Joined by industry leaders Audi, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, and SkyWorks Solutions, Inc., IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the successful pioneering of new collaboration technologies across multiple industries.

Oil prices rose slightly in Asian trading Thursday on continued concerns about gasoline supply - despite a U.S. government report that showed stockpiles of the fuel increased last week.

Energy ministers from Iran and Qatar denied that the world's largest natural gas exporting countries, who held talks here on Monday, intend to band together as a cartel. Discussions at the 16-member Gas Producing Countries Forum focused on deepening cooperation between gas producing countries with an aim to create a stable world market for the fuel, Iran's Minister of Petroleum Seyed Hamaneh and his Qatari counterpart Abdullah al-Attiyah said.