The iPhone maker Apple Inc has been able to fare the global semiconductor shortage much better than other mobile phone makers and has as a consequence been able to claw into the other mobile phone makers of its competitors, as is evident from analysis of data providers. According to data from market research firms Counterpoint,…
Facebook, the world’s largest social networking platform, has changed its company name to Meta pot Meta Platforms in an apparent surprise decision. Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CRO of Facebook, announced the new platform, which would bring together apps and technology under one unified business identity. However, for users of the company’s social media services –…
Reliance Industries said on Friday that its low-cost 4G smartphone, created jointly by the Indian group’s Jio telecommunications business and Alphabet’s Google, will be available in stores starting this Diwali season for 6,499 rupees ($87). Reliance said in a statement that the smartphone, which is the result of a $4.5 billion Google investment in Reliance’s…
Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta was paid $1 million by Chinese telecommunications company Huawei for trying to influence the Biden administration on its behalf, claimed reports based on information sources in Washington. The reports claimed that the amount paid by Huawei to the lobbyist was double of what had been reported publicly. In a third-quarter lobbying…
After paying $809.5 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit, more than $500 million was lost by the social media company Twitter in the three months ending September. In 2015, accusations of deceiving investors about user engagement were leveled against the social media behemoth. The quarterly sales revenues of the company increased by 7 per cent…
While showering praises for Elon Musk’s Tesla, the CEO of Volkswagen Group also welcomed the idea that the two companies would compete in the future. After being requested by the German automaker’s CEO, Herbert Diess, Musk spoke to VW officials via video conference earlier this month. Musk’s presence was verified by Diess on Twitter and…
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…
Growth in volume driven by a rebound in travel and a better global economic scenario helped the largest payment processor of the world, Visa Inc, to report a quarterly profit that surpassed Wall Street projections. Despite this Visa said that the level of cross-border travel was still much lower than the levels from before the…
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…
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…
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