Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos sold shares of the company worth about $ 6.7 billion for the period from 3 to 10 May. This was reported by Interfax on Wednesday, May 12, citing data from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In particular, from May 3 to 6, Bezos sold 1.48 million shares for $ 4.91 billion. Another 521.936 thousand shares of Amazon worth $ 1.7 billion, he sold on May 7 and 10. Thus, in the period from 3 to 10 May, Bezos sold more than 2 million shares of the company.
In 2020, Bezos sold more than $ 9 billion worth of shares in the company, with about $ 1 billion annually allocated to its aerospace project Blue Origin.
Apple Inc, according to a lawsuit filed by Epic Games Inc., must allow mobile app developers to redirect users to alternative resources to pay for services in the App Store. The Wall Street Journal reported this. A 30% commission is now charged on each purchase. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers concluded that Apple’s practice was uncompetitive […]
The World Bank will provide Ukraine with a second tranche of $ 350 million, but subject to certain conditions. WB Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Anna Bjerde told Interfax-Ukraine what exactly is expected from Kyiv. “The prospects for the second tranche of the Economic Recovery Development Policy Loan depend on maintaining an adequate […]
September 13, 2021 — Stockholm, Sweden — Beetroot AB, the tech division of the Beetroot ecosystem, opens a new location in Mariupol, Ukraine. The company is currently accepting applications for over fifty software development vacancies in its international client projects. In Mariupol, Beetroot will focus on building teams of tech specialists to work on a […]
The American multinational corporation Google, fined in France for copyright infringement, has announced its intention to appeal the decision of the French regulatory authorities. This was announced on Wednesday, September 1, the chairman of the board of Google France Sebastien Missoff. “We do not agree with some legal nuances and consider the amount of the […]
As of September 1, 11,499 agreements have been concluded within the land market. Poltava (2,873.6 ha) and Kharkiv (2,747.4 ha) regions are in the lead. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy. It is noted that 4836 notaries have applied for access to the State Land Cadastre. A total […]
In the first half of 2021, Metinvest earned $ 2.769 billion compared to a loss of $ 240 million a year earlier, according to the company’s press service. According to the financial report, as of June 30, the Group’s net debt decreased by 52% since the beginning of the year – to $ 1.016 billion, […]
The State Property Fund of Ukraine has put the Vinnytsia diamond processing plant Crystal up for privatization auction for almost 90 million hryvnias. This is stated in the message of the Foundation. It is noted that the plant not only cuts and grinds precious stones, but also makes jewelry. They produce more than five thousand […]
In the first half of the year, the National Bank suffered UAH 12 billion in losses, according to the central bank’s press service. In this regard, next year, according to the forecast, the NBU will transfer to the budget UAH 13.6 billion, which is 1.8 times less than this year (UAH 24.4 billion). It is […]
Visa in conjunction with BioConnect will promise to provide a new service which will give an opportunity to their clients to undergo the procedure of biometric authentication, using the application on their phone in the nearest future. According to developers of the program, such innovation is a fine alternative to passwords use. In addition, the […]
NextNationalization of PrivatBank, lawsuits against Apple, and the most interesting ideas from leading industry executives. Only that is really worth your attention 1. Privat is no longer private On December 18 at 23:30 p.m. it was posted the information on the site of the Governmental portal of Ukraine that […]
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Salesforce is one of the world’s largest players in the cloud computing sector. They will buy Slack Technologies, the owner of Slack’s corporate messenger. The Wall Street Journal reports, Messenger will cost Salesforce $ 27.7 billion, which will be the largest acquisition of the company in its history. The terms of the deal include that […]
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Sales of state-owned distilleries will begin in mid-September. This was reported by Acting Director of the state concern Ukrspirt Serhiy Bleskun on the social network. For professionals in the alcohol industry, privatization does not mean loss of jobs, but rather – new career opportunities, he highlighted. “We have already submitted proposals for 25 of Ukrspirt’s […]
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Zaporizhzhya Automobile Plant (ZAZ) is preparing to start mass production of buses under the Mercedes brand in 2022. Radio Svoboda reported this with reference to the UkrAVTO Corporation, which includes ZAZ. It is noted that the ZAZ A09 bus is a completely Ukrainian creation, designed by factory engineers with the help of Mercedes recommendations “for […]
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Direction of LLC Development Construction Holding (DCH), whose president is Oleksander Yaroslavskyi, is considering to lease the OPP instead of the acquisition of assets of this PJSC, reported Zn.ua. In an official statement of OPP representatives was indicated that they appealed to the State Property Fund of Ukraine in order to initiate an open competition […]
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The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, became the highest paid CEO in the United States last year, according to Forbes magazine. The publication reminds that in 2018 Musk gave up his salary at Tesla. Instead, he receives a reward in the form of options on the company’s shares. In 2020, the businessman received […]
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January 17 of this year it became known on completion of the procedure of purchase of one of the largest in Eastern Europe IT-company SoftServe assets of Polish developer Coders Centre software, as reported online edition Inventure. The exact amount of the said financial transaction is not advertised, but experts believe that it is between […]
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Top managers of Ukrainian business are in no haste to predict the trends in the development of Ukrainian economy in 2017. Exactly about it reported the president of EEMEA Jacobs Douwe Egberts Taras Lukachuk on Thursday, January 26 on General meeting of European Business Association: Business climate in Ukraine, a global review (Ukraine’s Business Climate-Global […]
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Recently, government program “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9%” has been significantly amended allowing small and medium businesses to get even more opportunities to obtain loans at the rate of 0% p.a. or a reduced rate of 3% p.a. For this purpose, Credit Agricole and the Entrepreneurship Development Fund signed new agreements. What has changed for customers […]
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The American company SpaceX will launch the first Starship spacecraft into Earth orbit, most likely in 2021. It said its founder Elon Musk, speaking at a video conference on the problem of human flight to Mars, according to TASS on Tuesday, September 1. Mask was asked when the first test flight of Starship into orbit […]
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Shares of the Johnson & Johnson may slow because the last stimulus to it was the company’s transition to the final clinical trial of the vaccine against COVID-19 on September 23, after which the shares rose by more than 5%. However, as of Tuesday, before the opening of trading, the price of J&J shares did […]
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The state corporation Saudi Aramco is preparing to place dollar Eurobonds, a source in banking circles said. According to him, the company is considering the possibility of placing up to five tranches of Eurobonds: with a maturity of three years, five years, ten years, as well as thirty and / or fifty years. Starting on […]
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Eurobond holders of the agricultural holding Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) for $ 750 million with a circulation period to 2020 agreed to soften some of the conditions of securities’ circulation. According to the Interfax-Ukraine, they agreed to change the definition of “consolidated net income” to exclude the impact of exchange rate differences during any period starting […]
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The Ukrainian “KVV group” put in dead storage its Liepajas KVV metalurgs plant in Latvia because of the crisis in the steel industry and the failure of the negotiations with the Latvian government. “The management of the ” KVV group” forced to take this decision in view of the continuing long-term negative factors, that impede […]
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Ukrainian farmers may lose up to 118 billion hryvnias this year due to drought and frost. This was reported by the press service of the Agrarian Union of Ukraine. “This year, even the critically affected regions (Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Zaporizhia regions), despite the promises of the state, did not receive a single penny of assistance,” […]
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