Companies & CEOs
The Cambridge Analytica scandal did not affect Facebook’s revenue in Q1 - 04/26/2018
American Facebook Inc., which owns the world's largest social network, recorded record profits in the first quarter of 2018 and increased revenue by 49%. American Facebook Inc., which owns the world's largest social network, recorded record profits in the first quarter of 2018 and increased revenue by 49%. Such a strong growth in indicators was not prevented by a scandal associated with the...
Altaba to pay $ 35 mln to get rid of SEC’s claims - 04/25/2018
Altaba Inc. (former Yahoo! Inc.) will pay $ 35 million to settle claims of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which considered that the company misled investors, without disclosing the information about the major hacker attack, a victim of which Yahoo! became. "Just days after the hacker attack on Yahoo in December 2014, the security company learned that Russian hackers had stolen the...
NYSE takes away high-tech companies from NASDAQ - 04/25/2018
Listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is looking increasingly attractive to high-tech companies, even though they previously preferred to be placed on the specialized high-tech exchange NASDAQ. Experts note that as the business of former start-ups and now large market players such as Alibaba, Snapchat and Spotify has grown, the management of NYSE has decided to abandon its traditional...
Halliburton writes off $ 312 million investment in the oil industry of Venezuela - 04/24/2018
One of the world's largest companies serving the oil and gas industry, Halliburton, reported writing off $ 358 million of investments in Venezuela. This is the last package of funds invested earlier in the oil sector of the Latin American country. The financial director of Halliburton, Christopher Weber, explained the write-off with deterioration of the political climate in the country, as well...
Nestle increased quarterly revenue by 2.8% - 04/19/2018
Revenue of the Swiss company Nestle SA in the first quarter of 2018 increased by 2.8% (organically). Consensus-forecast of Bloomberg was 2.5%. The growth in sales of one of the world's largest food producers accelerated in the reporting quarter to 2.6%. The effect of the price increase was 0.2%, which reflects a slowdown in inflation in emerging markets, the company said. Given the positive...
British business wants to live by European rules after Brexit - 04/12/2018
The British business will suffer serious losses if they stop following rules and statutory acts of EU after Brexit. This is stated in a study of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), representing the interests of 190 thousand companies. Brussels, meanwhile, is preparing for Brexit. From now on, they will publish statistical forecasts, including without taking into account the indicators of...
Novartis buys American AveXis for $ 8.7 bln - 04/09/2018
Novartis concluded an agreement to acquire the American company AveXis, which develops drugs for gene therapy at the clinical stage. The deal amounts to 8.7 billion dollars or 218 dollars per share, Novartis said. "Novartis announces that it has entered into an agreement and a merger plan with AveXis regarding the acquisition of the latter for $ 8.7 billion," Novartis said. At the close of...
Zuckerberg: Repairing breaches in Facebook will take several years - 04/04/2018
It will not be possible to solve the problem with the security of data in Facebook in a few months, said the founder of the social network Mark Zuckerberg. According to him, about 14 thousand people are working to ensure security of information in the company, but even they will need several years to solve this problem. "I would like us to overcome this, but it will take several years... I...
Why would Apple replace Intel’s chips with its own? - 04/03/2018
Quotes of Intel fell 9% after Bloomberg reported that Apple would refuse the partnership with the supplier of chips for Mac computers. Apple will begin to switch to the chips of its own production since 2020, starting with the PC sector, and then integrating them into their smartphones. At the moment, Apple uses its own chips in the iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch. A new initiative called...
China introduces large-scale duties on goods from the US - 04/02/2018
China's previously announced response to imports from the US has entered into force on Monday. Beijing is urging Washington to negotiate in order to prevent even more damage to relations in the sphere of trade, Reuters reports. The US did not respond to China's request on March 26 to hold consultations on US duties on steel and aluminum, the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC says in a statement....