American Apple Inc. in the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 recorded a record for this period (January-March) iPhone sales volumes, net income and earnings. Company's financial results were above Wall Street's expectations for the seventh consecutive quarter. Due to the strong results, Apple increased the return capital to shareholders programme by 50%: now the company intends to use a total of...

Sports network ESPN is joining the slew of cable companies and channels that are suing Verizon for alleged breach of contract. The company has filed a lawsuit on Monday in New York Supreme Court, seeking damages related to the new leaner value bundle that Verizon plans to provide to its FiOS customers. According to reports in CNBC, ESPN wants to stop Verizon from “unfairly depriving” it of “the...

French IT services company Cap Gemini has announced that it would buy US-based rival group IGate for $4 billion. The merger will provide Cap Gemini with complete access to North American market where IGate has a strong presence. Meanwhile, it would also enrich the coffers of IGate founders. With this acquisition, the IT services major is looking at a good quarter and has raised its 2015 sales...

Deutsche Bank is going to place Postbank’s shares in the IPO and expects to completely separate this division by the end of 2016. The largest financial market participant in Germany Deutsche Bank is going to close 200 branches around the world by 2017, thereby reducing operational costs by 40 percent. It is reported by Deutsche Welle with reference to the official press release of the bank. There...

The C.E.O of Statoil, a giant Norwegian oil company, Mr. Eldar Saetre, talks about his aims of reducing carbon emissions. He is for the carbon taxations. Furthermore, he strives to combine cost reduction with that of decreased carbon emissions. Thestrategist.com – 24 April 2015 – The Norwegian oil-company, Statoil, has appointed Eldar Saetre in the post of C.E.O, who has been the former C.F.O of...

Norwalk’s Aitoro Airplanes receiving the first “Green Business Designation” award in the city, inspires the entire city to walk in the same footsteps creating more “environmental footprints”. Norwalk, Fairfield County, U.S. – 24 April 2015 – Chris Bosak, a staff writer of the hour, informs that Aitoro Airplanes has won the “Green Business Designation by Live Green CT”. The said company is the...

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. is expecting revenue to triple this year, thanks to games and payment apps.   The company that has been selling its smartphones at competitive prices to penetrate a market skewed at more than 50% to Samsung and Apple, is looking at results of the long wait, according to an interview by Xiaomi’s founder and chief executive Lei Jun to the Wall Street...

Technology company Apple’s new trophy product, Apple Watch is released to select customers who pre-ordered the device. According to analyst records, nearly 1 million watches have been released to the company’s devout customer base through a pre-order process. The smartwatch that starts at $350 is not available at the Apple stores and could be bought only from luxury retailer in Los Angeles,...

For quite a long time talks about abolition of cash were wandering around America. Of course, this issue is very delicate and painful, so the media rarely discussed it, but now it has leaked in real life. Until now, the war against the cash was conducted almost exclusively by national governments and official international organizations, but now they have a powerful ally. As it became known, one...