While some of the largest auto companies have emerged from Europe, yet the region is apparently losing out to China in terms of electric cars. China has developed into a powerhouse for the electric vehicle batteries which is considered critical… Read More ›
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Softbank To Maintain Saudi Ties Even After Khashoggi Murder: SoftBank Chief
While condemning the murder of a veteran US based Saudi journalist allegedly at the hands of security men of Saudi Arabia in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, the chief of the Japanese tech and investment group Softbank has said the… Read More ›
Legal costs will determine whether Bayer AG would settle glyphosate related cases
According to one of the attorneys for the plaintiff, Bayer’s claims on glyphosate were “hypocritical beyond belief” given its own efforts to control the message on glyphosate, the most recent of which is a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post…. Read More ›
Apple to stop reporting key performance metric
Although Apple will now provide investors and analysts cost-of-sales data for its product businesses and its services business, they will not be in a position to know the margin mix within Apple’s services businesses. With Apple Inc saying it will… Read More ›
General Motors Co commences cost cutting exercise
As part of the cost cutting exercise, GM, the biggest automaker in the United States, has stopped work on 2 renovation projects and has also offered severance pay to 18,000 of its 50,000 salaried workers across North America. According to… Read More ›
Carl Icahn sues Dell Technologies over its IPO plans
No stranger to lawsuits, activist investor Carl Icahn has taken the legal route to stop Dell from going ahead with its IPO saying the deal does not value DVMT stockholders. In a strategic development, activist investor Carl Icahn has sued… Read More ›
Jaguar Land Rover announces opening of new technical office in Hungary in 2019
JLR’s new technical engineering office in Hungary will close collaboration of Hungarian engineers with their British peers; the new office is also aimed at aligning JLR’s supply chain across central central and eastern Europe. On Friday, Britain’s biggest carmaker, Jaguar… Read More ›
BMW expands its car sharing service to more boroughs across London
BMW is expanding its DriveNow service to nine more boroughs across London; as a result its total fleet size is also increasing to 720 BMW and Mini cars in London. Wit BMW overcoming some of its barriers to operating across… Read More ›
Activist investor Hudson Executive Capital LP takes 3.1% stake in Deutsche Bank
Hudson Executive Capital LP led by former JPMorgan Chase’s CFO Douglas Braunstein feels that Deutsche Bank is “misunderstood and undervalued”. On Thursday, as per a report from the Wall Street Journal, New York-based hedge fund Hudson Executive Capital LP has… Read More ›
Vietnam’s Vietjet Aviation to purchase 50 A321neo from Airbus in a $6.5 billion deal
The deal was finalized during French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s visit to Hanoi. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Vietjet Aviation, a budget air carrier that is growing rapidly, is set to finalize a $6.5 billion jet… Read More ›