BEIJING | Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:01am EDT BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing on Monday denied a U.S. commission’s claim that China may have been responsible for hacking incidents on U.S. environment-monitoring satellites, saying that the committee had “ulterior motives” in writing such a draft report. At least two U.S. environment-monitoring satellites were interfered with four [...]

By Isabel Reynolds TOKYO | Mon Oct 31, 2011 6:39am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese electronics maker Panasonic Corp forecast an annual net loss of 420 billion yen ($5.5 billion), its biggest in a decade, as restructuring costs ballooned, and a soaring yen and weak demand in the United States and Europe eroded income. Panasonic [...]

The number of smartphone subscribers in South Korea surpassed 20 million last week, with about 40 percent of South Koreans carrying the mobile device, the country’ s telecom regulator said Sunday.

ZURICH | Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:25am EDT ZURICH (Reuters) – The head of internet, telephone and TV provider Cablecom said he was looking at all options when asked about whether his firm might buy mobile phone provider Orange Switzerland, a unit of France Telecom SA, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Cablecom chief Eric Tveter [...]

LONDON | Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:50pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has called for clarification about a string of controversial payments made by Olympus, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Noda acknowledged it might be considered inappropriate for a prime minister to comment on a private company but told the [...]