset maker's takeover by Microsoft Corp, a government agency said on Sunday.
JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israel on Sunday declared dead a soldier feared abducted by Hamas Islamist militants in the Gaza Strip and said it would continue to fight even after the army completes destroying cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian fighters to attack its territory.