Google Ad Surge Helps Alphabet To Earn Record Profit

Higher-than-expected third-quarter ad sales were reported by Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, indicating that the company is overcoming new limitations on tracking mobile users and that online shopping remains as popular as ever as the holiday season approaches. Google sells more internet ads than any other company, thanks to its search engine, YouTube…

Dutch Research Institutes Being Visited By Billionaire Alibaba Founder Jack Ma: SCMP

According to the Hong Kong-based daily newspaper – South China Morning Post (SCMP), Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been touring Dutch research institutions to further his interests in farm technologies. The report quoted sources with knowledge of the matter. Since publicly criticizing China’s regulatory structure in a speech last year, the Chinese billionaire has…

GM Forecasts Good Full-Year Results Despite Being Affected By Global Chip Shortage

Despite clocking lower revenue and profit, American automaker General Motors (GM) posted better than expected results for the third quarter while also predicting that its earnings for the full year of 2021 would be at the high end of its earlier estimates. The global semiconductor scarcity caused the company’s adjusted earnings per share to fall…

While Warning Of ‘Challenging Operating Environment’, GE Upgrades 2021 Earnings Forecast

A rebound in its jet-engine businesshelpedGeneral Electric Co to report quarterly profits that beat market’s expectations and prompted the company to announce an upward revision to its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday. However, the industrial conglomerate also issued a warning that it faced a “challenging” operating environment due to the acute issues in the global…

Chip Shortage Impacts Hyundai Motor’s Q3 Profit Missing Estimates

With the global semiconductor crisis slowing down vehicle production and consequently sales, Hyundai Motor Co. of South Korea marginally missed analysts’ profit projections for its latest completed quarter. While announcing the quarterly results, the company also said that it expected it will take a long time for the global chip supply shortage to normalize. A…

Munich Based Main Plant Of BMW To Phase Out Fossil-Fuel Burning Engines By 2024

The German luxury auto maker BMW will discontinue making internal combustion engines at its primary factory unit in Munich by 2024, said the company’s chief of manufacturing while speaking at a conference marking the beginning of production of its electric i4 vehicle. In the future, its factories in Austria and the United Kingdom will be…