Nowadays, Amazon is one of the world’s most successful companies. But how the company achieved such an incredible results? First, Amazon.com was a bookstore. Nowadays, Amazon is a giant company with its own solutions in the field of logistics, Internet payments, equipment development and data storage, as well as media business. Prime program, whose membership costs $ 99 per year, covers 85...

The World Trade Organization rescinded the decision that the $ 8.7 billion tax relief that the US government granted to Boeing was considered illegal. In late December last year, the States appealed on this case. In November 2016, the WTO recognized that the United States illegally subsidized the US aircraft manufacturing corporation. The World Trade Organization agreed that the US authorities...

Diamond giant De Beers decided to spend a record for the past 10 years amount on advertising diamonds in an attempt to return wealthy buyers. According to Anglo American Plc, De Beers' marketing budget will be increased to $ 140 million, the largest amount since 2008. The main attention will be paid to the three main markets - the USA, China and India. Recently, diamonds have gradually ceased to...

Are you interested in shares whose dividends grew 61 times since the IPO in 2001? Who overwhelmed all the market forecasts? It is unlikely that any of the investors will say "thank you, do not", after hearing about such a proposal. The mentioned company is called Magellan Midstream Partners, and it does not work in any of the fastest growing industries. Magellan seems to be an ordinary pipeline...

Tesla's goal to create its own unmanned vehicle has become a serious problem for the company. Leaders are leaving Elon Musk’s team, and there is growing discontent among the engineers and developers. Almost a year ago, Elon Musk announced commencement of research and developing of an unmanned vehicle. Experts were shocked, given that it was Tesla with Autopilot system that was the first of such...

According to Recode and The New York Times, which are referring to their own sources in Uber, last weekend the board of directors of the mobile taxi service decided on a candidate for the post of head of the company. They should become Dara Khosrowshahi, who now heads Expedia travel agency. Last weekend, the situation that has been going on for almost two months with the search for a new CEO for...

Apple will build two data centers in the state of Iowa and, in return, will be exempted from paying taxes in the amount of $ 208 million. The project’s total cost will amount to $ 1.4 billion, AP reported on Thursday referring to the director of the Department of Economic Development of Iowa, Debi Durham. According to her, Apple promised to create 50 new jobs in the city of Des Moines (Iowa) and...

Irish low-cost air carrier Ryanair has grandiose plans for the future. The airline is interested in taking part in a tender to purchase German Air Berlin recently declared bankrupt. According to the chief executive officer of Ryanair Michael O'Leary, the company has not yet made a final decision on this issue. First, the carrier wants to access the financial statements of Air Berlin. Ryanair is...

Despite the explosive growth in investments in alternative energy in recent years, it is not too late to buy shares of "green" energy companies. Here are four prospective contenders for a place in the portfolio of a long-term investor. First Solar First Solar is leading the solar panels production. The market mostly offers solar panels based on crystalline silicon, but First Solar’s thin-film...