The Midtown Manhattan headquarters of Blackstone Group transformed to an animal kingdom as eight dignitaries from Sea World gave their private equity parent a visit.

China Daily on Thursday quoted National Development and Reform Commission's (NDRC) anti-price-fixing bureau Xu Kunlin, who said his agency has substantive evidence to prove that chipmaker Qualcomm Inc is involved in price-fixing acts.

At his annual speech at the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that actions to improve Russia's business climate should be done immediately after finally conceding that the state's economic problems were grown at home.

In a note to its users via its Help page, the team at Yahoo Inc said its Mail service is now back for most of the users, and is working to restore its IMAP access to achieve full functionality of the free Web service.

EY director Colin Pickard said Bitcoin has the potential to be a game changer in the financial services industry as long as governments start regulating the digital currency.

Yahoo has yet to address technical problems of its mail and small business services, which is causing frustration for many of its individual and small business customers, according to a TechCrunch report.

The row that occurred between 23andMe Inc and the Food and Drug Administration has led to stricter oversight of the genetic testing industry, according to a Bloomberg report.

JPMorgan Chase has filed an application for a payment system that is similar in many ways to the controversial Bitcoin, according to a Financial Times report.

Howard Chen, an analyst from Credit Suisse, will be joining the bank's Investment Banking Department as the Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Technology and Financial Strategies.

Eight US technology firms in the US wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama, calling on government to impose stricter controls on online surveillance.