An offer of covering of up to $2 billion in costs for NASA was made by Amazon.com’s founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos after his recent trip to space in the spaceship developed by his own space exploration company Blue Origin. The offer was made with the condition of NASA offering a contract to make a…
The first vaccine in the world for malaria, based on mRNA technology, is planned to be developed by BioNTech – building on its successful development of Covid-19 vaccine. The company plans to begin clinical trials of the malarial vaccine by the end of next year in its effort to completely eradicate the mosquito borne disease…
India’s Tata Motors Ltd, the owner of JLR brand, is anticipating an easing of global supply chain issues that started with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic with the rapid roll out of vaccines and forecast on Monday of its optimism to see an enhancement of performance of its business from the second half of…
A shortage of auto parts, including that of semiconductor chips for cars, has forced the Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp to stop production of vehicles since earlier this week at three of its manufacturing plants in Thailand, said the Japanese auto major Thursday. The auto company said in a statement that vehicle production at its…
There was a surge in demand from customer primarily in the United States as people took top the new menu items of the company, including cheeseburger and chicken taco pizzas, which helped Domino’s Pizza Inc to comfortable beat analysts’ estimates for revenue and profit for the second quarter. The strong performance of the company…
British payments start-up Currencycloud is to be acquired by Visa, the payments company said Thursday. This is the second major fintech firm acquisition this year by Visa. Visa said that the acquisition had valued Currencycloud at £700 million ($962 million). At the beginning of 2020, an $80 million investment in Currencycloud had been led by…
The maker of Mercedes-Benz vehicles Daimler AG expects the global shortage of semiconductor chips to hit the car sales of the company till the second half of the current year and even into the next year. However the auto company did not change its outlook for its profit margins for the current year. A global…
The Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company UBS reported a 63 per cent surge in its net profits for the second quarter as it comfortably beat analysts’ expectations with buoyant markets continued to aid the company to generate higher earnings from managing money for the super wealthy, said the largest wealth manager of…
The global shortage of auto chips prevented Sweden’s truck maker AB Volvo from fully capitalising by producing more truck to cater to the strong demand for its vehicles during the second quarter and consequently the truck maker warned of further production disruptions and stoppages for the rest of this year because of the chip shortage.…
Walmart’s Flipkart has recently argued with Indian anti-trust regulators that its case should not be treated as the same as its rival Amazon since the evidence against the two companies are “qualitatively different,” according to reports based on Flipkart argument in a court filing. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been challenged by both…
