The Luxury British car manufacturer maker Aston Martin is in the process of making continuous investments in the development and manufacturing of new models and a second manufacturing unit as a part of its turnaround strategy and this drove down the adjusted pre-tax profits for the company in 2018. The company reported a year on…
The lawsuit is in the same line as those it filed against Facebook and Snap last year. BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter alleging that it illegally used technology that it developed on its mobile messaging applications. The lawsuit states, Twitter wrongly sought to compensate for being a “relative latecomer” to…
Tech-savvy KKR has prior experience in the music industry given its earlier deal with Bertelsmann; however negotiations with Vincent Bollore are expected to be tough, especially if KKR and Tencent push for a controlling stake. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group and U.S. buyout fund KKR are…
Horizon Robotics is one of the companies at the fore front of China’s strategic “Made in 2025” policy. Its latest funding round has valued it at $3 billion. On Wednesday, Horizon Robotics, a Chinese chip maker stated it had $600 million in its latest funding round, thus bringing its valuation to $3 billion. The development…
Marks & Spencer has entered into a joint venture with online supermarket pioneer Ocado and has thus forayed into the online full delivery service market. On Wednesday, British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has agreed to form a joint venture with Ocado, an online supermarket pioneer. The development assumes significance since it would provide M&S…
According to Public Relations experts, Chinese tech company Huawei is in fact benefitting from the extensive and global coverage that the company is getting because of the call of the United States to ban the company and its urging of the its allies to do the same. The US fears that the telecom equipment supplied…
The $5.26 billion acquisition of Brazilian company Embraer by the US aircraft maker Boeing was approved by the shareholders of the former company at the company’s headquarters in an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting. More than 96 per cent of the valid votes at the special meeting approved the acquisition which represented about 67 per cent…
The department store chain Macy’s announced retrenchment of about 100 jobs in its management category as a part of the company’s efforts to cut down costs and enhance profitability even as sales continue to fall. In the fourth quarter, the company however performed better than the market expectations which were lowered earlier. However the company…
Owner and founder of US electric car maker Tesla, Elon Muskm is again embroiled in a controversy with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States. A US judge has been asked by the SEC to hold Elon Musk in contempt for violating a settlement agreement which resulted in a drop in the…
As a part of its restructuring plan and to further focus completely on its core business some of the peripheral businesses are being sold off by the once sprawling conglomerate General Electric. The company announced the selling off its biopharma business to Danaher Corp. for $21.4 billion. Last year, revenue of $3 billion was generated…
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