Taiwanese manufacturer of computers and accessories - ASUSTeK Computer – came up to be the leader in the gaming laptop market. According to insiders, ASUS has sold about 90 thousand gaming laptop in February 2016, which is twice more than that figure of the company’s closest pursuer Chinese Lenovo. The latter managed to encash 40 thousand laptops of this class for the specified period. The...

Boston Consulting Group has a tradition to publish annual rankings of best companies in terms of added value based on the total shareholder return (TSR) for the preceding five-year period. The 2016 rating is based on the TSR analysis of about 2 thousand companies around the world from 2011 to 2015. TSR shows income in the form of increase in share price and dividend payments for a certain...

US court has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $ 55 million to a woman with ovarian cancer. She states that she suffered from the use of the company's products. In the US, the jury compelled Johnson & Johnson to reimburse $ 55 million to a woman. She claimed that use of the company’s talc caused ovarian cancer.  The court in Missouri took such a decision after a three-week trial....

Fast food restaurants chain McDonald's has opened the first joint in the Pakistani city of Quetta, which has a population known for its sympathy for the terrorist group "Taliban". The restaurant’s menu is Halal. Dishes such as McMuffin (sandwich with egg and cutlet) are still present, but the recipe uses chicken instead pork meat. On average, a set, which includes a McArabia hamburger (sandwich...

On Thursday it became known that the American pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories is going to buy manufacturer of medical devices St. Jude Medical for $ 25 billion. The transaction will create one of the world’s leaders in the market of devices for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system. Also today, the French Sanofi made a bid for $ 9.3 billion to the...

Pension Fund of Norway showed a negative return for the third time this year, having lost $ 10 billion in the first quarter. Taking into account the krone’s fall and the authorities’ intervention, fund has lost almost $ 50 billion. The world's largest sovereign wealth fund - the Norwegian Government Pension Fund - returned to the damages in the first quarter of 2016 – this follows from the...

Today, two major European oil and gas companies - France's Total and Norway's Statoil - reported their first quarter results. They occurred much better than analysts' forecasts. Observers note that the companies were able to adapt to the low oil prices by reducing costs and increasing operational efficiency. Statoil’s statement showed that net income was $ 122 million, while analysts surveyed by...

The largest US manufacturer of chocolate bars Hershey`s goes a healthy lifestyle along with the recent trend noticed among Americans and entire world. The company is going to start releasing meat-based and vegetarian protein bars. The largest US manufacturer of chocolate bars The Hershey Company will take care of people maintaining a healthy diet. Having caught the recent trend of Americans’...

Analysts estimated that 12 million Apple Watch units have been sold worldwide during the past year. Thus, the "smart watch" by the Cupertino’s company came out twice as successful as the first iPhone, which sales in the debut year reached only 6 million copies. Apple Watch were twice as successful as the first iPhone. Sunday, April 24 was a little jubilee for the gadget. Now it’s exactly a year...