The Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger has been opposed by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) which has expressed concerns that the merger will potentially reduce competition and will reduce the chances of competitive entry.

Some of the governments in Europe are considering drugs, prostitution, and contraband as likely means to boost their economic growth report as they fight back their debt crises.

Microsoft has revealed in a recent announcement that with effect from June 9, it will start selling its latest Xbox One gaming console without the Kinect motion sensor. As such, the new option will bring down the cost of the Xbox One to $399 --- $100 less than the console's original cost of $499 with the Kinect sensor.

GitHub, an open source website, has been on the receiving end in recent months due to various cases of sexual harassment surfacing intermittently. The latest blow to the company came last week when one of the high ranking female developers quit citing sexual harassment by the senior officials.

Experts have said that the bad weather in the US played a role in the US jobs market as employers added the lowest number of workers in the December month compared over a period of three years.

It has been reported by her labor ministry that Austria's unemployment sought a rise by 38,000 to 361,279 in December. If compared to last year, the total unemployment rate increased by 11.9%. In December, the unemployment rate came down to at 9.5%, said the ministry.

Since 2010, gas and electricity prices have strikingly increased. The main reason for the increase of prices is the increase in wholesale costs on the support of the tentative global economic recovery and expectations of higher requirement.

This week, Energy ministers from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) have decided to keep the target of the group for crude output unchanged at 30 million barrels per day.

OPEC's members are Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Venezuela.