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Logelis, the French business disrupting construction standards

Since the end of 2014, yet another real-estate construction company has hit the market. But this one is different. Two things make it worthy of attention: the extent which it has re-thought the construction business, and the new options it opens up for the global market.

Finances Of $2.2 Billion Secured By China's Leeco For Expansion From New Investors

Very recent stock market filings showed that new investors including Tianjin Jiarui Huixin Corporate Management Company and property developer Sunac China Holdings helped Chinese tech conglomerate LeEco to successfully raise nearly $2.2 billion.   LeEco's Leshi Internet Information said in...

Chip Sale To Throw Up Tricky Path For Japanese Conglomerate Toshiba

The difficult process of negotiating a sale of its memory chip operations that meets its financial needs while addressing government security concerns is set to be faced by Toshiba after gaining shareholder approval and after the completion of the first round of bidding.   Apparently...

Over The Issue Of Insulting Flag Doormat, India Privately Took Amazon To Task

 A recent document shows that an unprecedented public and private offensive against the U.S. company by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government was the result of India's reaction to an Amazon.com website selling doormats resembling the country's flag.   If the doormats were not...

Angry Shareholders Give Go Ahead To Toshiba For Chip Unit Sale

The way for a sale to raise at least $9 billion to cover U.S. nuclear unit charges that threaten the conglomerate's future was paved for Toshiba Corp as its shareholders agreed to split off its prized NAND flash memory unit on Thursday.   While one of the shareholders at the extraordinary...

Toshiba's Westinghouse Files For Bankruptcy After Crippling Cost Overruns

As Toshiba Corp seeks to limit losses that threaten its future and just three months after huge cost overruns were flagged, the Japanese parent's U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors on Wednesday.   Even though the utilities that own the...

After Arizona Crash, Self-Driving Car Program Suspended By Uber

Following a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, Uber Technologies Inc suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday, the ride-hailing company and local police said.   Uber however said that no serious injuries were caused by the accident...

IRS Looses $1.5 Billion Tax Dispute To Amazon

A case over transactions involving a Luxembourg unit that was done more than a decade ago, was won by Amazon.com Inc and along with that the U.S> based world's largest online retailer won a more than $1.5 billion tax dispute with the Internal Revenue Service.   The IRS was found to have,...

No Holding Company Move Signalled By Samsung Electronics For Now

While rejecting U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management's proposal and ruling out for now a long-anticipated succession move, Samsung would find it difficult to adopt a holding company structure at this time,, the South Korean conglomerate - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday.  ...

To Enhance Its Struggling Business In China, Technology Is The Bet For Amway

Over the past three years, sale sales been falling steadily for the global direct-selling company Amway Inc in China, to mitigate this robe and to spruce its sale channels, the company plans to resort to technology.      The company plans to install technology based sale channels...

As Crisis Deepens, Sale Of Nuclear Unit Westinghouse Being Pushed By Toshiba

As Toshiba Corp expanded a probe into problems there that caused it to miss an earnings deadline for a second time, the Japanese conglomerate is 'actively considering' a sale and other strategic options for U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse, the group said on Tuesday.   Despite the potential...

Snap Stock Extended By Millennial’s Love For Snapchat

Loyalty to one of their favorite apps matters more than financial details in the case of Snap Inc. for some millennial investors.   Surging more than 70 percent from the initial public offering price in the first two days of trading and plunging back down by a quarter since, the stock of...
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