French voters elected François Hollande as president on Sunday, giving France a Socialist leader who has pledged to shift the burden of hardship onto the rich and resolve the protracted euro sovereign-debt crisis by softening the current prescription of austerity.

Some of Europe's biggest banks are increasingly hoarding their cash at central banks, anxious that the continent's crisis could intensify and leave them with bigger problems.

Hollande's center-left model should be Gerhard Schröder.

Voters are giving up on the political mainstream in Athens.

Anger at the party overcomes fear.

Samsung's Galaxy Player 3.6, is a connected media player that can make voice and video calls, and send text messages with Wi-Fi.

Before the wedding, the couple-to-be can create an app to keep their guests informed and involved.

Barclays is launching an online savings bank in the U.S., the British lender's first foray into gathering deposits in the vast U.S. market.

Berkshire shares have significantly underperformed the S&P 500 in the past three years, as Buffett has kept his investments sober while the market has gone on a binge. If the past is any guide, that's not a good sign for the market.

Executives at several European banks and insurers will be watching anxiously for signs of investor discontent at upcoming annual meetings, as a wave of "no" votes on pay gathers momentum in the financial-services sector.

In the stock market, overhyped generally means overbought. So it will likely be with Facebook when the social network stages its IPO. But patient investors should take advantage of any volatility after the IPO euphoria fades to buy the shares.

Here's something investors could consider buying as an alternative to Facebook: a big chunk of the Chinese Internet.

Aviva investors main gripe is the U.K. money manager's poor share price performance. The arrival of a new chairman at the end of June will be a chance to review both strategy and management.