Reuters

Britain's biggest fixed-line telecoms firm BT hiked its dividend on Thursday after deep spending cuts and strong demand for broadband helped the group to grow earnings and cash despite falling overall sales.

Reuters

Apple Inc's latest iPad sports a crisper display and an array of technology advances that, while less than revolutionary, may prove enough for now to keep rivals like Amazon.com Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd at bay. While stopping short of vaulting ahead of Motorola and Samsung, the device -- which comes 4G-ready and boasts a quad-core graphics processor -- is capable enough to help safeguard its two-thirds market share.

BBC

More than 500 business leaders have called for the 50p top rate of tax to be scrapped in next month's Budget. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph, they said it was reducing government income and damaging the economy.

Reuters

Apple Inc will email all Australian buyers of its new iPad to offer them a refund, a lawyer for the company said on Wednesday, after the nation's consumer watchdog accused it of misleading advertising over one key aspect of the product.

Telegraph

UK regulators have started a review of how borrowing rates are set between banks following a year of unprecedented scrutiny of rates that are critical to financial markets. The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) has been central to investigations carried out over the past 12 months by a number of authorities into whether banks deliberately suppressed the rate during the financial crisis.

Reuters

Chancellor George Osborne should focus on implementing the growth-boosting measures he unveiled last year in the budget due on March 21, Britain's biggest business lobby group said on Wednesday.