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Eli Lilly Beats Q4 Profit Estimates With Surge In Demand For Its Cancer And Diabetes Drugs

A surge in demand for its diabetes and cancer drugs a partial benefit from the sales of its Covid-19 antibody treatment helped the drug making giant Eli Lilly and Co beat estimates of Wall Street analysts for the profits of the company for the fourth quarter on Friday.   The quarterly sale...

Telecom Major Ericsson Beats Forecasts With Surge In Sale Of Its 5G Equipment

The ban on the Chinese telecom company Huawei by the United States and a surge in demand and sale for its 5G telecom equipment helped Ericsson to comfortably beat its fourth quarter core earnings forecasts on Friday.   The better than expected performance of the Swedish company helped a...

Record Fourth Quarter Deliveries Reported By Tesla But Profits Miss Expectations

An increase in demand globally for its electric cars propelled the United States based Tesla to report record deliverie3s o fits vehicles in the fourth quarter.   However after the company reported a lower than expected profits for the quarter, shares of the company dropped in after-hours...

ByteDance To Cut Workforce In India As Firm Unsure Of Fate Of Ban On Its Apps

The Indian government had banned the Chinese owned TikTok in the country in June last year.  The short video sharing app owned by China’s ByteDance is not reducing its staff size in the country as the company is apparently unsure about whether the government will revoke the ban on the app in...

Interchange Fee For Purchase Using UK Cards From EU Firms Online To Be Increased By 400% by Mastercard

The fees that companies of the European Union pays to Mastercard against payments from online shoppers from the United Kingdom will be increased by at least 400 per cent which would mean that the ultimate price for consumers of European companies would increase significantly.   A percentage...

Tesla’s Autopilot Cannot Ever Be True Self-Driving, Says Waymo

The United States based Tesla is considered to be an anomaly in the buzzing world of autonomous driving. This is because the company has been trying to develop everything needed for self-driving cars are being developed in-house starting from hardware to chips and processors to artificial...

Volkswagen Debating About Placing Claim For Damages Over Suppliers Over Chip Shortage

The German car manufacturer and the largest auto making company of the world by Volume – Volkswagen is discussing with its major suppliers about the possibility of making a claim for damages to it because of the shortage of semiconductors, said reports quoting a company spokesman.    A...

Despite Covid-19 Pandemic Volkswagen Reports Profits Of $12 Billion In 2020

Despite the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020 caused huge disruption to the global auto industry and upended supply chains of auto companies, the German car maker Volkswagen has ended the tormenting year with a profit of more than $12 billion.   Volkswagen is expecting to achieve operating...

Audi To Start A JV With Chinese Auto Maker FAW To Make Electric Cars

German auto maker Audi will make luxury electric vehicles in China in a joint venture with China's oldest carmaker FAW.   Hongqi - or Red Flag – limousines that are used by the China's communist party leaders, are among the pride products of FAW, the third largest carmaker of China. In...

30-Month Prison Term In Bribery Case Slapped On Samsung's Lee

The ownership restructuring plans of the South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics could get delayed because of a court sentenced passed against the vice chairman of the company Jay Y. Lee for a jail term of two and a half years on Monday. The patriarch of the company and Lee’s father had...

The First Foreign Company In China To Fully Own A Payments Business Is PayPal

The first foreign company in China to own a 100 per cent control of a payment platform in the country is Holding Inc, according to data available from the Chinese government.   This is a boost to the aim of the United States based fintech giant to make larger inroads into the booming Chinese...

Shoppers 'Treat Themselves' During Pandemic-Ridden Christmas Helping Tesco To Report Record Sales

With people in lockdown in the United Kingdom because of the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic ordering more deluxe range products online, "record" sales over Christmas was reported by the largest retailer of the UK – Tesco.    In the six weeks to 9 January, there was an 8.1 per cent...
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