Intel Corp has suffered a major setback at a time when smaller rival AMD and others are gaining ground. It claims that it will regain its equilibrium this year. On Thursday, the company surprised the market by forecasting revenue that fell short of Wall Street estimates by about $3 billion. The global economy’s weakness only…
A record-breaking run in LVMH shares was briefly halted on Friday after the company’s fourth-quarter sales update caused some disappointment over the impact of China disruption on its margins. The company, which owns dozens of high-end labels such as Louis Vuitton and Dior, reported late Thursday that its fourth-quarter sales increased 9% as shoppers in…
Elon Musk told jurors on Monday that he was confident he had secured financial backing from Saudi investors in 2018 to take Tesla Inc private, and that he could even have used his stake in rocket company SpaceX to fund a buyout. During a five-hour trial in federal court in San Francisco, the billionaire, who…
The commerce minister of India has claimed that the iPhone maker Apple Inc. is planning to manufacture a quarter of all its iPhones in India. Apple is “another success story” for India, said Piyush Goyal, India’s minister of commerce and industry, while highlighting the success of the fifth-largest economy of the world. “They’re [Apple] already…
According to the CEO of Ingka Group, which owns the majority of IKEA stores, demand for the furniture retailing giant’s products in Europe will continue to rise during the current fiscal year, and the growth in demand will be driven by customers in the home furnishings segment that has remained steady even during the Covid lockdowns. “We are right now optimistic…
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, will lay off 12,000 workers, the latest round of layoffs in the tech industry. In an internal email, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai stated that he accepted “full responsibility” for the layoffs. The layoffs will affect 6% of Alphabet’s global workforce, including teams such as recruitment and engineering. This comes…
A French court has directed Uber to pay roughly 17 million euros ($18.43 million) in damages and lost wages to a community of drivers who contended they should have been regarded as employees instead of being regarded as being self-employed, according to reports quoting information from both the company and the representatives of the drivers involved…
The new owner of Twitter – Elon Musk, said in a tweet ion Saturday that there will be no advertisements for the users of a higher priced subscription of the social media platform. According to the tweet from the billionaire, ads are “too frequent on Twitter and too big,” and added that appropriate measures will…
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant, is embarking on a rapid global expansion to compete with Tesla, but for the time being, it is stuck in the slow lane on its rival’s home turf. While BYD has not fully articulated its global ambitions in public, four sources familiar with BYD management’s thinking said that…
Emerson Electric Co, a US engineering and industrial software company, announced a nearly $7 billion offer for National Instruments Corp, which it has been attempting to acquire unsuccessfully for several months. The software company’s all-cash bid of $53 per share, first submitted to NI on Nov. 3, represents a 13% premium to NI’s Friday close.…
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