LG slashes LCD investment costs, maintains planned investments in its OLED business

LG is bent on migrating towards making next-generation OLED panels and has slashed investments in its LCD business, which incidentally accounts for nearly 90% of its revenues. South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd, a key supplier of panels for Apple, posted its second consecutive loss citing poor panel prices while slashing its investment plans by…

Grab expands into grocery delivery services across Southeast Asia

Through this strategic move, Grab is expanding from its core ride-hailing services into other areas including electronic money transfers, loans, payment services and food delivery. Through GrabFresh, it now serves on-demand grocery deliveries. It is targetting revenues of $1 billion by the end of 2018. On Tuesday, in a strategic move that banks on its…

Trump’s tax law takes a $13.8 billion bite from Microsoft Corp’s 4th quarter revenues

The growth in Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing service is one of the reasons why the tech giant’s shares have risen by nearly 50% in the last 12 months. Despite Microsoft Corp’s quarterly revenues beating Wall Street’s forecast, recent changes in U.S. tax law took a one-time bite of $13.8 billion from its earnings. Boosted by…