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Competition And Slow Demand Prompt Alibaba To Cut Sales Outlook

Growing rivalry in an increasingly crowded business space has forced a downgrading of its anticipated annual revenue growth by the Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. That pushed down the shares of the company by 11 per cent.   The company now anticipates that growth in...

Indian Antitrust Regulator Ordered By Court To Decide On Amazon-Future Dispute In Two Weeks

The antitrust body of India has been given a time period of two weeks by an Indian court to ascertain if authorities were misled by Amazon while it sought regulatory approval for a deal with India's Future Group in 2019, said reports quoting a body of Indian retailers.   The case that drew...

Legal Suit Of $162 Mln Filed By JP Morgan Against Tesla Linked To Warrants And Musk’s Tweets

Accusations of the United States based electric car company Tesla of "flagrantly" breaching a contract linked to stock warrants following a recent surge in the company’s stocks were leveled in a lawsuit by JPMorgan Chase & Co in which the lender demanded compensation of $162.2 million.  ...

Pfizer Allows Manufacturing of its Covid-19 Medicine Generically In 95 Countries

A license arrangement with the international public health organization Medicines Patent Pool will allow generic manufacturers to provide its experimental antiviral Covid-19 tablet to 95 low- and middle-income countries (MPP). Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday.   The MPP will be able to offer...

Walmart Issues Better Than Expected Sales, Profit Forecasts As It Offsets Supply Chain Woes

Forecasting growth in demand for its products during the crucially important holiday season, its annual sales and profit forecast were raised by Walmart Inc earlier this week, even as the largest retailer of the world saw its margins for the third quarter being hit by global supply chain...

iPhone Assembler Foxconn Cautions Of Slump In Q4 Revenues Due To Chip Shortage

For the quarter ending December 31, a fall of 15 per cent in its revenue from its key smartphone business is expected by Taiwan's Foxconn, which is the main assembler of iPhones for Apple, the company said on Friday.   The revenue outlook for 2022 needs to be made cautiously, said the...

Pace Of Alibaba's Singles Day Sales Growth Slowest Ever At 8.5%

The pace of growth in sales during its annual Singles' Day shopping spree was the slowest for the company in its history, said Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Friday.   According to analysts, this performance of the Chinese e-retailing giant underscores the severe regulatory challenges being...

Its First All-Electric Car, Developed With Toyota, Unveiled By Japan's Subaru

Following a period of two years of a development project with its partner company and its largest shareholder Toyota Motor Corp, its first all-electric vehicle (EV), the Solterra, was unveiled by Japan's Subaru Corp on Thursday.   This launch of its electric sports utility vehicle (SUV)...

Following Announcement By Facebook, Disney To Venture Into The World Of Metaverse

Walt Disney is set to get into the so-called metaverse.   The entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney is getting ready to venture into the virtual reality world that was initially only imagined in science fiction said the company’s CEO Bob Chapek.   Since Facebook announced the aim of...

Following Novartis Deal, Roche Will Have Greater Flexibility, Says Roche Chairman

Roche's strategy of buying back almost one third of the stocks with voting rights from rival Swiss drug maker Novartis, worth a total of about $20.7 billion, will allow the company to exercise a higher level of strategic flexibility, according to Roche's Chairman Christoph Franz.   Roche...

Facebook’s Subscription Push: Examines Paid Subgroups Feature

Ways for content creators to generate money using Facebook Groups, is being investigated by the social media company Facebook, aka Meta Platform, which includes ways such as users paying charges for accessing exclusive content or participating in conversations within subgroups.   The test...

With Nations Opening Up For Vaccinated Travellers, Revenue Of Airbnb Surges

Resurgence in travel and tourism globally because of rising rates of Covid-19 vaccinations in the last three months of the current year would drive growth for the company next year, said the short-term home rental company Airbnb Inc, as it reported better than expected revenues for its latest...
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World

Burying the Future: Why Communities Are Being Asked to Shoulder Nuclear Waste Forever

Control, Law and Leverage: How the Panama Canal Ruling Strengthens Washington’s Hand Against Beijing

Nobel Rules Affirmed: Peace Prize Is Immutable, Non-Transferable, Nobel Institute Explains After Machado’s Trump Comments

Washington’s Transactional Turn Puts Greenland at the Center of a New Arctic Power Play

Diplomacy at a Delicate Juncture as Washington Pushes Ukraine Talks Toward Compromise